Abstract
IntroductionDuring the colonial period, despite scarce knowledge and resources, doctors and apothecaries developed medical prescriptions mainly of vegetable origin for the management of multiple diseases, including gout. ObjectiveTo contextualise and describe the use of medical prescription in the early 19th century in the New Kingdom of Granada for the treatment of gout. Material and methodsA documentary search of medical prescription was carried out in the Cipriano Rodríguez Santamaría Historical Archive of the Octavio Arizmendi Posada Library of the University of La Sabana. Subsequently, an open literature review was carried out in the ScienceDirect, ClinicalKey, and Scielo databases in English and Spanish. ResultsPistacia lentiscus, the basis of the recipe described, has a high content of terpenes, tannins, flavonoids, and coumarins, which generate anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antibiotic, antiviral, and anti-atherogenic effects, among others. ConclusionMastic, one of the components of these recipes, possesses anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, which could explain its relative efficacy in the treatment of gout in the 19th century.
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