Uribe-Vergara Jorge, Briceño-Balcázar Ignacio, Martínez-Lozano Julio C, Pacheco-Cuentas Carlos, Tuta-Quintero Eduardo, Rueda-Rodríguez Alejandro, Gómez-Gutiérrez Alberto
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la Sabana, Chía, Colombia.
Instituto de Genética Humana, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
Arch Cardiol Mex. 2020;90(2):138-143. doi: 10.24875/ACM.19000268.
The human being, throughout history, has used plants to prevent and cure diseases. It is important to know that for a long time, the mechanism through which those plants worked was unknown, making herbal medicine a purely empirical science. Medical prescriptions in the 19th century in the Kingdom of Nueva Granada were considered a significant medical advance, as a result of knowledge and medical practices in the old continent. Medical literature of the time achieved, despite the lack of studies, the development of new schemes with exact dosages and new therapeutic possibilities. The medical prescription presented in this article was used in the management of heart palpitations, a frequent symptom nowadays, described as thoracic and/or neck beating, underlying various cardiac and non-cardiac diseases. The recipe for the palpitations of the historical archive "Cipriano Rodríguez Santa María" is a mixture of herbal agents that, as reviewed in the medical literature, showed to have anti-inflammatory, anxiolytic, and antioxidant effects, among others, allowing a beneficial effect on cardiac palpitations. Due to the lack of information on the posology, safety in its use, contraindications and possible adverse effects, its potential use should have been underestimated at that time for the control of palpitations or as phytochemical agents directed to treat diseases causing this symptom.
纵观历史，人类一直使用植物来预防和治疗疾病。必须知道的是，在很长一段时间里，这些植物发挥作用的机制并不为人所知，这使得草药医学成为一门纯粹基于经验的科学。由于旧大陆的知识和医疗实践，19世纪新格拉纳达王国的医学处方被认为是一项重大的医学进步。尽管缺乏研究，但当时的医学文献实现了新配方的开发，这些配方有精确的剂量和新的治疗可能性。本文介绍的医学处方用于治疗心悸，心悸是当今一种常见症状，表现为胸部和/或颈部跳动，是各种心脏和非心脏疾病的潜在症状。历史档案“西普里亚诺·罗德里格斯·圣玛丽亚”中治疗心悸的配方是一种草药混合物，正如医学文献中所综述的，它具有抗炎、抗焦虑和抗氧化等作用，对心悸有有益效果。由于缺乏关于剂量、使用安全性、禁忌症和可能的不良反应的信息，当时其在控制心悸方面的潜在用途或作为治疗引起该症状疾病的植物化学药物的潜在用途可能被低估了。
