Styrax officinalis L. is an important medicinal plant that grows in the desert, subtropics, temperate climate, and Mediterranean Basin regions.. It has been used for medicinal, religious, agricultural and cosmetic purposes. This review aimed to collect from the literature, all the available data about the phytochemistry, traditional medicinal uses, evidence-based uses, morphology and habitat of S. officinalis plant. This report is a review of the literature concerning S. officinalis chemical constituents, description, origin, traditional medicinal and evidence-based uses published from 1966 to date. Among the databases searched for primary literature references are Pubmed, Scientific Information Database, Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, Google and Google scholar. In this search, combinations of the keyword Styrax officinalis with the terms; antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, anticancer, phytochemistry …

Title

Journal of Arid Environments

Publisher

Academic Press

Publisher Country

Palestine

Indexing

Thomson Reuters

Impact Factor

1.8

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

Volume

182

Year

2020

Pages

104253