TRAVALERA
centaurea aspera
TRAVALERA
centaurea aspera
English
:
Corn
flower
.
French:
Centaurea
.
From the
family
of Gencianáceas.
Centauri also called
Aspera
.
Hypoglycemic, ie, lowers the amount of sugar in the blood and urine of diabetics.
Used Part.
The flowering plant.
Active Principles.
Plant wide use popular
but
poorly studied. Contains derivatives of beta - sitosterol. Heterósidos cyanogenic. Lactones Sesquiterpenes type germacranólido.
Drug Action.
Aperitif, digestive, slightly lowering, antiseptic, antiinflammatory, colerética, colagogo.
Indications.
Anorexia
,
dyspepsia
hiposecretoras,
diabetes
, hepatobiliary
dyskinesia
.
Caution / Poisoning.
When prescribing
a
diabetic
, will be monitoring the blood glucose to adjust, if necessary, the dose of
insulin
or oral agents.
Galenica forms / Dosage.
Internal use:
Infusion:
one tablespoon per cup for dessert, two or three cups
a
day before meals.
Dust:
1 to 3 g / day.
External use:
Infusion:
60 to 80 g / l, in the form of baths.
Bibliography.
Bézanger - Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin,
F
. Medicinal plants of temperate Regions. Paris: Maloine, 1980,
p
. 389.
Mulet, L. Ethnobotanical survey of the province of Castellon. Castellon: Provincial, 1991, pp. 102 - 4.
Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Figuerola, R. Guide to Medicinal Plants of Valencia. Valencia: Las Provincias, 1996,
p
. 97.
Villar, L; Palacín, JM; Calvo,
C
. Gomez,
D
; Montserrat, G. Medicinal Plants of the Aragonese Pyrenees and other tierrras Huesca. 2. Huesca: Provincial, 1992,
p
. 61.
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