Used Part
Seeds: peeled, pearl or sprouted.
Active Principles
Starch, enzymes: amylase. Minerals: chromium, phosphorous, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium. Polyunsaturated fatty acids: oleic, linoleic. Traces of alkaloids: hordenina, grasses.
Drug Action
The digestive enzymes perform a similar function. The hordenina confers adrenergic properties (sympathomimetics) soft: antidiarrheal through inhibition of intestinal hiperperistaltismo, hypertensive (to produce peripheral vasoconstriction), cardiotonic. It is also a diuretic, and demulcent in external use. The germ oil barley is lipid.
Indications
Diarrhea, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, hypotension, cystitis, kidney stones. Diabetes.
In topical (flour): boils, abscesses and inflammation osteo, myalgia, muscle contractures.
Galenica forms / Dosage
Internal use:
- Decoction (pearl barley: husked and polished mechanically) 20 grams per liter. Boil 5 minutes. Take at will.
- Decoction (seed, hulled, itself from its wrapper): 30 to 50 g / l, boil for 30 minutes (until you open the grain). Take at will.
- Powder (MALTA: germinated barley artificially and then dried): 5 to 20 grams a day, in capsules or shakes mixtures, added to soups, purees or mixtures.
(The germination results in the appearance of amylase, the digestive enzyme).
- Oil seeds of barley: Use food.
External use:
- Flour: diluted in warm water and applied in the form of cataplasms.
Bibliography
Bézanger-Beaunesque, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M. Dans la Plantes Les Thérapeutiques Moderne. 2. Paris: Maloine, 1986, pp. 246-7.
Bézanger-Beaunesque, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Medicinal plants of temperate Regions. Paris: Maloine, 1980, pp. 44-5.
Mulet, L. Ethnobotanical survey of the province of Castellon. Castellon: Provincial, 1991, p. 216.
Paris, RR; Moyse, M. Summary of Matter Médicale. Take II. Paris: Masson, 1967, p. 19.
Villar, L; Palacín, JM; Calvo, C. Gomez, D; Montserrat, G. Medicinal Plants of the Aragonese Pyrenees and other tierrras Huesca. 2. Huesca: Provincial, 1992, p. 122.
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