Medicinal uses of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. in rural communities from Paraguaná peninsula, Venezuela
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v24i1.13105Keywords:
Prosopis juliflora, Ethnobotany, medicinal uses, prospecting.Abstract
This paper provides information on the medicinal uses of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. in five rural localities of the Peninsula Paraguaná (State Falcon, Venezuela). We realize a survey with semi-structured interviews applied to 51 informants between 23 and 86 years old. All interviewees attributed healing properties to leaves, fruits and / or stems of P. juliflora. The highest percentages of medicinal use of the species referred to orthopedic, ophthalmologic and male sexual function disorders. Some other medicinal uses reported in a lesser extent include treatments for diabetes, digestive system diseases, parasitosis, eruptive diseases, intervening in cases of general malaise, kidney stones and cancer. The results represent the first compilation of medicinal uses of P. juliflora in Venezuela, and allow a foundation for the development of research aimed at determining their pharmacological and biochemical prospection.Downloads
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2017 María Angélica Taisma
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
AUTHORS RETAIN THEIR RIGHTS:
a. Authors retain their trade mark rights and patent, and also on any process or procedure described in the article.
b. Authors retain their right to share, copy, distribute, perform and publicly communicate their article (eg, to place their article in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in the Revista Peruana de Biologia.
c. Authors retain theirs right to make a subsequent publication of their work, to use the article or any part thereof (eg a compilation of his papers, lecture notes, thesis, or a book), always indicating its initial publication in the Revista Peruana de Biologia (the originator of the work, journal, volume, number and date).