THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES OF SOME SPECIES OF $ARTEMISIA$ GENUS, REPRESENTED IN ARMENIAN FLORA

Plants are valuable sources of antioxidants, which could have beneficial effect on human health. In this respect flavonoids and other polyphenolic compounds gained the greatest attention. The present study was undertaken to evaluate in vitro antiradical activity different extracts (ethanol, hexane, acetone, chlorophorm methanol) Artemisia vulgaris L., A. fragrans Willd., absinthium L. splendens represented Armenian flora. 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay used measure radical scavenging obtained from species. methanol possess highest with IC50 value 87 µg/mL 98 µg/mL, respectively. total flavonoid content plant determined employing AlCl3 colorimetric assay. extract 15.3±0.3 μg QE/mg. Folin–Ciocalteu determine phenolic studied extracts. contents were 55.9±1.7 87.3±1.8 GAE/mg, cases parameter lower than 40 GAE/mg indicated.