Intestinal bulb

Distribution Pancreas, small intestine, locus ceruleus, hippocampus Liver, thalamus Heart, lung, aorta, hippocampus, olfactory bulb... 

Fritillaria anheunensis Chen etYin F. collicola Hance F. maximowiczii Freyn F. roylei Hook F. thunbergii Miq. F. ussuriensis Maxim. F. verticillata Willd. Bei Mu (Fritillaria) (bulb) Fritilline, fritillarine, verticine, verticinine, peimine, peiminine, peimisine, peiniphine, peimidine, peimilidine, propeimin, puqiedinone, isosteroidal alkaloids.33-243-503 Causes bronchodilatation and inhibition of mucosal secretions. Antitussive, stimulate uterine and intestinal contractions. 

Increases tone and amplitude of gastric contractions, relaxes the pyloric sphincter and the duodenal bulb, and increases peristalsis of the duodenum and jejunum, possibly by sensitizing tissues to the action of acetylcholine, resulting in accelerated gastric emptying and intestinal transit... 

Lopez-Mascaraque L, Villalba RM, de Carlos JA. 1989. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactive neurons in the main olfactory bulb of the hedgehog (Erinaceus euro-paeus). Neurosci Lett 98 19-21. 

Garlic bulb also has a choleretic and spasmolytic effect, which explains its use as a carminativum, whereas the disinfections action is the basis for its use in the case of dyspepsia and chronic intestinal infections. Furthermore, an aqueous extract of fresh garlic bulb has bactericidal and fungicidal effects. Also, effects on the immune system have been reported. 

It is a component of the synovial fluid and different tissues (eye-bulb, mucous coat of stomach and intestine, connective tissue). HA and SH as well as other carbohydrates can bind great amounts of water and form colloid solutions or gel-like systems (Lehninger 1975). Freeze-dried HA (1.7 wt% water) wetted by controlled portions of water (fi=0.05,0.15, and 2.15 g/g) was equilibrated... 

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