PINE
PINE
Castilian:
Larch
.
English
:
Pine
larchclarch.
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.
Beuth mentions J; Korea HL; Schirrmacher V; Uhlenbruck G; Pulverer G. The inhibition of the colonization of the cell tumor of the
liver
in two animal models of tumor by blocking lectin with
D
- galactose or arabinogalactan. Clin Exp metastases. 1988. 6 (2) 115 - 20.
Fr.
Larch
Arabinogalactan. 1998. The diary of Naturopathic Medicine. 6 (1)
Diamond WJ and Cowden WL. An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to
Cancer
.
Tiburon, CA:
Future
Medicine Publishing, Inc. 1997.
Barely. M.
A
Modern
Herbal
. Vol. II. New York: Dover 1971.
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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