HELICRISO
helichysum arenarium
HELICRISO
Castilian: helicriso, perpetual, Everlasting yellow chamomile bastard, yesquera, meaperros
English: chaste yellow weed, live ever, sandy Everlasting
Used Part: Its flowers
Active Principles: Essential oil with nerol, alpha-and beta-pinene, eugenol, linalol; Sesquiterpenes lactones, acids and caféico Ursola, beta-sitosterol, flavonoids.
Pharmacological Action: It has a pseudo-action ACTH, which derives its anti-inflammatory effect, Antitusivo and antialergénico.
Other actions: protective skin, healing, bacteriostatic, hepatoprotective, slightly reduce cholesterol levels, spasmolytic, diuretic, colerética.
Directions: bronchitis, asthma, rinopatías, reumatitis, food allergies, hives, hepatitis, gallbladder disease. In topical use: phlebitis, psoriasis, eczema, blefaroconjuntivitis, parodontopatías.
Contraindications: In the obstruction of bile.
Do not prescribe oral dosage forms with alcohol content to children under two years or consultants in the process of alcohol addiction.
Caution / Poisoning
We have to take into account the alcohol content of the extract fluid from the dye and syrup.
Galenica forms / Dosage
Internal use:
- Infusion: one tablespoon per cup of dessert. Three or four cups a day.
- Fluid extract (1:1): 30 drops, one to three times a day.
- Tincture (1:5): 50 drops, one to three times a day.
- Syrup (10% extract fluid): half a soup spoon, three or four times a day.
External use:
- Infusion: a soup spoon in 100 ml of water. Apply two or three times a day, in the form of washes or towels.
- Cream (fluid extract or glycolic): two or three applications a day.
Bibliography
Benigni, R; Capra, C; Cattorini, P. Piante Medicinali. Chimica, Pharmacology and Therapy. Milano: Inverni & Della Beffa, 1962, pp. 533-47.
Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Medicinal plants of temperate Regions. Paris: Maloine, 1980, pp. 403-4.
Mulet, L. Ethnobotanical survey of the province of Castellon. Castellon: Provincial, 1991, pp. 208.
Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Vanaclocha, B. Applied Fitoterapia. Valencia: M.I. Official College of Pharmacists, 1995, pp. 470-1.
Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Figuerola, R. Guide to Medicinal Plants of Valencia. Valencia: Las Provincias, 1996, p. 109.
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