PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION USING STRYPHNODENDRON EXTRACTS FOR TREATING HPV INFECTIONS

摘要

The present invention relates to the use of extracts, in particular alcoholic, hydroalcoholic and aqueous extracts of the bark, bast, stems and pod shells of the species Abarema cochliocarpos (Gomes) Barneby & Grimes and/or Stryphnodendron barbatiman, Stryphnodendron coriaceum Benth., S. diacolor Benth., S. pulcherrimum (Wildd) Hoch., Stryphnodendron adstríngens (Mart.) Coville, Stryphnodendron obovatum Benth., Stryphnodendron polyphyllum M. and Pithecellobium avaremotemo Mart., which are all popularly known in Portuguese under the name "barbatimão", used (as an adjuvant) for the treatment of human papilloma virus-related (HPV) infections and for the prevention of cervical cancer.