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Graminis flos, also known as hay flowers, is a drug used in herbal medicinal products for the treatment of rheumatic diseases and blunt injuries.
Commission E- Monograph: degenerative rheumatic diseases
Empirical medicine: blunt injuries, supporting hematoma resorption
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Graminis flos contains coumarin glycosides and furanocoumarins as odorous substances, essential oils and tanning agents. The coumarin content depends on the presence of more than 10% of clover flowers in addition to the grass flowers.
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EffectsThis section has been translated automatically.
Graminis flos has a local hyperemic effect and influences internal organs through cutivisceral reflexes.
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Hay flowers are used to treat rheumatic diseases and blunt injuries.
DosageThis section has been translated automatically.
Hay flowers can be used 1 to 2 times a day in the form of compresses. The hay-flower sack, which has a temperature of approx. 42 degrees Celsius, is placed directly on the area to be treated.
ContraindicationThis section has been translated automatically.
In the case of open injuries, acute rheumatic attacks or inflammations or an allergy to grass pollen, it should not be used.
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There are no known interactions with other drugs.
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- Schilcher H (ed.) in, Leitfaden Phytotherapie, Urban & Fischer Verlag (2016) Munich, p.156 f.
- Wenigmann M. (2017) Phytotherapy medicinal drugs, phytopharmaceuticals, application. Urban & Fischer, pp. 123-124
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