Plants with potencial antifungal activity employed in Brazilian folk medicine

Authors

  • Raquel Fenner Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Faculdade de Farmácia
  • Andresa Heemann Betti Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Faculdade de Farmácia
  • Lilian Auler Mentz Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Instituto de Biociências; Departamento de Botânica
  • Stela Maris Kuze Rates Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Faculdade de Farmácia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1516-93322006000300007

Keywords:

Medicinal plants, Antifungal activity, Folk medicine

Abstract

The aim of this work was to draw up a list of plants used by Brazilian population for the treatment of signs and symptoms related to fungal infections and to verify the existence of scientific data related to the antifungal activity in the databasis MEDLINE-PubMed. Four hundread and nine species were listed, which are distributed in ninety eight families, mainly Fabaceae and Asteraceae. Among the more frequently mentioned species (10), only four were evaluated regarding to the antifungal activity: Phytolacca americana L., Rosmarinus officinalis L., Mirabilis jalapa L. and Schinus molle L. From those ten species, six are native (Anacardium occidentale L., Cecropia peltata L., Schinus molle L., Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi, Stryphnodendron adstringens (Mart.) Coville e Tabebuia heptaphylla (Vell.) Toledo.

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Published

2006-09-01

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 3 (2006)

Section

Original Papers

How to Cite

Plants with potencial antifungal activity employed in Brazilian folk medicine. (2006). Revista Brasileira De Ciências Farmacêuticas, 42(3), 369-394. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1516-93322006000300007