VERBENA TOP (stachytarpheta jamaicensis)

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	VERBENA TOP
	*stachytarpheta jamaicensis*

Name
VERBENA TOP

Scientific Name
stachytarpheta jamaicensis

VERBENA TOP

Common names

Blue verbena.

Botanical family

Verbenaceae.

Description

Often purple grass, of 60 to 120 cm. of height, dispersed hairs to lampiña. Alternating or opposite, oblong leaves, of 2 to 8 cm. in length, sawed and narrow towards the base; marginalized pecíolos, of equal shorter length that the limb or. Flowers grouped in terminal ears of up to 50 cm. in length, embedded in the armpit of the bracteas; violácea tubular corola. Including in the chalice and sunk fruit in raquis.

Fenología

It is an annual plant that under conditions of culture can become perennial.

Origin

Natural of Tropical America.

Location

Very common in all the Island, barren lands of little or medium elevation mainly in limestone grounds.

Other attributed properties

Anti-flu, antidiabetic, hypotensile, tranquilizing, abortion, antihysteric, depressing Emética, laxative, diurética, emenagogo, of the central nervous system. Hypothermal and espasmogénica activity (on ileón of cobay live).

Warnings

By oral route the decocción aggravates the induced injuries of the gastric mucosa in rats. The 100 DL50 = mg/Kg. of corporal mass (in mouse by intraperitoneal route).

Components

Phenolic compounds, phenolic tannins, catequinas, acids, cafeico and aminobutírico, quinonas, triterpenos and steroids.

Culture

It is a wild plant that propagates by seeds.

Bibliographical references

Alvarez, To ET al.: Antiulcerosa valuation of several medicinal plants. Summaries I SAW Scientific Day of the Lab. Farm. "Mario Muñoz", 1990.

Fong, P. C. ET al.: Pharmacological screening of some West medicinal Indian plants. J Pharm Pharmacol 16:115,1964.

Robineau, L.: Towards a Caribbean farmacopea. Sto. Domingo. Enda-Caribe/UNAH, 1991. P. 355.

Robinson, R. D. ET al.: Investigations of Strongyloides stercoralis filariform larvae in vitro by six commercial Jamaican plant extracts and trree anthelmintics. West Indian Med J, 39(4):213-217,1990.

Roig, J. T.: Medicinal, aromatic or poisonous plants of Cuba. Havana. Ed. Cienti'fico-Te'cnica, 1988. P. 1125.

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