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KOM); Antifertility (1; WO2); Antiinflammatory (1; APA; PH2; WO2); Antinitrosaminic (1;
JNU); Antioxidant (1; WO2); Antipyretic (f; CRC; IED); Antiscorbutic (1; IED); Antitumor
(1; BGB; PH2); Antiulcer (1; APA); Astringent (1; DAV); Cholagogue (f; IED); Decongestant
(f; JFM); Depurative (f; CRC); Diaphoretic (f; IED); Digestive (1; APA; CRC); Discutient (1;
CRC); Diuretic (1; APA; WO2); Emmenagogue (1; APA; IED); Estrogenic (f; CRC); Fibrin-
olytic (1; APA; BGB; PH2); Hydragogue (f; CRC); Intoxicant (f; CRC); Laxative (1; IED;
WO2); Lipolytic (1; CRC; FNF); Myocontractant (1; CRC); Myorelaxant (1; APA; CRC);
Necrolytic (1; WO2); Parasiticide (1; CRC; FNF); Proteolytic (1; APA; BGB; PH2); Taenicide
(1; WO2); Tonic (f; APA); Uterocontractant (1; CRC); Uterotonic (f; APA); Vermifuge (1;
CRC; DAV); Vulnerary (1; APA).
Indications (Pineapple) — Abscess (f; CRC); Amenorrhea (f; PH2); Antidote (f; JFM); Asthma
(f; PH2); Bacteria (1; BGB); Bite (f; IED); Bleeding (1; CRC; DAV); Blennorrhagia (f; DAV);
Bronchosis (f; JFM); Bruise (1; CRC); Burn (2; BGB; PH2); Cancer (1; APA; BGB; PH2);
Childbirth (f; APA; CRC); Congestion (f; JFM); Constipation (1; APA; CRC; IED; PH2; WO2);
Corn (f; CRC); Cystosis (f; APA; CRC); Diarrhea (1; APA); Dysmenorrhea (f; APA; PH2);
Dyspepsia (f; APA; DAV; PH2); Dysuria (f; JFM); Edema (1; CRC; KOM); Exocrine Hepatic
Insufficiency (f; BGB); Fever (f; CRC; IED; PH2); Gas (f; APA; DAV); Hematoma (f; CRC;
WO3); Hemorrhoid (f; JFM); Hepatosis (f; JFM); Hiccup (f; CRC); Hypochondria (f; CRC);
Infection (1; IED); Inflammation (1; APA; PH2; WO2); Jaundice (f; IED); Kidney Stone (f;
APA; DAV); Nasal Parasinusosis (1; KOM); Neurasthenia (f; APA); Obesity (1; CRC; PH2);
Pain (1; APA); Pancreatosis (f; PH2); Parasite (1; CRC; FNF); Phlebitis (f; APA); Pulmonosis
(f; JFM); Respirosis (f; APA; CRC); Rheumatism (1; DAV); Scarlet Fever (f; CRC); Sea Sickness
Seasickness (f; JFM); Sinusosis (f; APA; CRC); Sore (1; CRC; WO3); Sore Throat (f; JFM);
Sprain (1; CRC); Sting (f; IED); Swelling (1; APA; KOM; PH2); Tapeworm (1; WO2); Throm-
bophlebitis (f; APA); Tumor (1; BGB; CRC; PH2); Ulcer (1; APA; CRC); UTI (1; APA);
Varicosis (f; APA); VD (f; APA; CRC); Wart (f; CRC); Worm (1; APA; CRC; DAV; PH2);
Wound (2; APA; PH2).
Dosages (Pineapple) — 250–500 mg bromelain 3 ×/day (APA); 80–320 raw mg bromelain/day
(KOM; PH2). Fruit food farmacy.
Contraindications, Interactions, and Side Effects (Pineapple) — Class 1 (JAD). Not covered
(AHP). “Health hazards not known with proper therapeutic dosages” (PH2). Some people may be
allergic to bromelain. Side effects include allergy, diarrhea, GI problems, metrorrhagia, nausea,
and vomiting (APA; KOM). May augment antiaggregant or anticoagulant activity of other blood
thinners (KOM). Bromelain may increase blood and urinary levels of tetracyclines or other antibi-
otics (KOM; PH2). Large doses of ripe (I would have said unripe) fruit juice are reported to cause
uterocontractions, so it might be contraindicated in pregnancy (APA). This is the only case I
remember of Fleming et al., missing a Blumenthal et al. Commission E approved drug, the American
food plant, pineapple, with its proteolytic bromelain, a very active compound indeed.
PINKROOT (Spigelia marilandica (L.) L.) XSynonym: Lonicera marilandica L.
The Herbal PDR mentions wormwood grass as a selected common name; bad selection. Earlier
names in Europe and America were American Wormgrass or Wormroot, not Wormwood. European
floras have tended to mix the North American S. marilandica L. with the more tropical American
S. anthelmia L. I doubt the Herbal PDR people know which they are talking about.
Activities (Pinkroot) — Antipyretic (f; GMH; HH2; PH2); Cardiac (f; EFS); Cardiotonic (f; EFS);
Digestive (f; CRC); Paralytic (f; PH2); Poison (1; DEM; PH2); Narcotic (f; EFS); Sedative (f;