18/05/2021
DXN SPICA
DXN Spica Tea is a blend of 5 different medicinal herbs: Spica Prunellae, exotic flavor mandarin peel, refreshing mint leaf, licorice and Ganoderma extract.
This soft and refreshing drink, that you can have either hot or cold, contains no caffeine, preservatives, artificial flavors, colorings or flavor enhancers, therefore it is an ideal drink for all ages.
Ingredients: Spica Prunellae, mandarin peel (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae), mint (Herba Menthae), licorice (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Ganoderma lucidum.
Nutritional values
100 g of product:
Energy: 337.0 kcal
Protein: 1.24 g
Fat: 9,10 g
Carbohydrates: 72,46 g
5 g of product:
Energy: 16,85 kcal
Protein: 0.06 g
Fat: 0.46 g
Carbohydrates: 3.62 g
1 pack contains 20 sachets, 1 sachet contains 5 g of mixed tea
Prunella vulgaris
It is located in meadows, pastures and grasslands but also on the edges of thickets. It is an herbaceous plant, erect but small, widely used in traditional Chinese medicine and on the other hand almost completely unknown to the European herbal medicine. It is mentioned in the famous Compendium of Medical Subject by Li Shizhen, Bencao Gangmu (1578).
Most important active substances:
- triterpene saponins
- sterols (e.g. ecdysone)
- flavonoids
- tan
- oligosaccharides.
It is predominantly used as:
- a prevention of infectious diseases
- a treatment of oral infections and inflammations (e.g. Gingivitis)
- a supplement treatment of cancer (for example lungs cancer) because of its immunomodulatory effect
- a treatment for skin and eye contour inflammations (as a detergent)
Recommended daily dose: 6-15 g
No known side effects. A relatively high recommended daily dose presumes safe application.
Mandarin (Citrus Reticulata)
The various species of citrus fruits have been grown for a long time. In common language, different citrus species are called mandarins (e.g. Citrus Reticulata, Citrus Tangerine, Citrus Clementina, etc.).
Mandarin is native from southern China and the Philippines where it also lives in the wild.
From there it spread dating back from the 18th century in southern Europe (Italian peninsula, Greece, Spain etc.), and in the American continent, where particularly in North America it is grown in large plantations.
Most important active ingredients: the nutritional value of citrus fruits is appreciated in terms of fiber, vitamins (above all vitamin C which has an antioxidant, anti-stress and anticancerogenic action), vegetable acids, minerals and flavonoids.
In the fruit rind is contained 0.2-0.5% of essential oils (from 65 to 75% limonene and from 16 to 22% gamma-terpinene), bitter materials, flavonoids and coumarin derivatives (these last ones lack the oil produced by steam distillation, their presence is characteristic only of cold-pressed oils).
Main effects (fruit rind):
In traditional Chinese medicine instead of the fruit and the essential oil they mainly use the zest of mandarin. The name of the green, still premature zest is called โqing piโ, while the one of the yellow, already mature fruit โchen-piโ.
The first is used more as hepatoprotective, the second as an adjuvant of the spleen and a carminative (Spica Tea contains rind of ripe mandarin).
Moreover it is known its digestive, anti-inflammatory and expectorant action.
Recommended daily dose: 3-9 g peels
Mint (Mentha arvensis)
Mint grows wild in Western countries, China, Japan and just a particular variant in Canada; in the Mediterranean area is cultivated in large quantities mainly for the production of essential oil and menthol. It has an average height of 20-40 cm (sometimes also comes to 80 cm), it looks like the other species of mint, its flowers are purple and it prefers a wetland.
It was mentioned for the first time in China during the fifth century by Xiao Lei as โLeigong baozhilunโ, in Master Leiโs book of Meditations on the preparation of medicinal plants.
Most important active substances: 1-3% essential oils (approx. 80% menthol, then menthone, menthyl acetate among the main components), plus tans and flavonoids.
Main effects:
- antimicrobial
- spasmolytic
- carminative
- anti-inflammatory
- local painkiller
In folk medicine its use looks a lot like that of peppermint (a distinction of the various species is not successful in all cases).
In modern therapy it is used in factory-prepared and in galenic pharmaceutical forms (tablets, drops) for digestion disorders, irritable bowel syndromes, disorders of the biliary tract.
For external use on the other hand, it is used as a component of ointments, creams and preparations to be massaged in order to facilitate breathing, to alleviate pain caused by locomotor diseases and headaches, and as a treatment for teeth or oral diseases in general. As further use should be mentioned that of inhalation in case of cold or infestation of the respiratory tract.
IMPORTANT: similarly to peppermint oil, avoid as well the application of products containing mint oil on children in the nose contour and as inhalation because of its high menthol content. However, the essential oil with a reduced menthol content can be safely applied even on children.
Chinese Licorice (Glycyrrhiza uralensis)
Chinese licorice is the Asian relative of the variant known in the Western world. In China and Japan it also lives in the wild, in inner Mongolia it is instead grown in large quantities, and is perennial plant.
In traditional Chinese medicine it is used the main root and the rootโs 20-22 cm long and 1-1.5 cm thick side shoots. We tell about its importance because it is cited both in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2000 and in the fifteenth Japanese Pharmacopoeia.
Its most important active substances are:
- triterpene saponins (the most important is sweet-tasty glycyrrhizin but there are also glycyrrhizinic acid, glabrolida, derivatives of glycyrrhizinic acid and uralsaponin A, B)
- flavonoids
- polysaccharides (among them also those having an immunomodulatory action).
Main effects:
- anti-inflammatory
- anti-ulcerating
- spasmolytic
- immunostimulant
- antiviral (against the herpes simplex and herpes zoster viruses)
Recommended daily dose: 5-15 g of major or lateral roots; 200-800 mg of glycyrrhizin or equivalent extracts (monograph WHO).
WARNING: avoid application in case of liver cirrhosis, hypertension, severe renal insufficiency and pregnancy. For glycyrrhizin free licorice extracts, there have been no reported side effects.
Ganoderma lucidum
There has already been a description about ganoderma lucidum in our previous newsletters, so we propose to go over it again before any further questions!
If you are interested in receiving more information about ganoderma lucidum, you can find any sort of publications on the internet as well as on our websites.
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