Matricaria recutita

Matricaria recutita, known as German chamomile, is also purported to have antispasmodic properties. It is taken most often as a tea up to four times a day. Benzodiazepine, alcohol, and warfarin users should be cautioned against taking this product because it can cause drowsiness, and it contains coumarin derivatives.20... 

When elder blossoms are made into a tea with chamomile (.Matricaria recutita), it is good for stiff painful joints. This combination has also been used as a fomentation for earaches. 

Viola H, Wasowski C, Levi de Stein M, et al. Apigenin, a component of Matricaria recutita flowers, is a central benzodiazepine receptors-ligand with anxiolytic effects. Planta Med 1995 61 213-216. 

Chamomile, Matricaria recutita L., is generally known as a weed - a weed with cnrative power. A medicinal plant, with a history going back to the time of Egyptian pharaohs, is nsed in phytotherapy today and nneqnivocally will be used tomorrow. 

Chamomile (Matricaria recutita). Reprinted from Culbreth DMR. (1927). Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 7th ed. Philadelphia Lea Febiger. 

As its name suggests, supercritical fluid extraction (SEE) relies on the solubilizing properties of supercritical fluids. The lower viscosities and higher diffusion rates of supercritical fluids, when compared with those of liquids, make them ideal for the extraction of diffusion-controlled matrices, such as plant tissues. Advantages of the method are lower solvent consumption, controllable selectivity, and less thermal or chemical degradation than methods such as Soxhlet extraction. Numerous applications in the extraction of natural products have been reported, with supercritical carbon dioxide being the most widely used extraction solvent. However, to allow for the extraction of polar compounds such as flavonoids, polar solvents (like methanol) have to be added as modifiers. There is consequently a substantial reduction in selectivity. This explains why there are relatively few applications to polyphenols in the literature. Even with pressures of up to 689 bar and 20% modifier (usually methanol) in the extraction fluid, yields of polyphenolic compounds remain low, as shown for marigold Calendula officinalis, Asteraceae) and chamomile Matricaria recutita, Asteraceae). " ... 

Matricaria Matricaria recutita L. (-)-a-Bisabolol (10-65) and bis-abolol oxides (29-81) types exist... 

Artemisia annua and (—)-o -bisabolol from Matricaria recutita (German chamomile). Addition of IPP to GPP produces 2 , 6 -famesylpyropho-sphate (FPP), the precursor for all sesquiterpenes. Farnesylpyrophosphate can cyclize by various cyclase enzymes in various ways, leading to the production of a variety of sesquiterpenes. Some of these sesquiterpenes are medicinally important hioactive compounds. For example, (—)-o -bisabolol and its derivatives have potent anti-inflammatory and spasmolytic properties, and artemisinin is an antimalarial drug. 

German chamomile Matricaria recutita (Asteraceae) —a-bisabolol and its derivatives... 

Cascara Sagrada Rhamnus purshiana) Chamomile Matricaria recutita)... 

Several species of plant also contain compounds that have been shown to act as agonists on benzodiazepine receptors. These include Valeriana officinalis which contains hydroxypinoresinol, Matricaria recutita which contains 5,7,4 -trihydroxyflavone, Passiflora coeruleus which contains chrysin and Karmelitter Geist which contains amentoflavin. Hypericum perforatum (St John s Wort) also contains unknown compounds which have affinity for... 

Matricaria recutita L. (manzanilla) Verbena Carolina (verbena)... 

Chamomile is the vernacular name ot Anthemis genus and Matricaria recutita (German chamomile, pinhead). The former are more potent skin sensitizers (delayed-type) than the latter, presumably because they can contain a higher concentration of the sesquiterpene lactone, antheco-tullid. Cross-sensitivity with related allergenic sesquiterpene lactones in other plants is possible. 

Achillea millefolium (yarrow) Anthemis species and Matricaria recutita (chamomile)... 

Trovato et al. [49] reported the antimycotic activity of aqueous, ethanol and petroleum ether extracts of Matricaria recutita L. These extracts inhibited in vitro strains of Candida albicans isolated from clinical samples obtained in the course of acute vaginitis. 

Chamomile (Matricaria recutita) Chamomile is dried flower heads used in herbal tea for relief of digestive and gastrointestinal (GI) disruptions and infant colic. Chamomile has a sedative effect. Chamomile can cause hives and bronchoconstriction in patients who are allergic to daisy or ragweed. 

Chamomile tea produced from the flowers of Matricaria, recutita has long been used as an antispasmodic for gastric and menstrual cramps. Studies with guinea-pig ileum have shown that the water-soluble flavonoid fraction and especially apigenin has antispasmodic activity three times that of papaverine. 

CHAMOMILE FLOWERS Matricaria recutita, L., family Asteraceae, contain an essential oil rich in sesquiterpenes such as bisabolol and chamazulene which have excellent antiinflammatory effects. 

CHAMOMILE FLOWERS Matricaria recutita L.), family Asteraceae Chamomile flowers contain chamazulene and bisabolol, whereas white willow, Salicis albae cortex, bark from Salix alba, L., family Salicaceae, contains salicylic acid and its derivatives. These substances have antiseptic and disinfectant effects. 

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