Anticancer Activity of Micromeria fruticosa and Teucrium polium Growing in Lebanon

Medicinal plants have been widely utilized for tumor and cancer prevention1,2. Over 60% of today’s anticancer chemotherapeutic drugs originate from natural sources as plants3,4. Family Lamiaceae (or Labiatae), is a flowering plant that has roughly 236 genera and more than7000 species5, of which the genus Micromeria and Teucrium. Micromeria fructicosa6 and Teucrium polium7 (Lamiaceae) are perennial herbs or shrubs that dwells in rocky and dry-open territories in the Mediterranean areas like Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon8,9.

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