Rauwolfia species are very much important due to their traditional medicinal use such as insanity, scorpion bite, purgative, edema, snake sedative, antihelmintic, rheumatic pain, epilepsy, relief cough antidiarrheal and intestinal disease (Panda et al., 2012).
Antipyretic effect of
Rauwolfia vomitoria in rabbits.
These natural molecules, which were the subjects of the most recent studies, include the extracts of Pao pereira and
Rauwolfia vomitoria.
As familias mais representativas nos dois estagios sucessionais foram Fabaceae, Apoeynaceae e Malvaceae, mas a composicao de especies diferiram entre os estagios intermediarios e tardios: as especies com maior valor de importancia no estagio intermediario foram Myracrodruon urundeuva,
Rauwolfia sellowii e Inga platyptera, enquanto Anadenanthera colubrina, Myracrodruon urundeuva e Bauhinia brevipes predominaram no tardio.
It is conducted from the above mentioned facts that the probably one branching point occurs per repeating units of the glucomannan, which constituting the non-ionic polysaccharide of
Rauwolfia Serpentina Benth.
Reserpine, the indole alkaloid form of
Rauwolfia, is also a depressant and lowers blood pressure.
To mention some of those new miracle drugs, there is the skin of
rauwolfia root to extract 'reserpine' (the new alkaloid that has revolutionized psychiatric treatment), strophantus seeds for 'ouabain', voacanga.
All decongestants can interact adversely with monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), tricyclic antidepressants, indomethacin, beta blockers, methyldopa, some general anesthetics, digitalis, antihypertensives,
rauwolfia alkaloids, other central nervous system (CNS) stimulants, and possibly theophylline.
One woodland is dominated by Acacia xanthophloea (Leguminosae) and
Rauwolfia caffra (Apocycnaceae), and the other is dominated by Cassipourea malosana (Rhizophoraceae), Albizia gummifera (Leguminosae), and Acacia lahai (Legumi-nosae).
John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) * uva ursi or bearberry (Arctostaphlyos uva-ursi) May aggravate drugs' side effect of swollen and tender breasts: * ginseng (Panax ginseng) *
rauwolfia (
Rauwolfia serpentina) propranolol HCI (Inderal) Natural licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) may increase heart rate and raise blood pressure, countering drug's effects.