Background: In Mexico, the Asteraceae are part of traditional knowledge where its members have several uses, but they particularly remarkable in medicine and used for different purposes.
 Questions: What pharmacologically studies been carried out with species Mexican medicine? pharmacological activities tested? compounds responsible tested activities?
 Species studied: tested.
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Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) is a sustainable technique used for the extraction of lipophilic metabolites such as pigments and fatty acids. Arnica plant is considered a potential candidate material with high antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. Therefore, in this study, a locally available Heterotheca inuloides, also known as Mexican arnica, was analyzed for the extraction of high-...

El uso de plantas medicinales para tratar diversas enfermedades se ha visto fuertemente impulsado por el aumento del costo los medicamentos y efectos secundarios éstos. Así, en países vías desarrollo, vuelto cada vez más importante la atención primaria salud. En este artículo, describen las especies vegetales que habitantes Julián Blanco, Guerrero, México, utilizan frecuentemente tratamiento su...

Camphorweed, Heterotheca subaxillaris (Lam.) Britt. & Rusby, has a camphor-like odor, and its leaf surfaces contain glandular trichomes of the type shown to contain high levels of isoprenoids in other species. Borneol (1), the phytotoxic calamenene-type sesquiterpenes (2-5, 9-11), and methylated flavones (12-15) were isolated from the dichloromethane rinsate of camphorweed aerial tissues. The s...

BACKGROUND The effects of some natural products on dopamine (DA) and 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (5-HIAA) in brain of infected models are still unclear. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of Mexican arnica/rosemary (MAR) water extract and oseltamivir on both biogenic amines and some oxidative biomarkers in the brain and stomach of young rats under infection conditio...