GREATER EQUISETUM (equisetum telmateia)

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	GREATER EQUISETUM
	*equisetum telmateia*

Name
GREATER EQUISETUM

Scientific Name
equisetum telmateia

GREATER EQUISETUM

Used Part

The aerial parts. Frequently one is used like substitute of the horse tail (arvense Equisetum).

Active Principles

Saponósidos: equisetósido; flavonoides, salts of potassium and silica, plans of alkaloids: nicotine, palustrina.

Farmacológica Action

Diurético, remineralizante, hemostatic.

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. Consolidation of fractures; epistaxis, metrorragias.

Precaution/Poisonings

Frequently it is falsified by other species of Equisetum (palustre, ramosissimum), that are toxic, by its greater content in palustrina being able to be neuro and nefrotóxicas and to produce colitis.

Its prolonged use can produce nervous disturbances (migraine, tenesmo, anorexy, disfagia).

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.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

- Decocción: a spoonful of dessert by cup. To boil 5 minutes. 2 or 3 cups to the day, between meals.

- Dust: 50-100 g, one to three times to the day.

Bibliography

Benigni, R; Capra, C; Cattorini, P. Piante Medicinali. Chimica, Farmacologia and Terapia. Milano: Inverni & Della Beffa, 1962, pp. 333-41.

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M. You plant dans to Them the Therapeutique Moderne. 2ª. Paris: Maloine, 1986, p. 21.

James, A; Duke, Ph D. Handbook of Medicinal Herbs. 5ª. Mouth Mouse, Florida: CRC Press, 1987, p. 178-9; 519; 555.

Him Floc'h, And Contribution to unites Etude Ethnobotanique of the Flore Tunisienne. Imprimerie Officielle of the République Tunisienne, 1983, p.36.

Paris, RR; Moyse, M. Précis de Matière Médicale. Take I. Paris: Masson, 1986, p. 378.

Creek, D; Obón, C. Gui'a Incafo of Plantas Useful and Poisonous of the Iberian Peninsula and Baleares. Madrid: Incafo, 1991, pp. 192-3.

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. 97.

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