Phytotherapy: an introduction to its history, use and application

Ferreira, Thalys Maynnard Costa; Moreira, Conrad; Cária, N. Z.; Victoriano, Gabriel; Silva, W.f.; Magalhães, José Carlos de

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“…J., Uberlândia, v. 36, n. 2, p. 556-567, Mar./Apr. 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/BJ-v36n2a2020-42748 employ medicinal plants are often unaware of their therapeutic activities and their possible toxicity (FERREIRA et al, 2014).…”

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Medicinal plants of the brazilian cerrado: knowing to preserve

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The Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil and presents an immeasurable and still underexplored ecological diversity. Despite the exuberance of its endemic species, it is one of the 25 global hotspots, due to a high natural biodiversity wealth along with an expressive environment destruction. In this study, we surveyed the knowledge on medicinal use of Cerrado plants held by individuals living in a predominantly Cerrado region. A semi-structured individual questionnaire for qualitative socio-economic characterization and medicinal use of plants was applied to Public Health Service users of the city of Assis, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Assis Regional Hospital (Protocol 4812010). Out of 149 respondents, 90.6% reported knowledge and/or use of plants for therapeutic purposes. Among 115 mentioned plant species, only 11.4% belong to the Cerrado. We also evaluated how matching were the reported uses and the respective published data from scientific studies on the plants’ medicinal properties. It was verified that for the few Cerrado plants cited, the respondents described several medicinal applications not scientifically described. More precisely, 60.5% of all medicinal applications were not found in the scientific literature. Besides that, many of the therapeutic effects described in the literature for the Cerrado species were not cited by the interviewed population. Our results indicate a relative unawareness of people on the medicinal potential of the native species of their residence region. We suggest that strengthening connection between popular and scientific knowledge, along with spreading such knowledge, could contribute for an improved valuation about the Cerrado biome and consecutive preservation of it.

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Medicinal plants of the brazilian cerrado: knowing to preserve

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“…The use of plants as a source of medicine by man is as old as the history of mankind; and the origin of this knowledge is confounded with its own existence (1) . It emerged, as human beings sought to meet their basic needs through chance, observation, and attempts (2) , and there were reports of their use in various civilizations of antiquity (3) .…”

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Phytotherapy in pediatrics: the production of knowledge and practices in Primary Care

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“…Herbal medicine represents one of the most important fields of traditional medicine all over the world. There has been growing interest in the investigation of the natural products from plants for the discovery of new antimicrobial agents (Edziri et al, 2011 andFerreira et al, 2014). This work aimed to test the efficacy of three wild herbal crude extracts, which were used for the first time against American foulbrood disease (AFB) caused by Paenibacillus larvae in honeybee colonies.…”

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Role of Some Wild Herbal Extracts in Management of American Foulbrood in Honeybee Colonies

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2017

Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology

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American foulbrood (AFB) is one of the most contagious and dangerous among honey bee diseases. The causative agent is the Gram-positive bacterium, Paenibacillus larvae. The crude methanolic extracts of three wild herbs and tylosin antibiotic were tested against artificially AFB-infected honey bee colonies. The laboratory tests revealed the safety of these crude herbal extracts for adult honey bee workers. Malcolmia pygmaea (Cruciferae) extract was the most potent in control the AFB disease followed by Marrubium alysson (Labiatae) and Lobularia arabica (Cruciferae) was the least effective herb. Tylosin antibiotic was the weakest against the disease control, indicating to the bacterial resistance. Hence, the three crude extracts surpassed tylosin antibiotic, as well as they increased the workers brood rearing activity and the amounts of stored honey and pollen when compared with the control colonies. Perhaps, they enhanced the honey bees immune system. This suggests their suitability as antimicrobial and antioxidant agents in the control of other honey bee diseases and in food and drug industries. Further detailed studies are required to determine the constituents of the three herbal extracts and to evaluate their therapeutic applications.

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Phytotherapy: an introduction to its history, use and application

Cited by 36 publications

References 46 publications

Medicinal plants of the brazilian cerrado: knowing to preserve

Medicinal plants of the brazilian cerrado: knowing to preserve

Phytotherapy in pediatrics: the production of knowledge and practices in Primary Care

Role of Some Wild Herbal Extracts in Management of American Foulbrood in Honeybee Colonies

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