The phytotherapeutic potential of Uncaria tomentosa (Willd.) DC. Rubiaceae: scientific and technological monitoring

• Autor(a) principal: Simões, Evelyne Rolim Braun
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Machado, Rejane Ramos, Pessoa, Claudia do Ó, Marques, Lana Grasiela Alves
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Fitos
• Texto Completo: https://revistafitos.far.fiocruz.br/index.php/revista-fitos/article/view/926
• topic: Uncaria tomentosa; Medicinal plants; Desenvolvimento sustentável; Articles; Patents; Uncaria tomentosa; Plantas medicinais; SUS; Artigos; Patentes

Medicinal plants are important for pharmacological research and drug development, not only when their constituents are used directly as therapeutic agents, but also as raw materials for synthesis, or models for pharmacologically active compounds. The article proposes a study of the scientific and technological information of the medicinal plant indicated by the Ministry of Health to Uncaria tomentosa, aiming at the development of herbal medicines. For this, the Web of Science and Derwent Innovations Index databases were used. In the analyzes it was possible to observe the growing volume of scientific studies carried out in the world and in Brazil with the plant. The first publications began in the year 1984 and the peak occurred in the year 2005. It should highlight Brazil as responsible for the largest volume in publications. On the other hand, the countries that patent deposited were the United States, China and Japan. Thus, it is possible to affirm the technological potential for the development as herbal medicine of the Uncaria tomentosa plant to be incorporated by the public pharmaceutical industries and distributed in the SUS system.