TL;DR: The results suggest that hexane and ethylacetate extracts of Maytenus ilicifolia may represent an important clinical alternative in anti-inflammatory and antiulcerogenic therapeutics, though, further experiments should be performed to confirm this assertion.
TL;DR: The extract was shown to cause an increase in volume and pH of gastric juice of the animals with the pH effects comparable to those of cimetidine, which tends to confirm the popular use of the plant.
TL;DR: In this paper, a skin care preparation is obtained by formulating one or more kinds of extracts and/or saps from plants selected from the group consisting of (1) a plant of the family Verbenaceae the genus Lippia, preferably LIPPia alba cham, (2) a plants of the group Olacaceae, the genus Ptychopetalum, and (3) a species of the species Erythroxylaceae, a.k.a.
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a skin care preparation which shows bleaching or skin- beautifying effect, particularly bleaching effect. SOLUTION: This skin care preparation is obtained by formulating one or more kinds of extracts and/or saps from plants selected from the group consisting of (1) a plant of the family Verbenaceae the genus Lippia, preferably Lippia alba cham., (2) a plant of the family Olacaceae the genus Ptychopetalum, preferably Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth., (3) a plant of the family Erythroxylaceae the genus Erythroxylum, preferably Erythroxylum catuaba, (4) a plant of the family Celastraceae the genus Maytenus, preferably Maytenus guianensis, (5) a plant of the family Monimiaceae the genus Peumus, preferably Peumus boldus Molina, (6) a plant of the family Turneraceae the genus Turnera, preferably Turnera diffusa var. aphrodisiaca Urban and (7) a plant of the family Leguminosae the genus Copaiba, preferably Copaifera langsdorffi. Further, the bleaching skin care preparation is obtained by formulating one or more kinds of these extracts and/or saps as bleaching agents.
TL;DR: The isolation and structure elucidation of four cytotoxic aromatic triterpenes along with three known quinoid triter penes from the South American medicinal plants Maytenus ilicifolia and M. chuchuhuasca are described.
Abstract: The isolation and structure elucidation of four cytotoxic aromatic triterpenes [1-4] along with three known quinoid triterpenes [5-7] from the South American medicinal plants Maytenus ilicifolia and M. chuchuhuasca are described. The structures of these aromatic triterpenes contained aromatized A rings and C-6 oxygenated B rings, and were elucidated by 1H- and 13C-nmr spectroscopic studies and by X-ray crystallographic analysis of 3.