Italian: Adonide primaverile, fior d'Adone, great occhio I gave blue, occhio of diavolo.
Family:
Ranunculáceas
Origin:
High mountains of central and Eastern Europe.
Flowering:
As of spring.
Height:
Up to 40 cm.
Used part medicinally:
All the plant. For it April or May takes shelter the plant in.
Important components:
Glicósidos cardenólidos (until a 4%)
Adonidina
Adonitoxósido
Adonídico acid
Adonivernósido
Cimarina
Adonitoxina
L-ramnósido
Flavonas
Adonivertina
Estrofandogenina, vernadigina
Saponinas, carotoides, hill, fitosterol, resins and fatty acids.
In 1942, Rosenmund and Reichstein isolated another glucósido, the zimarina, crystallized.
Therapeutic indications:
Regulator of the cardiac functions
Hipotensor
Miocarditis
Anticonvulsivo
Epilepsy
Commentary:
Fascinating encounter east names. It seems that it makes reference in his phonetics to a toxic plant and thus is. Its aspect is harmonious and I would say that until elegant, with a precious yellow tone in his leaves. One is a dificil plant to find in Spain. Only I have been able it to find closely together in Catalan territories of the Seu de Urgell.
The pharmaceutical industry uses it to extract active principles destined to the diuréticos and regulating drug elaboration of the cardiac functions. One tells that its toxicity is so great that the cows and goats that consume it even can trasmitir their harmfulness by means of milk to the people.
Form of preparation:
In cofoundation to 1%
In dye 10 drops five times to the day
Harvesting:
From principles of April to May
Notes of interest:
Perennial herbaceous plant.
The fresh plant is much more effective that the drought.
Other similar species in Spain exist: Adonis aestivalis and Adonis autumnalis.
The Adonis name vernalis comes from the Greek legend of the Adonis hunter. His lover, Aphrodite Scallop shell, watered these flowery plants with his blood.
The fruit is a aquenoide
It is plant of virtues similar to those of the digitalis
Being a plant of steppes of the south of Russia and Hungary, arrival to Spain at other geologic times through Central Europe it is no wonder the great Mediterranean pharmacologists of the Antiquity did not know.
Some preparations of interest:
Due to their toxicity the prepared ones with this plant are better to leave it for facultative and the expert ones in the botanical and fitoterapéutica matter.
Used Part
The aerial sumidades.
Active Principles
Heterósidos cardiotónicos cardenólido type (0,1-0,4%): cimarósido, adonitoxósido. Mineral salts. Acidos organic. Carotenoid. Flavonoides: adonivernitina.
Farmacológica Action
The cardenólidos ones confer cardiotónicas, antiarrhythmic and diuréticas properties, action to him reinforced by the presence of flavonoides.
Indications
Congestiva cardiac insufficiency, tachycardia, arrhythmias, extrasistolia. Periods of rest of digitálicos treatments (they have minor cumulative action on the myocardium that the digitalis).
Contraindications
Treatment with heterósidos carditónicos, quinidina, laxative antraquinónicos or tiazídicos diuréticos (an involution of its action and in case of sobremetering can be produced, an investment of the cardiotónico effect).
Not to prescribe forms of metering with alcoholic content to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.
Precaution/Poisonings
It only must be used under specialized medical checkup. We recommended to resort to the digitálicos to the use.
All the plant is toxic due to the presence of glucósidos cardiotónicos.
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
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