Analysis of studies of applications therapeutic of Carapa guianensis Aublet (MELIACEAE) Iana de Carvalho Maia, Verônica Cristina Gomes Soares, Paulo Marcelo Pedroso Pereira

Abstract

This work has the theme "Analysis of studies on the therapeutic applications of Carapa guianensis Aublet (MELIACEAE)", a plant popularly known as andiroba. This species is used in ethnomedicine, but it is not written in the Brazilian Pharmacopoeia which makes it difficult to use in prescriptions, so can andiroba be trained by health professionals? With this questioning, this work aims to compile articles and literature of this kind, where I point out studies on its medicinal use, I conceptualize its pharmacological action in order to verify that Andiroba can be prescribed by duly qualified professionals, done through bibliographic review. Studies show that andiroba oil is capable of reducing the intensity of the inflammatory response in wounds; about oral use still does not have enough studies, so the best way for andiroba oil to be prescribed is in topical form because it has more toxicity studies for this type of application.