Flavonoids and Other Phenolic Compounds from Medicinal Plants for Pharmaceutical and Medical Aspects: An Overview

By Duangjai Tungmunnithum, Areeya Thongboonyou, Apinan Pholboon, Aujana Yangsabai. Medicines, 2018

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Phenolic compounds as well as flavonoids are well-known as antioxidant and many other important bioactive agents that have long been interested due to their benefits for human health, curing and preventing many diseases. This review attempts to demonstrate an overview of flavonoids and other phenolic compounds as the interesting alternative sources for pharmaceutical and medicinal applications. The examples of these phytochemicals from several medicinal plants are also illustrated, and their potential applications in pharmaceutical and medical aspects, especially for health promoting e.g., antioxidant effects, antibacterial effect, anti-cancer effect, cardioprotective effects, immune system promoting and anti-inflammatory effects, skin protective effect from UV radiation and so forth are highlighted.

Subfields: Biochemistry, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Food Science

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• Gut Bacteroides species in health and disease (2021, background): “Flavonoids are phenolic compounds that are found in fruits and vegetables and arise as secondary metabolites in plants.(23) Quercetin is one of the most well characterized flavonoids and is the most abundant one found in nature.”
• Total Phenolic Content, Flavonoid Content and Antioxidant Potential of Wild Vegetables from Western Nepal (2019, background): “Natural phenolic and flavonoid compounds are plant secondary metabolites that hold an aromatic ring bearing at least one hydroxyl group [7].”
• Benefits of Dietary Polyphenols and Polyphenol-Rich Additives to Aquatic Animal Health: An Overview (2020, background): “and iii) the possibilities of their rapid absorption from the intestines (Tungmunnithum et al. 2018).”