Officinal plants

Asian Centella: is an officinal plant used to fight the feeling of heaviness in the legs owing to peripheral venous insufficiency. It is an excellent remedy against capillary fragility and to favour cicatrisation in case of varices, skin wounds and lesions: ulcers, sores and burns.

Artichoke: is useful a liver tonic and stimulator; it helps to purify blood, prevent the formation of gallstones owing to an excess of cholesterol and is hence reccomended for reducing cholesterol. Thanks to the Cynarin and caffeylquinic acid, active agents contained in the leaves and stalks, artichoke has a benefic effect on bile secretion; it favours kidney functions and normalized intestinal and digestive functions. It's used also for digestive properties.

Bilberry: is an officinal plant known above all for its protective action on the retina. It helps to improve eyesight, thanks to its tonic action it is effective also on capillaries. Bilberry also has astringent, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties: it is useful in cases of cystitis.

Dandelion: is used to favour the excretion of bile from the gall bladder to favour digestion and to stimulate diuresis. It is a plant known since ancient time for its depurative and laxative properties. It is usueful as a bitter, tonic, eupeptic, digestive, choleretic, cholagogue and depurant.

Devil's claw: the main effect of this plant is anti-inflammatory and analgesic, similar to those of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, but without the typical side effects that this class of drugs has. Devil's claw contains 3 important active agents: harpagoside, harpagide and procumbide. All 3 are monoterpenic glucosides with anti-inflammatory properties and they do not harm the stomach.

Equisetum: is a genus of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. Hypotensive and diuretic effect are the main properties. Equisetum arvense is known to have antioxidant properties and be rich in minerals which play a vital role in regulating many body functions, including nerve response, muscle contraction, metabolism, and regulating electrolyte balance and hormonal production.

Fennel: is an officinal plant with anti-spasmodic, carminative, and galactagogue properties. It's reccomended in case of dyspepsia, irritable colon syndrome; it fights meteorism, flautolence and the feeling of early satiety. In case of gastro-disorders it is useful associated to characol. The fennel seeds are known for centuries as being a tonic and stimulating medicament for gastro-intestinal and carminative motility and they are still registered in official pharmacopoeia.

Fucus: is usually used in cases of thyroid deficits owing to its contents of iodine, in the treatment of obesity, as iodine stimulates basal metabolism in burning calories.

Ginseng: have been used for centuries by chinese medicine as the most energizing remedy available in nature. Its main properties are its tonic and adaptogenic properties. Adaptogens are substances that stimulate the brain's and adrenal gland's functions, improve the body's resistance to chemical, physical, mechanical and pharmacological noxious agents and helps the body to adapt quickly to the situations it must copy with. Ginseng is reccomended in case of fatigue, lack of appetite and asthenia.

Guaranà: is used as a tonic and stimulant of the central nervous system and as cardiotonic and diuretic, it has the effect of coffee, for this reason is reccomended in case of physical and mental fatigue, convalescence, flues, asthenia, hypotension. It's excellent when studyng for exams and training for sport.

Hawthorn: the therapeutic use of hawthorn exploits its cardiotonic properties. It is hence reccomended for poor cardiac functions, in case of senile heart diseases wich do not require yet the use of digital drugs. It also has mild sedative properties capable of relaxing the central nervous system; it has a hypotensive action; it lowers blood pressure and improves blood circulation.

Pineapple: has a digestive action and it is recommended for slimming diets, cellulites (draining action), dyspepsia and inflammations (sprains, bruises, haematoma). Its special properties are the result f the active agent it contains:bromelain, a enzyme capable of favouring the digestion.

Valerian: is an officinal plant wich has been valued for centuries for its sedative action on the central nervous system. It has anti-spasmodic, anti-neuralgic and mildly hypnotic properties. It is reccomended for those accefted by states of anxiety.