TOPESCOHUITE (mimosa tenuiflora)

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	TOPESCOHUITE
	*mimosa tenuiflora*

Name
TOPESCOHUITE

Scientific Name
mimosa tenuiflora

TOPESCOHUITE

Used Part

The crust.

Active Principles

Abundant tannins, bioflavonoides, saponósidos, alkaloids (indolalquilamina and other smaller alkaloids).

Farmacológica Action

Analgesic, bacteriostático (active front to positive and negative Gram. germs), fungicida, stimulating repairer and of skin regeneration, activator of the tissue repair.

Indications

Burns, varicose ulcers of position or, hurt (it has been used like healing after plastic surgery), solar escaldaduras, dermatomicosis, cuperosis, eritemas, cicatricial acne, ictiosis, soriasis.

Precaution/Poisonings

Due to the presence of alkaloids, with a noticeable hepatotoxicidad, one is only due to prescribe for topical use.

Experimentally it has demonstrated a powerful antiperistaltic and oxitócica action

The saponósidos ones produce hemólisis in alive.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

External use:

- Extracts glicólico (1:5) or flowed (1:1), applied topically, in form of gels, pomadas creams or.

Bibliography

Lozoya X; Navarrese V; Arnason JT ET al., experimental Evaluation of Sweet tenuiflora (willd.) to poir. (Tepescohuite) I. Screening of the antimicrobial properties of the extracts of the crust. Arch-Invest-Med-Mex, 20, 1: 87-93, 1989 Ene-Sea.

Merckes-Lozoya M; Lozoya X; González JL ET al., Effect produced by the fraction of alkaloids of Sweet tenuiflora (tepescohuite) on the peristaltico reflection of ileon of the cobay Arch-Invest-Med-Mex, 21, 2: 171-4, 1990 Abr-Jun.

Merckes-Lozoya M; Lozoya X; González JL, farmacologicas Properties in vitro of some extracts of Sweet tenuiflora (tepescohuite), Arch-Invest-Med-Mex, 21, 2: 163-9, 1990 Abr-Jun.

Palaces C; Kings RE; Lopez healing, antibacterial and antimicotico Martinez R ET al., Effects of tepescohuite in experimentation animals ", Rev-Invest-Clin, 43, 3: 205-10, 1991 Jul-Sep.

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