TORONGIL (artemisia abrotanum)

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	TORONGIL
	*artemisia abrotanum*

Name
TORONGIL

Scientific Name
artemisia abrotanum

TORONGIL

TORONJIL OF CASA

Male Abrótano

Artemisia abrotanum

Other names:

Castilian: Male Abrótano, Torongil, lombriguera grass

French: aurône mâle, armoise aurône, citronnelle, garde robs

English: lad's love, old man, sauthernwood

Dutch: citroenkruid, boerencitroen

German: Ebarraute, Eberreis

Herbaceous which it measures of 40 to 150 cm of height, it presents/displays square stem of which are born its extended leaves. Their flowers have tube form and the fruits are small of color coffee. She is original of Mexico, where it lives in climates warm, semiwarm and tempering. It grows associate to the tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia and perennifolia; scrub xerófilo and forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and compound of pine.

Used Part

The flowery leaves and sumidades.

Active Principles

Essential oil (0,2-0,4%), with absintol; polifenoles (acid caféico and clorogénico, flavonoides), cumarinas (escopoletol, isofraxidina, umbeliferona).

Farmacológica Action

Energetic, antihelmíntico, estrogénico Colerético; bitter aromatic: appetizer, carminativo, organoléptico corrector.

Externally: antiseptic, healing and antiseborréico.

Indications

One is used basically in problems of the nervous system. The treatment consists of the cofoundation of the branches ingested like tea; also it serves for malaises of the digestive apparatus, like stomach ache and bad digestion. In addition for some affections cardiac, for it the cofoundation to the plant is taken. One becomes, also, a baking of the branches, single or mixed, with wormwood leaves, guayaba and muicle, which must of being ingested in uninformed regularizing the menstruation.

Disquinesias hepatobiliares, lack of appetite, dispepsias hyposecretory, flatulencia. Dismenorrea, amenorrhoea, intestinal parasitism.

In topical use: wounds, seborréica dermatitis, alopecia.

Contraindications

Except for express indication, we recommended to abstain to internally prescribe the essential oil of male abrótano during the pregnancy (by its possible abortion effect), the lactancia and to smaller children of six years (to high doses he is neurotoxic).

Not to administer to patients with well-known hypersensitivity to this one or other essential oils.

Not to prescribe alcoholic extracts to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.

Precaution/Poisonings

Pure the essential oil can be neurotoxic and abortion. Applied topically it can cause allergic reactions (contact dermatitis).

Male Abrótano

Family:

Compuestas/asteráceas

Origin:

It cultivates frequently in the Maestrazgo, center and the west of Spain.

Height:

Up to 1 meter.

Used part medicinally:

The dry leaves

Therapeutic indications:

In the estomatitis

Intestinal Lombrices

Painful menstruations

Commentary:

One is a arbustiva, elegant plant whose flowers give off an pleasant aroma very similar to the lemon. It is of easy culture in gardens and flowerpots.

Form of preparation:

In infusion

Harvesting:

From principles of spring to summer.

Main components:

Essential oil (0,4%):

thuyona

absintol

Cumarínicos derivatives:

isofraxidina

umbeliferona

escopoletol

Alkaloids (3%):

abrotina (similar to the quinine in its properties)

Polifenólicos acids:

cafeico acid

clorogénico acid

bitter principles

flavonoides

Contraindications:

To high doses it produces headache and vertigo.

Some prescriptions with male abrótano

Estomatitis (mouth):

To prepare an infusion of a teaspoon of leaves of male abrótano by each cup.

To let cool.

To strain.

To make several rinsings to the day.

Lombrices

Infusion of 1 gr.. of dry leaves by cup.

To leave a rest of 5 ms.

To strain.

To preferably drink three cups to the day outside the meals.

Painful menstruations:

Infusion of 1 gr.. of dry leaves by cup.

To leave a rest of 5 ms.

To strain.

To preferably drink three cups to the day after the meals.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

Internal use:

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

- fluid Extract (1:1): 40-60 drops three times to the day.

- It tinctures (1:5): 50 to 100 drops, two or three times to the day.

Topical use:

- Infusion: A sopera spoonful by cup.

- It tinctures (1:10): like hair treatment, to apply friccionando the hairy leather.

Bibliography

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M. You plant dans to Them the Therapeutique Moderne. 2ª. Paris: Maloine, 1986, p. 88.

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Plantes Médicinales DES Regions Tempérées. Paris: Maloine, 1980, p. 378.

James, A; Duke, Ph D. Handbook of Medicinal Herbs. 5ª. Mouth Mouse, Florida: CRC Press, 1987, pp. 65, 517.

Creek, D; Obón, C. Gui'a Incafo of Plantas Useful and Poisonous of the Iberian Peninsula and Baleares. Madrid: Incafo, 1991, pp. 974-5.

Hellemont, J. Compendium de Phytotherapie go. Bruxelles: Association Pharmaceutique Belge, 1986, p. 48.

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