ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF FURANOCOUMARINS AND A PHENYLPROPANOID FROM THE ACETONE EXTRACT AND IDENTIFICATION OF VOLATILE CONSTITUENTS FROM THE ESSENTIAL OIL OF Peucedanum pastinacifolium

摘要

Peucedanum pastinacifolium Boiss. & Hausskn. has been used by local inhabitants in Central and Western Iran as an antihyperlipidemic vegetable, which has been verified in vivo [1, 2]. The ethanolic extract of the aerial parts of P. pastinacifolium can lower total serum cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglyceride levels, and atherogenic indices in hypercholesterolemic rats after eight days [1]. In another study, one-month treatment of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats with a hydroalcoholic extract of P. pastinacifolium aerial parts was shown to ameliorate their blood lipid profile [2].