Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America: Brazil

471 Pages·2018·14.58 MB·English

by  Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque 
Umesh Patil
Ákos Máthé Editors
Medicinal
and Aromatic
Plants of South
America
Brazil
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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World
Volume 5
Series Editor
Ákos Máthé
University of West Hungary
Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science
Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) have been utilized in various forms since the
earliest days of mankind. They have maintained their traditional basic curative role
even in our modern societies. Apart from their traditional culinary and food industry
uses, MAPs are intensively consumed as food supplements (food additives) and in
animal husbandry, where feed additives are used to replace synthetic chemicals and
production-increasing hormones. Importantly medicinal plants and their chemical
ingredients can serve as starting and/or model materials for pharmaceutical research
and medicine production. Current areas of utilization constitute powerful drivers for
the exploitation of these natural resources. Today’s demands, coupled with the
already rather limited availability and potential exhaustion of these natural resources,
make it necessary to take stock of them and our knowledge regarding research and
development, production, trade and utilization, and especially from the viewpoint of
sustainability. The series Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World is aimed to
look carefully at our present knowledge of this vast interdisciplinary domain on a
global scale. In the era of global climatic change, the series is expected to make an
important contribution to the better knowledge and understanding of MAPs. The
Editor of the series is indebted for all of the support and encouragement received in
the course of international collaborations started with his ISHS involvement, in
1977. Special thanks are due to Professor D. Fritz, Germany for making it possible.
The encouragement and assistance of Springer Editor, Mrs. Melanie van Overbeek,
has been essential in realizing this challenging book project. Thanks are due to the
publisher - Springer Science+Business Media, The Netherlands - for supporting this
global collaboration in the domain of medicinal and aromatic plants. We sincerely
hope this book series can contribute and give further impetus to the exploration and
utilization of our mutual global, natural treasure of medicinal and aromatic plants.
Budapest, Prof. Dr. Ákos Máthé.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11192
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Umesh Patil • Ákos Máthé
Editors
Medicinal and Aromatic
Plants of South America
Brazil
Editors
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque Umesh Patil
Departamento de Botânica, Natural Product Research Laboratory
Centro de Biociências Dr. Hari Singh Gour University
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Sagar, India
Recife, Brazil
Ákos Máthé
Department of Botany, Faculty of
Agriculture & Food Science
West Hungarian University
Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary
ISSN 2352-6831 ISSN 2352-684X (electronic)
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World
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Preface
This book gathers information about a small variety of medicinal and aromatic
plants that spontaneously grow or are cultivated in South America, and it is part of
the series Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World, conceived by Prof. Dr. Ákos
Máthé. The plants are described in the form of short monographs and were selected
according to the following criteria: (1) plants that are widely used in South America,
and preferentially but not exclusively included in official programs of primary
health care or (2) plants that are being investigated in the laboratories of researchers
who accepted our invitation to collaborate on the present volume.
We tried to present state-of-the-art information for each of the 43 species included
in this book. The reader will realize that although some species were extensively
studied, several popular claims about their therapeutic potential have not been sci-
entifically determined. In South America, we only study a very small fraction of the
available plants with alleged medicinal properties and do not even exhaust all of the
research possibilities in these cases, which is likely true in other continents as well.
We believe that several actions are required to change this scenario, including
performing ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological studies that are more theo-
retically and methodologically rigorous and performing systematic long-term stud-
ies of the species that exhibit at least one interesting biological activity. In the
meantime, the present book, together with the remaining volumes of this series, may
constitute a reference guide for future research and public health professionals.
Some chapters of this book are a contribution of the INCT Ethnobiology,
Bioprospecting and Nature Conservation, certified by CNPq, with financial support
from FACEPE (Foundation for Support to Science and Technology of the State of
Pernambuco - Grant number: APQ-0562-2.01/17).
