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DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Root of the Uzara plant. Uzarae radix, also known as Uzara root, is a drug that is used in herbal medicines for the treatment of non-specific and acute diarrheal diseases. Uzara originates from South Africa.
Commission e-monograph: acute, non-specific diarrheal diseases, diarrhea with vomiting.
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Empirical medicine: Indigenous people of South Africa: stomach and intestinal complaints, colic, dysentery, headaches, fever and malaria.
IngredientsThis section has been translated automatically.
Uzara root contains flavonoids, glycosides such as uzarin and xysmalorin, and tanning agents.
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EffectsThis section has been translated automatically.
Uzara root has spasmolytic and motility inhibiting effects, stimulation of sympathetic fibers, secretion inhibiting, antiemetic.... A digitalis-like effect is only slightly pronounced.
Field of application/useThis section has been translated automatically.
Uzara root is used for non-specific and acute diarrheal diseases. As the Uzara root contains tannins as well as glycosides that are active at the heart, the specified dosages must be strictly adhered to.
Undesirable effectsThis section has been translated automatically.
rarely allergic reactions, also nausea, vomiting.
InteractionsThis section has been translated automatically.
Parallel use of cardiac glycosides is not allowed.also quinidine, saluretics and preparations containing cortisone.
Trade namesThis section has been translated automatically.
Uzara® tablets, solution or juice
Note(s)This section has been translated automatically.
Permitted for children from 2 years of age. But only to be used in finished preparations!
Background: Heinrich Adolf Hopf (1887-1929) learned about the healing properties of uzara root on one of his trips to South Africa - his intestinal illness healed after chewing small pieces of root, which he received from a medicine man. Hopf took the plant with him to Germany, where the University of Marburg identified uzarin as the main active ingredient. Uzara root preparations have been available in Germany since 1911.
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- Wenigmann M.(2017) Phytotherapie Arzneidrogen Phytopharmaka Anwendung. Elsevier Munich: 5.116 Uzara root (Uzarae radix) p 207-208
- https://www.awl.ch/heilpflanzen/xysmalobium-undulatum/uzara.htm