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Other Names: Fumeterre officinale (French); Echter Erdrauch (German); fumaria, cresta di gallo (Italian).
Description: A climbing, weedy annual herb with bluish green, somewhat fleshy, deeply dissected leaves, characteristic pink flowers with a dark-tipped spur and small, spherical dry fruits containing a single seed. It was previously included in a separate family, the Fumariaceae, but is now part of the poppy family (Papaveraceae).
Origin: Europe and the Mediterranean region to the Middle East, it has become a weed in many parts of the world. The plant is wild-harvested in eastern Europe.
Parts Used: Dried, aboveground parts, gathered during the flowering season (Fumariae herba).
Therapeutic Category: Cholagogue, spasmolytic.
Uses and Properties: The herb is used to treat biliary and dyspeptic disorders, especially spastic discomfort of the gastrointestinal tract, the gall-bladder and bile ducts. It is also traditionally used as diuretic and laxative medicine, and externally for the relief of psoriasis and chronic eczema.
Active Ingredients: In common with other members of the poppy family, fumitory herb contains several alkaloids (1%): protoberberine (scoulerine) an protopine (= fumarine, the main alkaloid), also spirobenzylisoquinoline (fumaricine, fumariline) and indenbenzazepine (fumaritine, fumarofine) alkaloids. Also present are chlorogenic acid and flavonol glycosides (rutin, quercetin).
Pharmacological Effects: The drug has spasmolytic (e.g. on Oddi's sphincter in the bile duct) and choleretic properties. In addition, anticholinergic, antiarrhyrhmic, antibacterial and GABA-stimulating effects have been described. Synthetic fumaric acid is included in modern psoriasis and eczema.
Notes: Corydalis species (C. cava, C. solida, and C. yanhusuo, also Papaveraceae) are rich in isoquinoline alkaloids, with aporphines (mainly bulbocapnine used medicinally as a pure compound), protoberberines (coptisine, corydaline, canadine, scoulerine), protopines (protopine, corycavine) and benzophenanthridines. The alkaloids have sedative and spasmolytic properties. Isolated bulbocapnine is used in neurology to treat chorea tremors and spasms.
Status: Traditional medicine; Pharm.; Comm. E+.
Doctors of antiquity such as Galen and Avicenna regarded Fumatory as a tonic, depurative and softening agent; they administered it in cases of debility in the digestive system, jaundice and congestion of the abdominal viscera. Modern doctors have noted its effectiveness in treating skin diseases. One major personality in the Belgian medical world refutes Fumatory as a tonic and depurative, regarding it as hyposthenic. Fumarine, according to the same man is slightly stimulating. Fumatory has sometimes been applied in poultice form to scurvy complaints.
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Directions
Take 1 capsule, 3 times daily, with meals.
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