ABSTRACTCissampelos sympodialis Eichler, Menispermaceae, is widely used by Indian tribes and folk medicine to treat various inflammatory disorders, including asthma. Clinical toxicological trials were made with the tea of C. sympodialis, a medicinal plant. The study took place at Lauro Wanderley Hospital/UFPB-PB, where seventeen healthy volunteers were chosen, among those six men and eleven women who orally ingested, during four weeks uninterruptedly, 150 ml of the tea, once a day. Before the first ingestion and after the last one, the participants were subjected to clinical and laboratorial tests for their overall conditions in order to analyze the toxicity of the plant. The results demonstrated that the volunteers neither experience clinical nor laboratorial alterations, as well as no significant adverse effects, apart from little change detected in their hematological tests. Nevertheless, none demonstrated any pathological conditions, just alterations of the normal human being physiology. Therefore, it is concluded that these data complement that obtained during pre-clinical studies and confirm a low toxicity of this plant.

Com o objetivo de avaliar a influência de uma multimistura no combate à desnutrição em ratos machos Wistar, no que se refere a biodisponibilidade mineral, foi realizado um estudo utilizando 60 animais recém-desmamados dos quais, após depleção por 14 dias, selecionaram-se 12 ratos para formar o Grupo 0 ou Aprotéico, e o restante foi dividido em 4 grupos: I - dieta controle; II - dieta creche; III - dieta creche enriquecida com 1,2g de Multimistura e IV - dieta creche enriquecida com 2,4g de Multimistura. No geral, o acréscimo de multimistura, mesmo em concentração dobrada, não acarretou diferenças nos níveis séricos de minerais analisados. Em relação à série vermelha, os Grupos estavam dentro da faixa de normalidade. As plaquetas apresentaram-se em maior número no Grupo I e, em menor, no Grupo 0. Na avaliação da série branca, os leucócitos apresentaram menor número no Grupo 0. A diferenciação celular não apresentou nenhuma alteração. Logo, observou-se que as séries vermelha e branca não sofreram alteração com a adição do suplemento à dieta.

This work has been aimed to evaluate the influence of a "multimistura" against the malnutrition of Wistar male rats, in relation to the use of minerals. Sixty suckling male rats were submitted to 14 days of malnutrition and after this period, 12 rats were selected to form the group "O" or non-proteic, the others were divided into 4 groups: I - control diet of casein; II - crèche diet; III - crèche diet plus 1.2g of multimistura; IV - crèche diet plus 2.4g of multimistura. In general, the addition of multimistura to the crèche diet, even in double quantities, did not affect the seric concentrations of minerals analysed. The analysis of blood red cells showed that groups presented values in the limits of normality. The higher number of plackets was observed in group I and the lower in group O. The leukocyte number was lower in group O. The cellular differentiation did not present any modification. From the data it could be observed that the red and white series were not affected by addition of "multimistura" to the diet.