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Screening of plants used in south Brazilian folk medicine
C B Alice1, V M Vargas, G A Silva
1Curso Pos Graduaçao, Facultade de Farmacia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
Thirty-seven species of medicinal plants used in folk phytotherapy were chemically screened for alkaloids, coumarins, flavonoids, anthraquinones, saponins, sterols and/or triterpenes and tannins. Seven of these were also screened for the presence of mutagenic activity using the Ames test (Salmonella/microsome).