DOI: 10.36347/SAJP.2019.v07i09.003

Pages: 456-460

The plants worldwide used as a traditional medicine for treating of several disorders. Many biological activities have been achieved by a large number of secondary metabolites which extracted from these medicinal plants. The bioactive compounds presented in a different concentration in this plant family according to the reagent used for extraction. In this study we concentrate on three species from the family Asteracea which collected from a specific area in Libya. The active compounds have been isolated by using different types of reagent. Also in this research, we have summarized the pharmaceutical prospecting of natural compounds such flavonoids, sesquiterpenes, fatty acids, lignans, sterols and other metabolites isolated from the genus Amberboa, Anacyclus and Anvillea and their progresses in biotechnological applications as pharmaceuticals for the three species.