Investigation of pharmaceutical and Antioxidant Effects of Citrus aurantium L. in North of IRAN

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Biology, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran

2 Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Damghan Islamic Azad University, Damghan, Iran

3 Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering-Food Science and Industry. Payame Noor University, Babol, Iran

Abstract

Phytotherapy is one of the most ancient methods in traditional treatment. Medicinal plants are very important in terms of hygienic and public health, either treatment or prevention of diseases. The genus of citrus belongs to the family of Rutaceae, which grows in the regions of temperate and warm and the shoots of Citrus have a drastic odor. Some of them have edible fruit, the others are for treatment or essence extraction. In this research, the organs of Citrus aurantium L. contains blossom, leaf, and external rind of immature fruit in Mazandaran and Golestan provinces were collected and tried to investigation of specific compositions and medicinal characters. The extracted essences of Citrus aurantium L. due to different compositions like varied monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes have the effects of expectorant, diuretic, decreasing blood pressure and bacterial and fungal infections, to settle inflammation, polyneuritis, gastroenteritis and the effect of antitumor against Leucémie p383, controlling effect of cell growth of extract in cancers K562, L 1210 and else. Results of this study shown that, alkaloid compounds in the fruit peel of C. aurantium with an average of (0.91 - 1.590) in Amol and Gorgan city, respectively, was higher than that of flowers and leaves, which was higher in Gorgan than Amol. The most amount of total flavonoids in the orange flower of Amol city with an average of 90.92 mg and the most amount of total phenol in the orange flower of Gorgan with an average of 22.7 mg was observed.

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Natural Compounds Chemistry
Volume 2, Issue 1
October 2023
Pages 68-74

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