very poisonous!!
Botanical name of squill: Scilla maritima
Plant family: yacinthaceae / Hyacinthaceae
Main botanical characteristics: In spring, a flowering shoot about 1,5m high sprouts from the bulb, bearing stalked flowers in a spiral arrangement in the upper third.
Flowering time: April-May
Plant parts used: Medium, fleshy bulb scales / Bulbus Scillae
Ingredients: Cardiac glycosides (digitalis-like), flavonoids
Effect: Digitalis-like effect, diuretic, positive inotropic, negative chronotropic, economizes cardiac work, reduces pathologically elevated venous pressure.
Indications: Mild to moderate heart failure with edema, bradycardic forms of heart failure,
TCM: Renal and cardiac edema, ascites, flank pain, splenic enlargement, diabetes insipidus.
Contraindication / Side effects: Concurrent therapy with digitalis glycosides, potassium deficiency. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.
Preparation and dosage form:
- Finished medicinal products
- Homeopathic
- No self-medication!!!
Effect of squill in TCM (cool):
- Tonifies the heart yang
- Tonifies the Lung Yin
- Acts as an expectorant and secretolytic
- Dispels wind and dryness in the lungs
- Resolves liver qi stagnation
