Chemical constituents of garcinia eugenifolia and garcinia nitida and their cytotoxic activities and antioxidant properties / Khong Heng Yen, Vivien Jong Yi Mian and Mizaton Hazizul Hasan

Garcinia (Guttiferae) is distributed in Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and China. People in these countries often use Garcinia for traditional medicines including the treatment of abdominal pain, dysentery, diarrhea, suppuration, infected wound, leucorrhoea, and chronic ulcer and gonorrhea (Jayaprakasha et al., 2006). Furthermore, Garcinia exhibited an anti-inflammatory (Gopalakrishnan et al., 1997), antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus (Sakagami et al., 2005) and Helicobacterpyroli (Mahabusarakum et al., 1983), and antitumour and antioxidant abilities (Williams et al., 1995).