Biological properties of latex, aqueous extracts and bee products of Euphorbia Officinarum L.: a short review

• Autor(a) principal: Boutoub, Oumaima
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Ghadraoui, Lahsen El, Miguel, Maria Graca
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/18502
• topic: Euphorbia officinarum; Spurge; Triterpene; Triterpene derivatives; Ingol diterpenes; Insecticidal activity; Antimicrobial activity; Antioxidant activity; α-glucosidase inhibitory activity

Euphorbia officinarum L. is a Moroccan endemic plant known as “Tikiout” and “Daghmus” that can also be found in Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Algeria. In the present review, “Euphorbia officinarum”, “metabolites” “hemisynthesis” were the keywords used for the research in the Web search engine Google Scholar and in the database Web of Science. Triterpenes, phytosterols and ingol diterpenes were isolated and identified in the latex of Moroccan E. officinarum. More than sixty triterpenes were obtained by hemisynthesis from natural triterpenes. Some of these derivatives had insecticidal and antimicrobial activity (phytopathogenic bacteria). The total phenol content and the antioxidant and anti-α-glucosidase activities were dependent on the time and temperature of extractions and also on the plant solvent ratio. The antioxidant activity of monofloral honey of E. officinarum origin was attributed to the phenol fraction (this fraction, previously isolated from honey samples, had better activity than the entire honey).