The rise of medicalization of plants in Brazil: A temporal perspective on vernacular names

Siqueira, Bruno Vilson Leal; Sakuragui, Cássia Mônica; Soares, Bruno Eleres; Oliveira, Danilo Ribeiro de

doi:10.1016/j.jep.2018.06.024

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“…Medicinal plants with medicalized names can be found cumulatively in ethnobiological surveys from the 1980s to the late 2010s (Siqueira et al 2018). The medicalized names could have had an ethnotaxonomical origin, associated with extensive drug use by modern societies in the twentieth century (Siqueira et al 2017(Siqueira et al , 2018. However, so far, no evidence has been found to support the recency of the medicalization process since, apparently, there are no surveys about it before the 1980s.…”

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Mercury: the beginnings in the medicalization of common names of medicinal plants in Brazil

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Medicalization of common names of medicinal plants is a process that involves replacing popular native names by trademarked names of drugs, active principles or therapeutic indications used by modern biomedicine. In Brazil, this process seems to have been intensified in the early 2000s due to the increasing use of those names in ethnoscientific surveys in local communities. In this study, we aimed to trace the origins of that process. For this purpose, we reviewed data from the “grey literature” pre-1980, including 15 books, compendia, dictionaries, and guides of medicinal plants. Mercury and its lexical changes were the only medicalized names found in the literature before the 1980s. This is probably due to the ancient use of mercury in several medical systems through human history, including by Brazilian apothecaries since the seventeenth century. Moreover, Mercurochrome was the name of a Brazilian trademark of antiseptic that probably influenced the use of medicalized names of mercury in the past. The name “Mercury” and its “natural” epithet combinations, like “Mercúrio-vegetal” (Mercury-plant) and “Mercúrio-do-campo” (Field-mercury), could have been the original medicalized way of naming medicinal plants in Brazil.

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“…Additionally, "Mercúriodo-campo" refers only to Galphimia brasiliensis (L.) A. Juss. (Malpighiaceae) (Siqueira et al 2018). Thus, the binomial "Mercúrio-do-campo" lost representation of C. antisyphiliticus, although it has retained E. tortuosum as the related species.…”

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“…In regards to the endemic and exotic herbs used in Brazilian folk medicine and complementary therapeutical practices, several species of "arnica" are noteworthy (Athayde et al, 2019;de Athayde et al, 2021;Marisco et al, 2017;Ribeiro et al, 2017), which are typically used as remedies in the form of tisanes; tinctures; bottled; globules; hot compresses; ointments; and gels. This range of formulations is accompanied by the therapeutical versatility of arnica, which is reported to treat: postoperative lesions such as bruises, sprains and abrasions; edema related to fracture and rheumatic pain of muscles and joints; inflammatory processes of the oropharynx; furunculosis; insect bites and stings; superficial phlebitis, etc (Athayde et al, 2019;Carvalho et al, 2018;Rodríguez-Chávez et al, 2017;Saraiva et al, 2015;Siqueira et al, 2018;Souza et al, 2017).…”

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“…Amongst the often reported species in ethnopharmacological studies are the Leopard`s Bane (Obón et al, 2012), Mexican arnica (Heterotheca inuloides) (Rodríguez-Chávez et al, 2017), and the several "Brazilian arnicas" i.e., Arnica angustifólia, Arnica chamissonis, Calea uniflora, Chaptalia nutans, Lychnophora pinaster, Lychnophora brasiliensis, Lychnophora ericoides, Lychnophora diamantinana, Lychnophora salicifolia, Lychnophora trichocarpha, Solidago chilensis, Solidago microglossia, Porophyllum ruderale, Pseudobrickellia brasiliensis, and Sphagneticola trilobata (Athayde et al, 2019;Baatsch et al, 2017;Bolson et al, 2015;de Athayde et al, 2021;Magalhães et al, 2019;Saraiva et al, 2015;Siqueira et al, 2018;Souza et al, 2017).…”

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“…As with many other species of medicinal herbs, some arnicas are over-the-counter products. This availability often leads to their use in self-medication without proper professional guidance (Saraiva et al, 2015;Siqueira et al, 2018;Souza et al, 2017). This unsupervised use may become a serious public health problem, when taking into account the toxic potential of their phytochemicals (Hudson et al, 2018).…”

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A administração sistêmica de extratos de arnica é segura? Uma revisão sistemática de ensaios pré-clínicos

Oliveira¹,

Thomaz²,

Chequer³

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Os extratos de “Arnica” são amplamente usados na medicina popular para tratar doenças inflamatórias agudas e crônicas. No entanto, seus efeitos tóxicos mediante uso sistêmico ainda não são totalmente compreendidos. Portanto, este trabalho fornece uma revisão sistemática sobre a segurança de extratos de arnica em ensaios pré-clínicos cobrindo sua administração oral e intraperitoneal em modelos animais. Para tanto, a diretriz PRISMA foi seguida e o protocolo do estudo foi registrado no PROSPERO (CDR42020167112). As pesquisas foram realizadas nas bases de dados PubMed (MEDLINE), Scopus, Science Direct, Web of Science (Science Citation Index) e Biblioteca Virtual da Saúde (BVS); enquanto a ferramenta de risco de viés do SYRCLE e o checklist CAMARADES foram usadas para avaliar a qualidade científica. De 382 artigos, cinco estudos atenderam aos critérios de elegibilidade e foram submetidos à análise qualitativa. Dados de toxicidade aguda foram relatados em todos os artigos selecionados, e o tempo de tratamento foi de até 14 dias. Além disso, as seguintes espécies foram relatadas: Solidago chilensis (categorias de perigo de 4 e 5 para administração i.p e v.o, respectivamente); Solidago microglossa (categoria de perigo de 3, i.p); Lychnophora trichocarpha (categoria de perigo ≥ 4, i.p); e Lychnophora pinaster (categoria de perigo ≥ 4, v.o). Os extratos alcoólicos apresentaram maior potencial tóxico, que aumentou de forma dose-dependente após 100 mg/Kg. Com relação à toxicidade órgão-específico, os artigos relataram hepatotoxicidade e nefrotoxicidade após análise histopatológica. No entanto, a segurança de S. chilensis, L. pinaster, L. trichocarpha e S. microglossa após a administração sistêmica permanece incerta devido à qualidade experimental limitada dos artigos incluídos, bem como a falta de relatos sobre toxicidade crônica, farmacocinética e estudos de mutagenicidade.

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Phytochemical and ethnomedicinal evidences of the use of Alternanthera brasiliana (L.) Kuntze against infectious diseases

Lima Bezerra,

Vieira Pinheiro,

Melo Coutinho

2024

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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The rise of medicalization of plants in Brazil: A temporal perspective on vernacular names

Cited by 7 publications

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Mercury: the beginnings in the medicalization of common names of medicinal plants in Brazil

Mercury: the beginnings in the medicalization of common names of medicinal plants in Brazil

A administração sistêmica de extratos de arnica é segura? Uma revisão sistemática de ensaios pré-clínicos

Phytochemical and ethnomedicinal evidences of the use of Alternanthera brasiliana (L.) Kuntze against infectious diseases

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