Plants used by Mexican traditional medicine with presumable sedative properties: an ethnobotanical approach

J Tortoriello; O Romero

Plants used by Mexican traditional medicine with presumable sedative properties: an ethnobotanical approach

Arch Med Res. 1992 Autumn;23(3):111-6.

Authors

J Tortoriello¹, O Romero

Affiliation

¹ Unidad de Investigación Biomédica del Sur, Centro de Investigación de Plantas Medicinales, IMSS, Xochitepec, Morelos, Mexico.

PMID: 1308799

Abstract

An ethnobotanical study of plants used in Mexican traditional medicine was made. The source was the national inquiry done by the IMSS-COPLAMAR health program (1983-1985) in which the plants used to treat mental disorders were selected and analyzed, in order to select the most frequent botanical species used in traditional medicine as sedatives, anticonvulsants and hypnotics.

MeSH terms

Anticonvulsants / isolation & purification
Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use
Humans
Hypnotics and Sedatives / isolation & purification
Hypnotics and Sedatives / therapeutic use*
Mental Disorders / drug therapy*
Mexico
Nervous System / drug effects
Plant Extracts / isolation & purification
Plant Extracts / pharmacology
Plant Extracts / therapeutic use
Plants, Medicinal* / classification

Substances

Anticonvulsants
Hypnotics and Sedatives
Plant Extracts