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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 Snakebites are a serious problem in public health due to their high morbimortality. Most of snake venoms produce intense local tissue damage, which could lead to temporary or permanent disability in victims. The available specific treatment is the antivenom serum therapy, whose effectiveness is reduced against these effects.
Juliana Félix-Silva +4 more
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Phytotherapy and Nutritional Supplements on Breast Cancer
BioMed Research International, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 Breast cancer is the most frequent type of nonskin malignancy among women worldwide. In general, conventional cancer treatment options (i.e., surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, biological therapy, and hormone therapy) are not completely effective.
C. M. Lopes +3 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 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.
Deyvson Rodrigues Cavalcanti +2 more
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The Globalization of Traditional Medicine in Northern Peru: From Shamanism to Molecules
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 Northern Peru represents the center of the Andean “health axis,” with roots going back to traditional practices of Cupisnique culture (1000 BC). For more than a decade of research, semistructured interviews were conducted with healers, collectors, and sellers of medicinal plants.
Rainer W. Bussmann, Narel Paniagua
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Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology of Lepidium meyenii (Maca), a Plant from the Peruvian Highlands
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Lepidium meyenii (maca) is a Peruvian plant of the Brassicaceae family cultivated for more than 2000 years, which grows exclusively in the central Andes between 4000 and 4500 m altitude. Maca is used as a food supplement and also for its medicinal properties described traditionally.
Gustavo F. Gonzales +1 more
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Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants of the Pantanal Region (Mato Grosso, Brazil)
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Traditional knowledge is an important source of obtaining new phytotherapeutic agents. Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants was conducted in Nossa Senhora Aparecida do Chumbo District (NSACD), located in Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil using semi‐structured questionnaires and interviews.
Isanete Geraldini Costa Bieski +7 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 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.
Cecília de Fátima Castelo Branco Rangel de Almeida +10 more
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Biological Basis for the Use of Botanicals in Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Review
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2, Issue 3, Page 301-308, 2005., 2005 Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee and hip is a debilitating disease affecting more women than men and the risk of developing OA increases precipitously with aging. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common form of inflammatory joint diseases, is a disease of unknown etiology and affects ∼1% of the population worldwide, and unlike OA, generally involves ...
Salahuddin Ahmed +3 more
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Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F. Gmel. extracts reduce bronchial hyper responsiveness and inflammation in a murine model of asthma [PDF]
Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, 2020 Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J. F. Gmel. (“cat’s claw”, Rubiaceae) is a plant with potential to treat asthma because of its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of two extracts of U. guianensis in an animal model of allergic asthma.
Zanetti, Leandra da Silva +9 more
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Alcaloïdes de l'Uncaria guianensis
Planta Medica, 1983 The alkaloidal content of the leaves, stems and root barks of U. guianensis has been studied. All compounds isolated are oxindole alkaloids; alkaloidal composition is compared to that of other South-American Uncaria species.
Lavault, M. +2 more
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