Volume 149, Issue 2, 16 September 2013, Pages 533–542
Medicinal plants used for dermatological affections in Navarra and their pharmacological validation ☆
Abstract
Aim of the study
This paper provides significant ethnopharmacological information on plant used in dermatological affections in Navarra.
Material and methods
Information
was collected using semi-structured ethnobotanical interviews with 667
informants (mean age 72; 55.47% women, 44.53% men) in 265 locations. In
order to confirm the pharmacological validation of the uses reports, the
European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP), German
Commission E, World Health Organization (WHO), European Medicines Agency
(EMA), European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) and Real Farmacopea Española
(RFE) monographs have been revised. A literature review has been carried
out with the plants without monograph and high frequency citations,
using a new tool of the University of Navarra, UNIKA.
Results
A
total of 982 pharmaceutical uses are reported from the informants,
belonging to 91 plants and 42 families, mainly represented by Asteraceae, Lamiaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Crassulaceae.
The most frequently used parts of the plants are aerial parts followed
by leaves and inflorescences. Seventeen out of 91 plants (19%) and 148
of 982 popular uses (15%), have already been pharmacologically
validated.
Conclusions
The authors propose seven species for their validation (Allium cepa, Sambucus nigra, Hylotelephium maximum, Chelidonium majus, Ficus carica, Allium sativum and Anagallis arvensis).
Graphical abstract
Keywords
- Dermatology;
- Experimental validation;
- Traditional knowledge;
- Ethnopharmacology;
- Navarra
- ☆
- This manuscript is a etnopharmacological paper and no chemical compound appears.
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