Special Issue "Ethnopharmacology in Latin America".

Two active compounds obtained from medicinal plants were evaluated: piquerol, obtained from I Piqueria trinervia i [[14]], and myristic acid, obtained from I Ceiba aesculifolia i [[9]], indicating the need to perform pharmacological studies on the active compounds from medicinal plants. Latin America is a multicultural region encompassing 43 countries, with 665 million inhabitants with a mean age of 31 years old, 84% of whom live in urban areas [[1]]. This Special Issue, "Ethnopharmacology in Latin America", enriches scientific knowledge of the medicinal plants of Latin America. This review underlined the need to evaluate the wound-healing activity of medicinal plants from Latin America, because 65% of the plants recorded in this review remain to be fully pharmacologically and chemically studied. [Extracted from the article]