ASH VIZCALLA (fraxinus excelsior)

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	ASH VIZCALLA
	*fraxinus excelsior*

Name
ASH VIZCALLA

Scientific Name
fraxinus excelsior

ASH VIZCALLA

Used Part

The leaves (foliolos), occasionally the crust.

Active Principles

- Leaves: Polifenoles: abundant gálicos and catéquicos, flavonoides tannins (rutósido, quercitrósido). Abundant manitol, inositol. Iridoides and plans of cumarinas (fraxósido).

- Crust: abundant heterósidos cumarínicos (fraxinol, fraxósido, fraxidósido, esculósido), tannins, manitol.

Farmacológica Action

- Leaves: they present/display a diurética action (uricosúrica-salurética), sudorífica, analgesic, antiinflammatory, vulneraria (healing), vasoprotectora and venotónica. Manitol is laxative osmótico.

- Crust: antipyretic. Popularly used like antihelmíntico and astrigente.

Indications

- Leaves: 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. Varices, hemorroides. Influenza, resfriados. Constipation.

- Crust: febrile syndromes (influenza, resfriados), dérmicas oxiuriasis, wounds, ulceraciones.

Contraindications

Not to prescribe forms of metering with alcoholic content for oral administration to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.

Precaution/Poisonings

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

Internal use:

- Infusion (foliolos): 10 to 30 g/l, to instill 10 minutes, 250-500 cc/día.

- Decocción (crust): 20 g/l, to boil 10 minutes. Two or three cups to the day.

- fluid Extract (1:1): 10 to 30 drops, three times to the day.

- It tinctures (1:10): 50-100 drops, two or three times to the day.

- Syrup (10% of fluid extract): one to three soperas spoonfuls to the day.

- dry Extract (5:1): 0,3 to 1 g/día.

External use:

- Decocción (foliolos): 40 g/l, to boil 15 minutes. To apply in compresas like vulnerario, and analgesic.

Bibliography

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