Helianthus Annuus L. Application and Perspectives (Review)

Abstract

The literary review is devoted to one-year-old sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) - an annual herbaceous plant of the genus Sunflower (Helianthus L.), widely cultivated in the USA, Argentina, Turkey, Romania, the Russian Federation, mainly with the aim of obtaining oil from seeds. Russia produces up to 20.3% of one-year-old sunflower, which is one of the country's main food and technical crops. It accounts for over 80% of the sown areas of oilseeds, which are concentrated mainly in the Altai Territory, the Volga Region, the North Caucasus and the Central Black Earth Region. The review summarizes the information of the scientific literature on the chemical composition, biological activity of biologically active substances contained in different parts of one-year sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). The data presented in the review show a wide range of pharmacological effects of the plant Helianthus annuus L., including anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antibacterial, antiplasmodium, anti-ulcer, antihistamine, antidiarrheic, hypolipidemic, litholytic, nephrolytic, anxiolytic, antioxidant, anticancerogenic, A wide range of pharmacological activity is due to the rich chemical composition of roots, flowers, leaves of Helianthus annuus L., which are currently used mainly in folk medicine and are cheap, available raw materials, which are the waste of processing this actively cultivated agricultural crop in the Russian Federation, which provides prospects for developing quality standards of various parts of the plant Helianthus annuus L. and medicines based on them for implementation in the medical and pharmaceutical practice of our country.