Petiveria alliacea

Petiveria alliacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Phytolaccaceae
Genus: Petiveria
Species: P. alliacea
Binomial name
Petiveria alliacea
L.[1]
Synonyms

Mapa graveolens
P. corrientina
P. foetida
P. graveolens
P. hexandria
P. paraguayensis

Petiveria alliacea is a species of flowering plant in the pokeweed family, Phytolaccaceae, that is native to Florida and the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States,[2] Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and tropical South America.[1] Introduced populations occur in Benin and Nigeria.[3] It is a deeply rooted herbaceous perennial shrub growing up to 1 m (3.3 ft) in height and has small greenish piccate flowers. The roots and leaves have a strong acrid, garlic-like odor which taints the milk and meat of animals that graze on it.[4]

Common Names

It is known by a wide number of common names including: guinea henweed, anamu in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Brazil (where it is also known as tipi), apacin in Guatemala, mucura in Peru, and guine in many other parts of Latin America, feuilles ave, herbe aux poules, petevere a odeur ail, and, in Trinidad, as mapurite (pronounced Ma-po-reete) and gully root,[5] and in Jamaica as guinea hen weed [6] and many others.

Range and Habitat

This plant is native to Southeastern United States, Florida, Texas, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America. It’s been reported in the following habitats: disturbed Upland and Wetland; maritime, mesic, prairie and Rockland Hammock and Shell Mound. (1)

Key Features

The habit is herbaceous shrub, Leaves are simple, alternate, pinnate in the first order and netted the second order. It has determinate inflorescence. The plant reproduces during all year even though there are certain differences reported on the time of the year that the reproductive activity is the highest. For example in Mexico this period is On September to October while in Central America is July to January. (3)

Ecology

Petiveria alliacea is wildly present in corn, coffee and apple plantations and also in the forest. There are certain animals that fed on this plant like cows. When animals fed on the Guinea Hen Weed plant their products, meat, milk acquire a garlic like odor characteristic of the plant. When animals are fed on this plant regularly they may be poisoned because of the high content of nitrate present in the plant. (3)

Uses

P. alliacea is used as a bat and insect repellent.[7]

The Guinea Hen Weed is used in teas, extracts, capsules. The leaves and also the roots are used with medicinal purposes. This plant has been used to reduce inflammation and pain. It has been reported to be used to eliminate bacteria, fungi, candida, and viruses. It is also used to enhance the immune system and increase urination (2). Recent studies report beneficial results in the use of this plant to lower the blood sugar levels and in the elimination of cancer cells. (3)(4) The plant is also used for arthritis, allergies, as therapy for fever, malaria. Besides its beneficial medical uses the plant is also been reported to induce abortions important property that has to take into consideration when used by woman of childbearing age. (3)

Chemistry

Petiveria alliacea has been found to contain a large number of biologically active chemicals including benzaldehyde, benzoic acid, benzyl 2-hydroxyethyl trisulphide, coumarin, isoarborinol, isoarborinol acetate, isoarborinol cinnamate, isothiocyanates, polyphenols, senfol, tannins, and trithiolaniacine.[8]

The plant's roots have also been shown to contain cysteine sulfoxide derivatives that are analogous to, but different from, those found in such plants as garlic and onion. For example, P. alliacea contains S-phenylmethyl-L-cysteine sulfoxides (petiveriins A and B)[9] and S-(2-hydroxyethyl)-L-cysteines (6-hydroxyethiins A and B). These compounds serve as the precursors of several thiosulfinates such as S-(2-hydroxyethyl) 2-hydroxyethane)thiosulfinate, S-(2-hydroxylethyl) phenylmethanethiosulfinate, S-benzyl 2-hydroxyethane)thiosulfinate and S-benzyl phenylmethanethiosulfinate (petivericin).[10] All four of these thiosulfinates have been found to exhibit antimicrobial activity.[11] Petiveriin also serves as percursor to phenylmethanethial S-oxide, a lachrymatory agent structurally similar to syn-propanethial-S-oxide from onion, [12][13] but whose formation requires novel cysteine sulfoxide lyase and lachrymatory factor synthase enzymes differing from those found in onion.[14][15][16]

