Stevia
Stevia
Used Part.
The leaves.
Active Principles.
Heterósidos diterpénicos:
esteviósidos (6%) sweets, rebaudiósidos
A
, B,
C
,
D and E
. Saponósidos.
Essential
oil: benzyl
alcohol
, bergamoteno - alpha, beta - burboneno, alpha - and gamma - cadineno, calacoreno, clameneno, carvacrol, cosmosiína. Flavonoids: Querceta, apigenol, austroinulina.
Drug Action.
Intensely sweet (the esteviósido is 200 - 300 times sweeter than sucrose) Osmotic mild laxative action. Slightly hypoglycemic and hypotensive, anti -
bacterial
.
Indications.
Constipation. Sugar substitute for diabetics.
Galenica forms / Dosage.
Infusion:
one tablespoon per cup of
coffee
. One or two cups
a
day.
Esteviósido, as
a
sweetener.
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p
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Program of
Science
and
Technology
for
Development
(CYTED) 1995, pp. 155 - 7.
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p
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Vanaclocha, B. Applied
Fitoterapia
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p
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Natural
Origin
.
A
Textbook of Pharmacognosy. Stockholm:
Swedish
Pharmaceutical Press, 1992,
p
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