PARTE UTILIZADA= Used part: Corteza y raíces.

ACCION FARMACOLOGICA: Anti-periódico, purgante.

COMPOSICIÓN QUÍMICA= Chemical composition: The neutral components from the stems of Colletia spinosissima Gmel. include lupenone, sitosterol lupeol, daucosterine. Acid hydrolysis of the glycoside fraction afforded ethyl sinapate and two homologous degradation products from the corresponding sapogenins. Mild hydrolysis of the glycoside fraction afforded the intact sapogenins, which have been tentatively assigned the structures (VIIb) and (VIIIb). The chemistry of the latter compounds has been explored. © 1973.

ZONA GEOGRAFICA= Geografical zone: Perú, Brasil, Argentina y Chile.

1) TOURSARKISSIAN, Martín. Plantas medicinales de Argentina : sus nombres botánicos, vulgares, usos y distribución geográfica. Buenos Aires : Hemisferio Sur, 1980, p.109.

2) Pacheco, P., et al. Triterpenoids of Colletia spinosissima. Phytochemistry. 1973, vol.12, nº4, p.893-897.