GERANIUM SPECIEs AS ANTIOXIDANTS

Complementary alternative medicine (CAM) has been widely used for a long time for thetreatment of multiple diseases, despite the great advances in allopathic medicine. It is esti?mated that about 80% of the world population use some form of CAM.CAM encompasses empirical knowledge and medical practice in which use is made of herb?al medicinal plants, animals, minerals, manual therapy and exercise, alone or in conjunctionfor the treatment of diseases. In the early 1980's there emerged a strong interest in theirstudy that has significantly influenced the pharmaceutical industry in developing technolo?gies to identify new chemical entities and structures that are used for the synthesis of drugs.It has been shown that natural products play an important role in the discovery of com?pounds for drug development to treat multiple diseases