**9. Acknowledgement**

This work was supported by grants from UNISANTIS and the research was conducted under the direction of the Nature Conservation Center for Sustainable Futures (Ibsar) at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Dr. Salma Talhouk and many researchers contributed to the establishment of Ibsar. Plant collection was supervised by Dr. Salma Talhouk and carried out by Mr. Khaled Sleem. Extraction and fractionation of plant extracts were supervised by Dr. Najat Saliba. Inflammation studies on Sal A were supervised by Dr. Fadia Homeidan and Dr. Rabih Talhouk, skin cancer studies by Dr. Nadine Darwiche, colon cancer by Dr. Hala Gali-Muhtasib, leukemia by Dr. Marwan El-Sabban and the microbial studies by Dr. Elie Barbour. The following graduate students have contributed to this work: Ms. Nahed El-Najjar, Mr. Akram Ghantous, Mr. Mohammad Salla, Ms. Saada Dakdouki, Mr. Ahmad Abou Tayyoun, Mr. Wassim El-Jouni, Ms. Melody Saikaly, Mr. Houssam Shaib, Ms. Myriam El-Khoury, Ms. Jamal Al-Saghir and Ms. Noura Abdallah.

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