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The red vine leaves have many therapeutic properties. They are regarded as anti-feeble, stimulative and diuretic. But they are primarily used in phytotherapy as venous and capillary tonic to control blood circulation and to improve the microcirculation.
They protect and also invigorate the wall of the blood vessels, and are used in the case of nosebleed, hemorrhoids, varix and bloated legs.
Is it called Red Vine because its leaves, very cogged and having 3 to 7 lobes, redden on Autumn. Like all the vines, its climbing stems carry branches which give a very energic grape with which we can make wine.
The principal components insulated in the leaves of the red vine are from 3 classes:
• vitamin C
did you know It?
The red vine was an object of worship among Old Greeks. They associated it to Dyonisos, God of the vegetation, and they pressed the fruits to make wine.
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• tannins. It is known that these substances, of polyphenolic nature, have the capacity to fix proteins, so we can use them in therapeutic as astringent of external use, and as anti-diarrheal of internal use.
• anthocyanes, pigments which give their red colouring to the fruits and the leaves. These anthocyanes are responsible for the P vitamin action of the red vine.
It is known that this P vitamin action does not correspond to a chemically definite vitamin, but represents a set of properties of vascular, capillary and venous protection.
A certain number of authors studied the mechanism of this action. For Harmand, the anthocyans would act on the cytoplasmic and lysosomial membranes of the cell, slowing down by this way the release of the enzymes of capillary permeability.
Recent work showed that the anthocyans had the capacity to neutralize the free radicals at the origin of deteriorations of the vascular wall.
Indications:
Capillary brittleness, blotches,
varixes, hemorrhoides,
disorders of the menopause.
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