Phytochemical Profile and Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of Medicinal Plants Used by Aboriginal People of New South Wales, Australia

Table 1

Summary of plants, traditional uses, parts used, and quantities of extracts obtained.

Plant name and family	Common names	Distribution in Australia	Traditional use	Voucher number	GPS location of plant collection	Part extracted (g)	Extract yield (g/100 g dry wt)
A. falcata, Fabaceae	Hickory, lignum vitae, Sally	NSW, Qld	Bark used for sores and skin complaints	IBRG00013	, 150.614472	Bark (95.4)	20.6
A. implexa, Fabaceae	Black wattle, lightwood, fish wattle, broad leaf wattle, scrub wattle, hickory, hickory wattle, Sally wattle	ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic	Bark used for sores and skin complaints	IBRG00014	, 150.614472	Bark (162.0)	11.2
C. glabella, Lauraceae	Devil’s twine, dodder laurel, slender devil’s twine, slender dodder-laurel, smooth cassytha	NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA	Whole plant used for bathing of body to relieve pain, rheumatism, and fever	IBRG00015	, 151.117169	Whole plant (26.2)	11.4
E. haemastoma, Myrtaceae	Scribbly gum, snappy gum, white gum	NSW	Sap used for cuts, sores, wounds, ulcers, and dysentery	IBRG00011	, 151.119465	Sap (32.6)	65.0
H. scandens, Dilleniaceae	Yellow vine	NSW, Qld	Used to treat sores and rashes (plant part used unknown)	IBRG00017	, 151.117391	Leaves (102.0)	9.8
S. glyciphylla, Smilacaceae	Native sarsaparilla, sweet sarsaparilla, smooth sarsaparilla	NSW, Qld	Leaves topically used to clear skin problems, leaves and black fruits used for aches, pains, rheumatism, blood cleanser/tonic, sickness, cough, colds, congestion, and scurvy	IBRG00012	, 151.117406	Leaves (27.6)	17.0
S. glomulifera, Myrtaceae	Luster, red luster, turpentine, red turpentine	NSW, Qld	Leaf ash and sap used as antiseptic	IBRG00018, IBRG00019	, 151.114339; , 151.117111	Leaves (100.0)	24.0
S. quadrifida, Malvaceae	Kuman, orange fruited kurrajong, red fruited kurrajong, smooth seeded kurrajong, peanut tree, small flowered kurrajong	NSW, NT, Qld	Leaves used to treat wounds, sores, skin complaints, sore eyes, and stings	NSW 970302	153.564382	Leaves (80.2)	7.0

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ACT: Australian Capital Territory; NSW: New South Wales; NT: Northern Territory; Qld: Queensland; SA: South Australia; Tas: Tasmania; Vic: Victoria.