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General description	Plant whose active compounds have beneficial effects at men's urinary tract.
Found	- Epilobium parviflorum - Epilobium angustifolium
Anti-aging role	- reduce benign prostate hyperplasia and bladder irritability - reduce micturia, nocturia and incomplete bladder emptying symptoms - inhibits COX-1 and COX-2 - has antiinflammatory, antibacterial and antimicotic effect - antioxidant - enothein A and B boost immune system, inhibit aromatase 5 and alpha - reductase - antidiarrheal - painkiller - it's considered that has beneficial effect in treating kidney diseases - topical use - reduces skin irritability, has beneficial effect on skin diseases
Deficiency symptoms	Not possible.
Therapeutic doses	Not established.
Maximum safe level	Not established.
Side effects	Not recorded.
Contraindications	- pregnancy, lactating, children
Interactions	- birth control pills - theoretically possible interaction with drugs that enhance proliferation in hormone - dependent reproductive organs
Composition formulas	- usually as tea and alcohol or water extract drops, by itself or in combination with saw palmetto, bearberry or other plants that enhance urinary tract
Other remarks	- active compounds - quercetin, enotheins, sitosterols, tanines, vitamin C...

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