Castilian: pineapple, American fragmentation hand grenade, tropical fragmentation hand grenade, sugar fragmentation hand grenade
USED PART:
The fruit and the stem (this last one has a greater concentration of bromelina)
HABITAT:
Original of Central America. Nowadays it is cultivated in all the tropical regions of the world
Used Part
The fruit.
Active Principles
Proteolytic enzymes (bromelina or bromelaína). Acids citric and málico. Vitamins To, B and C. Azu'cares: glucose, saccharose. Greasy matters. Mineral salts: iodo, magnesium, manganese, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sulfur. Abundant fiber (cellulous), in the heart.
Farmacológica Action
Proteolytic, digestive: the bromelina is a comparable digestive ferment to the pepsina and papaína. Antiinflamatorio, hipolipemiante, plaquetario antiagregante. Diurético, vitaminic, of great nutritious value. Agent of diffusion, detergent of the sores.
Indications
Dispepsias hyposecretory, reumatismo, arthritis, drop, urolitiasis, arteriosclerosis. Bronchitis, enfisema, asthma, mucoviscidosis. In topical use: tróficas ulceraciones and cleaning wounded. The fragmentation hand grenade heart has been praised like helping in thinning regimes, by its fiber content, with saciante and slightly laxative action.
PREPARATION And USE
INTERNAL USE
1-2 rodajas, always fresh, before each food or a glass of juice
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
- nourishing Use, fresh juice.
- dry Extract (5:1): 0,3 to 1 g/día.
- Dust of fragmentation hand grenade heart: 200 to 600 mg, half an hour before the main meals.
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