MARACUYA (passiflora incarnata)

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	MARACUYA
	*passiflora incarnata*

Name
MARACUYA

Scientific Name
passiflora incarnata

MARACUYA

Other Names:

Spanish: Maracuya,

Ingles: Passionflower, Carkifelek, Charkhi Felek, Maypop, Maypop Passionflower,

Family: Passifloraceae

Part of Used: Grapevine, the Leaves, Tallo

Properties: Analgesic, Antidepressing, Antiinflamatorio, Antispasmodic, Anticonvulsante, Ansiolítico, Disinfectant, Diurético, Hipnótico, Tranquilizer, Espasmolítico, Sedative, Vermifuge

The Flower of the passion, called Maracuja in the Amazon, is plamta natural of tropical the tropical zones and average from South America to North America. Species of Passionflower is,as 200 the majority is in the region of Amazon. Maracuya is a strong enredadera that grows with but of thirty feet in the length climbing on other plants. It has the white, great and showy flowers with the rose or centers and delicious fruit purples eatable. He is flore that gave the name, Flower of Passion or "flor of pasión", because the Spanish missionaries thought they represented some of the objects associated with the Crucification de Christ.

The Flower of the passion fué first discovered in Peru by a Spanish doctor of Monardes name in 1569 and wrote and documented the indigenous uses and I take it World to the Old where it quickly got it to be a favorite tea. The Spanish conquerors of Mexico and South America also learned their use of the Aztec Indians possibly arrived extensively to be cultivated in Europe. Ever since its discovery, Maracuja has been used extensively like a sedative, tonic of antispasmodic and sedative. The Indians through the Amazon use the tea of leaf like a sedative. When he introduced himself in Europe in 1500's is itself used like a tranquilizing and sedative tea. He introduced himself in the North American medicine in the 1800 like a native and enslaved sedative and used by in the South like a tea, as well as bruising the leaves for the headache, the bruises and the pain. In many countries in Europe and the U.S.A.. and Canada, the use of Flower of Passion to tranquilize and to be based nervous nerves has documented poe but of 200 years. Its history documented by many years in the natural medicine has including its uses for the colico, the diarrea, disentería, dismenorrea, epilepsy, the eruptions, insomnia, morphinism, neuralgia, the neurosis, oftalmia and espasmo.

The Flower of the passion is used extensively by natural facultative naturistas and of health around the world today. Sedative uses to a large extent like, hipnótico (antinervous, analgesic the dream that it induces), of antispasmodic. In the U.S.A., incarnata P. is the species most of used to treat insomnia, the Disease of Parkinson, the attacks and the convulsions, the muscle cramps, the hysteria, the high pressure of blood, tétanos, the small boards, neuralgia, dismenorrea, the PMS and cramps menstrual, epilepsy, and when for a lightening of the pain. In Europe, one is used for nervous disorders, insomnia, the espasmos, neuralgia, the alcoholism, hyperactivity in children, taquicardias fast of heart, the headaches. In the South America, P. edulis is the species very used like a sedative, diurético, antispasmodic, and antihelmíntico (worms of intestinal that they expel) that is used to treat the convulsions, the paralysis, the alcoholism, the headaches, insomnia, cólico in children, the diarrea, the complaint, the hysteria, neuralgia, the symptoms of menopause and hypertension. In as much in the South as North America as well as in Europe, Maracuja is used subject for disorders of skin, the inflammation, hemorroide, and the burns.

Used Part

The aerial sumidades.

Active Principles

Flavonoides: quercetol, kenferol, apigenol, luteolol; C-heterósidos: vitexina, saponarósido, escaftósido, isoescaftósido, isovitexima, isoorientina. Plans of indólicos alkaloids: harmano, harmol, harmina. Fitosteroles: sitosterol, estigmasterol; maltol; heterósidos plans of cianogénicos: ginocardina. Essential oil plans of composition little studied.

* The dry drug must contain a 0.3% at least (farmacopea Helvetian) or 0.4% (farmacopea German) of flavonoides expressed like hiperósido, or at least a 0.8% of flavonoides expressed in vitexina (E.S.C.O.P.).

Farmacológica Action

It presents/displays smooth, miorrelajante and espasmolítica an action ansiolítica, hipnótica comparable to the one of the papaverina (Wichtl).

Indications

Anxiety, insomnia, arterial hypertension, tachycardia, palpitaciones, migrañas, gastroduodenales vertigo, ulcers, espasmos gastrointestinales. Dismenorrea, distonías neurovegetativas associated to the climacteric, nervous cough. Muscular Mialgias, contracturas.

Contraindications

Hipersensibilidad to the drug.

Incompatible with drinks alcóholicas, antihistamine, sedative and hipnóticos.

Although the concentration of alkaloids is very small (even indetectable in most of prepared), we recommended to abstain to prescribe it during the pregnancy, the lactancia and the childhood (in necessary case, to resort to smoother tranquilizers).

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

Indirect effect

In some people it can produce a certain somnolencia.

Precaution/Poisonings

Exclusive use by prescription and under medical checkup. When prescribing to notice it that the automedicación is not recommendable; to indicate in the prescription the duration of the treatment or to indicate the phamacist who retains the prescription.

To consider the alcoholic content of the flowed extract, the dye and the syrup.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup. To instill ten minutes. Three cups to the day.

- fluid Extract (1:1): 30-50 drops, three to five times to the day.

- It tinctures (1:5): 50-100 drops, three times to the day.

- dry Extract (5:1): 0,3 to 1 g/día.

- Juice of fresh plant: 2.5 mililiter, three times to the day.

- Syrup: a sopera spoonful three or four times to the day.

Doses recommended by the ESCOP (adult): To take two to four times to the day, 0,5-2 dust g of the drug; 2.5 g in infusion, 1-4 mililiter of dye (1:8) or the equivalent one in other preparations.

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