Be careful when using Indian almond leaves to treat bronchial asthma.

March 8, 2014 14:20

According to traditional medicine, sea buckthorn has a bitter, slightly astringent taste, cool properties, has the effect of detoxifying, eliminating phlegm, reducing inflammation, and relieving coughs. It is often used to treat diseases such as bronchial asthma, prolonged cough, boils, snake bites, syphilis, dysentery, diarrhea, rheumatism, skin diseases and worms.

Calotropis gigantea (Willd.) is a wild plant that is grown in many places in our country to make hedges and to get its leaves for medicinal purposes. The leaves are picked all year round, wiped off the hair with a clean cloth, dried or dried, and then used accordingly depending on the disease.

Bàng biển.
Sea eagle.

To cure asthma, people pick the leaves, bring them home, wipe the hairs with a wet towel, chop them up, and roast them until wilted. Every day, use 10 leaves, boil them with 1 and a half bowls of water, reduce to 1 bowl, then add white sugar, divide into 3-4 drinks a day. The medicine is a bit bitter and fishy, ​​drinking too much at once can cause vomiting. It should be taken away from meals or after meals. You may experience a feeling of tiredness in your limbs, body, and diarrhea, but this is very rare.

Modern research results show that the latex of the parts of the sea urchin contains 2 resinol isomers. The extract of the sea urchin leaf has the following pharmacological effects:

- Has typical effects of a cardiac glucoside on isolated frog and rabbit hearts, has the effect of increasing myocardial contractility and increasing myocardial tone.

- On the vascular system of isolated rabbit ears and frog legs, high concentrations have a vasodilating effect, low concentrations have a vasoconstrictive effect. The drug has a hypertensive effect on cats and rabbits. With toxic doses, blood pressure gradually drops very low.

- Has a strong stimulating effect on the skin and mucous membranes.

- Has anticancer effect on human nasopharyngeal carcinoma in tissue culture.

Although in folk medicine, sea urchin is still used to prevent bronchial asthma, unfortunately, to date there has been no modern pharmacological research on the effects of this herb on the respiratory system, especially the bronchi, and there has been no specific clinical research. This is an issue that requires the attention of medical and pharmaceutical scientists to prove, inherit and apply the valuable ability of sea urchin in the prevention of this disease.

According to healthlifelife