Ethnopharmacology, Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities, Phytochemical Screening of Bioactive Extracts From the Aerial Parts of Fagonia Longispina

Fagonia Longispina (Zygophyllaceae) is a plant traditionally used in folk medicine, mainly as a popular remedy for the treatment of various skin lesions. Additionally, the aerial plant is claimed to be a remedy for cancer in its early stages [1, 2] and for the treatment of various other digestive diseases in the southeast of Algeria (saoura region of Bechar) Northern Africa. [3-4]. Aerial parts of this plant were screened for the principal classes of secondary metabolites, such as anthraquinones, terpenes, saponins, alkaloids, coumarins, flavonoids and tannins. The tested extracts of aerial part of Fagonia longispina extracts exhibited antimicrobial activity, which may support some uses of the plant in traditional medicine. In this study, we demonstrate that the antioxidant activity of the aerial parts of fagonia longispina have the most efficient free radical scavenger by the lowest IC50 value.