Traditional anti-malarial medicine in Roraima, Brazil

摘要: Malaria is probably the most serious health problem facing northern Amazonia, and isolated populations can benefit greatly from knowledge of local resources which may effectively be used to control it. The results an ethnobotanical survey plant species in treatment malaria Brazilian State Roraima are presented. Fieldwork was carried out amongst seven savanna-and forest-dwelling indigenous groups, among Luso-Brazilian population. Ninety-nine species, 82 genera 41 families, were identified as having been for this purpose region. discussed context previously published information on anti-malarial plants Latin America, analysed by a broad literature whose overall also presented here. Of collected Roraima, only 24 appear have reported anti-malarials, although 49% represented known way elsewhere. currently undergoing laboratory screening activity toxicity.