author(s) : Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Nahla S. Abdel-Azim, Husseiny A. H. Elgendy, and Ibrahim A. El-Garf
Synonym
Cynanchum acutum L., Sp. Pl., ed. 1, 212 (1753); Boulos, Fl. Egypt 2: 222(2000) subsp. acutum
Syn. Cynanchum monspeliacum L., Sp. Pl., ed. 1, 212 (1753).
family name
ASCLEPIADACEA
genus name
Cynanchum
The above-ground parts of Cynanchum acutum, growing in Egypt contain glucose, fructose, galactose, sucrose, rhamnose and arabinose.
The mucilage, extracted from the plant contains rhamnose, galactose, xylose, arabinose, fructose and galacturonic acid.
The study of the free, protein hydrolysate, and total amino acids revealed that tyrosine had the highest percentage (0.1290), while glycine had the lowest percentage (0.0072%) (Awaad, 2000). 4-Epifriedelin and cynaphyllol were also identified from the plant (Abou Zeid et al., 2001).
C. acutum is reported as poisonous with few medical applications.
It has been used as a purgative in the French pharmaceutical Codex and its milky latex is used for skin and eye problems in Tunisian folk medicine and its seeds are edible in some parts of Iran (Estakhr et al., 2012).
Crude extracts of the various parts are effective as anti-ulcer (Boomibalagan et al., 2013)…
location
egypt