Native habitat: Central Europe, especially of large areas of forest in the Alps
Part used: The bark Interior
Common uses: Used for colds in the airways and throat, asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis. Diuretic, prevents Arenillas and calculations in the urinary tract.
External use: Vapors, bathrooms and friction, recommended for rheumatism and asthma. As a lever for friction is applied in sciatica, stiff neck, low back pain, swollen joints.
The active oil is composed of Volatile (-) alpha-pinene, delta3-carene, (-) beta-pinene, beta-pyrones), and resins that contain acids of oleoresin, laricinolic acid, alpha - and the acid beta-laricinolic.
Forms are available as preparations for the semi-liquid and oral use, and when ointments, gels, emulsions and oils for topical use. An active ingredient in the larch is the arabinogalactan, is sold as Ara-6.
The usual dose Arabinogalactans: taking 400 mg a day with vitamin C.
Evidences for the anti-cancer activity in mouse studies, arabinogalactan intervened with metastatic liver tumor.
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Hagman B; Ryd W; Skomedal H. The blockade of Arabinogalactan of experimental liver metastasis by the murine hepatoma. Metastasis of invasion. 1991. 11 (6) :348-55.
Kelly G. Larch Arabinogalactan: the clinical applicability of a novel polysaccharide that immune-rise. Revolution altered Med. 1999. 4 (2) :96-103.
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