Diabetes mellitus is one of the various pathologies can be controlled with the use of medicinal plants, which exhibit hypoglycemic activity through different mechanisms. In Marudá, Marapanim-PA, the Women's Group "Erva Vida", produces and markets the "Tintura de pata-de-vaca" consumed by tourists and locals to treat diabetes. This remedy is prepared from leaves of Bauhinia monandra Kurz (pata-de-vaca). Different metabolic classes of plant already had a proven hypoglycemic action, for example flavonoids. Thus, the aim of this study was to characterize the handmade medicine through pharmacobotanic parameters pharmacognostic, phytochemicals and chromatographic in compararação with a tincture of Bauhinia monandra, for the presence of flavonoids. Both the preliminary phytochemical analysis, and the analysis by Thin Layer Chromatography, phenolic metabolites detected, possibly flavonoids in handmade medicine and hydroethanolic extract of plant species. In the analysis by HPLC, it revealed the presence of rutin in handmade medicine as well as in hydroethanolic extract of Bauhinia monandra.
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