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Ipecacuanha

Растение ипекакуанаThe ipecacuanha is the herbaceous plant growing in Brazil. It is rather widely applied in national and in official medicine, concerns to group of homeopathic medicines.

Pharmacological action of the Ipecacuanha

The ipecacuanha in the form of medicine is means of exclusively plant origin. Roots of an ipecacuanha contain rather large amount of citric and malic acid, alkaloids (including emetine, аметамин, психотрин, cephaeline and протоэиетин), sincaline, saponins, a glycoside of an ipekakuanin and a phytosterol.

Drug on the basis of roots of a plant has the good expectorant effect caused by ability of a plant to liquefy a phlegm to reflex increase secretory function of bronchial glands, and also to increase activity of fibers of an epithelium of respiratory tracts.

It is noted that in high doses drugs on a root of an ipecacuanha are capable to cause irritation in a mucous membrane of a stomach that can lead to long nausea with the subsequent period of vomiting.

Release form

Do powder, infusion and broth which in small doses and are applied in the medical purposes of a root of a plant.

Indications to use of the Ipecacuanha

According to the instruction, the Ipecacuanha has such main indications to use: the chronic and acute inflammatory diseases of upper respiratory tracts which are followed by the complicated phlegm otkhozhdeniye.

Contraindications

As the Ipecacuanha is considered vegetable drug, it has not really many contraindications, but nevertheless the people having hypersensitivity to any component of drug, and also pregnant women and the feeding mummies should not take medicine.

Routes of administration

The instruction to the Ipecacuanha specifies that drug is intended for internal use. Овариум композитум - препарат на основе корня ипекакуаныMost often medicine is appointed as a part of a combination therapy, but also in monotherapy it is very effective. Ipecacuanha doses, as well as treatment duration, only the doctor in an individual order can define, it depends and on what dosage form will be used.

Side effects

In certain cases reception of the Ipecacuanha can be followed by nausea and a number of allergic reactions, but such symptoms are improbable if to adhere to instructions of the doctor.

Storage conditions

It is necessary to store drug on the basis of the Ipecacuanha in the dry and protected from light place at the room temperature. It is important that children had no access to medicine.

 
 
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