Senna multiglandulosa

Generalidades

Sinónimos: No aplican.

Nombre común: Retama, retama china (en la zona), alcaparro, frijol cimarrón, mulato, parra, retama de tierra caliente (fuera de la zona).

Características generales:

  • Arbusto de unos 2 m de altura a veces árbol pequeño, densamente provisto de follaje y usualmente muy ramificado desde la base, con el fuste corto, irregular, nudoso y la corteza agrietada de color marrón claro.

  • Es distinguible por su follaje pubescente y sus bonitas flores de color amarillo.

Usos medicinales reportados


Las ramas secas son empleadas en el embarazo, parto y puerperio: Las mujeres embarazadas toman la infusión de las ramas para tratar los dolores de pre-parto, y ayuda en la dilatación para acelerar el parto.

Usos farmacológicos reportados

  • Efecto analgésico

  • Propiedades antioxidantes

  • Tratamiento en la prehipertensión / hipertensión

  • Quinoides para el tratamiento del cáncer de pulmón

  • Agente anticancerigeno

  • Tratamiento para estreñimiento crónico

  • Tratamiento para trastornos de diarrea crónica

  • Actividad antimicrobiana

  • Actividad para la diabetes y trastornos metabólicos

  • Efecto antitumoral y uso en heridas crónicas

  • Efecto contra trastornos de asma

Bibliografías

ScienceDirect

  1. Berhanu M. Abegaz, Merhatibeb Bezabeh, Gizachew Alemayehu, H. Duddeck, Anthraquinones from Senna multiglandulosa, Phytochemistry, Volume 35, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 465-468, ISSN 0031-9422, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)94783-6.

BioMed Research International

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