El poder terapéutico está en la naturaleza: actividad quimiopreventiva de Iresine herbstii Hook y Pelargonium graveolens, especies tradicionales de la región sur del Ecuador.

Abstract

Abstract: In Ecuador, traditional medicine represents a good source of knowledge of plants with therapeutic properties. Similarly, in recent years the search for new chemopreventive agents has been based on the study of phytochemical compounds, isolated or identified from traditionally used species. This review focuses on the antiinflammatory, antioxidant and antigenotoxic activities, related to the chemoprevention of the Iresine herbstii and Pelargonium graveolens species, the same ones found in a traditional drink from southern Ecuador, called Horchata .