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Antinociceptive Activity of Essential Oils from Wild Growing and Micropropagated Plants of Renealmia alpinia (Rottb.) Maas
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10.25135/rnp.70.18.01.084
1307-6167
Autor
Gómez Betancur, Isabel Cristina
Benjumea Gutiérrez, Dora María
Mejía, Natalia
León, Juan F.
Gómez, Juan E.
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Resumen
ABSTRACT: Renealmia alpinia is a medicinal plant that has been cultivated and used for the treatment of
headaches, abdominal pain, as a febrifuge and to treat snake bites in southeast Colombia and in the Caribbean
islands. Moreover, its edible fruits are commonly used as spice in Mexico. The R. alpinia leave-extracts have
shown enzymatic inhibition of Bothrops atrox and Bothrops asper snake poison. The extracts also showed
effects as a peripheral analgesic agent. This report investigates the analgesic activity of the essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation from wild and in vitro propagation samples of R. alpinia as well as the chemical profile using GC-MS. The essential oils isolated from R. alpinia evaluated on concentrations of 50, 75 and 100 mg/kg showed significant antinociceptive effects in the test of acetic-acid-induced abdominal writhing, compared to the control animals. The essential oil of the wild flora leaves showed the highest percentage of pain inhibition by 200 mg/kg, concluding that the essential oil of R. alpinia presents antinociceptive activity in an in vivo model.
These results help us to understand the traditional use of R. alpinia to treat pain and make it a potential source
for the development of phytopharmaceutics. COL0014476