Palomabi
Palomabi , also Palo-Mabi , Palo Amargo or Bijuagara , is the name in Central America of a form of sale of a natural medicinal drug made from the bark of the buckthorn plant Ceanothus reclinatus (synonym Colubrina reclinata , Mabi ).
Appearance and taste
The bark is rolled into a cylinder about an inch in diameter. It is brownish on the outside with small gray cork spots along the growth, smooth on the inside and regularly traversed by yellowish longitudinal furrows. When chewed, the rind develops an initially purely bitter taste that is reminiscent of liquorice .
Spread of the drug
Palomabi was widely used as a medicinal drug in North America , Central America, and the West Indies . Today, palomabi is mostly sold in public markets in Puerto Rico .
effect
Doctors based in the area of distribution administer a drink made from the bark for digestive disorders as well as a cough reliever and astringent . There is probably an active ingredient in the resin of the bark. An active ingredient from the bark is not yet known. The root was used by the Cherokee in the 19th century to treat gonorrhea .
literature
- Palo-mabi . In: Adolf Beythien, Ernst Dressler (Ed.): Merck's Lexicon of Goods for Trade, Industry and Commerce. 7th edition. Gloeckner, Leipzig 1920. (Reprint: Manuscriptum, Recklinghausen 1996. ISBN 3-933497-13-2 )
- Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands: A Systematic Synopsis by Alain H. Liogier, Luis F. Martorell, La Editorial, UPR, 2000
Web links
- Palo Amargo in the Biblioteca digital de la medicina tradicional mexicana
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e G. Heppe: Klemens Merck's Warenlexikon . 4th edition, GA Gloeckner, Leipzig, 1890. p. 424.
- ^ OF Cook and GN Collins: Economic Plants of Puerto Rico. In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium , Volume 8, Number 2, Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, 1903.
- ^ Synonyma-Lexikon , Apotheker-Verlag.
- ↑ a b c Art. Orell Füssli Institute: Journal suisse de pharmacie . Art. Institut Orell Füssli, 1887, pp. 261–3.