Análise farmacognóstica do pó e avaliação do efeito do extrato etanólico das flores da calendula officinalis l. cultivadas no Brasil no sistema imunológico

Resumo

Calendula officinalis L. (Asteraceae) is an annual herbaceous from Mediterranean area and it was adapted in Brazil. Lots of factors related to cultivation, can affect in a significant way the quality and the quantity of the active principles produced by the plants. In this work, pharmacognostic evaluation of the flowers of C. officinalis from Brazil (Paraná), was accomplish for the quality control of the botanical material. The plant, well known a long time ago, has anti-inflammatory and healing activities and several other effects. It is present in many commercialized therapeutic formulations. In this work, an ethanolic extract of the flowers of the cultivated C. officinalis (EEC) in Brazil was gotten and was become an evaluation of the effect of the EEC in the immunologic system, verifying if the extract also gotten it would present the same immunomodulatory activity for isolated fractions of the plant cultivated in the Europe and Asia.

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Calendula officinalis, Pharmacognostic evaluation, Immunomodulatory activity

Citação

PARENTE, Leila Maria Leal; MATOS, l. G.; CUNHA, Luiz Carlos da; LEÃO, A. R.; PAULA, José Realino de; V. JÚNIOR, G.; SILVEIRA, Nusa de Almeida. Análise farmacognóstica do pó e avaliação do efeito do extrato etanólico das flores da calendula officinalis l. cultivadas no Brasil no sistema imunológico. Revista Eletrônica de Farmácia, Goiânia, v. 1, n. 1, p. 9-16, jan./dez. 2004. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/REF/article/view/1749/1845>.