Identificación de semillas con principios activos medicinales en diferentes especies leñosas a nivel nacional e internacional

Abstract

Abstract:The use of medicinal plants is a practice that has been developing since ancient times, whose knowledge has been passed from generation to generation. The medicinal seeds of forest species, on the other hand, have been relegated to the conservation of the species, forgetting about their excellent medicinal properties. In the present work are investigated by means of bibliographic information the medicinal principles of the seeds of woody species. Finding a total of 150 forest species corresponding to 58 families that produce seeds with some medicinal principle to being the alkaloids, tannins and flavonoids the most common. The most frequent uses attributed to the medicinal seeds of forest species are: diseases of the digestive system, infectious, parasitic and diseases of the respiratory system, skin and tissues. The information found in the seeds could denote the existence of high benefits and present a baseline to developed new biochemical and medicinal studies in seeds of woody species and contributes to promoting the conservation of the species based of their medicinal uses.