“…The plant is a perennial shrub found throughout the Mediterranean area, and is known for its uses in the indigenous system of medicine for a variety of purposes such as hypoglycaemic agent, laxative, cholagogue, stomachic, purgative, sudorific and also in the treatment of cardio-vascular and renal diseases (Bellakhdar, Claisse, Fleurentin, & Younos, 1991). Activity-guided fractionation of the MeOH fraction of G. alypum led to the isolation of flavonoids, phenylethanoids and iridoids (Es-Safi et al, 2005, 2006. In the present study, we investigate the antioxidative activity of these compounds against 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl free radical.…”