“…This genus, with its common Persian name "Dermane" and the common English name "Wormwood", includes approximately 34 species that are found wild all over Iran (Mozaffarian, 1996;Ghasemi et al, 2007). Several coumarins, flavonoids, phenylpropanoids, sterols and terpenoids (specially sesquiterpenes and monoterpenes), and their glycosides were isolated from this genus, and shown to have antimalarial, antiviral, antitumor, antipyretic, antihaemorrhagic, anticoagulant, antiinflammatory, antioxidant, antihepatitis, antiulcerogenic, antispasmodic and anticomplementary activities (Kim et al, 2002;Lee et al, 2003).…”