Phytochemical, Ethnomedicinal, and Therapeutic Potential of Darmana Turki (Artemisia maritima L.) - A Critical Study
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Medicinal plants are nature’s gift to human beings to make disease-free healthy life and play a vital role to preserve our health. They are believed to be much safer and proven elixir in the treatment of various ailments. In Unani System of Medicine, Darmana Turki ( Artemisia maritima L.) a member of Asteraceae (Compositae) family is well known as Afsantin al-Bahr, Shih and Darmana. This plant grows abundantly in the high altitudes of the Himalayas from Kumaon to North-West Kashmir, covers the vast areas of plateau lands, mountain slopes, and in Gurez and Kistwar valleys. It is fairly common in Kulu valley and in Lahul and Spiti in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. It is a deciduous perennial shrub with much branched woody rootstock. Plant bark is rough, fibrous, twigs striated, hoary or somewhat white woody. It is documented as Muḥallil-i-Riyāḥ (Gas Resolvent), Muqattiḥ (diluting), Mufattiḥ (Deobstruent), Muḥallil-i-Waram (anti-inflammatory), Munbit Sha‘r (hair growing), Mukhrij-i-Dīdān (Vermifuge), Qātil-e-Dīdān (Anthelmintic), Tiryāq-e-Samūm (Antidote) and recommended to be used in Dīdān-i-Am‘a (Intestinal Worms/Helminthiasis), Dā’ al-Tha‘lab (Alopecia), Ḥuzāz (lichen/Seborrhoea Dandruff), Lasa‘t ul-‘Aqrab (Scorpion sting poisoning) and Rutaila (Tarantula), etc., It has also been investigated for anthelmintic, antimalarial, hepatoprotective, antimicrobial, antibacterial, anti-diabetic, anti-fertility, juvenoid, cytotoxic, and anti-tumors activities, etc., Many chemical constituents have also been isolated from A . maritima L. as Santonin (C 15 H 18 O 3 , M P 170-72°), two crystalline compounds, viz . β-santonin, a stereoisomer at C11 position (m p 216°–18°) and pseudosantonin (m p 190°), artemisin. Beside this essential oil revealed the presence of α and β pinenes, camphene, cineol (34.5%), thujone, dicyclic aldehyde camphor, bornyl acetate, citral, α-terpineol, and a sequiterpene (possibly β-caryophyllene), etc., The present review is a critique of the literature on traditional ethnopharmacology, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, pharmacology as well as therapeutic medicinal potentialof Darmana Turkī ( A . maritima L.).
Language: English
Topic: Medicinal Plant Research
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410590337