Aromatic Medicinal Plants from Tajikistan (Central Asia)

Farukh S Sharopov; Hanjing Zhang; Michael Wink; William N Setzer

doi:10.3390/medicines2010028

Aromatic Medicinal Plants from Tajikistan (Central Asia)

Medicines (Basel). 2015 Feb 17;2(1):28-46. doi: 10.3390/medicines2010028.

Authors

Farukh S Sharopov^{1

2}, Hanjing Zhang³, Michael Wink⁴, William N Setzer⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. sharopov@uni-heidelberg.de.
² Nikitin Institute of Chemistry, Tajik Academy of Sciences, Ainy St. 299/2, Dushanbe 734063, Tajikistan. sharopov@uni-heidelberg.de.
³ Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA. hanjing228@gmail.com.
⁴ Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. wink@uni-hd.de.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA. wsetzer@chemistry.uah.edu.

Abstract

Tajikistan is a small country located in Central Asia. The mostly mountainous terrain with a continental, subtropical, and semiarid climate, is characterized by diverse flora. Many people in Tajikistan rely on medicinal plants as their traditional form of medicine to prevent and cure health disorders. Aromatic medicinal plants, in particular, have played an important role for the local people. In this review, we present a summary of the uses of 18 aromatic medicinal plants from Tajikistan and their compositions of secondary metabolites.

Keywords: Tajikistan; aromatic plants; essential oil compositions; secondary metabolites; traditional herbal medicines.

Publication types

Review