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Inclusion and Selection of Medicinal Plants in Traditional Pharmacopoeias—Evidence in Support of the Diversification Hypothesis

Alencar, Nélson Leal ; Araújo, Thiago Antonio de Sousa ; Amorim, Elba Lúcia Cavalcanti de ; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino de

Economic botany, 2010-03, Vol.64 (1), p.68-79 [Periódico revisado por pares]

New York: Springer & The New York Botanical Garden Press

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Inclusion and Selection of Medicinal Plants in Traditional Pharmacopoeias—Evidence in Support of the Diversification Hypothesis
Autor: Alencar, Nélson Leal ; Araújo, Thiago Antonio de Sousa ; Amorim, Elba Lúcia Cavalcanti de ; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino de
Assuntos: Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions ; Bark ; Biological and medical sciences ; Biomedical and Life Sciences ; Caatinga ; Diversification ; Economic botany ; ethnobotany ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; General pharmacology ; growth habit ; herbal medicines ; Herbs ; Hypotheses ; indigenous species ; interviews ; Introduced species ; Life Sciences ; Medical sciences ; Medical treatment ; Medicinal plants ; medicinal properties ; Native plants ; Native species ; Pharmacognosy. Homeopathy. Health food ; Pharmacology. Drug treatments ; phytochemicals ; Plant Anatomy/Development ; Plant Ecology ; Plant Physiology ; Plant Sciences ; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography ; Plants ; rural communities ; secondary metabolites ; Shrubs ; species diversity ; traditional medicine
É parte de: Economic botany, 2010-03, Vol.64 (1), p.68-79
Notas: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12231-009-9104-5
Descrição: An ethnobotanical study with phytochemical analyses was undertaken to examine the medicinal plants used by residents of a small rural community in northeastern Brazil. The present work tested two ideas that attempt to explain the inclusion and selection of medicinal plants in a given culture: the diversification hypothesis and the concept of versatility. The study involved 101 people and used semistructured interviews. A total of 61 plants were selected, including 25 exotic and 36 native species. Plants were classified according to their habit and analyzed for their phytochemical components. In addition, the relative importance (Rl) of these plants was calculated, and a chemical diversity index (CDI) was created and applied to each of the species. Exotic and native plants were found to have significantly different occurrences of certain classes of compounds; this result supports the diversification hypothesis. It was therefore concluded that exotic plants are included in traditional pharmacopoeias to fill therapeutic vacancies that native plants cannot satisfy.
Editor: New York: Springer & The New York Botanical Garden Press
Idioma: Inglês

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Inclusion and Selection of Medicinal Plants in Traditional Pharmacopoeias—Evidence in Support of the Diversification Hypothesis

Alencar, Nélson Leal ; Araújo, Thiago Antonio de Sousa ; Amorim, Elba Lúcia Cavalcanti de ; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino de

New York: Springer & The New York Botanical Garden Press

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