Ready alcoholic tinctures
In medical practice, alcohol containing tinctures and extracts are used. Tinctures are transparent extracts, which are an alcohol, alcohol or alcohol ester extract. Unlike ordinary water infusions, they can persist for a long time, so they are prepared in pharmaceutical plants. Usually tinctures are consumed inside: strong - from 3 to 8 drops, the rest - from 10 to 40 drops per reception. They are prepared at the rate of 1: 5 or 1:10 on 70% alcohol. Insist at room temperature for 7 days. The obtained tinctures are left to stand for several days at a temperature not higher than
8 ° C, after which they are filtered. They should be transparent and have the smell and taste of the corresponding medicinal raw materials. At home preparation of tincture alcohol is replaced with vodka, but take 2 times more vodka.
Extracts, in contrast to tinctures, are condensed extracts from medicinal plants. In the preparation of extracts, vinyl alcohol, ether, water and mixtures thereof are used as eluents. The extractants are then evaporated to the desired consistency, depending on which the liquid, thick and dry extracts are distinguished.
As an example of ready-made infusions, you can cite the popular alcohol tincture of the root of the wife
shenya( Tinctura Ginseng).This transparent liquid of yellowish color is prepared on 70% ethyl alcohol in a ratio of 1 part of root and 10 parts of alcohol, it is used as a tonic and stimulant for asthenia, overfatigue, neurasthenia, after infectious and debilitating diseases, and also at weakening of sexual function, on the basis of neurasthenia( in complex therapy).Usually appoint inside for 30 minutes.before eating 15-25 drops 2-3 times a day. Course 1 month.
Warning! Spirituous tincture of ginseng root has contraindications: hypertension, insomnia, increased excitability, hemorrhage.
This applies to other tinctures that "tonic" the central nervous system: tinctures of magnolia vine, zamanichi, spiculia, extracts of rhodium-diols, levzeyi, etc. These drugs are effective in borderline disorders, as maintenance therapy, with general weakening of the body, withoverexertion and the transferred diseases.
To the opposite tonic group of drugs are sedative, soothing. They reduce the excitability of the central nervous system, enhance the effect of hypnotics, and also have antispasmodic properties. They are taken with nervous excitement, insomnia, neuroses of the cardiovascular system, spasms of the gastrointestinal tract, etc., often in combination with other soothing and heart means.
The most vivid and popular representatives of this group of drugs are tinctures of valerian, motherwort and passionflower extract.
Tinctura Valerianae tincture on 70% alcohol( 1: 5) is a clear liquid of a reddish-brown color with a characteristic smell and a sweetish bitter spicy taste. Under the influence of sunlight it gets dark. Usually, adults are prescribed 20 to 30 drops 3-4 times a day, and children receive as many drops per reception as a child of years.
The tincture of the motherwort( Herba Leonuri) on 70% alcohol( 1: 5) is a transparent liquid of a greenish-brown color with a bitter taste and a faint smell. Take 30-50 drops 3 times daily before meals. Basically, it is prescribed as a sedative for increased nervous excitability, cardiovascular neuroses and early stages of hypertension.
According to the nature of the action, motherwort preparations are close to valerian preparations.
Passion flora Extract( Extractum Leonuri fluidum) is obtained from the fruits, collected from the flowering period and the beginning of fruiting, of the dried shoots of the perennial cultivated plant of Passionflower incarnate, better known as meat-red passionflower. Tincture and extract from it have a calming effect on the central nervous system, have anticonvulsant properties. The alcohol extract is a liquid of a dark brown or dark brown color, a peculiar aromatic odor, a bitter taste. Assign usually with increased excitability, insomnia, etc. for 20-40 drops 3 times a day. The course, like all sedative infusions and extracts, 20-30 days.