Luiz Francisco Wemmenson Gonçalves Moura, João Xavier da Silva Neto, Tiago Deiveson Pereira Lopes, Stephen Rathinaraj Benjamin, Fernando César Rodrigues Brito, Francisco Ernani Alves Magalhães, Eridan Orlando Pereira Tramontina Florean, Daniele de Oliveira Bezerra de Sousa, Maria Izabel Florindo Guedes
The application of medicinal plants are the most important biotechnological alternative in the treatment of numerous diseases, especially in developing countries, such as Brazil. Among them, we specified some specimens of the genus Cnidoscolus used as phytotherapies, with healing properties, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antibiotic and diuretic, anticancer, among others. Such effects are possibly associated with the presence of terpenoids, alkaloids, coumarins, flavonoids phenolic compounds, among others. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate in the literature the studies on the phytochemical, ethnopharmacological and biotechnological applications of this genus, from 1998 to 2017...
January 2019: Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy