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Volume 04

Current Research: Integrative Medicine

Curr Res Integr Med, Volume 04, ISSN: 2529-797X

December 02-03, 2019 | Dubai, UAE

CAM Therapies 2019

December 02-03, 2019

World Congress on

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Study of the digestive action mechanism of an infusion prepared with “Paico”

(Chenopodium ambrosioides)

Juan B Beltramino

Provincial Agricultural School, Argentina

n Argentina, ethnomedicine has been recognized for more than five hundred years. Of these ethnomedicinal possibilities,

only a fraction has been studied in terms of its bioactive effects, which does not prevent its use from being widespread and

in force, mainly in rural areas, but also in cities. According to the World Health Organization, medicinal plants serve the needs

of about 80% of the world's population, especially for the millions of people in rural areas of developing countries. The present

work makes a review of the effects, possible components and mechanisms of action of an infusion prepared with a vegetable

from this area of Gobernador Gregores, Santa Cruz, Argentina, (48.75 S - 70.24 W) at which local residents they call "paico"

(Chenopodium ambrosioides). This infusion, used mainly as a digestive, is done using the aerial part of the vegetable, especially

the green leaves and seeds. In the school laboratory of the Agricultural School No. 1, the tests were carried out to estimate the

activity of the infusion: hydrodestilation of the essential oil, reaction of Biuret, action of the infusion of “paico” on the pH of a

protein solution, Infusion action of "paico" on disaccharides. It is concluded in this first approach to the subject that, according

to the chemical determinations developed in this study, the "infusion of paico" contains essential oils that explain its action but

also substances that act favoring digestion through a proteolytic action.