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Passion Flower | | Name : | Passion Flower | | Botanical : | Passiflora incarnata | | Latin : | Passiflora incarnata L. | | Synonyms : | Passion Vine. Granadilla. Maracoc. Maypops. | | Family : | Passifloraceae | | Parts Used : | The dried herb, collected after some of the berries have matured. | | Habitat : | Virginia. | | Picture : |  | | Description : | The Passion Flowers are so named from the supposed resemblance of the finely-cut corona in the centre of the blossoms to the Crown of Thorns and of the other parts of the flower to the instruments of the Passion of Our Lord. Passiflora incarnata has a perennial root, and the herbaceous shoots bear three-lobed, finelyserrated leaves and flesh-coloured or yellowish, sweet-scented flowers, tinged with purple. The ripe, orange-coloured, ovoid, many-seeded berry is about the size of a small apple; when dried, it is shrivelled and greenish-yellow. The yellow pulp is sweet and edible. | | Constituents : | There appears to be no detailed analysis of this species, but its active principle, which has been called Passiflorine, would appear to be somewhat similar to morphine. | | Uses : | The drug is known to be a depressant to the motor side of the spinal cord, slightly reducing arterial pressure, though affecting circulation but little, while increasing the rate of respiration. It is official in homoeopathic medicine and used with bromides, it is said to be of great service in epilepsy. Its narcotic properties cause it to be used in diarrhoea and dysentery, neuralgia, sleeplessness and dysmenorrhoea. | | Dosage : | 3 to 10 grains. Of Fluid extract, 10 to 20 minims. |
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