Phytochemical and Antioxidant study of Malva sylvestris from the west of Algeria

Abstract

Our work aims at studying medicinal and aromatic plants very well by the local population. It is called
Malva sylvestris. The phytochemical tests, which had been done while studying these plants permitted
to us to dictect different families of the chemical compounds existing in both of these plant’s leaves,
and the evaluation in vitro antioxidant activity of phenolic extracts by using the 2,2- diphenyl-2
picrylhydrazyl radical.