“…Cistus species have widespread utilization in Turkish folk medicine to cure some ailments like rheumatism, stomachache, hemorrhoids, sterility, urinary inflammations, peptic ulcer and diabetes mellitus [4,5]. Pharmacological activities including cytotoxic [6,7], antinociceptive, hepatoprotective [8,9] anti-microbial [10,11], anti-viral [12,13], anti-inflammatory [9,14,15], antioxidant [16,17], analgesic [9,18,19], spasmolytic [20][21][22], anti-ulcerogenic, gastro protective [23][24][25], and antihyperglycemic [26] activities of Cistus species have been reported. Labdane type diterpenes [7,27,28], flavonoids [9,29] flavanols and proanthocyanidins [30][31][32] were isolated from different Cistus species as active compounds.…”