Its appearance is similar to the one of the wormwood. In fact, when it is spoken of the wormwoods, the Artemisa is including in the group (both belong to the Artemisia sort); nevertheless, their medicinal properties are not identical.
CHARACTERISTICS: Straight and raised plant, like the wormwood, but more discharge, of until a meter. The stem, less velloso, presents/displays characteristic a reddish coloration. In their end groups of 10 or 12 small precious red flowers form that constitute ramilletes. In some regions they call grass of San Juan.
LOCATION: One grows up in barren lands, in dry climates, with invier to us relatively cold.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: organs of the plant that take advantage of by their medicinal virtues.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: As we said, it regulates the menstrual cycles, it stimulates the menstruation and calm the pains after the childbirth. But, in addition, it has tonic and aperitive properties, like the wormwood.
HARVESTING: They interest the flowers, reason why the summer must be expected to entered good, when the flowering is in its culminating point to cut them.
USES And APPLICATIONS: Against the pains posparto and those of the menstruation or to regulate the cycles, it is taken in infusion: 100 grams of inflorescencias by liter of water; the flowers must be placed on the water when this one boils, to separate the container from the fire and to maintain covered it at least five minutes. It must be taken warms up, sweetened with sugar or honey. One is not due to abuse (two cups to the day at the most), because in excess he is toxic. Also the flowers can be applied that are obtained from the infusion, I warm up, surrounded in a cloth, on the abdomen, to calm the pains. Erroneously, abortion properties have been attributed to him. Nevertheless, they do not have to take it the embarrassed women, since the active principles would happen to the fetus and would exert on him their toxicity. For the same reason the mothers must abstain while they give the chest.
It is the plant of the woman or, rather, for the woman. It regulates the menstrual cycle, it stimulates the menstruation and calm the later pains to the childbirth Receives its name of the Greek goddess Artemisa, to that the women in the difficult childbirths invoked.
Plant of Artemisa with a detail of its basal leaves. The only organs of the Artemisa that have medicinal virtues are the flowers, that have properties against the anorexy, vomits, the nervous atony, the uterine dismenorrea and espasmos.
The popular medicine uses the infusion of Artemisa to 2 % to help the mother to recover of the childbirth.
Used Part
The flowery sumidades.
Active Principles
Essential oil (0,02-0,3%): cineol, camphor, linalol or tuyona are the majority components; in addition it contains borneol, alpha-cadinol, espatulenol, sesquiterpénicas monoterpenos and lactonas. Flavonoides: rutósido, isorramnetósido, quercetósido. Cumarinas: esculetina, esculina, escopoletina, umbeliferona. Pentacíclicos Poliacetilenos, triterpenos. Fitosteroles: sitosterol, estigmasterol. Carotenoid.
Farmacológica Action
It has aperitive, eupéptica, colerética, antimicrobial, antihelmíntica, antifúngica, estrogénica an action and astringent.
Indications
It is indicated in case of lack of appetite, dispepsias hyposecretory, flatulencia, disquinesias hepatobiliares, amenorrhoea, dismenorrea, oxiuriasis.
Contraindications
By its content in tuyona, the oral administration of artemisa and specially of its essential oil during the pregnancy is contraindicated, the lactancia, in small children and patients with epilepsy.
Not to prescribe forms of metering with alcoholic content to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.
Indirect effect
The fresh plant can produce contact dermatitis.
Precaution/Poisonings
The plant and its extracts, in special the essential oil, do not have to be used of continued form, nor to doses superior to the indicated ones, because tuyona can cause nervous upheavals in form of convulsions.
To consider the alcoholic content of the flowed extract, the dye and the syrup.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
- Infusion: 10-15 g/l, to instill 15 minutes, three cups to the day.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 5 to 15 drops, two or three times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:10): 10-25 drops, two or three times to the day.
- Syrup (5% of fluid extract): 30-60 g/día.
- dry Extract (5:1): 50 mg twice to the day, one hour before the main meals
- essential Oil: 1 to 2 drops, one or twice to the day.
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