GOLDEN BUTTON
GOLDEN BUTTON
Other names:
Castilian:
Adonis vernal
.
French:
Adonis
,
Adonis
du printemps.
Gold button
.
English
: Pheasant's eye,
Adonis
,
spring
adonis
, false Hellebores, sweet
vernal
,
red
Chamomile
,
red
morocco, rose -
a
- blond,
red
Math.
German
: Adonisröschen, frühlingsteufelsauge.
Dutch:
voorjaarsadonis, duivelsoog.
Italian:
Adonide primaverile, Fior d'Adone, big blue di OCCHIO, OCCHIO of Diavolo.
Family
:
Ranunculáceas.
Source
:
High mountains of
central
and eastern Europe.
Bloom:
Beginning in the
spring
.
Height:
Up to 40 cm.
Part used medicinally:
All the plant. This reflects the plant in April or May.
Important components:
Cardenólidos glycosides (up 4%)
Adonidina.
Adonitoxósido.
Acid adonídico.
Adonivernósido.
Cimarina.
Adonitoxina.
L - Ramnäs.
Flavones.
Adonivertina.
Estrofandogenina, vernadigina.
Saponins, carotoides, hill, phytosterol, resins and fatty acids.
In 1942, Rosenmund and Reichstein isolated another glucoside, the zimarina crystallized.
Therapeutic benefits:
Regulatory
functions
of the heart.
Hypotensive.
Myocarditis.
Anticonvulsant.
Epilepsy
.
Comment:
I find this fascinating name. It seems that refers in its phonetics and toxic to
a
plant it is. His appearance is harmonious and I would say that even elegant, with
a
beautiful tone in their leaves
yellow
. It is hard to find
a
plant in Spain. Only I could find on land close to the Catalan Seu of Urgell.
The pharmaceutical industry uses it to extract active ingredients for the
development
of drugs and diuretics regulating
functions
heart. It is said that its toxicity is so great that even the cows and goats that can
transmit
their harmfulness consumed through milk to humans.
Way to prepare:
Bake at 1%.
In tincture 10 drops five times
a
day.
Collection:
From early April until May.
Bits of interest:
Herbaceous perennial plant.
It is much more effective to cool the plant dry.
There are other similar species in Spain:
Adonis
aestivalis and
Adonis
autumnalis.
On behalf of
Adonis
vernalis
is the Greek legend of the hunter
Adonis
. Her lover, Venera Aphrodite, spread these plants flowered with his blood.
The fruit is
a
aquenoide.
Plant is similar to the virtues of
digital
.
Being
a
plant of the steppes of southern Russia and Hungary, arrived in Spain in the past geological through
Central
Europe is not surprising that pharmacists were unaware of the great Mediterranean antiquity.
Some preparations of interest:
Because of its toxicity preparations with this plant is best to leave it to doctors and experts in the field botany and phytotherapeutic.
Used Part.
Sumidades the air.
Active Principles.
Heterósidos cardenólido
cardiac
rate (0. 1 - 0. 4%) Cimarosa, adonitoxósido. Mineral salts.
Organic
acids. Carotenoids. Flavonoids: adonivernitina.
Drug Action.
The cardenólidos confer
cardiac
properties, and antiarrhytmic diuretic, action reinforced by the presence of flavonoids.
Indications.
Congestive heart
failure
, tachycardia,
arrhythmias
, extrasistolia. Rest periods of treatments digitalis (cumulatively have less action on the myocardium that the
digital
)
Contraindications.
Treatment with heterósidos carditónicos, quinidine, thiazide diuretics or laxatives Anthraquinone (you can produce an enhancement of its action and in case of overdose,
a
reversal of the effect cardiotonic)
Do not prescribe dosage forms with
alcohol
content to
children
under two years or consultants in the process of
alcohol
addiction
.
Caution / Poisoning.
Should only be used under medical specialist. We recommend using digitalis to use.
The whole plant is toxic due to the presence of
cardiac
glycosides.
Take into account the
alcohol
content of the fluid extract and tincture.
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