ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2013
The globalization of traditional medicine in northern peru: from shamanism to molecules.
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- The Mulli Hypothesis: an ethnobiological framework for studying the phytopharmaceutical potential ofFrontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- Indigenous rights, health and traditional medicine systems.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025Article
- Phytochemical screening, antioxidant, immunomodulatory and analgesic potential of aqueous-ethanolic extracts ofHeliyon · 2024Article
- A U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) overview of Pan American botanicals used in dietary supplements and herbal medicines.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Health system barriers to hypertension care in Peru: Rapid assessment to inform organizational-level change.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- PeruNPDB: the Peruvian Natural Products Database for in silico drug screening.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Consumption of Herbal Supplements or Homeopathic Remedies to Prevent COVID-19 and Intention of Vaccination for COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
- Exploring CNS Effects of American Traditional Medicines using Zebrafish Models.Current neuropharmacology · 2022Article
- Synthesis of new chrysin derivatives with substantial antibiofilm activity.Molecular diversity · 2022Article
- Histopathological evaluation ofVeterinary world · 2021Article
- Medicinal Plants for Treating Musculoskeletal Disorders among Karen in Thailand.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Access and Benefit Sharing Under the Nagoya Protocol-Frontiers in pharmacology · 2020Article
- Astonishing diversity-the medicinal plant markets of Bogotá, Colombia.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2018Article
- 'These people who dig roots in the forests cannot treat HIV': Women and men in Durban, South Africa, reflect on traditional medicine and antiretroviral drugs.Global public health · 2018Article
- Medicinal plants sold at traditional markets in southern Ecuador.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2016Article
- Attenuation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation by Vitexin: A combinatorial study with azithromycin and gentamicin.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Northern Peru represents the center of the Andean "health axis," with roots going back to traditional practices of Cupisnique culture (1000 BC). For more than a decade of research, semistructured interviews were conducted with healers, collectors, and sellers of medicinal plants. In addition, bioassays were carried out to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of plants found. Most of the 510 species encountered were native to Peru (83%). Fifty percent of the plants used in colonial times have disappeared from the pharmacopoeia. Market vendors specialized either on common and exotic plants, plants for common ailments, and plants only used by healers or on plants with magical purposes. Over 974 preparations with up to 29 different ingredients were used to treat 164 health conditions. Almost 65% of the medicinal plants were applied in these mixtures. Antibacterial activity was confirmed in most plants used for infections. Twenty-four percent of the aqueous extracts and 76% of the ethanolic extracts showed toxicity. Traditional preparation methods take this into account when choosing the appropriate solvent for the preparation of a remedy. The increasing demand for medicinal species did not increase the cultivation of medicinal plants. Most species are wild collected, causing doubts about the sustainability of trade.
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