10/03/2024
Over de wilg, een overzicht https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7908037/ Traditional Uses
Salix plants have been used medicinally since antiquity and have been linked to the discovery of acetylsalicylic acid and aspirin. These plants had been traditionally used to treat painful musculoskeletal joint pain conditions, inflammation, and fever. Salicin is a major pharmacologically active metabolite in Salix and hydrolyzes in the gastrointestinal tract to confer salicyl alcohol and d-glucose. The latter is oxidized, upon absorption, into salicylic acid, the active drug which inhibits cyclooxygenases (COX I, II) (Mahdi, 2010).
S. egyptiaca L (Musk Willow) was important in the Middle East, especially in Iran, as it has been traditionally used to treat anemia and vertigo, as a cardiotonic agent, and also in the preparation of local candies as a fragrance additive (Asgarpanah, 2012). S. alba L (white willow), had used in folk medicine to treat fever, chronic and acute inflammation, pain and infection (Zengion and Yarnell, 2011; Maistro et al., 2019). S. tetrasperma Roxb. had been used to treat diseases such as epilepsy, diabetes, fever, rheumatism, piles, swellings, stones in bladder, dysentery, wound, ear pain, cough and cold (Prash*th Kekuda et al., 2017). S. alba L. bark is traditionally used for treatment of flu, rheumatism, fever and headache (Van Wyk and Wink, 2018).
The Willows (genus Salix), with more than 330–500 species and 200 hybrids, are trees, shrubs or prostrate plants that are widely distributed in Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia. The genus is traditionally used in folk medicine and represents ...
