DRY LOVE (bidens pilosa)

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	DRY LOVE
	*bidens pilosa*

Name
DRY LOVE

Scientific Name
bidens pilosa

DRY LOVE

Pilosa Bidens

The family:Asteraceae

Common names: Picao Preto, Dry Love, Aceitilla, Cadillo, Chilca, Pacunga, Pirco, Cuambu, Carrapicho, Erva Picão, Pin, Clavelito De Monte, Romerillo, Forecastle, Yolk De Huevo, Z' Aiguille, Jarongan, Ketul, to pasir of pau of Pau

Properties: Antibacteriano, Antidysenterico, antiinflamatonrio, Antimicrobiano, Astringent, Diurético, Emmenagogue, the Emollient, Hepatoprotector Hypotensor

Picao Preto is an annual, raised and small grass that grows a high, original meter of the tropical forest of South America, of Africa, of the Caribbean, and the Philippines. It has the shining green leaves with mountain ranges in the thorny borders and produces small yellow flowers. He is cousin Sureño to the tripartite one of Bidens, the European Wonder of Humming, that has an old history in the European botanical medicine

Picao Preto has a long history of the use by the native of the Amazon and virtually all parts of the plant are used. In the Peruvian Amazon, Picao Preto is used for the aftosa, angina, the diabetes, disentería, dismenorrea, edema, hepatitis, jaundice, laryngitis and worms. In Piura, a decocción of the brief sounds is used for the hepatitis and alcoholic worms. The tribe of Cradle mixes the leaves squashed with water to treat the headaches. Pucallpa near Peru, the leaf is applied to a pain teeth and they are also used for headaches. In other parts of the Amazon a decocción of the plant is mixed with lemon juice and uses for the angina, adolorida throat, the water retention, hepatitis, and hidropesía. The tribes of Exuma grind the diverse leaves with olive oil to make cataplasms for sores and laceraciones, and in Layer, an infusion of the flowers is used to treat the envenenamiento by food. Dr Jam Duke informs that to "Mascar or gargaras can help to angina and sores in the mouth: infusions used like emmenagogue, antidysenterico, and to alleviate fríos." It also informs that the natives in Brazil use the plant like a diurético and to treat renales problems

In the Peruvian botanical medicine, the plant is called Seco Love or Cadillo and considers diurético, antiinflammatory, and hepatoprotector; commonly used for the hepatitis, conjuntivitis, the abscesses, micosis, the urinary infections, when an aid of the loss of the weight and to stimulate goes on trip. In the Brazilian botanical medicine Picao Preto is called or Cuambu and considers the emollient, the astringent, and diurético to be used in, blenorragia, leucorrea, jaundice, the diabetes, adolorida throat, tonsilitis, the obstructions in the liver and other disorders of the liver, the urinary infections of infections and vaginal.

Picao Preto has been the subject of the recent clinical studies that has explained many of its uses in the botánical medicine. It is the activity of antibacterial against positive Gram. bacteria. Also in 1996, an extract of Picao Preto showed to have the activity of inhibiting of prostaglandin synthesis, a united process the diseases of headache and inflammation. A group of investigation in Taiwan documented to his hepatoprotección (protective of the liver) the activity, to express that pilosus of Bidens "puede to protect the liver the wounds of several hepatotoxinas This same group of investigation clinic demonstrated to Picao the significant activities of ANTI inflammatory of Preto a earlier year in 1995. In 1991, scientific Swiss they isolated several phytochemical known with the properties antimicrobial and antiinflammatoria. that directed they to think that the presence of these enclosures "puede to rationalize During the same year, the scientists in Egypt also studied and documented the activity of antimicrobial of pilosa of Bidens. Still in the beginning like 1979 and 1980, the scientists demonstrated that found specific chemical substances in Picao Preto were phototoxicos to bacteria and fungi. The newest properties of hipotensiva of Preto of documents of Picao investigation that they suggest: "los Results suggest the extract is a antiipertenciva drug that does not have effect in the heart frequency. The hipotensivos effects of the extract can be induced by vasodilatacion."

References

Rabe T, 1997, the Antibacterial activity of South African plants used for medicinal intentions. J Ethnopharmacol 56(1), 81-87

Alvarez L, ET al., 1996. Polyacetylenes de Bioactive of the pilosa of Bidens. It plants Med 62(4), 355-357

To the one of ET of Jager AK., 1996. The selection of zulú the medicinal plants for inhibitors of the synthesis of prostaglandin. J Ethnopharmacol 52(2), 95-100

Chin HW, ET al., 1996. The effects of hepatoprotective of popular Taiwan chho of hong of jamón of medicine in rats. I am Chin J Med 24(3-4), 231-240

Chih HW, ET al., 1995. The activity of ANTI inflammatory of Taiwan the medicine "ham-hong-chho popular" in rats. I am Chin J Med 23(3-4), 273-278

Geissberger P, to the one of ET, 1991. The components of pilosa of Bidens L.: the components found explains now until the use of this plant in the traditional medicine? Trop Act 48(4), 251-261

Sarg METRIC TON, ET al., 1991. The components and the biological activity of pilosa of grown Bidens L. in Egypt. Act Pharm Colgo' 61(6), 317-323

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