CAÑAVERA (arundo donax)

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	CAÑAVERA
	*arundo donax*

Name
CAÑAVERA

Scientific Name
arundo donax

CAÑAVERA

Used Part

Rizoma.

Active Principles

Resin, essential oil, sugars. Mineral salts: silica, calcium, potassium. Plans of alkaloids: bufotenidina, bufotenina, dihidrobufotenina, donaxina, donaraxina.

Farmacológica Action

Used popularly like diurética, diaforética, "depurativa", galactófuga, antiinflammatory and the hemostatic premises.

Indications

States in which an increase of the diuresis is required: genitourinarias affections (cystitis, ureteritis, uretritis, pielonefritis, oliguria, urolitiasis), hiperazotemia, hiperuricemia, drop, arterial hypertension, edemas, overweight accompanied by retention of liquids. Milky Hipersecreción.

Contraindications

Pregnancy, lactancia (an inhibiting effect of the lactancia is attributed to him), arterial hypotension.

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, by contact with the humid skin and later exhibition to the sun, can trigger fotosensibilidad phenomena.

Precaution/Poisonings

The indólicos alkaloids curaremiméticos presents in the flowers (and to a lesser extent in rizoma) are hypotensile and depressing of the breathing (Mulet, 1997).

The use of diuréticos in the presence of hypertension or cardiopathies, only must become by prescription and under medical checkup, given the possibility of appearance of a tensional descompensación or, if the potassium elimination is considerable, an involution of the effect of the cardiotónicos.

To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

- Decocción: a spoonful of dessert by cup, to boil 15 minutes. One to three cups to the day.

- fluid Extract (1:1): 30-50 drops, one to three times to the day.

- It tinctures (1:5); 50-100 drops, one to three times to the day.

Bibliography

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Plantes Médicinales DES Regions Tempérées. Paris: Maloine, 1980, p. 42.

Him Floc'h, And Contribution to unites Etude Ethnobotanique of the Flore Tunisienne. Imprimerie Officielle of the République Tunisienne, 1983, p. 51-2.

Mulet, L. Estudio Etnobotánico of the Province of Castellón. Castellón: Provincial delegation, 1991, p. 79.

Mulet, L. toxic Flora of the Valencian Community. Castellón: Provincial delegation, 1997, pp. 86-7.

Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Figuerola, R. Gui'a of Plantas Medicinal of the Valencian Community. Valencia: The Provinces, 1996, p. 337.

Hellemont, J. Compendium de Phytotherapie go. Bruxelles: Association Pharmaceutique Belge, 1986, p. 52.

Villar, L; Palacín, JM; Bald, C; Go'mez, D; Montserrat, G. Plantas Medicinal of the Pyrenean oscenses Aragonese and others tierrras. 2ª. Huesca: Provincial delegation, 1992, p. 40.

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