Taste of phytocompounds : A better predictor for ethnopharmacological activities of medicinal plants than the phytochemical class?

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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Understanding the patterns that shape traditional medical knowledge is essential for accelerating ethnopharmacological progress. According to Ayurveda, medicinal plants that belong to different taxa, but which have similar taste, may display similar (ethno)pharmacological activities (EPAs) (Bhishagratna, 1998; Sharma and Dash, 2006).

AIM OF THE STUDY: To understand the patterns that govern the distribution of herbal EPAs in Ayurveda and to evaluate the potential concordance between chemical class or taste of the constituent phytocompounds and EPAs.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: A mixed database (PhytoMolecularTasteDB) was constructed for Ayurvedic medicinal plants by integrating modern data (medicinal plant composition, phytochemical taste) with traditional data (ethnopharmacological activities of plant). PhytoMolecularTasteDB contains 431 Ayurvedic medicinal plants, 94 EPAs, 223 chemical classes of phytocompounds and 438 herbal tastants. Potential global or individual associations between chemical classes/taste of the phytoconstituents and EPAs were statistically analyzed.

RESULTS: There was no global statistical correlation between the various chemical classes of phytocompounds and EPAs, although there were several individual correlations. The results suggest the existence of a global statistical correlation (besides several individual correlations) between the plant "molecular taste" (various taste-based classes of phytocompounds) and EPAs.

CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that phytochemical taste may be more relevant than chemical class for EPAs prediction.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:220

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Journal of ethnopharmacology - 220(2018) vom: 28. Juni, Seite 129-146

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dragos, Dorin [VerfasserIn]
Gilca, Marilena [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ayurveda
Ethnopharmacology
Journal Article
Medicinal plants
Phytochemical
Plant Preparations
Rasa
Taste

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Date Completed 02.10.2018

Date Revised 04.10.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jep.2018.03.034

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM282538755