“…Among the Amaryllidaceae alkaloids, galanthamine, is used for the treatment of mild and moderate cases of Alzheimer's disease (AD) (Howes, Perry, 2011). Lycorine, a major alkaloid found in many Amaryllidaceae species, has been shown to have a wide variety of biological activities such as antitumoral , antimalarial (Cedron et al, 2010), hepatoprotective (Ilavenil, Kaleeswaran, Ravikumar, 2012), antiviral (He et al, 2013), antifungal (Shen et al, 2014) and antiparasitic (Giordani et al, 2012) activities. Due to its diverse biological properties, it has been to the interest of phytochemists to determine the content of this alkaloid using various analytical techniques in Amaryllidaceous plants (Abou-Donia et al, 2007;Petruczynik et al, 2016).…”