Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Revisão Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

BIBTEX RIS

Plants as source of drugs

2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 39; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0041-0101(00)00154-9

1879-3150

Stela Maris Kuze Rates,

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies

This work presents a study of the importance of natural products, especially those derived from higher plants, in terms of drug development. It describes the main strategies for obtaining drugs from natural sources, fields of knowledge involved, difficulties and perspectives. It also includes a brief discussion of the specific situation in Brazil regarding the use of, trade in, and research into therapeutic resources of natural origin and the general lack of awareness of the use of potentially toxic plants, mainly in folk medicine.