Preliminary assessment of medicinal plants used as antimalarials in the southeastern Venezuelan Amazon

• Main Authors: Caraballo Alejandro, Caraballo Brigida, Rodríguez-Acosta Alexis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2004
• Subjects: Ethnomedicine; Phytotherapeutic; Medicinal plants; Malaria; Venezuelan amazon; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/342c79bb3509408b84847bc7fa974291

Eighteen species of medicinal plants used in the treatment of malaria in Bolívar State, Venezuela were recorded and they belonged to Compositae, Meliaceae, Anacardiaceae, Bixaceae, Boraginaceae, Caricaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Leguminosae, Myrtaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Plantaginaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Solanaceae and Verbenaceae families. Antimalarial plant activities have been linked to a range of compounds including anthroquinones, berberine, flavonoids, limonoids, naphthquinones, sesquiterpenes, quassinoids, indol and quinoline alkaloids.