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Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities

Plants are a great and irreplaceable source of medicines, fuel, food, energy and even cosmetics. Since prehistory, humans have learned to use plants for survival, growth and proliferation and still today it relies on natural and cultivated vegetables for food and the source of novel compounds with p...

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Autores principales: Patti, Felicia, Taheri, Yasaman, Sharifi-Rad, Javad, Martorell, Miquel, C. Cho, William, Pezzani, Raffaele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31635356
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines6040105
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author Patti, Felicia
Taheri, Yasaman
Sharifi-Rad, Javad
Martorell, Miquel
C. Cho, William
Pezzani, Raffaele
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description Plants are a great and irreplaceable source of medicines, fuel, food, energy and even cosmetics. Since prehistory, humans have learned to use plants for survival, growth and proliferation and still today it relies on natural and cultivated vegetables for food and the source of novel compounds with pharmacological activity. Not only herbs and flowers, but also trees are used. Indeed, Erythrina suberosa Roxb. is a deciduous tree of the family Fabaceae, common in Southeast Asia. In India, E. suberosa is called the “corky coral tree” or simply the “Indian coral tree”, given its peculiar red-orange flowers that can flower throughout the year and its corky irregular bark covered by prickles. It is a plant commonly used as an ornamental tree, but it also holds ethnopharmacological and socioeconomic uses. This article explored phytobiological features of E. suberosa, analysing its taxonomy, examining its traditional and common uses and investigating its bioactive components and pharmacological properties.
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spelling pubmed-69635852020-01-30 Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities Patti, Felicia Taheri, Yasaman Sharifi-Rad, Javad Martorell, Miquel C. Cho, William Pezzani, Raffaele Medicines (Basel) Perspective Plants are a great and irreplaceable source of medicines, fuel, food, energy and even cosmetics. Since prehistory, humans have learned to use plants for survival, growth and proliferation and still today it relies on natural and cultivated vegetables for food and the source of novel compounds with pharmacological activity. Not only herbs and flowers, but also trees are used. Indeed, Erythrina suberosa Roxb. is a deciduous tree of the family Fabaceae, common in Southeast Asia. In India, E. suberosa is called the “corky coral tree” or simply the “Indian coral tree”, given its peculiar red-orange flowers that can flower throughout the year and its corky irregular bark covered by prickles. It is a plant commonly used as an ornamental tree, but it also holds ethnopharmacological and socioeconomic uses. This article explored phytobiological features of E. suberosa, analysing its taxonomy, examining its traditional and common uses and investigating its bioactive components and pharmacological properties. MDPI 2019-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6963585/ /pubmed/31635356 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines6040105 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
title Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
title_full Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
title_fullStr Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
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title_short Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
title_sort erythrina suberosa: ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and biological activities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31635356
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines6040105
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