Preliminary assessment of medicinal plants used as antimalarials in the southeastern Venezuelan Amazon

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela¹  Caraballo, Brigida¹  Caraballo, Alejandro¹  Rodríguez-Acosta, Alexis¹  Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela¹ 

关键词: Ethnomedicine;    Phytotherapeutic;    Medicinal plants;    Malaria;    Venezuelan amazon;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822004000200016

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

Eighteen species of medicinal plants used in the treatment of malaria in Bolívar State, Venezuela were recorded and they belonged to Compositae, Meliaceae, Anacardiaceae, Bixaceae, Boraginaceae, Caricaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Leguminosae, Myrtaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Plantaginaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Solanaceae and Verbenaceae families. Antimalarial plant activities have been linked to a range of compounds including anthroquinones, berberine, flavonoids, limonoids, naphthquinones, sesquiterpenes, quassinoids, indol and quinoline alkaloids.

【 授权许可】

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