Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America: Brazil

About this book

This volume in the series deals with the major medicinal and aromatic plants of South America, providing information on major aspects of this specific group of plants on that continent (botany, traditional usage, chemistry, production/collection practices, trade and utilization). Brazil, in particular, offers an immense amount of biodiversity, including plants with great pharmacological interest and ethno-medicinal importance. Contributions are from internationally recognized professionals, specialists of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant domain and have been invited mostly from the members of the International Society for Horticultural Science and International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.

Contents

Foreword

PART I. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America
1 South American Biodiversity and Its Potential In Medicinal And Aromatic Plants; Alissandra Trajano Nunes and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
2 Chemical diversity and ethnopharmacology survey of South American medicinal and aromatic plant species; Rodney Alexandre Ferreira Rodrigues, Glyn Mara Figueira, Adilson Sartoratto, Lais Thiemi Yamane, Veronica Sntana de Freitas-Blanco

PART II. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil
3 Introduction to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Brazil; Akos Mathe, and Jose Crisologo de Sales Silva
4 Medicinal Plants and State Policy in South America: The case of Colonial Brazil; Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros

PART III. Selected Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil
5 Achyrocline satureioides (Lam.) DC.; Gabriela Granghelli Goncalves, Maria Izabela Ferreira, Lin Chau Ming
6 Adiantum raddianum C. Presl.; Rafael C. P. S. Reinaldo, Ivanilda S. Feitosa, Augusto C.P. Santiago, and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
7 Aloysia citriodora Palau; Julio Alberto Hurrell
8 Anemopaegma arvense (Vell.) Stellfeld ex De Souza; Fulvio Rieli Mendes and Luis Carlos Marques
9 Aniba canellila (Kunth) Mez.; Lidiam Maia P. Leandro, Paula Cristina Souza Barbosa, Simone Braga Carneiro, Larissa Silveira Moreira Wiedemann, Valdir Florencio da Veiga-Junior
10 Baccharis trimera (Less.) DC.; Daniel Garcia, Marcos Roberto Furlan, Lin Chau Ming
11 Bauhinia forficata Link; Valdir Cechinel Filho
12 Byrsonima intermedia; A. Juss.;Raquel de Cassia dos Santos, Larissa Lucena Perico,Vinicius Peixoto Rodrigues, Miriam Sannomiya, Lucia Regina Machado da Rocha, Clelia Akiko Hiruma-Lima
13 Caryocar coriaceum Wittm.; Rogerio de Aquino Saraiva, Izabel Cristina Santiago Lemos, Patricia Rosane Leite de Figueiredo, Luiz Jardelino de Lacerda Neto, Cicera Norma Fernandes Lima, Mariana Kessia Andrade Araruna, Renata Evaristo Rodrigues da Silva, Roseli Barbosa, Cicero Francisco Bezerra Felipe, Irwin Rose Alencar de Menezes, Marta Regina Kerntopf.
14 Clinopodium gilliesii (Benth.) Kuntze; Julio Alberto Hurrell
15 Croton zehntneri Pax & K. Hoffm.; Jackson Roberto Guedes da Silva Almeida, Ana Carolina Murta Ramalho, Fernanda Guerra da Silveira
16 Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf; Wendy Marisol Torres-Avilez, Flavia dos Santos Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
17 Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants; Julio Alberto Hurrell
18 Echinodorus macrophyllus (Kunth) Micheli; Maria Izabela Ferreira, Gabriela Granghelli Goncalves, Lin Chau Ming
19 Equisetum giganteum L.; Ivanilda S. Feitosa, Rafael C.P.S. Reinaldo, Augusto C.P. Santiago, and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
20 Heteropterys tomentosa A. Juss.; Fulvio Rieli Mendes and Eliana Rodrigues
21 Himatanthus drasticus (Mart.) Plumel; Andre Sobral, Alessandro Rapini, and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
22 Justicia pectoralis Jacq.; Carles Roersch
23 Kalanchoe brasiliensis Camb. and Kalanchoe pinnata (Lamk.) Pers.; Rosilene Gomes da Silva Ferreira, Nilma de Souza Fernandes, Valdir Florencio da Veiga-Junior
24 Lantana camara L. and Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq.; Erlanio O. Sousa, Sheyla C. X. de Almeida, Sarah S. Damasceno, Camila B. Nobre and Jose Galberto M. da Costa
25 Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E.Br. ex Britton & P.Wilson; Renata Evaristo Rodrigues da Silva, Isabel Cristina Santiago, Vanessa de Carvalho Nilo Bitu, Marta Regina Kerntopf, Irwin Rose Alencar de Menezes, Roseli Barbosa.
26 Lonchocarpus araripensis Benth. (Fabaceae); Jackson Roberto Guedes da Silva Almeida
27 Lychnophora pinaster Mart.; Paulo Sergio Siberti da Silva, Maria Aparecida Ribeiro Vieira, Marcia Ortiz Mayo Marques
28 Marrubium vulgare L.;Valdir Cechinel Filho
29 Maytenus ilicifolia Mart. ex Reissek; Larissa Lucena Perico, Vinicius Peixoto Rodrigues, Luiz Fernando Rolim de Almeida, Ana Paula Perez Furtado, Wagner Vilegas, Clelia Akiko Hiruma-Lima
30 Mikania glomerata Spreng. & Mikania laevigata Sch.Bip. ex Baker; Leticia M. Ricardo and Maria G.L. Brandao
31 Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir.; Andresa Suana Argemiro Alves, Gilney Charll, and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
32 Oxalis adenophylla Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.; Juan J. Ochoa; Ana H. Ladio
33 Phyllanthus niruri L.;Valdir Cechinel Filho
34 Pluchea carolinensis (Jacq.) G. Don; Carles Roersch
35 Polygonum punctatum Elliott; Maria Izabela Ferreira, Gabriela Granghelli Goncalves, Lin Chau Ming
36 Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth.; Leonardo Frasson dos Reis and Fulvio Rieli Mendes
37 Punica granatum L.; Andre dos Santos Souza, Jose Ribamar Souza Junior, Daniel Carvalho Pires de Sousa, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
38 Schinopsis brasiliensis Engl.;Ana Claudia D. Medeiros, Laianne Carla B. Alencar, and Delcio C. Felismino
39 Stryphnodendron adstringens (Mart.) Coville; Leticia M. Ricardo and Maria G.L. Brandao
40 Tabebuia avellanedae Lorentz ex Griseb.; Rainer W. Bussmann
41 Uncaria tomentosa (Willd. ex Schult.) DC. and Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F. Gmell; Izaskun Urdanibia and Peter Taylor.
42 Valeriana carnosa Sm.; Soledad Molaresa & Ana H. Ladio
43 Ximenia americana L.Ana Claudia D. Medeiros and Francinalva D. de Medeiros

