Phytochemical Study of Stryax officinalis Lin Syria Mansour Oussama1,*, Darwish Manal2, Ismail Ghenwa1 1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al Andalus University, Tartous, Syria 2Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al Andalus University, Tartous, Syria *Corresponding Author E-mail: mansouroussama@yahoo.fr
Online published on 7 July, 2018. Abstract Stryax officinalis L (Styracaceae )which spread in different parts of the world, especially in Syria is formed by its active components of triterpene sapogenin and a triterpene saponin one of the main plants used for a long time in folk medicine, recent studies came to conduct pharmacological and chemical study of the plant to determine the morphological structure of fresh and dry plant and a set of tests and chemical assays to determine the extract content of chemical Plant fruits were collected from the coastal region and recognizable by their morphological characteristics of sex, gender. The microscopic study that we have had for the fruits of the plant is the first study of its species, and it was proved exsting some character tissue elements like covering trichomes and other elements. Then it was determined the extract content of active substances by making set of general chemical tests for detection alkaloids, Anthraquinone, saponins, cardioactive glycosides and Flavonoids. Top Keywords Stryax officinalis, sapogenin, triterpenesaponin, morphological. Top |