Essential oils found in the smoke of "tira-capeta", a cigarette used by some quilombolas living in pantanal wetlands of Brazil;Óleos essenciais encontrados na fumaça do "tira-capet", um cigarro utilizado pelos quilombolas que vivem no pantanal do Brasil

Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 310-316

  Negri, Giuseppina ^a   Rodrigues, Eliana ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Essential oils; Ethnopharmacology; Memory; Quilombolas; Traditional use

Indexed keywords

CAMPHOR; CIGARETTE SMOKE; CINEOLE; ESSENTIAL OIL; PINENE;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DRUG ACTIVITY; ETHNIC GROUP; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; WETLAND;

EID: 77957574871     PISSN: 0102695X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-695X2010000300004     Document Type: Article

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