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HERBAL REMEDIES IN CENTRAL-WESTERN ARGENTINA, I. “AMBAY”: GENUINE DRUG AND ADULTERANTS
Article number
503_12
Pages
91 – 96
Language
Abstract
Four medicinal plant species used in Central-western Argentina under the vernacular name "Ambay", from taxonomic, anatomic and ethnobotanic points of view, were studied. Cecropia pachystachya (Cecropiaceae), Solanum granuloso-leprosum (Solanaceae), Tetrapanax papyrifer (Araliaceae) and Verbascum thapsus (Scrophulariaceae), used with analogous popular therapeutical purposes were identified.
Their morphoanatomic and micrographic characters are described for the improvement of an effective quality control, because only one species (Cecropia pachystachya) is codified in the Argentinian Pharmacopoeia, while the others are not at all chemically and pharmacologically known yet.
Their morphoanatomic and micrographic characters are described for the improvement of an effective quality control, because only one species (Cecropia pachystachya) is codified in the Argentinian Pharmacopoeia, while the others are not at all chemically and pharmacologically known yet.
Authors
E.M. Petenatti, M.E. Petenatti, L.A. Del Vitto
Keywords
Cecropia pachystachya, Solanum granuloso-leprosum, Tetrapanax papyrifer, Verbascum thapsus, Adulterants
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