Resilience and adaptation in the use of medicinal plants with suspected anti-inflammatory activity in the Brazilian Northeast

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 238-252

  Júnior, Washington Soares Ferreira ^a,b   Ladio, Ana Haydée ^c   Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino De ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dry tropical forest; Ethnobotany; Plant selection; Semi arid; Utilitarian redundancy

Indexed keywords

2 FORMYL 5 (3',4' DIMETHOXYBENZOYLOXY) 3 METHYL 2 CYCLOPENTEN 1 ACETALDEHYDE; 2 FORMYL 5 (4' METHOXYBENZOYLIXY) 3 METHYL 2 CYCLOPENTEN 1 ACETALDEHYDE; AMBURANA CEARENSIS EXTRACT; AMBUROSIDE A; ANADENANTHERA COLUBRINA EXTRACT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CHALCONE DERIVATIVE; COUMARIN; ERYTHRINA VELUTINA EXTRACT; FLAVONOID; ISOCAMPHERIDE DERIVATIVE; JATROPHA MOLLISSIMA EXTRACT; LIBIDIBIA FERREA EXTRACT; MAYTENUS RIGIDA EXTRACT; MAYTENUS SENEGALENSIS EXTRACT; MIMOSA TENUIFLORA EXTRACT; MYRACRODRUON URUNDEUVA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SIDEROXYLON OBTUSIFOLIUM EXTRACT; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIZIPHUS JOAZEIRO EXTRACT;

AMBURANA CEARENSIS; ANADENANTHERA COLUBRINA; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BAUHINIA CHEILANTHA; BRAZIL; CAPPARIS JACOBINAE; CEREUS JAMACARU; COLITIS; COMMIPHORA LEPTOPHLOEOS; CRATAEVA TAPIA; CROTON BLANCHETIANUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DRUG ISOLATION; EDEMA; ERYTHRINA VELUTINA; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GENITAL TRACT INFLAMMATION; GUAPIRA LAXA; HANDROANTHUS IMPETIGINOSUS; HYMENAEA COURBARIL; INTERVIEW; JATROPHA MOLLISSIMA; LIBIDIBIA FERREA; MAYTENUS RIGIDA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIMOSA TENUIFLORA; MYRACRODRUON URUNDEUVA; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTITIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; RAT; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHAMNIDIUM MOLLE; SCHINOPSIS BRASILIENSIS; SIDEROXYLON OBTUSIFOLIUM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPONDIAS TUBEROSA; SYAGRUS CEARENSIS; ULCER; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; WOUND; WOUND HEALING; XIMENIA AMERICANA; ZIZIPHUS JOAZEIRO;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAZIL; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80255138338     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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