In internal use: It has been used like antitusígena and to cause the menstruation, but he is not recommendable due to its toxicity.
External use: for healing of hurt sores and. Rheumatic Neuralgias and pains. In decocción for baths against the cellulitis.
The old ones made of the ivy a symbol of the eternity, because they attributed to him more than thousand years of life. Without a doubt they exaggerated, because ivy does not know itself so some longeva, but is certain that it lives tens on years show great resistance to the meteorological adversities.
The ivy is a always green plant that presents/displays raicillas in its stem that allows him to climb. Down the normal leaves, slapped are observed, and above the made oval leaves that accompany the flowers.
The ivy must consider itself as a toxic plant, and as much is so the animals avoid to ingest their leaves or fruits. Their curativas properties only can take advantage of applying the leaves boiled or macerated on the zone affected by the pain or the wounds.
One is a more well-known arbustiva plant like ornamental than by its medicinal properties. It is used in the gardens of all the orb to upholster walls, walls and fences, to even covering the ground, as a carpet, as if outside turf, because aerial his raicillas, like on the walls, also they pay attention to the ground.
CHARACTERISTICS: Trepadora, always green plant. The stem, ligneous, of fast growth, presents/displays many ramifications that cling to the walls or to the trees by means of raicillas which they remain stingy to the support with such force, that if we tried to take we will break them the branches with extreme facility. It has two types of leaves; showiest they present/display the edge with two or four cracks little pronounced (are denominated leaves clapped by their similarity with the palm of the hand with the extended fingers). The leaves that protect the flowers, in number much smaller than the clapped ones, are made oval, without cracks. The flowers, very small, yellow, usually happen inadvertent. Several to to long of the ends of the stems group themselves in umbelas. The fruit is a small ball ne5zra, smaller than a chick-pea.
LOCATION: It lives everywhere, in the walls, on the trees, in incultos, stony lands. It supports the Sun well, although it prefers the shade and it survives short periods of drought.
HARVESTING: As it plants always green, it allows harvesting of the leaves at any time of the year. Umbelas with the fruits does not have to be cut until the spring, because although flower it appears with the autumn, the fruit takes takes months in maturing.
Precautions: The ivy is a toxic plant, reason why we will avoid to ingest fruits to leaves; the birds know it and never they peck them. We will leave for the experts his uses internal, not without considering that vomits and diarreas can be effect of the ingestion of leaves and, on those of fruits. Attention with the children! Like the vulneraria, the decocción of leaves is effective about 50 grams in a liter of water; it is washed wounded or the sore with the lukewarm liquid or and is covered with the leaves boiled, repeating the operation two or three times to the day until completing the treatment. Also against the pain the leaves boiled on affected zone can be applied. The leaves macerated in vinegar (3 or 4 for half liter during 24 hours applied on the calluses and maintained with a bandage throughout a day, 1 make jump without no effort.
Used Part
The leaves and the stem.
Active Principles
- All the plant: saponósidos triterpénicos (5%): glucósidos of the hederagenina (hederacósido C, alpha-hederina); glucósidos of oleanólico acid (hederacósido B and beta-hederina).
- Trunk: gomorresina, plans of falcarinona (poliacetilénica ketone).
Farmacológica Action
The saponósidos ones confer vasoconstrictora, antifúngica, antibacterial, antihelmíntica an action to him and antiprotozoaria, the hederina has a espasmolítica and expectorante action. Falcarinona and falcarinol reinforce the antiseptic action and antimicótica and falcarinol is slightly sedative.
By external route it has an analgesic and lipolítico effect; frequently he is present in the composition of gels and cutaneous revitalizadoras creams, since the saponósidos ones facilitate the cutaneous absorption and the diffusion of other active principles.
Indications
Bronchitis, asthma, enfisema.
External use: tróficas or varicose healing of wounds, varices, ulcers, reumatismo, neuralgias, dissolution of celulíticos nodules, prevention and treatment of the dérmicas striae.
Contraindications
Pregnancy.
Indirect effect
The fresh plant can originate contact dermatitis.
Precaution/Poisonings
The oral administration must be made exclusively by prescription and under medical checkup
All the plant, mainly the berries, are toxic, due to the hederina: it can cause cólicos vomits, pains, nervous upheavals and be abortion. The ingestion of two or three fruits produces symptoms of poisoning in children (nauseas, vomits, excitation); 5-12 fruits can cause the death by respiratory collapse. In vitro it presents/displays a hemolítica action.
We recommended to abstain to prescribe it for use by oral route: like antibacterial, antihelmíntico antimicótico, antiprotozoario and expectorante, we advised to resort to other plants with smaller potential toxicity.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
External use:
- Decocción: 200 g/l, applied in form of compresas.
- Dye (1:5), fluid extract (1:1) or glicólico (1:5), in form of pomadas, liniments, gels, etc.
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