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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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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 |
author_facet | 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/). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Patti, Felicia Taheri, Yasaman Sharifi-Rad, Javad Martorell, Miquel C. Cho, William Pezzani, Raffaele 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 |
title_full_unstemmed | Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities |
title_short | Erythrina suberosa: Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities |
title_sort | erythrina suberosa: ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and biological activities |
topic | Perspective |
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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