References

  1. 1 2 "Petiveria alliacea L.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2008-07-28. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  2. ↑ Mild, C (2004-06-26). "Smelly Weed Is Strong Medicine" (PDF). Rio Delta Wild. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  3. ↑ Schmelzer, GH; Gurib-Fakim, A (2008). Medicinal Plants. Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. pp. 412–415. ISBN 978-90-5782-204-9.
  4. ↑ Johnson, L. 1999. Anamu: Petiveria Alliacea. 14 pages (paperback). Woodland Publishing. ISBN 1-58054-038-4 (In Spanish).
  5. ↑ Mendes J. 1986. Cote ce Cote la: Trinidad & Tobago Dictionary, Arima, Trinidad, p. 95.
  6. ↑ http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/New-anti-cancer-discovery-from-Guinea-Hen-Weed_16214248
  7. ↑ http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/medicinal/anamu.html
  8. ↑ "Petiveria alliacea". Medicinal Plants for Livestock. Cornell University Department of Animal Science. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
  9. ↑ Kubec, R; Musah, RA (2001). "Cysteine sulfoxide derivatives in Petiveria alliacea" (PDF). Phytochemistry 58: 981–985. doi:10.1016/s0031-9422(01)00304-1.
  10. ↑ Kubec, R; Kim, S; Musah, RA (2002). "S-Substituted cysteine derivatives and thiosulfinate formation in Petiveria alliacea--Part II" (PDF). Phytochemistry 61: 675–680. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(02)00328-X.
  11. ↑ Kim, S; Kubec, R; Musah, RA (2006). "Antibacterial and antifungal activity of sulfur-containing compounds from Petiveria alliacea" (PDF). Journal of Ethnopharmacology 104: 188–192. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2005.08.072.
  12. ↑ Kubec R, Kim S, Musah RA (2003). "The lachrymatory principle of Petiveria alliacea". Phytohemistry 63 (1): 37–40. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(02)00759-8. PMID 12657295.
  13. ↑ Kubec R, Cody RB, Dane AJ, Musah RA, Schraml J, Vattekkatte A, Block E (2010). "Applications of DART Mass Spectrometry in Allium Chemistry. (Z)-Butanethial S-Oxide and 1-Butenyl Thiosulfinates and their S-(E)-1-Butenylcysteine S-Oxide Precursor from Allium siculum". Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 58 (2): 1121–1128. doi:10.1021/jf903733e. PMID 20047275.
  14. ↑ Musah RA, He Q, Kubec R (2009). "Discovery and characterization of a novel lachrymatory factor synthase in Petiveria alliacea and its influence on alliinase-mediated formation of biologically active organosulfur compounds". Plant Physiology 151 (3): 1294–1303. doi:10.1104/pp.109.142539. PMC 2773066. PMID 19692535.
  15. ↑ Musah RA, He Q, Kubec R, Jadhav A (2009). "Studies of a novel cysteine sulfoxide lyase from Petiveria alliacea: the first heteromeric alliinase.". Plant Physiology 151 (3): 1304–1316. doi:10.1104/pp.109.142430. PMC 2773092. PMID 19789290.
  16. ↑ He Q, Kubec R, Jadhav AP, Musah RA (2011). "First insights into the mode of action of a "lachrymatory factor synthase"--implications for the mechanism of lachrymator formation in Petiveria alliacea, Allium cepa and Nectaroscordum species". Phytohemistry 72 (16): 1939–1946. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2011.07.013. PMID 21840558.

1. http://regionalconservation.org/ircs/database/plants/PlantPage.asp?TXCODE=Petialli

2. http://www.rain-tree.com/anamu.htm#.VI5e5Hk5Bes

3. http://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/70236

4. Hernández, John Fredy, Claudia Patricia Urueñaa, Maria Claudia Cifuentesa, Tito Alejandro Sandovala, Luis Miguel Pombob, Diana Castañedaa, Alexzander Aseac, Susana Fiorentino. A Petiveria alliacea standardized fraction induces breast adenocarcinoma cell death by modulating glycolytic metabolism. Journal of Ethnopharmacology Volume 153, Issue 3, 14 May 2014, 641-649

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