Chemical Composition of the Essential Oils ofPsiadia lithospermifolia(Lam.) Cordem. andP. viscosa(Lam.) A. J. Scott of the Asteraceae Family

Chemical composition of essential oils from six Psiadia species endemic to Madagascar Island

“…They are also recognised for their hemostatic, anti-diarrheal, carminative, anti-hypertensive and disinfectant properties [17][18][19][20][21]. As reported in a recent paper [22], several Psiadia species produce EOs [9,17,21,[23][24][25][26] and contain various specialized metabolites including flavonoids [8,[27][28][29], terpenoids [23,[30][31][32], phenylpropanoids [28,[33][34][35] and coumarins [27,36]. These metabolites displayed a variety of biological effects notably antimicrobial and antifungal [5,6,17,24,25,37,38], antiviral [39][40][41][42][43], antiplasmodial [30,[44][45][46], antiinflammatory [36,39,47], cytotoxic [48,…”

“…Some Psiadia species have been traditionally used for a long time to treat a variety of ailments such as abdominal pains [4], cold, fever [5,6], bronchitis and asthma [7]. They are also used in casts for broken bones by the Bedouins [8] or to treat minor wounds and burns [9]. P. punctulata…”

Aromatic Plants from Reunion Island (France)

“…In contrast, considerable differences were found to exist in the composition of essential oils of P. boivinii. The occurrence of these unusual terpenoids in these four species supposes that the latter have the same biosynthetic pathway and it may also suggest that the two new molecules could be used as a chemotaxonomic tool for the characterization of some Psiadia species (Gurib-Fakim et al, 1995Gauvin et al, 2004b;Govinden-Soulange et al, 2004;Gauvin and Smadja, 2005;Gauvin-Bialecki and Smadja, 2007).…”