Cestrum auriculatum
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Cestrum auriculatum is a species of hammer bushes ( Cestrum ) in the nightshade family(Solanaceae).
description
Cestrum auriculatum is a slender, branched shrub with a height of one to several meters. With the exception of the fluffy inflorescence, branches and flowers, the rest of the shrub is hairless. The leaf stalks are 1 to 1.5 centimeters long and are often double-eyed at the base. The auricles are moon-shaped and just as long or significantly shorter than the leaf stalks. The leaf blades have an elongated egg-shaped or elongated lanceolate shape, are about 10 cm long and are slightly pointed at the front and slightly narrowed at the base.
The inflorescences are terminal or in the armpits, they can be sessile or only briefly, are about 2.5 cm long and are yellowish to green in color with black or red-brown overtones. The calyx is hairless or barely hairy, is almost 2 millimeters long and enlarges upwards. It is set with fine calyx teeth. The often slightly hairy crown is thread-shaped and widens towards the front. The stamens are 1.5 to 3 millimeters free, except for the area where they are fused together, hairless.
The fruits are fleshy and colored black when ripe.
use
Cestrum auriculatum is used in Peruvian herbal medicine. As part of the “Hierba Santa”, it is used to treat symptoms such as headache, fever, hemorrhoids and rheumatism. It also has an anti-inflammatory effect.
Active ingredients
Cestrum auriculatum contains steroidal saponins , nicotiflorin, rutin , ursolic acid and β-sitosteryl glucosides. The anti-inflammatory effect can partly be ascribed to these substances.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Cestrum auriculatum on Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER) , accessed July 6, 2013
- ↑ Rosario Rojas, Beatriz Bustamante, José Bauer, Irma Fernandez, Joaquina Alban, Olga Lock: Antimicrobial activity of selected Peruvian medicinal plants . In: Journal of Ethnopharmacology 88 (2003) 199-204
- ↑ Marii Kawano, Mayumui Otsuka, Kazuhiro Umeyaman, Mikio Yamazaki, Tetsuo Shiota, Motoyoshi Satake, Emi Okuyama: Anti-inflammatory and analgesic components from "hierba santa", a traditional medicine in Peru . In: J Nat Med (2009) 63: 147-158