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La Botica / Piel y heridas

Picor y urticaria

13 remedios

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Chickweed

Chickweed

Stellaria media

Tradicional

Decoctions are used for their moisturising, soothing properties to relieve skin itching; Eclectic physicians applied an ointment of the bruised fresh leaves in lard to many skin diseases.

Cleavers

Cleavers

Galium aparine

Tradicional

Iroquois used a compound infusion as a wash for poison ivy and itch, and Chippewa rubbed a cold infusion of the stems on skin troubles.

Danti

Danti

Baliospermum montanum

Tradicional

Used for itching and skin diseases in Ayurveda and for itching eczema in Thai traditional medicine. Root extract reduced mast-cell-like degranulation in cell tests, and a leaf alkaloid reduced histamine release in a mouse anaphylaxis model.

Ground ivy

Ground ivy

Glechoma hederacea

Tradicional

The Cherokee gave an infusion for babies' hives (and for measles).

Hopbush

Hopbush

Dodonaea viscosa

Tradicional

Akana's 1922 Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value lists an infusion of the leaves with other plants as a wash for rash and itch. In Ethiopia the plant is commonly used for skin diseases; a leaf extract was a negligible skin irritant and non-sensitiser in animal tests.

Prickly ash

Prickly ash

Zanthoxylum americanum

Tradicional

The Alabama washed itchy skin with a bark decoction or rubbed an inner-bark infusion on it.

Purging buckthorn

Purging buckthorn

Rhamnus cathartica

Tradicional

The Cherokee used a decoction of the bark for itch (the shrub had been introduced to North America).

Sal

Sal

Shorea robusta

Tradicional

Leaves are a traditional Indian remedy for itching, and the Baiga apply a cooled bark decoction twice daily to itchy or inflamed skin.

Siris

Siris

Albizia lebbeck

Tradicional

Panchashirishadi Agad is indicated in Ayurveda for urticaria (sheetapitta) and hives (kotha).

Snake grass

Snake grass

Clinacanthus nutans

Tradicional

Ethanol extract creams are used for pruritic rashes in Thailand.