Acute diuretic effects in conscious rats produced by some medicinal plants used in the state of São Paulo, Brasil

Acute diuretic effect of aqueous extract of Retama raetam in normal rats

“…We have previously demonstrated that the increase of diuresis was accompanied by a similar qualitative increase of electrolytes after Spergularia purpurea water extract treatment (Jouad et al, 2001). The possibility of direct action of potassium content of RR extract on diuretic effect was ruled out since the K + content of this plant seems to be lower to affect diuresis (Ribeiro et al, 1988).…”

Ethnopharmacological studies of antimicrobial remedies in the south of Brazil

“…Chapéu-de-couro 126145 Alismataceae Diuretic (Ribeiro et al, 1988) and hypotensive (Ribeiro et al, 1986) Eugenia uniflora Pitangueira 125185 Myrtaceae Antispasmodic (Morioka et al, 2000), hypotensive (Morioka et al, 2000), antihypertensive (Consolini et al, 1999), antidiuretic (Consolini et al, 1999), vasodilator (Consolini et al, 1999), spasmolytic (Wallawik et al, 1997), antimalarial (Agbedahunsi and Aladesanmi, 1993), antihyperglycemic (Arai et al, 1999), antihyperlipemic (Arai et al, 1999), antihypertriglycemic (Ferro et al, 1988), hypoglycemic (Matsumura et al, 2000), maltase and sucrase inhibition (Arai et al, 1999), DNA polymerase inhibition (Lee et al, 2000), antidiarrheal (Schapoval et al, 1994), anti-inflammatory (Schapoval et al, 1994), decrease uric acid (Hirschmann et al, 1987) Active against Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella aerogenes, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Adebajo et al, 1989); Mycobacterium phlei, Sarcina lutea, Trychophyton mentagrophytes (El-Shabrawy, 1995) Leonurus sibiricus Macaé 125194 Lamiaceae Antihypertensive (Wu, 1978), vasoconstrictor (Chu et al, 1926), carcinogenesis inhibition (Nagasawa et al, 1991(Nagasawa et al, , 1992, antitumor (Woo et al, 1979), estrogenic (Kunitsa, 1969), antigenic activity (Wang et al, 1983), anticoagulant (Kosuge et al, 1984), cytotoxic (Nam and Yang, 1995), diuretic (Shin, 1984), uterine relaxant (Shin, 1984), CNS depressant (Zhelnov and Grazhdan, 1962), hypotensive (Karpovich, 1961), g...…”

Acute Hypotensive and Diuretic Activities of Chamaemelum nobile Aqueous Extract in Normal Rats

“…Furthemore, sodium, potassium and chlorure urinary excretion was increased. Previous studies demonstrated diuretic activity of medicinal plants [9,13,[26][27][28][29][30][31] . The increase in urinary electrolytes may be probably due to the inhibition of renal Na+-K+ pump that would lead to a reduction in Na+ and K+ reabsorption leading thus to an osmotic water flow into the lumen and diuresis [13] .…”