ANAMU (petiberia alliacea)

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	ANAMU
	*petiberia alliacea*

Name
ANAMU

Scientific Name
petiberia alliacea

ANAMU

Castilian: Anamú, Apacin, Apacina, Apazote

French: Puante Verveine.

Ingles: Garlic sented petiveria.

Common names: Anamú, Apacin, Apacina, Apazote De Zorro, Aposin, Bird, Aveterinaryte, Calauchin, Chasser Vermine, Root of the Congo, douvant of Douvant, Emeruaiuma, grass of Garlic, Guinea Henweed, Guine', Guine, Guinea, Guinea hen leaf, Root of Depression, Herbe Aux Poules, Grass Of the Gallinitas, Egg De Gato, Root of Kojo, Kuan, Kudjuruk, Lemtewei, Lemuru, Badly Pouri, Mapurit, Mapurite, Mucura-caa, Mucura, Mucuracaa, Ocano, Payche, Pipi, Tipi, Hedionda Verbena, Verveine Puante, Zorrillo

This plant is in all South America, very abundant in all Antilles and the American continent.

This quick plant many services and gives to very good results in the medicine domestic servant. In first I finish is an excellent remedy for the cramps to inflammations of vejiga (cystitis). For this aim one prepares with an average handful by crushed roots of this plant and a liter of boiling water like you, who takes yourself during the day by cups, with sugar or honey to pleasure. (the diabetics can take with saccharin).

It is at the same time a remedy par excellence in the inflammations of the conjunctures (reumatismo to articulate, poliartritis).

Also as it increases the amount of tinkles it is indicated in hidropesías, in the swellings of the legs, ascitis, etc.

Very it is indicated in the nervous contractions (tics), paralysis and to cure the hysteria.

Pipi contains a volatile oil very hard.

Used Parts: Planta, the Root

Properties: Analgesic, Anthelmintico, Antibacteriano, Antihongos, Antipirética, Antiespasmódicoo, Antitumorouso, Anticancerígeno, Abortifacient, Antireumática, Citotóxicoo, Diurético, Emenagogo, Immunoestimulante, Stimulating, the Sedative, Sudorífico, Vermifuge

Active Principles: Allantoin, Arborinol, Arborinol, iso Astilbin, Benzaldehyde, acid of Benzoic Benzyl-2-hydroxy-5-ethyl-trisulfide, Coumarin, Dibenzyl Trisulfide, Engeletin, Friedelinol, alpha, Isoarborinol, acetate of Isoarborinol, cinnamate of Isoarborinol, Isothiocyanates, Kno3, Leridal, Leridol, Ether Leridol-5-methyl, the Acido de Lignoceric, Alcohol of Lignoceryl, Lignoceryl Lignocerate, Linoleic Myricitrin Acido, NonadecanoicEl Acido, the Acido de Oleic, the Acido de Palmitic, Pinitol, Polyphenols, Proline, trans-n-methyl-4-methoxy, Senfol, Sitosterol, beta, the Acido de Stearic, Tannins, Trithiolaniacine

Traditional Recommendation: Three buckets of whole grass, two cups you to the day, 1 mililiter of dye 4:1 twice to the day, 500 mg of dust grass in tablets or capsules twice daily if it wishes can be substitutes

Anamú is a perennial plant that grows to a meter of height. She is original of the American tropic and it is possible to be found in other areas Tropicales and Africa. Garlic grass is called sometimes, since the plant and specially root has a scent to similarity of strong garlic.

Mucura call in the Peruvian Amazon, is used as it leaves from a bath of grass against the witchcraft. In the Brazilian medicine of grass Tipi is called and antispasmodic is considered, diurética, emenagogo, stimulating, and sudorífica and is used for hidropesia, arthritis, the poor memory and to induce the abortions. In the great doses he is toxic and one is due to use with well-taken care of if it is taken internally. A decocción or infusion with 30 grams by dry root and leaves of Anamú are used in a liter of water is recommended to take daily from 1-2 times to day 1/4 of cup. The root is more powerful than the leaves and the root is considered anesthetic and analgesic. The leaves are used externally in a cataplasm for headache, the rheumatic pain and other types of the pain as well as like an insecticide. Anamú has been used in Brazil against the malaria and the reumatismo.

In the Guatemalan botanical medicine the plant is called Apacín and it is used like a traditional remedy for the sinusitis (inhaling the root dust), a decocción of leaf is taken for digestive indisposiciones, and the bad digestion, flatulencia, and the fever. You of the leaf it is also used externally like an analgesic one for the muscular pain and diseases of skin. In Haiti, the extracted juice fresh of leaf or the squashed root is inhaled for headaches of migraña and a maceration of leaves is used like an analgesic rinsing of mouth and for the pain tooth.

The Anamú has demonstrated its properties in several studies in tumors. The plant contains Benzaldehyde as well as Coumarin, and both chemical substances of the plant have documented with properties of antitumoroso and/or anticancerigeno. In 1996, the investigators discovered that an infusion by roots of Anamú can be effective nematocido. An extract of seeds of Anamú demonstrated live (in rats) and in the Vitro can stimulate the uterus contractions and this can explain history in the traditional medicine in the tropical like an efficient abortifacient and emenagogo. Like so, contraindicated Anamú this for the use by pregnant women.

The investigators in 1990 demonstrated the hypoglycemiante of Anamú, showed the loss of the sugar levels in the blood diminished by more than 60% after one hour of the administration mice. Another area of the study in Anamú is based on is it the traditional uses like a remedy of analgesic and ANTI inflammatory.

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