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A new medicinal plant from Amazonian Ecuador

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1983
Dalbergaria tessmanii, a shrub of the Gesneriaceae locally abundant in the tropical forests of Ecuador, is variously ethnomedicinally employed. For example, none of several Shuar (Jívaro) herbal healers know or use it, but the one Shuar Shaman consulted extols its importance in reducing vaginal bleeding.
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Medicinal plants from the Brazilian Amazonian region and their antileishmanial activity: a review.

Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2018
Leishmaniasis, a neglected disease caused by Leishmania protozoans, primarily affects people in tropical and subtropical areas. Chemotherapy based on the use of pentavalent antimonials, amphotericin B, paromomycin, miltefosine and liposomal amphotericin ...
B. da Silva, A. P. Hage, E. O. Silva, A. P. D. Rodrigues   +3 more
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Bioassay screening of Amazonian plants.

Puerto Rico health sciences journal, 2004
The purpose of this study was to evaluate several biological activities of thirty plant extracts collected in the North West Amazon (Ecuador). Some of these plants are being used for their reputed medicinal properties by the natives of this region.Five in vitro bioassays were used to screen the plant material. 1. The brine shrimp lethality examination (
Ricardo O, Guerrero, Sharon M, Rivera, Sulay, Rivera, Lilly Ann, Sueiro   +3 more
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Plant Theory and Amazonian Metaphysics

2019
The problem with current plant studies is that they are confined to biological plant life and the ways in which such life may be projected philosophically and culturally. Plant theory’s strong investment in plant science is solid, but to no avail, because it uses science as an apodictic foundation of the utopian program prevalent in the humanities ...
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Evaluation of in vivo solid phase microextraction for minimally invasive analysis of nonvolatile phytochemicals in Amazonian plants.

Analytica Chimica Acta, 2016
F. M. Musteata, M. Sandoval, Juan C Ruiz-Macedo, Kathleen Harrison, D. McKenna, William A Millington   +5 more
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Patterns and Processes of Diversification in Amazonian White Sand Ecosystems: Insights from Birds and Plants

, 2020
J. M. Capurucho, S. Borges, Cintia Cornelius, A. Vicentini, E. Prata, F. M. Costa, P. Campos, A. Sawakuchi, F. Rodrigues, André Zular, A. Aleixo, J. Bates, C. Ribas   +12 more
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Plant species diversity in Amazonian forests

2006
Looking at the Amazonian landscape from space one sees unbroken forest stretching from the eastern lowlands of Colombia south through Peru to Bolivia, and east from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. The expanse of trees—covering over half a billion hectares—is draped over a relatively flat landscape broken only by large rivers and human-induced habitat ...
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NUTRITIONAL LIMITATIONS IN MULTI-STRATA AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM WITH NATIVE AMAZONIAN PLANTS

, 2012
A. Moreira, L. Moraes, N. Fageria
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Three series of high molecular weight alkanoates found in Amazonian plants.

Phytochemistry, 2002
A. Pereira, D. S. Siqueira, V. O. Elias, B. Simoneit, J. Cabral, F. A. Aquino Neto   +5 more
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Amazonian plants from Peru used by Quechua and Mestizo to treat malaria with evaluation of their activity.

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2007
Vincent Roumy, G. Garcia-Pizango, Andréa-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca, Andréa-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca, Lastenia Ruiz, V. Jullian, Peter Winterton, N. Fabre, C. Moulis, Alexis Valentin   +9 more
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