Anemia, weakness, lack of appetite. Intermittent fevers like paludismo and Malta. Escrofulismo. Asthma. Diseases of the liver
DESCRIPTION:
Height: 20-50 cm. great, vellosas, thorny Leaves and with great ribbings in envés. Yellow flowers surrounded by red thorns.
Used Part
The whole plant.
Active Principles
Lactonas sesquiterpénicas of the germacranólido type: cnidina, accompanied by benedictine. Flavonoides: glucósidos of apigenol, luteol and kenferol. Essential oil plans: triterpénicos and esteroídicos components. Tannins. Abundant mineral salts (10 to 20%). Plans of alkaloids, in the fruits.
Farmacológica Action
The cnidina is a bitter substance with aperitive, eupéptica, antibiotic, diurética, febrífuga, antiinflammatory and hipoglucemiante action; the essential oil has bacteriostáticas and antifúngicas properties; the flavonoides present/display a diurética action.
Indications
Popularly one is used in special for the treatment of the hyposecretory lack of appetite and dispepsias. Also in slight diabetes and 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.
Contraindications
Pregnancy, lactancia, children.
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
Overdoses can originate irritation of the digestive mucous, with vomits and violent diarreas. These effects can even appear with 300 doses from 100 to mg (Mulet, 1997). Given his toxicity, it is in disuse like antipyretic.
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
When one prescribes diabetics, glucemia will be due to control to fit, if it is necessary, the doses of insulin or oral antidiabetics.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
- Decocción: 10 g/l. To instill 10 minutes, 1 cup before the meals like appetizer, or later, like eupéptico.
- Macerated (20 g/l.), one to three cups to the day.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 30 drops, one to three times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:10): 50 drops, one to three times to the day.
USES
INFUSION
30-50 g of fresh leaves/liter of water. 3 Cups to the day with the meals
EXTERNAL USE
To make a decocción with 30-50 g of a mixture of leaves, flowers and stems. To use this decocción to prepare compresas or baths of seat
This plant receives diverse applications against the corporal fever, diabetes, pain flank and like laxative. The treatment consists of preparing the infusion of the flowers or the leaves and to take warm up it. Its use is very old; in documents of century XVI already its eatable, same use is reported that now has disappeared. Later it was used like diurético, to undo renales calculations, to heal pulmonary malaises; like corporal contraveneno and pains and to restitute the lost memory; to eat it crude or cooked was recommended to alleviate buccal headaches, ears, teeth, affections and to confortar encías. At the present time, between diverse indigenous groups of the center of the country like mixes, zapotecas and totonacos it is used against the scare.
Herbaceous of 1 to 2 ms of height, thin and hollow stem, extended leaves and with abundant thorns. Their flowers have plume appearance and the fruits are thin and small. It is developed in climates warm, semiwarm and tempering. It grows in culture lands and she is associate to the tropical forest caducifolia, sudcaducifolia, subperennifolia, perennifolia and forests of encino and pine.
Bibliography
Benigni, R; Capra, C; Cattorini, P. Piante Medicinali. Chimica, Farmacologia and Terapia. Milano: Inverni & Della Beffa, 1962, pp. 253-4.
Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M. You plant dans to Them the Therapeutique Moderne. 2ª. Paris: Maloine, 1986, p. 158.
Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Plantes Médicinales DES Regions Tempérées. Paris: Maloine, 1980, pp. 393-4.
British Herbal Pharmacopoeia. Vol. I. Bournemouth, Dorset: British Medical Herbal Association, 1990, pp. 57-8.
Bruneton, J. Elementos de Fitoquímica and Farmacognosia. Zaragoza: Acribia, 1991, p. 287.
Fernandez, M; Grandson, To Plantas Medicinal. Pamplona: Editions University of Navarre, 1982, p. 63.
Mulet, L. toxic Flora of the Valencian Community. Castellón: Provincial delegation, 1997, p. 139.
Paris, RR; Moyse, M. Précis de Matière Médicale. Take III. Paris: Masson, 1971, p. 428.
Samuelsson, G. Drugs of Natural Origin. To Textbook of Pharmacognosy. Stockholm: Swedish Pharmaceutical Press, 1992, p. 160.
Hellemont, J. Compendium de Phytotherapie go. Bruxelles: Association Pharmaceutique Belge, 1986, pp. 107-8.
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