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Functional dyspepsia – Medicinal plants for treatment (IV)
Gentian (Gentiana lutea L.)
The roots and rhizome are the plant parts that constitute the drug. As active ingredients contains iridoids (bitter glycosides), simple sugars, phenolic acids, benzoic acid derivatives, xanthones, triterpenes, tannins, sterols, inulin, traces of essential oil and pyridine alkaloids.
Thanks to its content of bitter substances, the iridoids, gentian root stimulates the taste buds, an effect that reflects the production of juices increase gastrointestinal motility and accelerates gastric stomach emptying, thus aids digestion.
It also has effect cholagogue, choleretic and antispasmodic. It also appears to have immunostimulatory properties and antioxidant activity.
It is indicated to treat poor appetite and dyspepsia. Moreover, traditionally has been used since antiquity to treat aerophagia, gastrointestinal atony and biliary dyskinesia. Read the rest of this entry »