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Indicazioni: Fucus vesiculosus, a natural remedy against cellulite and obesity. |
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Confezione: 200 Tablets 370 mg each 
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2-3 tablets in the morning, afternoon and evening after meals |
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| fucus thallus powder * mg 300 |
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| Some hypersensitive subjects can have a slight agitation with difficulty to fell asleep, in this case is sufficient to reduce or eliminate evening subministration. Sometimes Fucus can have a mild lassative effect that vanishes reucing the dosing for a week at least, then starting again with the normal dosing. |
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Botanic name:
Fucus vesiculosus L. - fam. Fucacee
Used parts : thallus
Synonymous: ,Bladder-wrack, Ser-wrach, Bladder fucus, Kelpware,
Black tang, Cut-weed, Sea-oak
Other names: it.Fuco F.U.I. IX, fuca, quercia marina, kelp, alga marina, etiope
vegetabile, varech - ; fr. - Varec vesiculeux; ted. - Blasentang,
Meertang; sp. - Sargaso vejigosa, Encina marina, Corbela
In countries overlooking the Atlantic, Fucus was often used in case of hypothyroidism with goitre, obesity, skin "scrofula" and adenopathy, it was considered the main remedy for "plethorice"constitutions.
Iodine, conteined in Fucus both in inorganic form and linked to proteins, is easely absorbed by organism and is concentrated in the thyroid, where it is incorporated in thyroid hormons thyroxin and Triiodothyronine Those stimulate also basal metabolism, quicken the change and then have a slimming effect. Even arsenic, conteined in traces, can cause a slowdown of the normal energetic flow mobilizing alternatives ways for the liberation of energy. Mucilages (mucopolysaccharide) have a immunomodulator effect inducing the trasformation of lymphocytes. Metabolites of sulphurated compounds act mainly as mucolytics. Moreover they carry on a diuretic action in synergy with polifenolic compounds that together with thyroid stimulation, due to iodine, show themselves with an anticellulite effect. Phloroglucinoli and Polyphenol have shown to have antibiotic activity.
Pedretti M.: L'erborista
moderno,Studio Edizioni, Milano, 1980
Glombitza K.W. et al.: Planta Med. 32,33, 1977
Curro F. et al.: Arch. Med. Intern 28, 19, 1976