“MEDICAMENTOS HERBARIOS EN EL CENTRO-OESTE ARGENTINO, VI. CARACTERIZACIÓN Y CONTROL DE CALIDAD DE DOS ESPECIES DE “CARQUEJAS”: BACCHARIS TRIANGULARIS Y B. SAGITTALIS (ASTERACEAE)”

M. E. PETENATTI, E. M. PETENATTI, J.C. GIANELLO, D.A. CIFUENTE, Y. ZALLOCCO, O. S. GIORDANO, C. E. TONN Y L.A. DEL VITTO

ACTA FARM. BONAERENSE

Colegio de Farmacéuticos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. (Argentina).

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2007 vol. 26 p. 201 - 208

0326-2383

Herbal Medicines in Central-Western Argentina, VI. Characterization and Quality Control of Two Species of “carquejas”: Baccharis sagittalis and B. triangularis (Asteraceae)”. The medicinal plants called “carquejas”(Baccharis p.p.min., Asteraceae) are characterized by their aphyllous, wing-shaped stems. Baccharis articulate and B. crispa (FNA ed. VI) and B. trimera are important herbal remedies and phytotherapics (hepatics,cholagoghe-choleretics and diuretics) in Cuyo region, central-western Argentina. Recent ethnobotanic studies have allowed the addition of other two wild species of “carquejas” with popular medicinal uses: B. sagittalis(Less.) DC. and B. triangularis Hauman from which their phytochemical constituents and pharmacobotanic and pharmacognostic characters are reported with the aim to give an adequate definition of the drugs as well as contributeto their effective quality control.