PARTE UTILIZADA= Used part: Hojas, flores.

ACCIÓN FARMACOLÓGICA= Pharmacological action: Para lavar heridas, antinervino, vulneraria.

COMPOSICIÓN QUÍMICA= Chemical composition: Aerial parts of flowering C. caucasiaum contained 3.00 and 21.11 air-dried wt.% of free and bound amino acids, resp. Resp. contents in C. angustifolium were 2.99 and 12.36%, and in O. mollissima 2.65 and 8.12%. The contents of nonessential free amino acids in the 3 species were 1.39, 1.12, and 0.70%, resp., and of the bound ones 45.30, 33.62, and 25.36%, resp. All 3 species contained the same 16 amino acids, including 8 of the essential ones.

ZONA GEOGRÁFICA= Geografical zone: Uruguay. 

1) GONZALEZ, Matías ; LOMBARDO, Atilio ; VALLARINO, Aida. Plantas de la medicina vulgar del Uruguay. Montevideo : Talleres Gráficos, 1937, p.60.

2) BOGAEVSKAYA, N. I.; BONDYKOVA, V. A. Pyatigorsk. Chemical investigation of the Onagraceae. Amino acid composition of Chamerion (Rafin) species and Oenothera mollissima. Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii. 1990, nº2, p.285-287.