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Withania somnifera, a plant with a great therapeutical future.

Elsakka M, Pavelescu M, Grigorescu E.

Withania somnifera Dun is a plant which drew the interest of many researchers in several countries, either for its active principles or for the extremely important pharmacodynamic or pharmacotherapeutic properties it has and first of all for the content in withanolides, substances with a sterol structure.