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Preliminary screening of five ethnomedicinal plants of Guatemala
C Morales1, M P Gomez-Serranillos, I Iglesias
1Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Farmaco (Societa Chimica Italiana : 1989)
|August 3, 2001
Abstract:
We performed the Irwin test on some different extracts of the aerial parts of Tridax procumbens L., of the leaves of Neurolaena lobata (L.) R. Br., of the bark and leaves of Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Kunth. and Gliricidia sepium Jacq. Walp. and of the root and leaves of Petiveria alliacea L. At a dosage of 1.25 g extract/100 g dried plant, the aqueous extracts of bark and leaves of Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Kunth. and G. sepium Jacq. Walp. showed higher activity: decrease in motor activity, back tonus, reversible parpebral ptosis. catalepsy and strong hypothermia.