Medicinal plants have been used by indigenous physicians since pre-Hispanic times and are part of the traditional knowledge of humanity (Heinrich, Ankli, Frei, Wiemann, & Sticher, 1998).
Medicinal plants have been used by indigenous physicians since pre-Hispanic times and are part of the traditional knowledge of humanity (Heinrich, Ankli, Frei, Wiemann, & Sticher, 1998). The use of medicinal plants derives from having secondary metabolites with pharmacological properties, and some are an important source of components for antitumors, antivirals, antiepileptics, antibiotics, antiinflammatories, antinociceptives, among others (Alonso-Castro et al., 2011; Le Rhun, Devos, & Bourg, 2019; Sharma, Flores-Vallejodel, Cardoso-Taketa, & Villarreal, 2017; Wang et al., 2019).