“…Pharmacological studies have demonstrated a wide range of biological activities including anti-bacterial (Akcin, Seyis, Akcin, Cayci, & Coban, 2013;Atapour et al, 2009;Buruk, Sokmen, Aydin, & Erturk, 2006;Kousha & Bayat, 2012;Vasanthi, ShriShri Mal, & Das, 2012), anti-fungal (Kousha & Bayat, 2012;Nejad, Rajabi, Mamoudabadi, & Zarrin, 2014;Vasanthi et al, 2012), anti-proliferative (Firuzi, Asadollahi, Gholami, & Javidnia, 2010;Moshafi, Sharififar, Dehghan, & Ameri, 2010), anti-inflammatory (Hajhashemi, Sajjadi, & Heshmati, 2009;Panahi et al, 2015), immune-modulatory (Naeini, Shokri, & Khosravi, 2013;Sharififar et al, 2009), antioxidant (Coruh, SagˇdıçogˇluCelep, & Özgökçe, 2007;Nickavar & Abolhasani, 2009), analgesic (Hajhashemi et al, 2009), and lipid-modifying (Panahi et al, 2011) properties. According to the literature, H. persicum contains a various range of phytochemicals including alkaloids, terpenoids, triterpenes, esters, carbonyls, furanocoumarins, flavonoids and steroids (Afrisham, Aberomand, Ghaffari, Siahpoosh, & Jamalan, 2015;Dadjo et al, 2015;Naeini et al, 2013). Esters including octyl and hexyl may have key roles in the antifungal activity, antibacterial activity, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic features of this plant.…”