Inventory of medicinal species employed by IEPA, Macapá-AP

Abstract

The IEPA (Institute of Scientific and Technological Research of the State of Amapá), through the Center for Medicinal Plants and Natural Products, has been dedicated to the production of herbal medicines and phytocosmetics from regional raw material, selecting species based on ethnopharmacological information and the absence of reports of toxicity. In this context, Amapá takes an innovative path, with research and development of products from Amazonian biodiversity as priorities, aimed at meeting social and economic demands, but seeking to follow the guidelines recommended by the World Health Organization/WHO, regarding encouraging the use of medicinal plants in Primary Health Care/PHC. However, in order for this pioneering work to give economic return to the region and gain visibility outside the limits of this State, it must meet the requirements of the National Health Surveillance Agency/ANVISA, established in RDC 17, which provide for the registration of herbal medicines. Hence the importance of this work which, using conventional methodology, collected botanical information on thirteen species of the Amapá phytopharmacopoeia, used by the IEPA.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.018-017