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OH
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O
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agroclavine
elymoclavine
paspalic acid
MENTHA SPICATA
LINNAEUS
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Common name: Spearmint
Distribution: India, Europe, Southwest Asia, North America
Habitat: Stream banks, shorelines, wet, moist, and damp soils
Description: This perennial herb grows to 1 m. It possesses hairy or hairless
stems and widespread, leshy underground rhizomes. The leaves (9 × 3 cm)
are broad with serrated margins. The lowers (2.5 × 3 mm), which are in
slender spikes, are pink or white.
Compounds and activities: This species has yielded lavonoid compounds
possessing antioxidant, anticancer, and chemopreventing activities. The
bioactive compounds isolated from this species include kaempferol, narin-
genin, myricetin, luteolin, catechin, epicatechin, rutin, and apigenin. The
antioxidant activity of SC-CUZ extracts (by the DPPH radical scavenging
method) of the leaves of this species showed a value of 71.00 ± 2.65% at
200 bar pressure, 50°C, and 6 g/min co-solvent low rate. However, all of
the extracts showed signiicantly higher antiradical activities varying from
