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Ethnopharmacology 2019

& Physiotherapy Congress 2019

Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

ISSN: 2249-622X | Volume 9

Page 44

OF EXCELLENCE

IN INTERNATIONAL

MEETINGS

YEARS

March 27-28, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

PHARMACOLOGY AND ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

International Conference and Exhibition on

GLOBAL PHYSIOTHERAPY, PHYSICAL

REHABILITATION AND SPORTS MEDICINE

Joint Event on

THE PROBLEM OF MISIDENTIFICATION BETWEEN EDIBLE AND POISONOUS

WILD PLANTS: REPORTS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA

Domenico Trombetta

University of Messina, Italy

oday, in many European countries, people are looking for wild edible plants to experience new tastes and

flavours, by following the new trend of being green and environmentally friendly. Inexpert pickers can

easily confuse young borage and spinach leaves with those of other plants, including poisonous ones such as

Mandragora autumnalis

Bertol (mandrake) or

Digitalis purpurea L

(foxglove), common in southern and northern

Italy respectively. In the last twenty years, several cases of intoxication by accidental ingestion of mandrake

and foxglove have been reported. Furthermore, recently several cases of intoxication with soups or prepack-

aged salads have occurred through the exchange of edible with toxic plants. The purpose of this work was to

perform a pharmacognostic characterization of young leaves from borage, mandrake, foxglove and spinach,

by micromorphological, molecular and phytochemical techniques. The results showed that each of the three

techniques investigated could be sufficient alone to provide useful information for the identification of poison-

ous species helping the medical staff to manage quickly the poisoned patients. However, the multi-disciplinary

approach proposed could be very useful to assess the presence of poisonous plants in complex matrices, to

build a database containing morphological, molecular and phytochemical data for the identification of poison-

ous species or in forensic toxicoloy, given their increasingly frequent use due to their low cost and relatively

common availability.

Domenico Trombett, Asian J Biomed Pharmaceut Sci 2019, Volume 9 | DOI: 10.4066/2249-622X-C1-017

Domenico Trombetta completed his PhD in pharmacognosy, currently he is working as an associate professor of phar-

macology and pharmacotherapy at the department of chemical, biological, pharmaceutical and environmental scienc-

es of the University of Messina, Italy and member of the PhD College in “Applied Biology and Experimental Medicine”.

The research group who coordinates deals mainly with the study of functional foods and design, development, pro-

duction and testing of nutraceuticals both from a chemical-pharmaceutical point of view (purity, stability, compatibil-

ity between the constituents) than from the tolerability/safety and efficacy on humans.

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