“…Recent pharmacological experiments revealed that the flower buds of T. farfara L. exhibit anti-oxidant effect, anti-microbial activity, a-glucosidase inhibitory effect, diacylglycerol acyltransferase inhibitory effect and inhibitory effect on nitric oxide synthesis in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-activated macrophages (Gao et al, 2008;Park et al, 2008). Extensive chemical studies on the flower bud of T. farfara L. have been carried out, indicating the presence of several kinds of components, including essential oils (Liu et al, 2006), sesquiterpenes (Ryu et al, 1999;Yaoita et al, 1999Yaoita et al, , 2001, triterpenes (Santer and Stevenson, 1962;Yaoita and Kikuchi, 1998), flavonoids (Kim et al, 2006;Liu et al, 2007;Wu et al, 2010), phenylpropanoids (Liu et al, 2007;Gao et al, 2008;Wu et al, 2010), chromones (Wu et al, 2008) and pyrrolizidine alkaloids (Jiang et al, 2009). However, to our knowledge, no systematic chemical study on the leaves and fully open flowers has been carried out.…”