Diverse chemical messengers are responsible for maintaining homeostasis in the human
body, for example, hormones and neurotransmitters. Various Hawaiian plant species …

Intestinal helminthiasis is a neglected disease that affects a significant portion of the global
population, specifically in developing countries, where medicinal plants are widely used for …

Plant food additives are becoming more and more popular and broadly applied products,
though the information on risks they poses to the organism is limited and contradictive …

Fermentation is an important tool in producing functional beverages through agro-industrial
wastes, and medicinal and aromatic plants due to the specific content of bioactive …

The species Trattinnickia rhoifolia Willd,(T. rhoifolia), which belongs to the Burseraceae
family, is widely used in ethnopharmacological cultural practices by traditional Amazonian …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Traditional harvest of Achyrocline satureioides (AS) occurs
at dawn on Good Friday in some South American countries. Inflorescences are traditionally …

Medicinal plants have been commonly associated with chemotherapeutic treatments, as an
approach to reduce the toxicological risks of classical anticancer drugs. The objective of this …

Estudos etnobotânicos contribuem para a descoberta de bioprodutos de interesse
farmacológico e para a conservação dos recursos biológicos. Desta forma, objetivou-se …

Espinheira-santa (Monteverdia ilicifolia) is a native plant of Brazil widely used in folk
medicine because it has several therapeutic properties. Regarding the pollination biology …

The present study aims to evaluate the antimicrobial potential of the ethanol extract of
Cecropia pachystachya (embaúba) leaves. To achieve the microbiological tests used were …