Medicinal Species of the Genus Berberis: A Review of Their Traditional and Ethnomedicinal Uses, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology

Sobhani, Zahra; Akaberi, Maryam; Amiri, Mohammad Sadegh; Ramezani, Mohammad; Emami, Seyed Ahmad; Sahebkar, Amirhossein

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64872-5_27

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“…Among these, maximum number of plants were being used for stomachache followed by diarrhea, constipation, and intestinal worms. Previous studies also confirmed the treatment of GIDs using local medicinal plants [12,[67][68][69][70]. The results suggest that locals prefer plant-based remedies for the treatment of GIDs, as in most of the cases herbal preparations provide instant relief without any significant side effect.…”

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“…The present study reports the preference of Andean inhabitants to the use of medicinal plants in the therapy of their digestive system ailments; being the preparations mostly used to relieve their ailments without presenting side effects [44]. Likewise, some reasons related to the high use of medicinal plants, being a taboo linked to these ailments, an example of this, is inhabitants who frequently hesitate to mention their ailments to health personnel, such as intestinal gas [45]. However, these inhabitants make their ailments known to parents or elders, who suggest the use of medicinal plants found in the Andean community, another reason being the distance from the Andean communities and the absence or lack of health centers.…”

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Phytotherapy Used in Ailments of the Digestive System by Andean Inhabitants of Pampas, Huancavelica, Peru

Saldaña-Chafloque,

Acosta-Román,

Torres-Huamaní

et al. 2024

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The use of medicinal plants for the therapy of diseases of the digestive system, where the Andean peoples developed various forms of administration. The objective is to identify medicinal plants used in the therapy of ailments of the digestive system by the Andean inhabitants of Pampas, Tayacaja, Huancavelica, Peru. Methods: Non-probabilistic sampling, using the “snowball” technique, carrying out semi-structured surveys, allowing information to be collected on the prevalence of ailments or diseases of the digestive system treated with medicinal plants, with inhabitants over 20 years of age participating and using the medicinal plants in the therapy of your digestive system ailments, and exclude those inhabitants who do not comply with it. Results: A total of 16 families, 33 genera, and 34 species are reported, where the families that present the greatest abundance of species are Asteraceae and Lamiaceae. The widely used species are Minthostachys mollis (11.9%), Aloe vera (10.4%), Clinopodium bolivianum (9%), Artemisia absinthium (9%), and Matricaria chamomilla (8.2%). Concluding with the identification of a diversity of medicinal flora, used in the therapy of diseases of the digestive system, such as stomach pain, constipation, gallbladder ailments, gastritis, and gastrointestinal, and liver diseases.

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“…It happens that Berberis is similarly used in other traditional medicine systems. For example, in far-west Nepal, B. asiatica is frequently used for eye problems [ 32 ]; in Islamic traditional medicine, different parts of B. vulgaris and B. integrrima are prescribed for skin, liver, stomach, kidney, and eye problems [ 33 ]. In the Indian and European systems of traditional medicine, Berberis is used for curing eye disease, fever, jaundice, rheumatism, vomiting during pregnancy, kidney and gall balder stone, and such like [ 34 ].…”

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Distribution of Therapeutic Efficacy of Ranunculales Plants Used by Ethnic Minorities on the Phylogenetic Tree of Chinese Species

Hao

Zhang

et al. 2022

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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The medicinal properties of plants can be evolutionarily predicted by phylogeny-based methods, which, however, have not been used to explore the regularity of therapeutic effects of Chinese plants utilized by ethnic minorities. This study aims at exploring the distribution law of therapeutic efficacy of Ranunculales plants on the phylogenetic tree of Chinese species. We collected therapeutic efficacy data of 551 ethnomedicinal species belonging to five species-rich families of Ranunculales; these therapeutic data were divided into 15 categories according to the impacted tissues and organs. The phylogenetic tree of angiosperm species was used to analyze the phylogenetic signals of ethnomedicinal plants by calculating the net relatedness index (NRI) and nearest taxon index (NTI) in R language. The NRI results revealed a clustered structure for eight medicinal categories (poisoning/intoxication, circulatory, gastrointestinal, eyesight, oral, pediatric, skin, and urinary disorders) and overdispersion for the remaining seven (neurological, general, hepatobiliary, musculoskeletal, otolaryngologic, reproductive, and respiratory disorders), while the NTI metric identified the clustered structure for all. Statistically, NRI and NTI values were significant in 5 and 11 categories, respectively. It was found that Mahonia eurybracteata has therapeutic effects on all categories. iTOL was used to visualize the distribution of treatment efficacy on species phylogenetic trees. By figuring out the distribution of therapeutic effects of Ranunculales medicinal plants, the importance of phylogenetic methods in finding potential medicinal resources is highlighted; NRI, NTI, and similar indices can be calculated to help find taxonomic groups with medicinal efficacy based on the phylogenetic tree of flora in different geographic regions.

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Medicinal Species of the Genus Berberis: A Review of Their Traditional and Ethnomedicinal Uses, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology

Cited by 11 publications

References 86 publications

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Phytotherapy Used in Ailments of the Digestive System by Andean Inhabitants of Pampas, Huancavelica, Peru

Distribution of Therapeutic Efficacy of Ranunculales Plants Used by Ethnic Minorities on the Phylogenetic Tree of Chinese Species

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