The wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) it is the most important cereal by his increasing consumption and its ample rank of adaptation, occupying the first place in the world-wide scope as much in surface harvested as in production. It is an essential component in the diet of the world-wide population and a basic product that contributes in the development of the economy of many countries. For some decades one has been coming observing an increasing consumption, by the accelerated growth of the human population and by the diversification of his feeding. In 1997, at world-wide level, the wheat occupied the third place in the yield with 2,69 ton.ha-1; on national scale ton.ha-1 occupied the first place in yield with 4,32 and the value of production was of $ 3'715,900,600 dollars.
Used Part
Fruit (seeds): bran, flour, germ.
Active Principles
Fiber, starch, cellulose, gluten, fitosteroles: beta-sitosterol, vitamin E.
Farmacológica Action
- Bran: laxative, saciante, hipocolesterolemiante, hipoglucemiante (it reduces the intestinal reabsorción of glúcidos lipids and); demulcente, decisive. When increasing the fecal elimination of calcium, is recommendable for the people with urolitiasis.
- Flour: nutritious, antiflogística, decisive.
- Germ, oil of germ: vitaminic, hipolipemiante.
- Leavening: antiflogística.
Indications
- Bran: constipation, helping in treatments of overweight, hiperlipidemias, urolitiasis, diabetes, diverticulosis, syndrome of the null and voidable intestine.
- Bran and/or flour (white or integral), in external use: Hematomas, contusions, inflammations you will articulate, mialgias, colds, tonsilitis, inespecíficas cutaneous eruptions of the suckling babies.
- Starch: Demulcente, helping in the pharmaceutical elaboration of tablets (like desintegrante); antidote of the poisonings by iodine.
- Leavening: forúnculos.
- Germ, oil: arteriosclerosis, hiperlipidemias.
Contraindications
Flour: Intolerancia to the gluten.
Precaution/Poisonings
At the beginning and during the treatment with fiber, glucemia will be due to control to fit, if outside necessary, the doses of insulin or oral antidiabetics.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Bran: 20 g/día, in two takings, accompanied by abundant water.
We recommended to establish the dose of progressive form, and to add carminativas plants, to palliate the flatulencia.
- Germ: a sopera spoonful or of dessert, one to three times to the day.
- Oil of wheat germ: one to three teaspoons of dessert to the day, or in form of soft capsules.
External use:
- Bran, flour: used popularly as heat vehicle in form of hot dry saquitos or emplastos or compresas prepared with hot water or vinegar.
- hidroglicólico Extract.
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Real Spanish Farmacopea. Madrid: Ministry of Health and Consumption, 1997, p. 395.
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