RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Evaluation of the medicin C

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articletaining approximately 30,000 species that represent be-tween 10 and 12 % of species worldwide [1]. Cyrtocarpa procera Kunth is an indigenous Mexican tree that belongs to the Anacardiaceae plant family. This spe-cies is used in traditional Mexican medicine, known locally as “chupandilla ” or “copalcojote”, the bark and fruit are Estado de Mexico, Oaxaca, Morelos, Jalisco, Nayarit, Guerrero and Puebla states). C. procera is a species found in Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Valley (Puebla, Mexico); this area is critical for the conservation of one of the main biodiversity reserves among the arid and semi-arid areas of Mexico [5]. C. procera is one of the medicinal plants used by the inhab-itants of San Rafael, a town located within the Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Valley; this location participates in a line of a regional ethnobotanical research focusing on the current condition of natural resources and providing the tool