Gustavo Pereira Cosenza

TL;DR: The results of a thorough survey in the four editions of the Brazilian Official Pharmacopoeia (FBRAS), in a search for data about the plants and other botanical products included in them, showed a strong substitution of Native American medicinal plants by industrialized medicine and foreign medicinal plants in FBRAS as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: It is concluded that DNA barcoding should be used in a complementary manner for species identification with chemical analyses to detect and quantify the required chemical compounds, thus improving the quality of this class of medicines.

TL;DR: A survey of the traditional uses of plants described in eighty-seven Monographs from the FBRAS in twenty bibliographies written from the 19th century to the 1970s, to encourage policy makers and the scientific public as a whole to engage in a strong debate in an attempt to improve and facilitate the pharmacological study of these species.

TL;DR: This study shows that several bitter species named quina were used in the past as substitute of Cinchona spp.

TL;DR: This study surveyed 15 public markets in different parts of Brazil in search of samples of 40 plants used in traditional medicine and present in first edition of Brazilian Official Pharmacopoeia, but found that only one-half of the samples were confirmed as the same plant species so named in FBRAS.