The use of medicinal plants has grown
all over the world. Nowadays the ethnopharmacological applications of medicinal
plants are an important matter when it comes to search for new molecules with
biological activity.
Castanea sativa Mill is a species with
great economic value since chestnut trees are an important crop in the northern
region of Portugal and new applications of this plant are being developed by
the pharmaceutical and food industries. Beyond its economic importance it also
has beneficial effects in human health as consequence of their biological
activities namely antioxidant, antimicrobial, antispasmodic, among others.
In this work we present a review of the
main bioactive compounds that constitute the chestnut extracts, their toxicity
and their main biological activities.
Author(s) Details
José Manuel Neves
Faculty of Health Sciences,
University Fernando Pessoa, Rua Carlos da Maia, 296 4200-150 Porto, Portugal.
Sílvia Cunha
Faculty of Health Sciences,
University Fernando Pessoa, Rua Carlos da Maia, 296 4200-150 Porto, Portugal.
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