Traditional antileukodermic herbal remedies in the Mediterranean area.

Abstract:

:More than 100 antileukodermic recipes, involving about 80 plant species used in Italy through the centuries, were collected from Renaissance texts, folk medicine and contemporary herbal usage. The possible efficacy of the recorded plants in stimulating physiological skin pigmentation is discussed in the light of present phytochemical and pharmacological knowledge. Many plants contain erythemogenic substances, some of which (furocoumarins, hypericin) induce light-mediated hypermelanogenesis. Other plants can colour the epidermal keratin (tannins, anthraquinones) or the subcutaneous fat depot (beta-carotene). The usefulness of other plants remains obscure.

journal_name

J Ethnopharmacol

authors

Capitanio M,Cappelletti EM,Filippini R

doi

10.1016/0378-8741(89)90091-3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-11-01 00:00:00

pages

193-211

issue

1-2

eissn

0378-8741

issn

1872-7573

pii

0378-8741(89)90091-3

journal_volume

27

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