Mahomoodally Mohamad Fawzi, Korumtollee Housna Nazifah, Chady Zaynab Zaina Banu Khan
Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius.
J Intercult Ethnopharmacol. 2015 Jan-Mar;4(1):86-9. doi: 10.5455/jice.20141202055655. Epub 2015 Jan 3.
Antidesma madagascariense Lam. is an indigenous plant of the Mascarene Islands which has interestingly shined as a promising traditional medicinal plant. The ethnobotanical uses of this plant were geared toward the treatment and management of dysentery, albumin in the urine, jaundice, fever, diabetes, skin infections, rheumatic and body aches among others. Preliminary screening of this plant coupled with a plethora of in vitro and in vivo tests have furnished scientists with documented findings that have appraised its traditional use in the treatment and management of infectious diseases. The presence of antidesmin, a commonly characterized component of Antidesma species, might justify the medicinal virtues of this plant. The present monograph aims at providing the botanical description, traditional uses and latest findings documented on A. madagascariense. Nonetheless, continued research on this plant needs to be completed in order to rationalize the use of this promising plant as a potential source of beneficial constituents for the treatment and management of human diseases and hence set up promising optimism for drug development.
马达加斯加五月茶是马斯克林群岛的本土植物，有趣的是，它已成为一种很有前景的传统药用植物。这种植物的民族植物学用途主要用于治疗和管理痢疾、蛋白尿、黄疸、发烧、糖尿病、皮肤感染、风湿和身体疼痛等。对这种植物的初步筛选以及大量的体外和体内试验为科学家提供了有记录的研究结果，证实了其在治疗和管理传染病方面的传统用途。五月茶属植物中常见的成分抗痢疾蛋白的存在，可能证明了这种植物的药用价值。本专著旨在提供马达加斯加五月茶的植物学描述、传统用途和最新研究结果。尽管如此，仍需对这种植物进行持续研究，以便合理地将这种有前景的植物用作治疗和管理人类疾病的有益成分的潜在来源，从而为药物开发带来充满希望的乐观前景。
