GOLD SUN (helicrysum italicum)

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	GOLD SUN
	*helicrysum italicum*

Name
GOLD SUN

Scientific Name
helicrysum italicum

GOLD SUN

Latin name: Helichysum arenarium DC.

Castilian: helicriso, perpetual, siempreviva yellow, manzanilla bastard, yesquera, meaperros

Portuguese: perpetual DAS areias, rosmarinho brave, herba DAS almorrans

French: immortelle DES sabers, èternelle jaune

English: yellow chaste weed, live to ever, sandy everlasting

Dutch: strobloem, zandstrobloem

German: Sandimmerschön, Stronblume, gelbes Katzenpfötchen, Inmortelle

Italian: elicriso, semprevivo, zolfino, pepetuino, tignamica

Used Part

The flowery sumidades.

Active Principles

Essential oil with nerol, alpha and beta-pineno, eugenol, linalol; lactonas sesquiterpénicas, acid caféico and ursólico, beta-sitosterol, flavonoides.

Farmacológica Action

Pseudo-ACTH has an action, from which it derives its antiinflammatory effect, Antitusivo and antialergénico.

Other actions: skin, healing, bacteriostática, hepatoprotectora, hipocolesterolemiante, espasmolítica, diurética, slightly colerética protector.

Indications

Bronchitis, asthma, nourishing rinopatías, reumatitis, allergies, urticaria, hepatitis, colecistopatías. In topical use: flebitis, soriasis, eczema, blefaroconjuntivitis, parodontopatías.

Contraindications

Obstruction of the biliary routes.

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

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

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

Internal use:

- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup. Three or four cups to the day.

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

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

- Syrup (10% of fluid extract): average to a sopera spoonful, three or four times to the day.

External use:

- Infusion: a sopera spoonful in 100 mililiter of water. To apply two or three times to the day, in form of washings or compresas.

- Cream (fluid or glicólico extract): two or three applications to the day.

FAMILY

Composed

USED MEDICINAL PART

The floral chapters

TYPE OF PLANT

Herbaceous vivaz

ORIGIN

The south and center of Europe

HEIGHT

Up to 50 cm

LEAVES

Whole, lanceoladas, espatuladas, cottony by the beam and envés

FLOWERS

The floral chapters are grouped in corimbos with I involve of shining yellow color

The flowers, of yellow color, tubular are arranged in the center

FRUITS

Tuberous Arquenio of brown color

HABITAT

Barren territories of mount and sea, edges of highways and ways

COMPONENTS

Flavonoides

- flavonas (apigenol, luteolol)

- flavonoles (kaempferol, quercetol)

- flavanonas (naringenol, helicrisina, salipurpósido)

- chalconas (isohelicrisina, isosalipurpósido)

Note: most of these flavonoides they are colorless, with the exception of the isosalipurpósido one, that is the main pigment within chalconas

Phenolic derivatives

- cetónicos derivatives of a pirano nucleus like arenol

Organic acids

- acid cafeico

- acid ursólico

Essential oil

- nerol...........casi 50%

- d-alpha-pineno

- eugenol

- sesquiterpenos azulógenos

- linalol

Bitter principles

Beta sitosterol

Tannins

PROPERTIES

Colerético

Colagogo

Espasmolítico

Diurético

Purifying

Antireumático and antigotoso

Antialérgico

Expectorante

Antimicrobiano

Healing (external route)

Protector of weaves

Antineuralgic

INDICATIONS

In order to stimulate the secretion of the gastric and pancreáticos juice

Chronic Colecistitis

Colecistopatías

Renales affections

Vesicales affections

Drop

Reumatismo

Sub-acute and chronic bronchitis

Enfisemas

Asthma

Solar burns

Freezing

Stimulus of the internal secretion of hidrocortisona

Digestive allergies

Cutaneous allergies

Respiratory allergies

Conjuntivitis

Migrañas

Dolores of head

CONTRAINDICATIONS

They are not known

USES

Infusion: of one to two teaspoons by cup

Colirio: extract I accuse 6%

Fluid extract: up to 1 spoonful several times per day

OF INTEREST

About its name

"Helicriso" it derives from two Greek words that they mean "sol" and "oro" alluding to the color of its floral chapters

Related species

The Helichrysum exists italicum G. Don that is original of the Mediterranean river basin which contains flavonoides and useful essential oil in treatments of affections of the skin such as dermatosis and allergies

Bibliography

Benigni, R; Capra, C; Cattorini, P. Piante Medicinali. Chimica, Farmacologia and Terapia. Milano: Inverni & Della Beffa, 1962, pp. 533-47.

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Plantes Médicinales DES Regions Tempérées. Paris: Maloine, 1980, pp. 403-4.

Mulet, L. Estudio Etnobotánico of the Province of Castellón. Castellón: Provincial delegation, 1991, pp. 208.

Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Vanaclocha, B. Applied Fitoterapia. Valencia: M.I. Official school of Phamacists, 1995, pp. 470-1.

Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Figuerola, R. Gui'a of Plantas Medicinal of the Valencian Community. Valencia: The Provinces, 1996, p. 109.

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