The indigenous term condurangu (liana of cóndor) makes reference to the legendary custom of the cóndor of the $andes, that used the leaves of this plant to cure itself of the mordeduras of serpents. Very well-known and it is appreciated in South America, to heal the ailments of the stomach. In 1871 it was introduced in Europe with the hope of which the stomach cancer could cure, which was not confirmed in the reality. Its flavor remembers to the one of the cinnamon, although is something bitter.
Habitat: it grows spontaneously in the western slope of the $andes, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, between the 1,500 and 2,000 meters of altitude.
Description: it plants trepadora of the family of the Asclepiadáceas, that, to the being a liana, is fitted to the trunk of the trees until reaching its glass. Their leaves are of oval form or acorazonada, vellosas and of clear green color by envés.
Used Part
The crust of the trunk.
Active Principles
Heterósidos esteroídicos derived from the pregnano (1-3%): alpha and beta conduranginas (bitter principles that by hydrolysis give off cinámico acid), condurangaminas To and B. Taninos. Essential oil resin, plans. Flavonoides. Heterósidos cumarínicos. Caféico and clorogénico Acidos.
Farmacológica Action
Popularly it is used like appetizer, digestive, colagogo, antihelmíntico, diurético, antipyretic, antispasmodic and smooth sedative. In topical use: antiinflammatory, analgesic, astringent (the hemostatic premises, healing). In Latin America it is used popularly like alexitérico.
Properties and indications: the crust and the root of condurango contain an essential oil, draws resin from, ácidós organic, gomosas substances and starch. Its more important active principle is the condurangina, bitter glucósido.
Condurango has aperitive, digestive and antieméticas properties (it stops vomits). Its use is appropriate in cases from slowness from stomach and slow digestions. Calm the pain and the espasmos ("nerves") of the stomach, although does not agree to use it without to have diagnosed the first cause of the upheavals.
Use: decocción with 30 or 40 grs. of crust or root in the middle liter of water, during 10 minutes. To leave later in maceration during 12 hours. They are taken from 3 to 5 spoonfuls before each food.
Precautions: in high doses it even has poisonous effects that cause convulsions and stopped respiratory.
Contraindications
Pregnancy (Popularly also one is used like emenagogo and abortifacient).
Treatment with heterósidos cardiotónicos, by the possible involution of its action.
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
To high doses it produces motor incoordinación and convulsions, being able to arrive at the death by respiratory unemployment.
Hemiletal dose of condurangina (DL50) in experimentation rabbits = 20-45 mg/kg.
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Decocción: To boil 10 g/litro during 10 minutes. To leave in maceration 12 hours. To take 2 or 3 spoonfuls to the day, half an hour before the meals.
- Dust: 300-500 mg/cápsula, two to three to the day, before the meals.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 10 to 30 drops half an hour before each food.
- It tinctures (1:10): 50 to 100 drops half an hour before each food.
Topical use:
- Decocto: 20 g/l. To boil 10 minutes.
Bibliography
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