Desmodium adscendens (Sw.) DC. is a plant of the Fabaceae family especially rich in flavonoids but also alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids, phenols, phenylpropanoids, glycosides, and volatiles. This herb has been traditionally used numerous countries all over world for its pharmacological biological properties (i.e., it treatment diarrheas, fever, epilepsy, asthma, leishmaniasis, gastroduodenal ul...