“…Phenolic compounds, major secondary metabolites in many edible plants (Barros et al, 2011;Kim et al, 2013), are of great importance for medical treatment. Seeds of Perilla frutescens are an essential Chinese herbal medicine and contain many bioactive phenolic compounds showing excellent anti-oxidative (Yamamoto and Ogawa, 2002;Zhao et al, 2010;Izumi et al, 2012), anti-biotic (Saita et al, 2012;Zhao et al, 2012a;Yang et al, 2013) and hepatic protection (for rosmarinic acid and caffeic acid; Yang et al, 2013) activities. In addition, luteolin and apigenin in perilla seed could improve several hypermonoaminergic neuropsychological disorders (Zhao et al, 2010(Zhao et al, , 2012a.…”