“…Specifically, E. uniflora is widely and popularly used due to its medicinal properties (Sobeh et al, 2019). Several pharmacological activities are reported for the essential oils from E. uniflora leaves such as cytotoxic, antibacterial (Figueiredo et al, 2019;Sobeh et al, 2016), antifungal (Siega, 2018;, leishmanicidal (da Silva et al, 2018), molluscicide (Pinheiro et al, 2017), analgesic (Savegnago et al, 2015), antioxidant (Victoria et al, 2012), larvicide (Leite et al, 2009), repellent (Lobo et al, 2019), antiproliferative (Gomes et al, 2020), anti-inflammatory (Falcão et al, 2018), antinociceptive and hypothermic (Amorim et al, 2009). Some of these activities were associated with the leaf oil compounds, such as selina-1,3,7(11)-trien-8-one (36.37 %) and selina-1,3,7(11)-trien-8-one epoxide (27.32%) (dos Santos et al, 2018).…”