Introduction: Vivaz (that lives more than two years), of stem raised that it appears in spring and are dried in winter, of until a meter of height is a plant. It produces rizoma (underground stem) of which are arising buds constantly. In rizoma a root is born that more or less sinks a handspan in the ground, which ramifica in thin raicillas which they can reach a meter of length, of very sweet flavor. Around the aerial stem the leaves, compound are arranged of between nine and nineteen folíolos (subdivisions that seem whole leaves), but in number uneven, since they are arranged by pairs, always faced, and one in the end, of bitter flavor, on the contrary that the root. The flowers are developed in an ear, in the end of pedúnculo that is born in the armpits of the leaves, of pale blue color or lila. The fruit is a vegetable that contains 4 seeds at the most. One also knows like orozuz and handle.
LOCATION: Although twelve distributed species of regaliz in the five continents exist, the medicinal regaliz is an own plant of the Mediterranean region, whose first references date from old Egypt. It lives in humid zones, next to the rivers, lakes or pools, in argillaceous earth. It is possible to be cultivated planting trocitos of rizoma that, after three years,
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: The regaliz is béquico (active against the cough), reduces bronchial secretions and collaborates in the treatment of slight bronchitis. Ever since the Egyptians began to use it until does only half century, therapeutic activity was attributed to him solely on the respiratory apparatus, but recent studies made towards 1950 demonstrated that the regaliz also has an important capacity to cure the stomach ulcers.
HARVESTING: It is necessary to hope to that the plant turns three years so that can begin to be used its root; before, it lacks active principles. It must be extracted in autumn, when the plant begins to dry itself. The ramifications are cut, so that the plant can continue living. Clean of earth and it is let dry to the sun. It can keep in fiascos closed hermetically, fresh and dry place, the dark.
USES And APPLICATIONS: The classic form to use the regaliz is chewing it, very practical against the stomach sores; but to fight the cough and the bronchitis, he is preferable to take three times to the day a cup of the liquid obtained after macerating 100 grams by root (cut to tocitos) in a liter of water during a day. It can be warmed up slightly. It is necessary to watch the children, because regaliz chewing it clears the desire to eat. If it is taken in excess, can increase the tension arterial. Many pharmaceutical products include the extract of regaliz in their formulas. Also one is like additive in the English beer denominated "to porter"
The denomination orozuz, common in the Castilian America of speech, comes from the Arab arug-alsus, that means roots of regaliz. The scientific name is formed by the words greiegas glukus sweet and rhizon root, that is to say, sweet root; glabra talks about the pilosidad absence.
Plant of the regaliz with detail by its root, that is the one that contains the medicinal principles that favor the expectoración and act like laxative and espasmolítico.
The pharmaceutical and nourishing industrialist commercializes the roots of sulphured yellow color and flavor dulzón that the delights do of the small ones.
R.F.E.: The drug (dry) must contain a 4% of glicirricínico acid at least.
Farmacológica Action
The glicirricina has edulcorantes, expectorantes, antiinflammatory properties, exerting an antacid and antiulcerosa action, when increasing the secretion of mucus and diminishing the one of pepsinógeno. The liquiritósido one confers espasmolítica, digestive, carminativa, antibacterial an action to him and contributes to the antiulcerosa action.
In external use: glositis, estomatitis, blefaroconjuntivitis.
Contraindications
Arterial hypertension (indirect effect see), hiperestrogenismo, diabetes (by its content in glúcidos and in addition because the majority compounds are transformed partly into glucose during the drying).
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 spite of its low toxicity it does not have to be administered (specially the concentrated extractive forms) during long periods: the glicirricina can cause a secondary hiperaldosteronismo, with increase of the arterial tension and edemas by sodium retention, reason why its administration is incompatible with the antihypertensive treatments and the corticoids.
Precaution/Poisonings
The poisoning attends with increase of the tension, edemas, muscular weakness, cramps, poliuria with hiperkaliuria and hipocalcemia.
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use (to see precautions):
- Decocción: 20 g/l, to boil five minutes. 500 cc/día.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 30 to 50 drops, one to three times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:5): 50-100 drops, one to three times to the day.
- dry Extract (5:1): 0,2 to 1 g/día.
- Dust: 2 to 5 g, one to three times to the day.
- Macerated: 50 g/l, to macerate 5 hours. To take 250 ml/día.
- Juice: 10 to 30 g to the day.
External use:
- Infusion: 50 g/l. Isotonizar and to apply in form of compresas, ocular coirises or baths (blefaritis and conjuntivitis).
- Decocción: 20 g%, to boil 30 minutes. To use in form of colutorios, rinsings or compresas, in glositis, hurt estomatitis and.
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