Rheumatoid tea

As Rheumatee be Medicinal referred to in partially different compositions for supportive treatment of rheumatic complaints. The main component is usually the bark of the white willow or sal willow , which can be used to relieve mild joint pain. Its ingredient salicin, a chemical precursor of acetylsalicylic acid, has been known for its anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic effects since ancient times. The application is traditionally justified. Plants that are also traditionally used are nettles , African devil's claw and meadowsweet .

The term rheumatism is popularly used as a collective term for a large number of different chronic diseases of the musculoskeletal system , the correct medical generic term is "diseases of the rheumatic type" . Rheumatoid tea cannot have a specific effect on the respective disease, but at best provide some relief through its pain-relieving component. However, both the salicin content and the transfer of the active ingredient into the hot beverage are inconsistent, so that the effectiveness cannot be predicted in individual cases. Side effects of salicin (gastrointestinal complaints up to duodenal ulcers etc.) - depending on the amount administered - are to be expected. It cannot be ruled out that high doses of the active metabolite salicylic acid, like other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, inhibit blood coagulation, which must be taken into account when using willow bark tea.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Community herbal monograph on Salix cortex , Committee on Herbal Medicines, European Medicines Agency.
2. ↑ Patient information Sidroga Rheumatee ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 2010. 
3. ^ Community herbal monograph on Urtica dioica L .; Urtica urens L., folium , Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products, European Medicines Agency.
4. ^ Community herbal monograph on Harpagophytum procumbens DC. and / or Harpagophytum zeyheri Decne., radix Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products, European Medicines Agency.
5. ^ Community herbal monograph on Filipendula ulmaria L., herba , Committee on Herbal Medicines, European Medicines Agency.
6. ↑ E. Mutschler, G. Geisslinger, HK Kroemer, P. Ruth, M. Schäfer-Korting: drug effects. Textbook of pharmacology and toxicology . 9th edition. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-8047-1952-X , p. 241.