A review of antimalarial plants used in traditional medicine in communities in Portuguese-Speaking countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Jefferson Rocha De A Silva²  Aline De S Ramos¹  Marta Machado¹  Dominique F De Moura²  Rib-type="author"> Zoraima Neto [1] ,Universidade Federal do Amazonas Departamento de Química Laboratório de CromatografiaManaus AM ,Brasil

关键词: antimalarial;    medicinal plants;    extracts;    malaria;    folk medicine;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762011000900019

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants, based on traditional use or ethnomedical data, is a highly promising potential approach for identifying new and effective antimalarial drug candidates. The purpose of this review was to create a compilation of the phytochemical studies on medicinal plants used to treat malaria in traditional medicine from the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPSC): Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe. In addition, this review aimed to show that there are several medicinal plants popularly used in these countries for which few scientific studies are available. The primary approach compared the antimalarial activity of native species used in each country with its extracts, fractions and isolated substances. In this context, data shown here could be a tool to help researchers from these regions establish a scientific and technical network on the subject for the CPSC where malaria is a public health problem.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
 All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License