Main plants used in traditional medicine for the treatment of snake bites n the regions of the department of Antioquia, Colombia
| Autor: | Juan C. Alarcón, Daniela M. Marín, Julieta Vásquez, Isabel Gómez-Betancur, Silvia L. Jiménez, Jefferson O. Romero, Karen M. Jaramillo, J. Paola Rey-Suárez, Diana C. Muñoz, Gloria I. Jaramillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Antivenom Snake Bites Decoction Colombia Drug Discovery Maceration (wine) medicine Humans Medicinal plants Aged Pharmacology Aged 80 and over Plants Medicinal Traditional medicine business.industry Antivenins Herbaceous plant Middle Aged medicine.disease Snake bites Ethnobotany Ethnopharmacology Plant species Medicine Traditional Plant Preparations business Phytotherapy |
| Zdroj: | Journal of ethnopharmacology. 170 |
| ISSN: | 1872-7573 |
| Popis: | Abtract Ethnopharmacology relevance In Colombia, more than 4.000 ophidian accidents occur per year and due to the scarce distribution and limited availability of antivenom, the use of traditional medicine has been perpetuated in some of its rural communities, in which initially, those affected are treated by healers and shamans using medicinal plants in different ways. Methods Research was conducted with renowned healers or connoisseurs of plants on the ethnobotany of ophidian accidents in five different areas and their municipalities of Antioquia: Magdalena Medio (Caracoli, Puerto Berrio); Bajo Cauca (Caucasia, Zaragoza); Nordeste (San Roque, Yali); Norte (Gomez Plata, Valdivia); Suroeste (Ciudad Bolivar, Salgar); collecting information related to experience and time of use of plants in the treatment of these poisonings, amounts used, ways of use (beverage, bathing, ointment, chupaderas, vapors), preparation types (maceration or decoction) and treatment duration. Results 71 plant species were identified and collected, 49.29% of them without previous reports as antiophidian and 38.0% employed for the same purpose in other geographical areas. The leaves (24.82%), stems (11.68%) and flowers (10.95%) were found to be the most frequently employed structures in the preparation of the extracts, which are usually prepared by decoction (83.94%), maceration (6.57%). Conclusions In this work, specimens lacking previous ethnobotanical reports have been found, plants used by ethnic groups from other regions of Antioquia and the world to treat snake bites; and herbaceous plants whose inhibitory activity of symptoms produced by some snake venoms, has been experimentally verified by in vivo and in vitro tests. |
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