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Anti-inflammatory and immunological effects of Centaurea cyanus flower-heads
N Garbacki1, V Gloaguen, J Damas
1Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie, Institut de Pharmacie, CHU, Université de Liège, Sart Tilman, Belgium.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
|January 7, 2000
Abstract:
Centaurea cyanus flower-heads are used in European phytotherapy for the treatment of minor ocular inflammations. Different pharmacological experiments (inhibition of carrageenan, zymosan and croton oil-induced oedemas, inhibition of plasma haemolytic activity, induction of anaphylatoxin activity) showed that polysaccharides extracted from C. cyanus flower-heads had anti-inflammatory properties and interfered with complement. Moreover, these polysaccharides were found to be mainly composed of galacturonic acid, arabinose, glucose, rhamnose and galactose.