Dos Santos Dantas Lima Letícia, Felipe Domingues Passero Luiz, Indriunas Alexandre, de Souza Santos Ingrid, Francisco Uchôa Coqueiro Luíza, Alexandre Souza da Cruz Kayo, Batista de Almeida Adriana, Carlos Fernandes Galduróz José, Rodrigues Eliana
Center for Ethnobotanical and Ethnopharmacological Studies (CEE), Department of Environmental Sciences, Universidade Federal de Sa˜o Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Prof. Artur Riedel, No 275, Diadema 09972-270, SP, Brazil.
São Paulo State University (UNESP), Institute of Biosciences, Praça Infante Dom Henrique, s/n, São Vicente 11330-900, SP, Brazil.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2024 Feb 19;2024:6678557. doi: 10.1155/2024/6678557. eCollection 2024.
Some of the vernacular or scientific names are related to possible medicinal and/or toxic properties that can reveal the presence of potential bioactive agents, contributing to the discovery of new drugs and/or knowledge of the risks associated with their use. This study sought to list the scientific and vernacular names of plants whose lexicons are related to those possible properties of plants and to compare them with the "ethno" (ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological) and pharmacological data available in the scientific literature. A floating reading of the two classical and reference works on Brazilian medicinal plants was performed, and plants with vernacular and/or scientific names related to the possible medicinal and/or toxic properties were listed. Correlations between the meanings of the species' names (lexicon) and their possible biological properties were made from their translation from Latin by consulting dictionaries. A bibliographic survey was conducted on the "ethno" and pharmacological data for each species. Finally, data from these three dimensions (lexicon, "ethno," and pharmacology) were classified and compared using a bioprospection classification. It resulted in a list of 90 plant species belonging to 47 families. 66 of the 90 species presented "ethno" data from the scientific literature, while 46 species presented pharmacological data. Of these, 46 (69.7%) and 27 (58.7%), respectively, showed equivalence with the possible medicinal and/or toxic properties of plants according to their lexicons. According to this study, half of the plants investigated demonstrate equivalence in the three dimensions analyzed (lexicons, "ethno," and pharmacological data from the scientific literature). Gastrointestinal and nervous system categories are among the most common in all three dimensions. Plant lexicons may be closely linked to the possible medicinal and/or toxic properties and the study of plant lexicons may represent one more approach for the search for new drugs, mainly considering the gastrointestinal, nervous, and parasites categories.
一些俗名或学名与可能的药用和/或毒性特性相关，这些特性可以揭示潜在生物活性剂的存在，有助于发现新药和/或了解与其使用相关的风险。本研究旨在列出其词汇与植物这些可能特性相关的植物的学名和俗名，并将它们与科学文献中可用的“民族”（民族植物学和民族药理学）和药理学数据进行比较。对两部关于巴西药用植物的经典参考著作进行了泛读，并列出了俗名和/或学名与可能的药用和/或毒性特性相关的植物。通过查阅词典，从物种名称（词汇）的含义与其可能的生物学特性之间的相关性进行了拉丁文翻译。对每个物种的“民族”和药理学数据进行了文献调查。最后，使用生物勘探分类对这三个维度（词汇、“民族”和药理学）的数据进行分类和比较。结果得到了一份属于47个科的90种植物的清单。90种植物中有66种呈现了科学文献中的“民族”数据，而46种呈现了药理学数据。其中，分别有46种（69.7%）和27种（58.7%）根据其词汇显示出与植物可能的药用和/或毒性特性相当。根据这项研究，所调查的植物中有一半在分析的三个维度（词汇、“民族”和科学文献中的药理学数据）中表现出相当性。胃肠道和神经系统类别在所有三个维度中最为常见。植物词汇可能与可能的药用和/或毒性特性密切相关，对植物词汇的研究可能是寻找新药的另一种方法，主要考虑胃肠道、神经和寄生虫类别。
