foot trefoil FHP / Lotus corniculatus PPH

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Pharmacopée française - Préparations homéopathiques - Bird's
05/06/2012

Sujets

• Anglais
• Médecine

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• Publié par: ansm-pharmacopee-francaise
• Publié le: 05 juin 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 21
• Licence : En savoir +
  Paternité, pas d'utilisation commerciale, pas de modification
• Langue: English

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BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL FOR HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS   LOTUS CORNICULATUS FOR HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS  

Lotus corniculatus ad praeparationes homoeopathicas     DEFINITION    Whole, fresh, blooming plant,Lotus corniculatusL.     CHARACTERS    Macroscopic and microscopic characters described under identification tests A and B.     IDENTIFICATION    A. Herbaceous plant, 10-40 cm high with a hard rootstock and ligneous taproot. Full stem, lying or ascendant. Leaf composed of 3 leaflets obovate or oblong with oval stipules. Flowers in clusters of 3-6, on stalks much longer than the leaf. Bell-shaped calyx with even teeth, triangular and awl-like, erect-connivent as long as the tube. Yellow zygomorphic corolla, often marked with orange and reddish spots, presenting obovate wings and a keel bent at nearly right angle.   B. Take a fragment of abaxial epidermis from the leaflet. Examine under a microscope usingolhcral  hydrate solution R: lamina epidermis composed of polygonal cells with sinuous cell-walls, slightly thickened at each angle, numerous anisocytic stomata (2.8.3) and scarce covering trichomes with echinulate cell-walls, lying parallel to the epidermis, bicellular, straight and tapered, about 400 µm long; midrib epidermis composed of rectangular to parallelipipedic cells and covering trichomes; covering trichomes of the leaf margin all oriented towards the petiole; palisade parenchyma within the lower epidermis.     TESTS   Foreign matter(2.8.2): maximum 5 per cent.   Loss on drying(2.2.32): minimum 60.0 per cent, determined on 5.0 g of finely-cut drug, by drying in an oven at 105 °C for 2 h.     STOCK     DEFINITION    Bird's-foot trefoil mother tincture complies with the requirements of the general technique for the  ____________________________   The General Chapters and General Monographs of the European Pharmacopoeia and Preamble of the French Pharmacopoeia apply.   F r e n c h P h a r m a c o p o e i a 2 0 1 2