Volume 16, Issue 3 pp. 264-266
Research Article

Analgesic and antiinflammatory properties of Sideritis lotsyi var. Mascaensis

Margarita Hernández-Pérez

Margarita Hernández-Pérez

Departamento de Enfermería, E.U. de Enfermería y Fisioterapia, Universidad de La Laguna, C/Campus de Ofra, s/n, 38071, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

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Rosa M. Rabanal Gallego

Corresponding Author

Rosa M. Rabanal Gallego

Departamento de Medicina Física y Farmacología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de La Laguna, C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez, s/n, 38071, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

Departamento de Medicina Física y Farmacología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de La Laguna,­c/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez, s/n 38071, La Laguna, Tenerife, SpainSearch for more papers by this author
First published: 15 May 2002
Citations: 12

Abstract

The antiinflammatory, analgesic and antimicrobial activities of crude ethanol extracts of Sideritis lotsyi var. mascaensis (Lamiaceae), and chloroform and aqueous fractions were evaluated in mice using paw and ear oedema induced by carrageenan and 12-o-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-acetate (TPA), respectively, as inflammation models, the writhing test induced by acetic acid for evaluating analgesic activity and the disk-diffusion method for testing antimicrobial actions.

The results obtained demonstrated significant topical antiinflammatory and analgesic activities for the ethanol extract and chloroform fraction, but no relevant antimicrobial activity against the microorganisms tested. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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