PARTE UTILIZADA=Used part: Partes aéreas.

ACCIÓN FARMACOLÓGICA=Pharmacological action: Sudorífico, estimulante, antirreumático, febrífugo, tónico, pectoral, antiespasmódico, diurético.

COMPOSICIÓN QUÍMICA=Chemical composition: The boiled juice of Stachytarpheta cayennensis, Verbenaceae, whole plant material is used ethnomedicinally in different countries of Latin-America to treat symptoms of malaria. In the ethyl acetate extract, five phenylethanoid glycosides could be identified. Three of these phenylethanoid glycosides, leucosceptoside A, martynoside and jionoside D were detected for the first time in the genus Stachytarpheta.

ZONA GEOGRÁFICA=Geografical zone: América del Sur.

Herb 60 cm, secondary forest, outskirts of San Andrés.

Uses: boil leaves in water, drink for urinary problems or malaria; boil leaves in water with other species, drink for high temperatures; crush leaves with leaves of other species, steep in water, rub into head for headaches. Comerford 51, 20 Aug 1994.

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Uses: local pain, fever, liver, hepatitis, colic, anibiotic, bronchitis, inflammation.                                                 

Origin: Argentina, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, China, Christmas Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Hawaiian Islands, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname. United States, Venezuela.        

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Parts Used: bark, rots, leaves.                  

Uses: stomach pains.                                                 

Origin: Barzil.        

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Whole plant: Boiled and the liquid drunk as a tea to treat "pressure" (high blood pressure), hypertension and thrush. Used for treating hypertension in NW Guyana.

Root, Stem and Leaf: In a decoction used as a bath to remedy grippe, headache, fractures. Medicine for wounds and toothache.

Leaf: For a resolutive cataplasm. Infusion for a cholagogue, purgative and antidysenteric. Leaf-juice used to treat eye infections in Guyana, and for colic and dysentery pain in French Guiana. Juice from macereate leaves is applied to the affected area to rreat bacterial infection, by the Guyana Patamona. Leaves are crushed, boiled and the awater used as an herbal bath, by the Guyana Patamona. Leaves are boiled, and the water used as a treatment for chicken pox, by the Guyana Patamona. Macerated leaves are boiled and used for washing the skin as a treatment for measles, by the Guyana Patamona. Used for treating diabetes and malaria in NW Guyana.

Latex: Latex is used for treating venereal diseases, especially syphilis, by the Guyana Patamona.

1) TOURSARKISSIAN, Martín. Plantas medicinales de Argentina : sus nombres botánicos, vulgares, usos y distribución geográfica. Buenos Aires : Hemisferio Sur, 1980, p.135.

2) FROELICH, S., et al. Phenylethanoid glycosides from Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl, Verbenaceae, a traditional antimalarial medicinal plant. Brazilian Journal of Pharmacognosy. 2008, vol.18, nº4, p.517-520.

3) COMERFORD, Simon C. Economic Botany. vol. 50 . -- p. 327 - 336 1996

6) Geraldini , Isanete, Journal of Ethnopharmacology v. 173, 2015 . -- p. 383-423

7) Bueno, Regina Norlene, et al., Acta bot. bras. vol. 19, no. 1, 2005. p.-- 39-44.

8) Robertt, A., et al.. Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana)/Smithsonian NMNH. cited online: 17-08-2017