Borges Juliano
Hospital Federal de Ipanema, Dermatology Department, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil.
Clin Dermatol. 2021 May-Jun;39(3):493-495. doi: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2020.11.014. Epub 2021 Jan 15.
The potential uses of medicinal plants are far from exhausted, and one of the most important tools in the study of medicinal plants is the rescue of traditional knowledge, which, in Brazil, combines Indigenous, African, and European influences. The rich Brazilian ethnobotany, associated with the greatest biodiversity in the planet, constitutes a promising field of studies, albeit rather neglected in the medical community. The investigation of Anacardium occidentale applications in dermatology from the bibliographic survey of the specialty found the following activity: antileishmanial, anti-ophidic, antibiotic, antityrosinase, and antifungal in vitro. Studies associating A occidentale and dermatology in medical literature seem incipient, and there is a lack of studies in humans. In vitro studies are useful as an initial step, but they are irrelevant if they do not develop into viable formulations that can be tested in humans.
药用植物的潜在用途远未穷尽，而研究药用植物最重要的工具之一是挽救传统知识，在巴西，这种传统知识融合了本土、非洲和欧洲的影响。丰富的巴西民族植物学，与地球上最丰富的生物多样性相关联，构成了一个有前景的研究领域，尽管在医学界相当被忽视。通过对皮肤病学专业文献调查，对腰果在皮肤病学中的应用进行研究发现了以下活性：体外抗利什曼原虫、抗蛇毒、抗菌、抗酪氨酸酶和抗真菌。医学文献中关于腰果与皮肤病学关联的研究似乎才刚刚起步，且缺乏人体研究。体外研究作为第一步是有用的，但如果不能发展成可在人体进行测试的可行制剂，它们就毫无意义。
