Stem plant
Pinaceae spruce, red spruce, Norway spruce (but it is a spruce).
Medicinal drug
Piceae summitates – shoot tips, shoots.
Preparations
- Piceae abietis turionum recentorum extractum aquosum spissum
- Piceae abietis turionum recentorum succus et extractum aquosum liquidum
- Piceae summitatum extractum aquosum
- Piceae summitatum succus et extractum
Ingredients
Essential oil: Piceae aetheroleum (spruce needle oil).
Effects
- Promotes blood circulation
- Expectorant
- Weakly antiseptic
Fields of application
- For respiratory diseases, colds.
- For rheumatic complaints
- To promote blood circulation
- For the extraction of charcoal (Carbo ligni)
Dosage
- In finished medicinal products
- For inhalation, add a few drops to hot water, inhale vapors
Contraindications
Oil: bronchial asthma, whooping cough.
Adverse effects
Oil: irritation of skin and mucous membranes, enhancement of bronchospasm.
