“…A number of active compounds have been characterized from these plants: Eremophilanes (Zdero et al, 1989), sesquiterpenoids (Bohlmann and Ziesche, 1981), diterpenoids (Cheng et al, 1993), triterpenoids (Ruicker et al, 1999), pyrrolizidines (Bohlmann et al, 1986) and shikimic acid derivatives (Barrero et al, 1988) exhibiting a range of bioactivities including antimicrobial (Perez et al, 1999), cytotoxic (Loizzo et al, 2007), molluscidal (Grace and Khattab, 1998), gastroprotective (Hariprasath et al, 2012) and antibacterial (El-Shazly et al, 2002) properties.…”