Aspectos farmacognósticos e a importância do óleo essencial da laranja como substância terapêutica na diminuição dos efeitos do estresse

Resumo (EN)

Pertaining to the Rutaceae family, the Citrus sort has the most important fruits of the harvest of fruitful world-wide trees, being represented for innumerable species of great importance for the modern therapy. The Citrus sinensis, target of recent studies towards its therapeutic potential under the stress, it presents the destrorotative isomer of the Limonene as an active substance for the reduction of the individual sintomatology from the reduction of involved inflammatory endoteliais markers during all the vicious cycle caused by the stressor agent. The stress, capable to reach cognitives, behavioral and physiological levels, it is also responsible for the basic behavior of the individual front to the stressful stimulus. The present article evaluates the benefits of the orange before its use as an ansiolitic, in addition to its more excellent pharmacognostics characteristics compared with the use of national products. The methodology used sends the bibliographic academic article analysis in the database of the SciELO, PubMed and Academic Google, beyond the determination of the chromatographic profile of essential oils of lemon, tangerine, sour orange and the active substance contained in commercially capsules sales, for sequential analysis and comparison of the compounds founded in the practical one and literature. The outcome disclose to the similarity between the analyzed samples and the content of the capsules, demonstrating quality in significant concentrations for the development and improvement of the products of the national market. Nevertheless, the utmost importance of the costs reduction of these products from the clinical-scientific deepening in the national extract of the oranges used, guarantees increase in the life quality of the target population of the study beyond the incident reduction of the illness.