Showing papers in "Journal of Ethnopharmacology in 1979"

TL;DR: Individuals of Spanish and Mexican descent in New Mexico have used a number of plants as emmenagogues and abortifacients, and Rue is notable because of its use independently within different cultures, but may exhibit toxic side effects when used as an abort ifacient.

TL;DR: Several regression analyses of plants used by native Americans on plants available to them indicate substantial selectivity in plant use.

TL;DR: A review of the writings of early settlers and missionaries has resulted in a list of 128 local plants and the medical problems to which they were applied and the known composition of some of these plants indicates the value of their application.

TL;DR: There is no reason to believe that the stimulating effect achieved by the use of either coca leaves or powder is not due to cocaine.

TL;DR: The results show that A. lebbeck has a significant cromoglycate-like action on the mast cells and it appears that it inhibits the early processes of sensitization and synthesis of reaginic-type antibodies.

TL;DR: This paper continues ethnopharmacological notes on biodynamic plants employed by Indians of the Amazon region as medicines, poisons or narcotics.

TL;DR: Drugs from Myristicaceae species used in the Amazon region as hallucinogens and arrow poisons, as well as for the healing of infected wounds, are reviewed and a proposal that the red colour of the bark resins may be due to oxidative dimers of flavans is proposed.

TL;DR: The introduction of jaborandi leaves to western medicine goes back to 1873, when Symphronio Coutinho went to Europe, taking with him samples of the leaves, and the mixture of pilocarpine and another natural product, physostigmine, remains to this day one of the mainstays in ophthalmology.

TL;DR: Five Tarahumara plants are reported for the first time as hallucinogenic, including species of Coryphantha, Echinocereus, Mammillaria, and Scirpus, which are suspected of producing hallucinations or are associated with hallucinogens.

TL;DR: The article stresses the interrelatedness of aboriginal belief systems, folk medicine and world view linked to plant hallucinogenic ingestion among the Jibaro Indians and other tribal groups.

TL;DR: Arrow poisons have been used for at least 2500 years in various parts of China by the Han and other peoples using an extract derived from the tubers of Aconitum species, especially A. carmichaelii Debx.

TL;DR: The anti-anaphylactic activity of A. lebbeck, besides being due to cromoglycate-like action on the mast cells as reported earlier, is also due to inhibition of the synthesis of antibodies and suppression of T-lymphocyte activity.

TL;DR: Ethnographic data are presented on the use of a seed, haba de San Ignacio, to promote an aversion to the consumption of alcohol by problem drinkers in Mexican American and Mexican national populations on the United States-Mexico border.

TL;DR: Results of analyses for pesticide residues in samples of commercial Peruvian coca leaves are presented and levels of pesticides found in these samples are too low to be considered a medical risk to coca chewers.

TL;DR: This brief historical survey documenting the use of ergot alkaloids throughout Ancient times for obstetrical purposes (labor induction and control of uterine hemmorrhage) takes its data from works of Theophrastus, Pliny, Dioscorides, and others.

TL;DR: The bug is an insect called coya; the bonfire is made of a grass called guayacan; the connection between the two is that an unusual- and potentially fatal—physical harm is done to a human being by the coya, the effects of which must be counteracted by the victim's being passed through the flame of a fire made of Guayacan.