Hercampuri (Gentianella alborosea)

Presentation: 10gr tea filters in boxes of 30 filters each.
Quantity Available: 5MT/Year

Common Name: 
Hercampuri

Botanical Description:
It is a perennial herb that reaches up to 5 cm in height. It is small, with a twisted and rugose root. Its stem is short and dark brown. Its leaves measure about 1 cm and they are simple, opposed, lanceolate, sessile, and dark green. Its inflorescence is cymose and its flowers reach up to 1,5 cm. The flower is palid lavanda or yellow, with a small erect peduncle. The calyx is bell-shaped, with three-segment lobule and is shorter than the tube. It has a corolla. 
Its stem is small and dark brown, with herbaceous consistency, measuring 0,5 cm in diameter and having dichotomic ramification.
The leaves are small: they are 0,5 to 1 cm long. They are straight, opposed, simple, lanceolate, thick, dark green, sessile without stipules.
The fruit consists of a septicidal dehiscence capsule, which opens through two valves and it has many seeds, which are small and black or dark brown.
The root is furrowed lengthwise and sometimes it is twisted in its axis. It is longer than the stem. 

Chemical Composition:
The most popular compounds of the Gentianaceae family are erytaurin (a bitter glucoside), amarogentin and gentiopicrin, erythrocentaurin and gentiopicrosides (unsaturated lactones), besides volatile oils, sugars, mucilages, tannins, gentianic acid and hemicellulose.

Clinical studies:
According to a thesis made at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Rojas L., 1999), the brew of the whole Gentianella alborosea (hercampuri) pulverized plant produces a body weight decrease in rats. The larger the dose, the greater the weight loss.
It was also determined that the brew of the whole pulverized plant produces a moderate diuresis at a dose of 6 mg/kg BW. This has been confirmed with the histological changes found after the administration of doses that were three, six and nine times the diuretic dose in the renal tissue.
Finally, it is concluded that the brew of this plant produces a decrease of the biliary flow in rats. 

Acute Toxicity:
According to Rojas (1999), no result was obtained in the determination of the DL50 average lethal dose. It was calculated that this value is over 3000 g/kg of body weight, because such was the maximum concentration attained and no alteration was observed in the animals' behavior or appearance.