Chemical Composition of Essential Oil Extracted from the Aerial Parts of the AL-Marar Plant(Centaurium pulchellum)and their Potential Biological Properties

Recently, global interest in medicinal plants used in folk medicine has increased as an important source of natural molecules with different biological activities and their role in discovering and developing new drugs. Among the medicinal plants used in folk medicine in Syria is Centaurium pulchellum, known locally as " AL-Marar ". The aerial parts of the plant were collected from a mountainous area in Latakia Province, Syria