Academic Editor: Giuseppe Annunziata
With several medicinal and aromatic species, the Asteraceae family is one of the
largest angiosperm families. The genus Warionia is represented in this
family by only one species, Warionia saharae. In Moroccan traditional
medicine, this species is widely used to treat gastrointestinal problems.
Essential oil of this plant (EoWs) was studied for possible myorelaxant and
antispasmodic activities to rationalize some of the traditional uses. In this
investigation, hydrodistillation was used to obtain the essential oil from the
aerial part of the dry plant extract (EoWs), which was then analyzed using gas
chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The major compounds
identified in the EoWs are nerolidyl acetate (21.44%),