ANALGESIC ACTIVITY OF PSYCHOTRIA-COLORATA (WILLD EX R-AND-S) MUELL ARG ALKALOIDS

Authors
ELISABETSKY E AMADOR TA ALBUQUERQUE RR NUNES DS CARVALHO ADT
Citation
E. Elisabetsky et al., ANALGESIC ACTIVITY OF PSYCHOTRIA-COLORATA (WILLD EX R-AND-S) MUELL ARG ALKALOIDS, Journal of ethnopharmacology, 48(2), 1995, pp. 77-83
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Pharmacology & Pharmacy","Plant Sciences
Journal title
Journal of ethnopharmacology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03788741
Volume
48
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
77 - 83
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-8741(1995)48:2<77:AAOP(E>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
An ethnopharmacological survey showed that home remedies prepared with flowers, fruits and roots of Psychotria colorata (Willd, ex R. & S.) Muell. Arg. (RUBIACEAE) are used by Amazonian caboclos as pain killers . These data led to the evaluation of analgesic activity of extracts o f P. colorata, using the formalin, writhing and tail-flick methods, Th is paper reports the Naloxone reversible opioid-like analgesic activit y of alkaloids present in leafs and flowers of P. colorata.