“…It grows in Asia, especially in the northeast of Iran ( Taheri and Assadi, 2013 ). The studies have reported that R. turkestanicum has beneficial effects in treating diabetes, hypertension, and cancer ( Shiezadeh et al, 2013 ; Moradi et al, 2016 ; Boroushaki et al, 2019a ; Moradzadeh, 2019 ; Ghorbani et al, 2021 ). This herb is composed of different chemical components, including anthraquinones (e.g., aloe-emodin, emodin glycosides, physione, and rhein), flavonoids (e.g., epicatechin and quercetin), alkanes (e.g., eicosane and heneicosane), and fatty acids (e.g., linoleic acid and 9-octadecenoic acid) ( Hosseini et al, 2017 ).…”