Composição química e propriedades antioxidantes de duas espécies silvestres de camomila do Nordeste de Portugal: camomila-alemã e camomila-romana. [PDF]
, 2012 Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a composição química e as propriedades antioxidantes de duas espécies de camomila, camomila-alemã (Matricaria recutita) e camomila-romana (Chamaemelum nobile), de forma a comprovar a utilidade do seu uso na ...
Barros, Lillian +4 more
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Local Knowledge and Use of Medicinal Plants in a Rural Community in the Agreste of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2021 The use of medicinal plants is an important source of therapeutic resources in rural communities and the wide versatility of some species may attract interest for prospecting studies. The aim of this study was to record and analyze local knowledge and the use of medicinal plants in the rural community of Malícia, municipality of Araçagi, Paraíba State,
da Costa Ferreira E +7 more
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Mutation of Cultural Information on the Use of Plant Complexes in Local Medical Systems. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2020 Despite being an affable strategy of adaptive expectation, the transmission of cultural information can result in unintended changes in the information. This is known as “mutation” in the theory of cultural evolution. The occurrence of information mutations in local medical systems may be greater in some situations.
Dantas JIM +3 more
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Microencapsulação de extratos aquosos de funcho e camomila para funcionalização de requeijões [PDF]
, 2015 Introdução: Os extratos derivados de plantas são ingredientes muito procurados para funcionalizar alimentos. Foeniculum vulgare Mill. (funcho) e Matricaria recutita L.
Barreiro, M.F. +3 more
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Phytopharmacovigilance in the Elderly: Highlights from the Brazilian Amazon. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2019 Practices described as traditional medicine may coexist with formalized, science‐based medicine. In this context, the present study aimed to verify the profile of the elderly who consumed herbal medicines concomitantly with medications and to identify suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in the Brazilian Amazon (Macapá, Amapá). The study was carried
Lima CMS +6 more
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What Factors Guide the Selection of Medicinal Plants in a Local Pharmacopoeia? A Case Study in a Rural Community from a Historically Transformed Atlantic Forest Landscape. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2018 The criteria that local people use for selecting medicinal plants have been a recurrent topic in pharmacology and ethnobotany. Two of the current hypotheses regarding this phenomenon, ecological apparency and diversification, attempt to explain the inclusion of “apparent” and “non‐apparent” and native and exotic taxa, respectively, in local ...
da Silva TC, da Silva JM, Ramos MA.
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Local Knowledge and Conservation Priorities of Medicinal Plants near a Protected Area in Brazil. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2019 We investigated the influence of socioeconomic factors (age, gender, and occupation) on the local knowledge of medicinal plants in the Araripe National Forest, Brazil, and the priority of conservation of the species as perceived by people. Additionally, priority species for in situ conservation were identified by calculating conservation priority (CP).
da Silva NF +5 more
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Exploring the Links between Ethnobotany, Local Therapeutic Practices, and Protected Areas in Santa Catarina Coastline, Brazil. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2012 We investigated the knowledge of medicinal plants in two areas proposed for the creation of protected areas for sustainable use in the city of Imbituba (SC). In this study, we analyzed the influence of gender, form of learning, and modern medicine on medicinal plant knowledge while also reflecting on the relationship of this knowledge to in situ ...
Zank S, Hanazaki N.
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The "hidden diversity" of medicinal plants in northeastern Brazil: diagnosis and prospects for conservation and biological prospecting. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013 Increases in ethnobotanical studies and knowledge in recent decades have led to a greater and more accurate interpretation of the overall patterns related to the use of medicinal plants, allowing for a clear identification of some ecological and cultural phenomena.
Cavalcanti DR, Albuquerque UP.
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Intracultural variation in the knowledge of medicinal plants in an urban-rural community in the atlantic forest from northeastern Brazil. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2012 This study assessed the intracultural knowledge of the use of medicinal plants in an urban‐rural community in an Atlantic forest fragment in northeastern Brazil. We examined the importance of native and exotic species and the effects of gender and age on that knowledge.
de Almeida Cde F +9 more
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