Antiplatelet, Anticoagulant, and Fibrinolytic Activity of Orchids: A Review
Berenice Fernández-Rojas, Abimael López-Pérez, Luicita Lagunez-Rivera, Rodolfo Solano, Anel Karina Bernal-Martínez, Abraham Majluf-Cruz, Jesús Hernández-Juárez, Irwin Rose Alencar Menezes, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho, Almir Gonçalves Wanderley, Jaime Ribeiro-Filho · 2024
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Blood clots kill more people than any other single cause, and Berenice Fernandez-Rojas and co-authors review an unlikely pharmacy for them: orchids. Their 2024 review gathers the evidence that orchid species used in folk medicine can thin blood, stop platelets from clumping, or dissolve clots.
Standard clot drugs work, the authors note, but none is both fully effective and fully safe, which keeps the hunt for plant compounds alive. Several orchids carry a traditional record as blood thinners. The review sorts the species and studies that tested those claims in the lab, checking which effects survived measurement. It closes by weighing where orchid compounds might realistically join the antithrombotic shelf, as leads for new drugs rather than replacements for current care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Berenice Fernández-Rojas, Abimael López-Pérez, Luicita Lagunez-Rivera, Rodolfo Solano, Anel Karina Bernal-Martínez, Abraham Majluf-Cruz, Jesús Hernández-Juárez, Irwin Rose Alencar Menezes, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho, Almir Gonçalves Wanderley, Jaime Ribeiro-Filho |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 85 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |