ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the text mining of the subject, the general aspects of selected plants from Latin America, and pharmacological properties recognized of extracts/molecules from these plants. For the establishment of the research trend correlated with ethnopharmacological studies of some Latin American wild medicinal plants, a scientometric measurement was performed by using Scopus database, whose data obtained were analyzed through the specialized Vantage Point software for text mining. The analysis of the consulted scientific literature on bioactive extracts from G. ulmifolia indicated that it is one of the wild medicinal plants with higher pharmacological evidences according to the in vitro/in vivo biological tries. Despite this, it is important to remember what “ethnopharmacology” studies are about, which are, shortly, the uses, possible action modes, and bioproperties of plant-based preparations; and the contribution made by phytochemistry and pharmacology along with other related sciences to find/check any biologically active drugs.
