ISHS Acta Horticulturae 503: II WOCMAP Congress Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Part 4: Industrial Processing, Standards & Regulations, Quality, Marketing, Economics
HERBAL REMEDIES IN CENTRAL-WESTERN ARGENTINA, I. "AMBAY": GENUINE DRUG AND ADULTERANTS |
| Authors: | E.M. Petenatti, M.E. Petenatti, L.A. Del Vitto |
| Keywords: | Cecropia pachystachya, Solanum granuloso-leprosum, Tetrapanax papyrifer, Verbascum thapsus, Adulterants |
| 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. | |
Download Adobe Acrobat Reader (free software to read PDF files) | |
