What is Uva Ursi Arctostaphylos uva-ursi?Its History,Phytochemicals,Mode of Action and Magic Superstition?

Contents

• Basic Botanical Info:What is Uva Ursi,Arctostaphylos uva-ursi?
• Uva Ursi Plant Description and History.
• Phytochemicals and Constituents:Uva Ursi Bearberry.
• Parts Used Medicinally:Uva Ursi Bearberry.
• Medicinal Uses of Uva Ursi Bearberry.
• Uva Ursi Benefits in Brief.
• Mode of Action:Uva Ursi Mechanism and How it works?.
• Specific Indications and Uses:Uva Ursi Additional Information.
• Uva Ursi Bearberry in Magic and Superstition.
• Administration and Application Guide:Uva Ursi .
• Research Update:Uva Ursi and Arbutin.

Basic Botanical Info:What is Uva Ursi,Arctostaphylos uva-ursi?:

Official Latin Name: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
 Botanical: Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi
 Family: Ericaceae
 Part Used:Leaves.berries:The leaves of Arctostaphylos Uva ursi (Linne), Sprengel"(U. S. P.) (Arbutus Uva ursi, Linne; Arctostaphylos officinalis, Wimmer).
 Synonyms:Arbutus Uva-Ursi. Uva-Ursi. Bearberry, kinnikinnick, arbutus.

 Common Names: Arberry, Arbutus, Upland cranberry,Bearberry, Bear's Berry, Bear's Grape, Carillo, Chipmunk's Apples, Coralillo, Crowberry, Foxberry, Hogberry, Kinnikinnick, Manzanita, Mealberry, Mountain Box, Mountain Cranberry, Mountain Tobacco, Pinemat Manzanita, Red Bearberry, Rockberry, Sandberry, Sagackhomi, Sagakomi, Upland Cranberry, Uva-Ursi, Whortleberry.

 Other Names: Arberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Bear Grape, Bearberry, Coralillo, Hogberry, Kinnikinnick, Mealberry, Mountain Cranberry, Rockberry, Sandberry,Uva Ursi, Bear Berry, Kinnikinnik,Bearberry,Arctostaphylos uva ursi,Arbutus uva ursi,Arberry,Bearberry,Bear's-grape,Crowberry,Foxberry,Hog Cranberry,Kinnikinnick,Mealberry,Mountain Box,Mountain Cranberry,Red Bearberry,Sagackhomi,Sandberry,Upland Cranberry,Uva-ursi or Kinnikinnick

 This plant is a small, perennial shrub, having a long, fibrous root. Its stems are woody, trailing, and rooting, the young shoots only turning upward; the bark deciduous and smooth. The leaves are alternate, obovate, acute at base, short petioled, coriaceous, evergreen, glabrous, shining above, paler beneath, entire, in young ones pubescent, the margin rounded, but scarcely reflexed. The flowers are terminal and clustered. Peduncles short, red, reflexed, and furnished at base with a short, acute bract, with 2 minute ones at the sides. Sepals 5, roundish, reddish, and persistent. Corolla ovate or urceolate, white with a reddish tinge, transparent at base, contracted at the mouth, and hairy inside, with 5 short, reflexed segments. Stamens 10, very slightly adhering to the base of the corolla; filaments hairy; anthers reddish, each with 2 horns and 2 pores. Ovary round; style straight, longer than the stamens; stigma simple. Disk a black indented ring. The fruit is small, globular, succulent, drupaceous, depressed, almost scarlet-colored, with an insipid, mealy pulp, and 5 angular seeds (L.).

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♣ last edit date:26th,Oct.2010.