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Sagar, India Umesh Patil
Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary Ákos Máthé
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Contents
Part I M edicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America
South American Biodiversity and Its Potential in Medicinal
and Aromatic Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Alissandra Trajano Nunes and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Chemical Diversity and Ethnopharmacological Survey
of South American Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Rodney Alexandre Ferreira Rodrigues, Glyn Mara Figueira,
Adilson Sartoratto, Lais Thiemi Yamane,
and Verônica Santana de Freitas-Blanco
Part II M edicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil
Introduction to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Ákos Máthé and José Crisólogo de Sales Silva
Medicinal Plants and State Policy in South America:
The Case of Colonial Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros
Part III Selected Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil
Achyrocline satureioides (Lam.) DC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Gabriela Granghelli Gonçalves, Maria Izabela Ferreira,
and Lin Chau Ming
Adiantum raddianum C. Presl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Rafael Corrêa Prota dos Santos Reinaldo, Ivanilda Soares Feitosa,
Augusto César Pessôa Santiago, and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
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Aloysia citriodora Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Julio Alberto Hurrell
Anemopaegma arvense (Vell.) Stellfeld ex De Souza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Fúlvio Rieli Mendes and Luis Carlos Marques
Aniba canellila (Kunth) Mez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Lidiam Maia Leandro, Paula Cristina Souza Barbosa,
Simone Braga Carneiro, Larissa Silveira Moreira Wiedemann,
and Valdir Florêncio da Veiga-Junior
Baccharis trimera (Less.) DC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Daniel Garcia, Marcos Roberto Furlan, and Lin Chau Ming
Bauhinia forficata Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Valdir Cechinel Filho
Byrsonima intermedia A. Juss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Raquel de Cássia dos Santos, Larissa Lucena Périco,
Vinícius Peixoto Rodrigues, Miriam Sannomiya,
Lúcia Regina Machado da Rocha, and Clélia Akiko Hiruma-Lima
Caryocar coriaceum Wittm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Rogério de Aquino Saraiva, Izabel Cristina Santiago Lemos,
Patricia Rosane Leite de Figueiredo, Luiz Jardelino de Lacerda Neto,
Cícera Norma Fernandes Lima, Mariana Késsia Andrade Araruna,
Renata Evaristo Rodrigues da Silva, Roseli Barbosa,
Cícero Francisco Bezerra Felipe, Irwin Rose Alencar de Menezes,
and Marta Regina Kerntopf
Clinopodium gilliesii (Benth.) Kuntze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Julio Alberto Hurrell
Croton zehntneri Pax & K. Hoffm (Euphorbiaceae) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Jackson Roberto Guedes da Silva Almeida,
Ana Carolina Murta Ramalho, and Fernanda Guerra da Silveira
Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Wendy Marisol Torres-Avilez, Flávia dos Santos Silva,
and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Julio Alberto Hurrell
Echinodorus macrophyllus (Kunth) Micheli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Maria Izabela Ferreira, Gabriela Granghelli Gonçalves,
and Lin Chau Ming
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Equisetum giganteum L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Ivanilda Soares Feitosa, Rafael Corrêa Prota dos Santos Reinaldo,
Augusto César Pessôa Santiago, and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Heteropterys tomentosa A. Juss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Fúlvio Rieli Mendes and Eliana Rodrigues
Himatanthus drasticus (Mart.) Plumel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
André Sobral, Alessandro Rapini, and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Justicia pectoralis Jacq. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Carles Roersch
Kalanchoe brasiliensis Camb. and Kalanchoe pinnata (Lamk.) Pers. . . . . . 265
Rosilene Gomes da Silva Ferreira, Nilma de Souza Fernandes,
and Valdir Florêncio da Veiga-Junior
Lantana camara L. and Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq. . . . . . . . . . 275
Erlânio O. de Sousa, Sheyla C. X. de Almeida, Sarah S. Damasceno,
Camila B. Nobre, and José Galberto M. da Costa
Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E.Br. ex Britton & P. Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Renata Evaristo Rodrigues da Silva, Isabel Cristina Santiago,
Vanessa de Carvalho Nilo Bitu, Marta Regina Kerntopf,
Irwin Rose Alencar de Menezes, and Roseli Barbosa
Lonchocarpus araripensis Benth. (Fabaceae) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Jackson Roberto Guedes da Silva Almeida,
Ana Carolina Murta Ramalho, and Fernanda Guerra da Silveira
Lychnophora pinaster Mart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Paulo Sérgio Siberti da Silva, Maria Aparecida Ribeiro Vieira,
and Marcia Ortiz Mayo Marques
Marrubium vulgare L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Valdir Cechinel Filho
Maytenus ilicifolia Mart. ex Reissek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Larissa Lucena Périco, Vinícius Peixoto Rodrigues,
Luiz Fernando Rolim de Almeida, Ana Paula Fortuna-Perez,
Wagner Vilegas, and Clélia Akiko Hiruma-Lima
Mikania glomerata Spreng. & Mikania laevigata Sch.Bip. ex Baker . . . . . 337
Letícia M. Ricardo and Maria G. L. Brandão
Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Andrêsa Suana Argemiro Alves, Gilney Charll Santos,
and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Oxalis adenophylla Gillies ex Hook. & Arn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Juan J. Ochoa and Ana Haydeé Ladio
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Phyllanthus niruri L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Valdir Cechinel Filho
Pluchea carolinensis (Jacq.) G. Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Carles Roersch
Polygonum punctatum Elliott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Maria Izabela Ferreira, Gabriela Granghelli Gonçalves,
and Lin Chau Ming
Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Leonardo Frasson dos Reis and Fúlvio Rieli Mendes
Punica granatum L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
André dos Santos Souza, José Ribamar de Souza Jr.,
Daniel Carvalho Pires Sousa, and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Schinopsis brasiliensis Engl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Ana Cláudia Dantas Medeiros, Laianne Carla Batista Alencar,
and Délcio de Castro Felismino
Stryphnodendron adstringens (Mart.) Coville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Letícia Mendes Ricardo and Maria G. L. Brandão
Tabebuia avellanedae Lorentz ex Griseb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Rainer W. Bussmann
Uncaria tomentosa (Willd. ex Schult.) DC.
and Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F. Gmell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Izaskun Urdanibia and Peter Taylor
Valeriana carnosa Sm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Soledad Molares and Ana H. Ladio
Ximenia americana L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Ana Cláudia D. Medeiros and Francinalva D. de Medeiros