Detection of Active Chemical Compounds in Lycium Shawii Plant Using GC-MS Technique and Their Evaluation as Antioxidant

Lycium shawii is considered a thorny perennial and wild plant. Bramble usually grows in dry and hot lands because this plant lives on moisture. The height of the plant reaches one and a half meters, sometimes up to two meters, and is considered as a deciduous shrub whose leaves fall off during the months of July and August, and sometimes it continues until September in two types, L.edgworthii and L.dasystemum, while in the rest of the other species, it continues until December and may continue until February. Using the GC-MS technology has emerged many active compounds for Lycium shawii from these compounds are Butyn-1-ol, Carbonic acid, dimethyl ester, Carbonic acid, dimethyl ester, Ethene, methox, Diazene, dimethyl, Diadimethyl, Hexadecenoic acid, methyl ester Pentadecanoic acid, methyl ester, -(ethenylthio), 9,12-Octadecadienoic acid, methyl ester, 6-Octadecenoic acid, methyl ester 9-Octadecenoic acid (Z), methyl ester Octadecenoic acid, methyl ester, Phytol  methyl stearate  methyl ester, Heptadecanoic acid, and 16-methyl and another compounds .The results showed an evaluation of the antioxidant activity of extracts (roots, leaves, and stems) of Lycium shawii plant. For the aqueous and alcoholic extract using DPPH, the aqueous extract of leaves is the best antioxidant than other extracts.