CHANCA STONE (phyllanthus niruri)

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	CHANCA STONE
	*phyllanthus niruri*

Name
CHANCA STONE

Scientific Name
phyllanthus niruri

CHANCA STONE

Popular Names: Stone of Chanca, Quebra Pedra, Pitirishi, Cachón de Piedra, Breaks Stone, Sasha foments, the Seed In the Leaf, Derriere Two, Derriere Two, Two D, Feuilles the Fievre, Creole Quinine, anak of Dukong (the escogimiento of Boy a back), Memeniran, Meniran, buah of Rami, Tamalaka, hutan of Turi

Used Parts: the Aerial parts, the whole plant.

Stone of Chanca is an annual, raised and small plant that grows of 30 to 40 centimeters of height and is original of the forest of the Amazon and other tropical areas including the Bahamas, India sureñas and China. Niruri de Phyllanthus is quite predominant in the humid Amazon and another forests where they grow freely, mún.

Chanca Stone is the Spanish name for niruri of Phyllanthus and translated, it means "Cachón of Piedra" or "quebranta piedra." It has been called Cachón Stone because it has used by generations by natives of the Amazon like an effective remedy to eliminate stones of vejiga and kidney and for other problems of kidney. The plant is used for numerous other conditions inclusively blenorragia, cólico, the diabetes, disentería, the fever, the influenza, the tumors, jaundice, vaginitis, and dispepsia. The Chanca Stone is a small wonder is recommended in many pathologies.

Chanca Stone is used extensively in the botanical medicine in South America, and is the most popular remedy for stones of vejiga and kidney through the continent. In the Peruvian medicine of herbal, it is also used for the urinary hepatitis, infections, and like a diurético. In the natural Brazilian medicine Quebra Pedra is called and an excellent remedy is considered to lower úrico acid of tinkles it and to eliminate stones. It is also used in Brazil for hidropesía, toilet and the infections of vesicle and blockings, the painful indisposiciones of the liver, conjunctures, cystitis, the disorders of prostate, the disorders of kidney, hepatitis, the diabetes and like a specific relajante múscular. antispasmodico to the urinary system. Chanca Stone, native to India where Pitirishi or Budhatri is called, is a common remedy of the house for the asthma, the bronchitis and to cure to toser, the extreme thirst, the anemia, tuberculosis. He knows himself him in ttambién in Bahamas where hurricane is called gust of wind wind grass or turf. He is used in the popular medicine to stimulate the appetite, the constipation, the fever of tifoidea, the influenza and the resfriados ones.

Chanca Stone has been subject of much investigation to determine the active components and their farmacológicas activities that begin in half-1960's. The Indian and the groups of investigation of Brazilian were first in leading these studies since this plants was of all the well-known towns its therapeutic effect in multiple diseases.

The most recent investigation in Chanca Stone reveals that it is the antiviral activity extends to the virus (VIH) human of immunodeficiency. A Japanese group of investigation discovered niruri of Phyllanthus HIV-1 inverse properties of the inhibition of transcriptase in 1992 with water a simple extract of the plant. The Institute of Investigation of Myers de Bristol Squibb isolated Pharmaceutical a at least one of the components in the plant responsible for this activity - novel enclosure that they denominated "niruriside" and they described in a 1996 studies. Meanwhile, Chanca Stone, with their many effective uses for a great variety of indications, is one of the most important remedies that they come from the forest and they win in the popularity with world-wide natural facultative herbolarios and of health. What is more important, neither toxicity informed in anyone into the clinical studies nor in its many years of the use informed in the herbal medicine have been no the effects of the side.

Certainly much more investigation to develop a drug to control the hepatitis, meanwhile we have Chancra Stones.

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