JOURNAL 3429
Records of Natural Products
Available Online: April 07,2025
p.1 - 32
http://doi.org/10.25135/rnp.508.2502.3429 (DOI number will be activated after the manuscript has been available in an issue.)
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Yezi Ma
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Haonan Xu
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Yu Sun
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Hao Fan
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Yuze Li
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Xiaomei Song
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Wei Wang
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Dongdong Zhang
GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT
Aframomum belongs to the ginger family Zingiberaceae, a group of perennial herbaceous plants found mainly in tropical Africa, including many countries in West, Central and East Africa. Aframomum spp has a long history of medicinal use in African traditional medicine. It has been used to treat a variety of ailments such as digestive disorders (for relief of indigestion, stomach pains, etc.), respiratory disorders (to alleviate symptoms of coughs and colds), and inflammatory diseases. However, there is a lack of current literature summarizing this area. Therefore, the present review aims to comprehensively organize the botanical, phytochemical, and pharmacological studies of Aframomum spp to provide reference studies for further discovery of its therapeutic value. For this purpose, relevant information on Aframomum spp was searched from scientific databases including Science Direct, Web of Science, Google Scholar, PubMed. Modern studies have shown that Aframomum spp contains a variety of chemical constituents containing terpenoids, diarylheptanoids, flavonoids, and lignans, which have various pharmacological effects such as antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and analgesic. The phytoconstituents and various pharmacological activities of Aframomum spp. reported in this paper can provide valuable references for further studies.
KEYWORDS- Aframomum
- botanical
- phytochemistry
- pharmacology
- applications
