PICRORHIZA
Picrorhiza kurroa
Parts used: rhizome.
Authorized health
claims:
- Digestive function.
- Liver function.
- Organism natural defenses.
- Fluidity of bronchial secretions.
- Antibiotic;
- Antiviral;
- Antifungal;
- Spasmolytic;
- Bronchial spasmolytic;
- Antiasthmatic;
- Anti-inflammatory;
- Immunostimolant;
- Hepatoprotector;
- Antioxidant;
- Choleretic (promotes the production of bile).
- Decreased nutrition due to senility (with abdominal distension, afternoon fevers, dysenteric diarrhea);
- Malnutrition in children;
- Chronic diarrhea;
- Dysentery with blood in the stool;
- Enteritis;
- Hemorrhoids;
- Menstrual disorders;
- Vitiligo;
- Leukoderma (whitish area of the skin due to lack of pigmentation);
- Gallbladder diseases;
- Jaundice;
- Constipation;
- Fever;
- Scabies;
- Pains in the joints;
- Cough;
- Chronic asthma;
- Infections (bacteria, viruses, fungi);
- Infiammation;
- Epilepsy.
To facilitate the sheet reading, the main properties are highlighted in
bold. The indications on the traditional use of plants in the herbal sector,
have been derived from the following literature sources, which should be
consulted for in-depth information on plants and other interesting uses and
suggestions:
- Bensky D., Clavey S., Stoger E., Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica, Revised Edition. Eastland Press, Seattle, 1993.
- PDR (Physicians’ Desk Reference) for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition, Ed. Thomson 2007.
- Pizzorno J. E. Jr., Murray M. T., Trattato di Medicina Naturale, Red Edizioni, Novara 2001.
