The drug "Ascorutin" is a drug with angioprotective properties. It improves microcirculation, normalizes metabolic processes in the walls of blood vessels and reduces their permeability. Ascorutin, the instruction for which contains a detailed description of its properties, is available in tablet form. Each tablet contains 50 mg of rutin (the active substance is rutoside) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C). The combination of rutin in one drug with vitamin C is not an accident: they participate together in redox processes that take place in the body.
Rutin is the general name for a group of substances of plant origin (in total more than one and a half thousand), previously united by the term "vitamin P". They are currently classified as flavonoids. Rutin is not produced by the body on its own, so it is necessary to receive it from the outside. In nature, it is found in some plants - for example, in the leaves of odorous rue. To obtain it on an industrial scale, use the green mass of buckwheat and buds of Japanese Sophora flowers . In addition to the drug “Ascorutin”, the instructions for which list in detail the indications for its use, rutin is part of the same name tablets and gel for external use “Venoruton”.
Lack of routine in the body is manifested by small, punctate hemorrhages - petechiae (including on the retina), arising from capillary fragility. In addition, chronic fatigue, pain in the legs that occur during walking, as well as acne and bleeding gums can talk about his lack . Regular intake of Ascorutin (the instruction says this) brings a noticeable effect: the walls of the capillaries strengthen, their fragility decreases. In addition, this drug helps to dilate blood vessels, helps prevent sclerotic changes in them and normalize blood pressure.
In patients with chronic venous insufficiency, varicose veins and superficial thrombophlebitis, Ascorutin (instructions describe its effect) leads to a decrease in edema and pain, trophic disorders. In addition, its routine is an antioxidant and has a significant anti-inflammatory effect, promotes the accumulation and absorption of ascorbic acid. For various diseases and conditions that are accompanied by fragility of capillaries and their increased permeability (hypertension, arachnoiditis, rheumatism, septic endocarditis, hemorrhagic diathesis, capillarotoxicosis, as well as measles and scarlet fever), the use of Ascorutin is usually recommended .
Indications for its administration also include capillary lesions due to the use of blood thinners - anticoagulants (neodicumarin, etc.). Venoruton gel containing rutin significantly reduces pain and swelling in injuries.
The combined drug "Ascorutin" is taken only as prescribed by the doctor, usually 2-3 times a day, one tablet. The course is 3-4 weeks, depending on the condition of the patient. Take this remedy only with meals or after it. Some caution should be observed: various allergic reactions caused by hypersensitivity to its components, as well as headache and dyspepsia - all these symptoms can be noted while taking Ascorutin. Contraindications to its use are thrombophlebitis and a tendency to thrombosis, diabetes mellitus. In addition, like most other drugs, Ascorutin is not prescribed in the first trimester of pregnancy, and in the second and third are prescribed only if necessary.