PALIURO (paliurus spina-christi)

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	PALIURO
	*paliurus spina-christi*

Name
PALIURO

Scientific Name
paliurus spina-christi

PALIURO

Names

Castilian: thorn of Christ, pricks santa, paliuro

French: paliure, épine du Christ, carries chapeau

Description: Shrub caducifolio, rare time little tree, of up to 4 ms of height, very graft, with the normally hanging small branches in zigzag and. Alternating leaves, more or less ovadas, of 2-4 cm. in length, with the denticulados margins and 2 parallel nerves to the power station. Short, pubescente Pecíolo. Estípulas thorny. Yellowish, small flowers, with 5 petals. Fruit in sámara with a cleared wing.

Culture and uses: It is multiplied by seeds and esquejes. It has somewhat slow growth. It requires more or less sunny exhibition. It tolerates limestone grounds and something barren. It allows the pruning. It is used of isolated form.

Farmacológica Action

Used popularly like: diurético, hipocolesterolemiante, hypotension.

Indications

Urolitiasis, oliguria, hipercolesterolemia, prevention of arteriosclerosis, arterial hypertension.

Contraindications

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

Precaution/Poisonings

Its use like diurético in the presence of hypertension, cardiopathies or moderate renal insufficiency or burdens, only must become by prescription and under medical checkup, before the danger that can suppose the uncontrolled contribution of liquids, the possibility that a tensional descompensación takes place.

To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

- Infusion: 30 g/l, 3 or 4 cups to the day.

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

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

Bibliography

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M. You plant dans to Them the Therapeutique Moderne. 2ª. Paris: Maloine, 1986, p. 306.

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Plantes Médicinales DES Regions Tempérées. Paris: Maloine, 1980, p.170.

Paris, RR; Moyse, M. Précis de Matière Médicale. Take II. Paris: Masson, 1967, p.333

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