The appetite wakes up. He is useful in the tosferina, colds, chronic bronchitis, diarreas, weak digestion, anemia. In order to stimulate the milky secretion.
Used Part
The thalli of the islandica Cetraria (L.) Acharius or of the Cetraria ericetorum Opiz (tenuiflora = C. (Retz.) Howe).
Active Principles
Polisacáridos hidrosolubles (50%): liquenina, isoliquenina. Mucílagos, polymers of the D-glucose and the D-glucurónico acid, galactomananas. Acidos liquénicos (bitter principles): cetrárico, fumaroprotocetrárico, protoliquéstrico, úsnico.
Farmacológica Action
The liquénicos acids act like bitter, aperitive, digestive tonic, colagogo, antivomiting, in addition they exert a bacteriostática and antifúngica action. The lichen of Iceland is used habitually like organoléptico drug corrector with nauseous flavor. The mucílagos have demulcente, antitusiva, mucolítica and diurética an action. The polisacáridos ones produce a inmunoestimulante effect.
Indications
Influenza, resfriados, laryngitis, faringitis, bronchitis. Hyposecretory anorexy, hepatobiliares gastroenteritis dispepsias, disquinesias, gastroduodenales ulcers. Gravídica Hiperémesis. Popularly also one has been used like galactagogo. Externally: abscesses, forúnculos, dérmicas wounds, burns, ulceraciones, ictiosis, soriasis.
Contraindications
Gastroduodenal gastritis, ulcus (to see precautions).
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 abundance in depsidonas bitter causes that the drug is contraindicated when exists gastroduodenales gastritis or ulceraciones. For that reason, except when the action of the bitter principles is desired (appetizer-eupe'ptico, colagogo), he is recommendable to administer desamargadas forms of metering (double decocción, gelatin), although is necessary to consider that the deprivation of the bitter principles supposes the disappearance of the bacteriostático effect.
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
- Infusion: 10-20 g/litro, a cup before the meals, like appetizer.
- Double decocción: to boil 10 g during a minute in 1 liter, to retire the water, that will have dragged the bitter substances and will be left the mucílagos. To wash the lichen and to return to boil with 1.5 liters of water during 30 minutes. Three cups to the day, like pectoral, or in case of gastroenteritis.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 10-25 drops, two or three times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:10): 50 drops to the day, like antivomiting.
- Gelatin: 5 to 100 g to the applied day or topically.
- Syrup (5% of fluid extract): one to five soperas spoonfuls to the day.
Bibliography
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Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Plantes Médicinales DES Regions Tempérées. Paris: Maloine, 1980, p.18.
Bruneton, J. Elementos de Fitoquímica and Farmacognosia. Zaragoza: Acribia, 1991, p.220.
European Scientific Cooperative On Phytotherapy. Medicinal Monographs on the you use of plant drugs. Fascicle III: Lichen islandicus. July, 1997.
Fernandez, M; Grandson, To Plantas Medicinal. Pamplona: Editions University of Navarre, 1982, p. 57.
Paris, RR; Moyse, M. Précis de Matière Médicale. Take I. Paris: Masson, 1986, p. 365.
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