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- Title
Centella asiatica (Indian pennywort), and effective therapeutic but a weak sensitizer.
- Authors
Hausen, B. M.
- Abstract
The sensitizing capacity of Centella asiatica (raw extract] and its triterpenic constituents asiatic asid. Asiatic acid and madecassic acid has been studied in guinea pigs. The extract itself as well as the 3 acids were found to be very weak sensitizers. centella asiatica extract is used effectively in the treatment of keloids, leg ulcers, phlebitis, sitar-healing wounds, leprosy, surgical lesions, striae distensae and cellutitis. Athough upplied frequently to damaged skin the risk of acquiring contact .sensitivity to this plant or its constituents is low.
- Subjects
HYDROCOTYLE; HERBAL medicine; UMBELLIFERAE; GUINEA pigs; CAVIIDAE; PHLEBITIS
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 1993, Vol 29, Issue 4, p175
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0536.1993.tb03532.x