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cord-016575-bn15006x	Cox-Georgian, Destinney	Therapeutic and Medicinal Uses of Terpenes	2019-11-12		.txt	text/plain	9832	565	52	Terpenes have a wide range of medicinal uses among which antiplasmodial activity is notable as its mechanism of action is similar to the popular antimalarial drug in use—chloroquine. Terpenes and terpenoids are terms that are often used interchangeably but the two terms have slight differences; terpenes are an arrangement of isoprene units that are naturally occurring, volatile, unsaturated 5-carbon cyclic compounds that give off a scent or a taste to defend itself from organisms that feed off of certain types of plants (see footnote 1). This plant contains many medicinal properties like anticancer, antimicrobial, antifungal, antiviral, antihyperglycemic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antiparasitic (Franklin et al. Beta-myrcene from Cannabis sativa, the plant which is high in terpenes, does not show an anti plasmodial effect but extracts from stem, leaves, and seeds of clove basil showed a good antiplasmodial activity (Small 2017; Kpoviessi et al. The results revealed that terpenes formed a major part of the extracts of medicinal plants that exerted antidepressant effects (Saki et al.	./cache/cord-016575-bn15006x.txt	./txt/cord-016575-bn15006x.txt