Biological activities: anti-infectious, antioxidant and healing of the vegetable species Jatropha multifida.

Objective: to investigate the biological activities of interest to the health of Jatropha multifida plant species in published scientific literature.

Methods: this is an integrative review, with searches between May and June 2019, using the descriptors, combined through the Boolean operator AND, Jatropha multifida, anti-infective agents, wound healing, cytotoxicity and antioxidants, in LILACS, BDENF, MEDLINE, SciFinder, Web of Science and Scopus databases and in the virtual libraries SciELO and ScienceDirect.

Results: twelve publications were retrieved that showed nine biological activities.