Aguiar, Maria Célia Ribeiro Dantas dePaixão, Edson de Paula2019-11-252021-09-202019-11-252021-09-202019-11-11PAIXÃO, Edson de Paula. Vitex gardneriana Schauer: revisão de literatura sobre o uso popular, farmacologia e toxicologia. 2019. 23f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Farmácia) - Departamento de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/35723The use of medicinal plants for therapeutic purposes, including chronic diseases, is still present in the daily lives of Brazilian families, often unaware of the possible existence of toxic effects, despite the growing development of synthetic drugs for the relief and treatment of various pathologies and the demand regarding the quality, efficacy and safety of scientific validation. The aim of this study was to carry out a literature review about the popular use of the Vitex gardneriana Schauer plant of the Verbenaceae family, known in the northeastern Brazilian hinterland as Jaramataia, in the form of aqueous extract (tea) of leaves and stem bark works for analysis, in the databases indexed in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO), Google Scholar (Google Scholar) and publications of the Ministry of Health. The plant has several popular indications for the treatment of several inflammatory pathologies, despite the scarcity of studies. preclinical and clinical evidences that support its scientific use in the aforementioned human diseases, in the form of aqueous extract. The evaluation of the therapeutic potential of the plant and some of its constituents is still the object of studies to prove the pharmacological actions propagated in popular medicine. It is concluded, however, that the methanolic and ethanolic extracts of the V. gardneriana leaves, respectively, showed a promising therapeutic potential for molluscicidal activity against Biomphalaria glabrata and larvicide against Aedes aegypti, but there is a need for further research for scientific evidence of these properties. Thus, multidisciplinary studies involving ethnobotanical, chemical, and pharmacological aspects are necessary to expand the knowledge of the use of said medicinal plant, its mechanism of action, as well as the toxic effects among other parameters, as population, in the referred pathologies, employs it.Attribution 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/Medicina popularFitoterapiaUso medicinal da Vitex gardneriana SchauerVitex gardneriana Schauer: revisão de literatura sobre o uso popular, farmacologia e toxicologiaVitex gardneriana Schauer: literature review on popular use, pharmacology and toxicology.bachelorThesis