Oleander FHP / Nerium oleander PPH

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Pharmacopée française - Préparations homéopathiques
08/03/2012

Sujets

• Anglais
• Médecine

Informations

• Publié par: ansm-pharmacopee-francaise
• Publié le: 08 mars 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Licence : En savoir +
  Paternité, pas d'utilisation commerciale, pas de modification
• Langue: English

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OLEANDER FOR HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS NERIUM OLEANDER FOR HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS Nerium oleander ad praeparationes homoeopathicas Other Latin name used in homeopathy:Oleander DEFINITION Fresh leaf ofNerium oleanderL. IDENTIFICATION A. The fresh leaf of oleander is entire, shortly petioled, lanceolate, measuring about 12 cm long and 2 cm large. It is green on the upper side; the underside is paler and shows a very conspicuous midrib of a whitish colour and numerous, secondary, parallel veins. It has a coriaceous consistency. B. Take a fragment of abaxial epidermis of the leaf. Examine under a microscope, usingchloral hydrate solution R: epidermis composed of polyhedral cells and unicellular covering trichomes with strongly thickened and finely echinulate cell-wall; numerous openings corresponding to stomatiferous cavities, more or less ovoid, bordered by small cells markedly cuticle-covered and unicellular covering trichomes bent or hooked-shaped. TESTS Foreign matter(2.8.2): maximum 5 per cent. Loss on drying(2.2.32): minimum 50.0 per cent, determined on 5.0 g of finely-cut drug, by drying in an oven at 105 °C for 2 h. STOCK DEFINITION Oleander mother tincture is prepared with ethanol (65 per centV/V),using the fresh leaf ofNerium oleanderL. Content: minimum 0.050 per centm/mof total flavonoids, expressed as rutin (C 27 H 30 O 16 , 3 H 2 O;M r 665).

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