Pharmacobotanical, Ethnopharmacological and Micrographic study of vegetable drugs used for the affections of greater index of mortality, commercialized in the City of Posadas, Misiones Argentine. Part II.

Abstract

The present study corresponds to the second delivery where the pharmacobotanical, ethnopharmacological and micrographic analysis of vegetable drugs used empirically for the conditions with the highest mortality rate in the province of Misiones was carried out. In this instance (Part II), five (5) species used for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are exposed. They were surveyed at different points of sale in the City of Posadas, specimens were kept in the Herbarium of the Department of Pharmacy of the Faculty of Exact, Chemical and Natural Sciences of the National University of Misiones and through photographs, were identified by means of classical taxonomic procedures, and the endo- and exomorphology were analyzed using routine techniques for this type of work, with photographic documentation. The objectives were to survey and document the plant species used for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, their ethnopharmacological uses, parts used and forms of administration, in addition to contributing to increase the knowledge of the morpho-anatomy and applied micrograph of said plant drugs. In this instance it is described Eugenia uniflora, Aloysia virgata, Lippia alba, Solanum granulosum-leprosum and Micrograma vacciniifolia.survey, commercialized species and used as therapeutic agents in the treatment of cardiovascular and respiratory affections