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Biography

Ulysses Paulino De Albuquerque is graduate at Biological Sciences from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1993), master's at Plant Biology (Taxonomy and Ethnobotany)from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1996) and PhD at Plant Biology (Ethnobotany) from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2001). Currently he is professor of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil) where he coordinates the Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems (LEA). He was president of the Brazilian Society of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology (2005-2008). He acts in the areas of ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, biodiversity conservation, applied botany, ethnopharmacology and natural products. He has a special interest to the comprehension of the factors that modulate the relation between people and biota on the interface of ecology and evolutive processes. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (Deputy Editor), Economic Botany (Associate Editor) and Ethnobiology and Conservation (co-Editor in Chief).

Umesh Patil has completed his PhD from Dr H S Gour Vishwavidyalaya (University), Sagar and Postdoctoral studies from Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Currently he is serving as Professor of Pharmacognosy and General Secretary to Indian Society of Pharmacognosy (ISP). He is Editor of Indian Journal of Natural Products and News Letters of ISP and ICMAP. He has been serving as Editorial Board Member of many reputed journals. His area of specialization is Herbal Drug Technology, Ethnopharmacology and Phytomedicines. He is the recipient of 7 prestigious awards given in the field of HMPs and remained BOYSCAST Fellow of DST, Govt of India. He is Board Member of International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ICMAP) and Member of many professional bodies including International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), International Society of Ethno-Pharmacology (ISE), International Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA), International Pharmaceutical Students Federation, International Society of Natural Product Development, APTI, IPA, IPGA, ISTE and IAHP.

Ákos Máthé, Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, West-Hungarian University Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Hungary He is the Chair of the section of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the International Society of Horticulture Science. He is Vice President of the International Council of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (member of IUBS) and President of the Hungariuan Horticultural Society. He is former editor of Herba Hungarica, Acta Agronomica Hungaric and presently editor of ICMAP Newsletter, member of the boar of editors of Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Haworth, Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. His main research areas include botany and ecophysiology of medicinal and aromatic plants, diversification of horticultural production.