2013
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-05722013000100004
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Bidens pilosa L. (Asteraceae): traditional use in a community of southern Brazil

Abstract: RESUMO:Bidens pilosa Linn (Asteraceae): Uso tradicional em uma comunidade do Sul do Brasil. O emprego correto de plantas para fins terapêuticos pela população requer o uso daquelas selecionadas por sua eficácia e segurança, com base na tradição popular e/ ou cientificamente validadas como medicinais. Bidens pilosa L. é uma espécie que ocorre amplamente em regiões tropicais sendo conhecida no Brasil pelo nome popular "picão-preto". Quatro agentes da pastoral da Saúde foram identificadas na região de Criciúma/ S… Show more

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“…Oral infusion preparations of B. pilosa, B. sulphurea, and T. vulgare are popularly used or by seat baths [7,12,14]. The present study evaluated the effects of extracts of these plants, prepared by infusion, against bacterial strains that were isolated from urine and vaginal secretion samples from menopausal women with a diagnosis of UTIs, with the goal of validating their popular use.…”
Section: Bidens Pilosamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Oral infusion preparations of B. pilosa, B. sulphurea, and T. vulgare are popularly used or by seat baths [7,12,14]. The present study evaluated the effects of extracts of these plants, prepared by infusion, against bacterial strains that were isolated from urine and vaginal secretion samples from menopausal women with a diagnosis of UTIs, with the goal of validating their popular use.…”
Section: Bidens Pilosamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sch. Bip., Bidens pilosa L., and Tanacetum vulgare L. [7][8][9]. B. sulphurea, popularly known as yellow cosmos or "cosmo-amarelo," "picão-grande," and "aster does México," is an annual herbaceous species from Mexico, but it is considered invasive and intensely disseminated and naturalized in Brazilian territories.…”
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“…The plant contains a diversity of interesting metabolites, including hydroxycinnamic acids and flavonoids (Bartolome et al, 2013). Aside its use as a source of food, B. pilosa is used in folklore medicine not only in the treatment of more than 40 diseases in man (Borges et al, 2013) but also as resistance-modifying agents (Darwish, Aburjai, Al-Khalil, Mahafza, & Al-Abbadi, 2002). Some of its important biological activities include antimicrobial (Silva et al, 2014), anticancer and antipyretic (Sundararajan et al, 2006), anti-oxidative (Yang et al, 2006), anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic (Horiuchi & Seyama, 2008), antidiabetic (Lai et al, 2015) as well as many other beneficial activities as reviewed in other studies (Bairwa et al, 2010;Bartolome et al, 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%