“…Being one of the most well documented medicinal plants, several of its potentially biologically active chemical constituents have been described, some of them isolated from its essential oil (Isaac, 1979;Jakovlev et al, 1979Jakovlev et al, , 1983Safayhi et al, 1994;Gerritsen et al, 1995;Miller et al, 1996;Rekka et al, 1996;Avallone et al, 2000). For example, its flavonoids have been shown to exert benzodiazepine-like activity (Viola et al, 1995;Avallone et al, 1996Avallone et al, , 2000 as well as phosphodiesterase inhibitory action, leading to increased levels of cAMP (Beretz et al, 1978;Picq et al, 1989).…”