Cerrado E Plantas Medicinais:  Algumas Reflexões Sobre O Uso E a Conservação

Oliveira, Hans Werner Castro; Viveiro, Alessandra Aparecida

doi:10.22409/resa2012.v5i3.a21016

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“…Many communities resident in Cerrado regions are comprised of poor people with restricted access to public health services and often dependent of medicinal plants to cure their illnesses (SANTOS; ARAÚJO, 2015). In fact, it is known that the Cerrado carries many plant species with medicinal properties but most of them has not been studied (OLIVEIRA; VIVEIRO, 2012). So, the cultural heritage of the knowledge and use of medicinal plants from this biome argues for the preservation of their species and recovery of the Cerrado areas (DURIGAN et al, 2011).…”

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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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Evaluation of the Anti-inflammatory Activity of Equisetum arvense and Baccharis trimera Fractions

Carolina Ferreira,

Alan Fernandes,

Júlia Amanda Rodrigues

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Arch Pharm Pharma Sci

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Inflammation is a natural response of the body to defend itself against potential threats and can be reduced through physical activity, proper nutrition, and the use of herbal medicines, which are medicinal plants. In the study, we aim to examine the anti-inflammatory effects of the volatile and ethanolic fractions of two commonly used medicinal plants, Equisetum arvense, and Baccharis trimera. The essential oils were obtained by hydrodistillation of the fresh leaves of the plants, while the ethanolic extracts were obtained using classical methodologies. All fractions were tested for anti-inflammatory activity, evaluating their ability to stabilize the red blood cell membrane and inhibit the spreading, and phagocytosis by macrophages, at concentrations varying from 200 to 600 µg mL-1. The results of the experiments suggest that the ethanolic fraction of B. trimera shows promising results compared to the positive controls. Our investigations thus contribute to the specialized literature on the use of herbal medicines around nutrition, providing guidance for future studies on these fractions.

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Tipos de enfoques fitoterapéuticos: una revisión de la literatura

Malosso,

Pereira,

Santos

et al. 2023

Revista Científica Multidisciplinar Núcleo do Conhecimento

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La fitoterapia es una práctica terapéutica basada en preparados a base de plantas con el objetivo de tratar enfermedades. Profesionales de diversas áreas hacen uso del conocimiento tradicional y científico al elaborar diversos tipos de preparados a base de plantas con este propósito. Dado que la fitoterapia ya no se considera una práctica basada únicamente en el conocimiento tradicional y se ha convertido en un tema muy actual debido a su mérito científico, reconocido de manera comprobada, y se ha vuelto cada vez más común entre los profesionales de la salud debido a que causa menos efectos secundarios que los medicamentos alopáticos convencionales, y por lo tanto, ha experimentado un aumento en su uso en las sociedades actuales, se justifica la realización de este trabajo. Debido a su importancia histórica y su resurgimiento en el mercado de medicamentos modernos a base de plantas, el objetivo de este trabajo fue llevar a cabo una revisión de la literatura sobre fitoterapia. Por lo tanto, en este trabajo se buscó responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cuáles son los enfoques principales de la fitoterapia en la actualidad? Para responder a esta pregunta, se realizó una revisión de la literatura basada en textos obtenidos en Google Académico, que trataban principalmente sobre los temas de la historia de la fitoterapia, tipos y enfoques de la fitoterapia, regulación de fitoterapéuticos en Brasil y fitoterapia medicinal, nutricional e integrativa, que dieron origen a los temas de este artículo. Como resultado, se observa cuán rica es esta práctica terapéutica y cuán importante es el uso de los fitoterápicos, ya que pueden asociarse a la medicina tradicional exactamente porque pueden causar menos efectos secundarios que los medicamentos alopáticos convencionales.

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Cerrado E Plantas Medicinais: Algumas Reflexões Sobre O Uso E a Conservação

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Medicinal plants of the brazilian cerrado: knowing to preserve

Medicinal plants of the brazilian cerrado: knowing to preserve

Evaluation of the Anti-inflammatory Activity of Equisetum arvense and Baccharis trimera Fractions

Tipos de enfoques fitoterapéuticos: una revisión de la literatura

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