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usnea

Herbal medicine
Any of a family of lichens that contain usnic acid, which is believed to have antibacterial, immune stimulatory and muscle relaxing activity. Lichens are used topically for athlete’s foot and skin ulcers; as a douche for vaginal infections; and internally for colds, flu, sore throat and gastrointestinal, respiratory and urinary tract infections.

Toxicity
It should not be used in pregnancy, as it stimulates uterine contraction.
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Tissue-cultures of Usnea rubescens and Ramalina yasudae and production of usnic acid in their cultures.
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chinense, Everniastrum cirrhatum, Usnea sinensis, U.
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As examples of therapeutic uses, Usnea barbata was used to treat hair-related diseases, Parmelia sulcata for cranial maladies, and Parmelia saxatilis for the treatment of epilepsy [6].
Evaluation of the Antioxidant Capacities and Cytotoxic Effects of Ten Parmeliaceae Lichen Species
2002) followed by peeling bark, growth of draped arboreal lichen (Usnea spp.), and top breakage culminating in wind-throw 5 to 8 years later.
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Nombre Nombre Uso medicinal Localidad y cientifico criollo grupo humano actualizado (nombre publicado) LICHENES USNEACEAE Usnea hieronymi barba de Expectorante Anejas-Norte Kremphl.
Etnobotanica medica de grupos criollos de Argentina: reconocimiento, analisis y puesta en valor de los datos presentados por el Gobierno Argentino en la exposicion Universal de Paris de 1889
Antioxidative and cardiovascular-protective activities of metabolite usnic acid and psoromic acid produced by lichen species Usnea complanara under submerged fermentation.
Lichen-derived compounds show potential for central nervous system therapeutics
The lichen genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae) in the tropical Andes and the Galapagos: species with a red-orange cortical or subcortical pigmentation.
Nuevos registros de la liquenobiota del Santuario Historico de Machu Picchu, Peru
Variable retention management influences biomass of Misodendrum and Usnea in Nothofagus pumilio southern Patagonian forests.
Retention forestry in southern Patagonia: multiple environmental impacts and their temporal trends/Foresterie de retention dans la Patagonie du sud: impacts environnementaux multiples et leurs courants temporels/Silvicultura de retencion en el sur de la Patagonia: multiples impactos ambientales y sus tendencias temporales
Por ello es que se esta en la busqueda de nuevos antibioticos que provengan de productos naturales, de este estudio se puede concluir que los extractos de las especies liquenicas (Everniastrum columbiense, Flavopunctelia flaventor, Parmotrema simulans, Ramalina celastri, Teloschistes exilis y Usnea sp.), presentan actividad antibacteriana frente a los microorganismos Staphylococcus aureus (microrganismo Gram positivo), Klebsiella pneumoniae Gram (microorganismo Gram negativo) mediante el metodo de difusion en gel por perforacion en placa.
Actividad antimicrobiana de liquenes de la cuenca alta del rio Bogota
x x x x Gongylanthus scariosus x x x Lethocolea pansa x x x Phaeoceros laevis x Riccia bifurca x x Riccia crinita x x x Riccia crystallina Riccia lamellosa x Riccia nigrella x x x Riccia sorocarpa x x x x Targionia hypophylla Lichens Fruticose Cladia aggregata x x x Cladia corallazion x Cladonia cervicornis Neophyllis mucrolemma Siphula coriacea Teloschistes sieberiana x Thysanothecium scutellum Usnea scabrida subsp.
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Culb., Flavopunctelia soredica (Nyl.) Hale, Lobaria scrobiculata (Scop.) DC, Parmelina tiliacea (Hoffm.) Hale, Usnea longissima Ach.
Status of rare and endangered species of lichen populations in the Perm Territory

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