Journal of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology

Ethnobotanical study of antimalarial plants in the Brazilian Amazon: Challenges and perspective in the ethnobiological studies in Brazil

2^nd International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmacology and Ethnopharmacology

May 02-04, 2016 Chicago, USA

Bernardo Tomchinsky

Sso Paulo State University, Brazil

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Clin Exp Pharmacol

Abstract:

The "Research Network of Plant Chemicals for the Malaria Control from the Ethnopharmacology in the states of Amazonas and Acre", is a group of Brazilian researchers coordinated by Professor Dr Lin Chau Ming (Unesp/FCA), who carried out, between 2010-2014, extensive study of antimalarial plants used by traditional communities in the Amazon region of Brazil. The researchers visited 55 traditional communities (indigenous, religious, gatherers, farmers, riverside and caboclos) in eight municipalities in the states of Amazonas and Acre. They found over 330 plant species used as antimalarial, of which at least 30 are new, that never had been mentioned in other work published with the same use. This shows that the traditional knowledge still are an important way to the discovery of new antimalarial composts. Respecting the national legislation, the group obtained all the necessary legal authorizations before the begining of the research. However, because of the bureaucracy of the Brazilian government this process took three years, much longer than expected, which made it impossible the realization of phytochemical studies about the efficiency of some selected plants. From this experience, I will present the some possibilities and challenges in the ethnobiological studies in Brazil, focused in the legislation.

Biography :

Email: berinsky@uol.com.br