PENNY ROYAL (mentha pulegium)

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	PENNY ROYAL
	*mentha pulegium*

Name
PENNY ROYAL

Scientific Name
mentha pulegium

PENNY ROYAL

English: Pennyroyal.

French: Pouliot.

Of the family of the Labiadas.

Also call penny royal-mint. Stomach, digestive and carminativo tonic.

It drives away the fleas and mosquitos.

Used Part

The aerial sumidades.

Active Principles

Essential oil (0,5-1%): pulegona (70-80%), mentona, isomentona, piperitenona, alpha and beta-pineno, limoneno.

Farmacológica Action

Thanks to its essential oil, the penny royal-mint is stimulating of the appetite and the digestion, espasmolítico, antiseptic, colagogo, carminativo and vulnerario (healing) in topical use.

Indications

Lack of appetite, dispepsias hyposecretory, espasmos gastrointestinales, meteorismo, disquinesia to hepatobiliar, colecistitis, jaquecas, hurt.

Contraindications

Except for express indication, we recommended to abstain to internally prescribe essential oils during the pregnancy, the lactancia, to smaller children of six years or gastroduodenales patients with gastritis, ulcers, syndrome of the null and voidable intestine, ulcerosa colitis, neurological disease of Crohn, hepatopatías, epilepsy, Parkinson or other diseases.

Not to administer, neither to apply topically to smaller children of six years nor to people with respiratory allergies or well-known hypersensitivity to this one or other essential oils.

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

In extratherapeutic doses, the essential oil can be neurotoxic and to cause depression cardiorrespiratoria.

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

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

Internal use:

- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup. To instill during ten minutes. Two or three cups to the day, before, during, or after the meals.

- fluid Extract (1:1): 30-50 drops, three to five times to the day (2-3 g/día).

- It tinctures (1:10): 50-100 drops, one to three times to the day.

- essential Oil: 1-2 drops, twice to the day.

External use:

- essential Oil: in liniments, alcoholic or oleosa solution.

Bibliography

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M. You plant dans to Them the Therapeutique Moderne. 2ª. Paris: Maloine, 1986, p. 291.

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Plantes Médicinales DES Regions Tempérées. Paris: Maloine, 1980, p.332.

Bruneton, J. Elementos de Fitoquímica and Farmacognosia. Zaragoza: Acribia, 1991, p.249.

Fernandez, M; Grandson, To Plantas Medicinal. Pamplona: Editions University of Navarre, 1982, p.120.

Him Floc'h, And Contribution to unites Etude Ethnobotanique of the Flore Tunisienne. Imprimerie Officielle of the République Tunisienne, 1983, p. 216-7.

Mulet, L. Estudio Etnobotánico of the Province of Castellón. Castellón: Provincial delegation, 1991, pp. 285-6.

Mulet, L. toxic Flora of the Valencian Community. Castellón: Provincial delegation, 1997, pp. 277-8.

Paris, RR; Moyse, M. Précis de Matière Médicale. Take III. Paris: Masson, 1971, p.276.

Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Vanaclocha, B. Applied Fitoterapia. Valencia: M.I. Official school of Phamacists, 1995, pp. 422-3.

Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Figuerola, R. Gui'a of Plantas Medicinal of the Valencian Community. Valencia: The Provinces, 1996, p.198.

Trease, GE; Evans, WCh. Farmacognosia. Mexico D.F.: Inter-American -- MacGraw-Hill, 1991, p. 463.

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