“…(Barbosa Filho, Agra, Thomas, 1997;Marinho, Barbosa-Filho, Oliveira, 2012;Aragão, 2012) Crude ethanolic extract was standardized using warifteine and methylwarifteine as markers that were also found in the total alkaloid fraction (TAF-Cs) [16,17]. Studies were carried out with these components and showed different pharmacological effect on the hepatic (Melo et al, 2003), nervous (Almeida et al, 2005), cardiovascular (Cavalcante et al, 2011), immune (Vieira et al, 2012) and gastrointestinal systems (De Sales et al, 2015). Several studies demonstrated that the respiratory system exhibited improved function in an experimental model of allergic asthma (Batista- Lima et al, 2001;Costa et al, 2008;Cerqueira-Lima et al, 2010;Bezerra-Santos et al, 2012, Vieira et al, 2013.…”