Amazonian plants from Peru used by Quechua and Mestizo to treat malaria with evaluation of their activity

Roumy, Vincent; Garcia-Pizango, G.; Gutierrez-Choquevilca, Andréa-Luz; Ruiz, Lastenia; Jullian, Valérie; Winterton, Peter; Fabre, Nicolás; Moulis, Claire; Valentin, Alexis

doi:10.1016/j.jep.2007.04.009

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“…21 Bark, leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds are used to treat ailments of the digestive tract, pain, dermatological, and respiratory disorders, and concoctions to purge the patient from "impurities." 22 Many of these compounds are biologically active-in one study, 23 of 31 crude plant species tested showed evidence of antibiotic activity, 12 whereas in another, 7 of 14 demonstrated anti-plasmodial activity, with low cytotoxicity, 23 lending scientific support to indigenous knowledge and acknowledging a role for plants in modern medicine.…”

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Healthcare Access and Health Beliefs of the Indigenous Peoples in Remote Amazonian Peru

Brierley

Suarez

Arora

et al. 2014

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. Little is published about the health issues of traditional communities in the remote Peruvian Amazon. This study assessed healthcare access, health perceptions, and beliefs of the indigenous population along the Ampiyacu and Yaguasyacu rivers in north-eastern Peru. One hundred and seventy-nine adult inhabitants of 10 remote settlements attending health clinics were interviewed during a medical services trip in April 2012. Demographics, health status, access to healthcare, health education, sanitation, alcohol use, and smoke exposure were recorded. Our findings indicate that poverty, household overcrowding, and poor sanitation remain commonplace in this group. Furthermore, there are poor levels of health education and on-going barriers to accessing healthcare. Healthcare access and health education remain poor in the remote Peruvian Amazon. This combined with poverty and its sequelae render this population vulnerable to disease.

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Healthcare Access and Health Beliefs of the Indigenous Peoples in Remote Amazonian Peru

Brierley

Suarez

Arora

et al. 2014

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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“…A related species, M. congesta DC. (Asteraceae), has also been reported with the same ethnobotanical use in Peru (Roumy et al, 2007). Another species, Mikania, M. glomerata Spreng.…”

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Screening of Latin American plants for antiparasitic activities against malaria, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis

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Romero

Ortega-Barrı́a

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Pharmaceutical Biology

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“…99 Extracts from the bark and leaves had antiplasmodial activity with IC 50 from 2.3 to 7.9ug/mL. 84 This species was found to contain the alkaloids (+) -Aromaline, (+) -Homoaromaline, Homomoschatoline, Imeluteine, Imenine, Imerubrine, Lysicamine, (-) -Krukovine, Nomifescine, Rufescine and Splendidine. 100 XV.…”

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“…In the Peruvian Amazon, A. laeta is used to treat malaria. 41,83,84 The species was reported as malarial by the Quechua indigenous group and by the Mestizos of Loreto (Peru), however no antiplasmodial activity was found. 84 The Achual natives of Perú use the bark in an infusion to treat malaria.…”

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Ethnobotany of Medicinal Plants Used to Treat Malaria by Traditional Healers from Ten Indigenous Colombian Communities Located in Vaupes Medio

Pabón¹

2017

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The indigenous communities from Vaupes Medio possess knowledge in the use of plants to treat their illnesses. This knowledge has been transmitted orally from generation to generation. The present article aimed to carry out investigates the ethnobotany of medicinal plants used to cure malaria by 10 knowledgeable indigenous communities from Vaupes Medio, Colombia. Open and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 33 traditional healers representing 10 indigenous communities located in the Colombian southeast. Concurrently, field trips were conducted to identify and collect the reported species. Together with the aid of a bibliography, the identification and gathering of information for each species was performed in the Colombian Amazonian Herbarium -COAH -Sinchi Institute, Colombian National Herbarium (COL) and University of Antioquia Herbarium (HUA) herbariums. To find the relative importance of each plant species used to treat malaria, the degree of consensus among the survey respondents was determined using the Friedman's index. The traditional healers reported 41 morphospecies, among them 35 were identified down to the species, 5 to the genus, and 1 to the family. Notably, only we have reported 28 of these morphospecies for antimalarial use. Also, the plants that presented a major relative importance were Abuta grandifolia, Aspidosperma excelsum, Matisia cf. glandifera and Pleonotoma jasminifolia. Despite social and cultural changes favoring the rapid decline of ancestral knowledge, these indigenous communities located in the southeast of Colombia, have still managed to conserve their knowledge and use of traditional medicine to cure malaria.

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Amazonian plants from Peru used by Quechua and Mestizo to treat malaria with evaluation of their activity

Cited by 56 publications

References 17 publications

Healthcare Access and Health Beliefs of the Indigenous Peoples in Remote Amazonian Peru

Healthcare Access and Health Beliefs of the Indigenous Peoples in Remote Amazonian Peru

Screening of Latin American plants for antiparasitic activities against malaria, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis

Ethnobotany of Medicinal Plants Used to Treat Malaria by Traditional Healers from Ten Indigenous Colombian Communities Located in Vaupes Medio

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