Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de la Sabana, Chía, Colombia.
Institute of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia.
Arch Cardiol Mex. 2020;90(2):148-153. doi: 10.24875/ACME.M20000109.
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 19 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.
人类在历史上一直使用植物来预防和治疗疾病。重要的是要知道，长期以来，这些植物的作用机制是未知的，使得草药成为一门纯粹的经验科学。19 世纪新格拉纳达王国的医疗处方被认为是一个重大的医学进步，因为它借鉴了旧大陆的知识和医疗实践。当时的医学文献尽管缺乏研究，但仍开发出了具有精确剂量和新治疗可能性的新方案。本文介绍的处方用于治疗心悸，心悸是一种常见症状，现在被描述为胸部和/或颈部跳动，潜在的原因是各种心脏和非心脏疾病。历史档案“Cipriano Rodríguez Santa María”中的心悸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、抗焦虑和抗氧化作用等，对心脏心悸有有益的影响。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，当时对其控制心悸或作为针对引起这种症状的疾病的植物化学药物的潜在用途的评估可能过低。
