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AUTHOR
Franca Lentini
Censimento delle piante diuretiche di uso popolare in Sicilia
Traditional medicine as a source of new therapeutic agents against psoriasis.
In the frame of traditional medicine, the use in the treatment of psoriasis of some plants typical of the flora of Sicily is reported. A preliminary search on some plants used for the treatment of psoriasis in Asia, South America and Africa is also reported.
Piante medicinali. Storia, tradizioni, etnobotanica,fitochimica ed applicazioni terapeutiche.
Piante di uso artigianale nella tradizione popolare siciliana
Osservazioni sulla morfologia fogliare di Ilex aquifolium L. in differenti condizioni di copertura e tipologia di bosco
STUDY OF VOLATILE COMPONENTS OF TEN VARIETIES OF SALVIA BY SPME-GC/MS AND GENERAL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS
Volatile compounds of fresh fruits of Phillyrea latifolia L.
The volatiles constituents of fresh fruits of Phillyrea latifolia were submitted to investigation by GC-MS. The plants grows wild in different zones of the mediterranean region and its leaves and fruits are used as astringent, diuretic and anti-inflammatory. The volatiles were sampled by solid-phase microextraction (SPME), with a 100 mm polydimethylsiloxane fibre a 50 °C for 1 h. The headspace main components of fresh fruits of Phillyrea latifolia included limonene, β-cariophillene, eremophilene, α-muurolene, β -eudesmol e spatulenol.
Valorizzazione delle piante selvatiche di uso alimentare in Sicilia
Studio morfoanatomico e fitodermologico su alcune “ spaccapietre” siciliane
Wild food plants of popular use in Sicily.
In the present work the authors report the result of their food ethnobotanical researches, which have been carried out in Sicily during the last thirty years. Data concerning 188 wild species used in the traditional Sicilian cuisine are reported. The authors underline those species that are partially or completely unknown for their culinary use and they illustrate other species that local inhabitants suggested in the prevention or treatment of symptomatologies caused by a refined diet, poor in vegetables. These data want to contribute to avoid the loss of traditional knowledge on uses and recipes concerning wild food botanicals, and to encourage further studies for those species that have n…
Contributo allo studio morfoanatomico e micromorfologico fogliare di elementi espressivi della Flora siciliana: Periploca laevigata subsp. angustifolia (Asclepiadaceae) e Cymbalaria pubescens (Scrophulariaceae)
Rimedi popolari per la cura della calcolosi renale in Sicilia
Piante di uso popolare nell'isola di Sri Lanka.
RAPID DETERMINATION OF VOLATILE CONSTITUENTS OF PHILLYREA LATIFOLIA L. BY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY WITH SOLID- PHASE MICROEXTRACTION.
Contributo alla caratterizzazione morfologica del polline di cultivar del genere Prunus (Prunoideae, Rosaceae) in Sicilia
Sessualità e disabilità: tra dimensione affettiva, tabù e ipocrisia
Anestetici del passato: "spongia soporifera"
Analgesic of the past: spongia soporifera – In order to improve the knowledge of plants used in the past as analgesic and anaesthetic, the authors refer in the current contribute to results coming from a bibliographical research carried out on plants which constituted the ingredients of “spongia soporifera”, a preparation made of a see sponge together with concentrated decoctions of medical plants. The authors analyse the species used for the preparation of “spongia soporifera”, investigating them in historical, botanic, chemical, pharmacological and toxicological aspects.