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Traditional Brazilian medicine (Portuguese: Medicina indígena) includes many native South American elements, and imported African ones. It is predominantly used in areas where indigenous groups and African descendants reside, like in the northeast coast, nearly all interior regions including Amazon regions, savannahs , rainforest , foothills ...
Catuaba is a medicinal plant found in Brazil in the Amazon region that contains an incredible abundance of plant life – more than half of the planet's vegetation. The most famous of all Brazilian aphrodisiac plants and is the result of the blend of four main medicinal herbs from the Brazilian Amazon:
Hebanthe erianthos (many synonyms, including Iresine erianthos and Pfaffia paniculata), [1] known as suma or Brazilian ginseng, is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. The specific epithet is also spelt " eriantha ", although the basionym is Iresine erianthos .
Hymenaea courbaril (jatoba, guapinol, Brazilian cherry) Hymenaea stigonocarpa (jatobá-do-cerrado) Inga cinnamomea (ingá-açu) Inga edulis (guama, guaba, ice-cream bean) Inga laurina (ingá-branco) Inga marginata (ingá-feijão) Inga sessilis (ingá-ferradura) Inga vera (ingá-banana) Inga vulpina (ingá-miúdo), pink-flower inga; Jacaratia ...
A jaboticaba [3] (/d͡ʒæbɒtɪˈkɑːbə/), spelled jabuticaba in Portuguese, is a round, edible fruit produced by a jaboticaba tree (Plinia cauliflora), also known as Brazilian grapetree. The purplish-black, white-pulped fruit grows directly on the trunk of the tree, making it an example of ' cauliflory '.
As a dietary supplement or herb, guaraná seed is an effective stimulant: [1] it contains about twice the concentration of caffeine found in coffee beans (about 2–8% caffeine in guarana seeds, [2] compared to about 1–3% for coffee beans). [3] The additive has gained notoriety for being used in energy drinks.
Bauhinia forficata, commonly known as Brazilian orchid tree, [1] pata-de-vaca, [citation needed], pezuña de vaca is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Peru.
How rich is the flora of Brazilian Cerrados? Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86 (1): 192-224. (in Portuguese) Coutinho, Leopoldo Magno Cerrado; University of São Paulo, São Paulo state (in Portuguese) Gamarra-Rojas, Cíntia. (2005) Checklist das Plantas do Nordeste (Checklist of Plants of Northeast Brazil).