Your Medicinal Plants

Carrots

Familia de Apiaceae

Carrots are one of the most popular vegetables consumed in the world. Its scientific name is Daucus carota and belongs to the family of the Umbelliferae or Apiaceae. Carrots are originated in Asia. Carrots are one of the vegetables most commonly grown as a food that is used in countless foods from each country. You can eat carrots raw or cooked in all sorts of dishes both sweet and savoury soups, salads, desserts, juices, etc. The carrot is also being rich, is very healthy because it contains vitamin A, beta carotene and other nutrients and minerals that are highly beneficial to the body to keep you healthy and prevent disease.

The carrot contains medicinal properties as antioxidants to prevent cell aging, helps fight and prevent cancer, improves and strengthens the view in general but also night vision, tonsillitis, wound healing, diuretic effect. This plant helps improve skin, and protects it from ultraviolet radiation, prevent sun allergies is hepatic protective liver, increases resistance to infections, improves the production of red blood cells and purifies the blood, helps in problems of bronchial asthma and chronic active and improves circulation and promotes secretion of urine, making it ideal for people with fluid retention. There’s no excuse not to enjoy this plant, yet take advantage of its healing qualities. Like all natural food should be consumed regularly to take effect but achieve excellent results.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

Not only the root can be used to treat conditions is also useful seeds and juice it.

Infusion: can be prepared, eaten, make poultices and even use in facial masks that achieve the skin to have a calming and tonic is very good for this use because it makes the skin look young and smooth.

The great advantage of the carrot is that is accessible to everyone and that is easily anywhere, no contraindications for its use and it is delicious.

Dill, Anethum graveolens

Familia de Apiaceae

Dill is native to East, Persia and India. The scientific name of this herb is Anethum graveolens and belongs to the plant family Apiaceae.
This herb is an annual herb, known desire antiquity.
Dill living in rustic camps and steppe at low altitudes, up to 500-600 m., prefers sunny spots, and needs well-drained moist soil.
Anethum graveolens is an aromatic plant, measuring 30 cm. more than one meter in height. Its green stem, long, hollow, and has grooves along which give it a white and green hue.
The leaves of this herb are very thin and dark green.
The fruits are dark brown 5 mm.
Dill flowers are yellow. Its leaves and fruits are used in cooking as spices, and seeds, very similar to those of parsley, are used in the preparation of medicinal teas.
Among the common names of Anethum graveolens, we can find, Dill (as before he was appointed, drowns, dill, anella, anetaveron, dill, avezon domestic stinking fennel.
Anethum graveolens is used in the kitchen and is compatible with all other herbs are used fresh.

It is an herb widely used in Scandinavian cuisine: very important ingredient of marinated salmon. The fresh leaves of this plant are used in salads, fish dishes and sauces to accompany fish. Its seeds are used primarily to flavor pickles and vinegar can be added to cakes, breads, fish and rice dishes.
resh flowers and fruit of this plant are used to prepare pickles and dill to make vinegar.
Among the medicinal properties of this plant are that stimulates digestive secretions and is used against flatulence and dyspepsia. It is recommended in cases of spasmodic hiccups, uterine cramps, menstrual cramps, flatulence, gastrointestinal spasms, breast, burns, skin ulcerations, carminative, and provokes urine, and antiseptic.
This herb is composed of essential oils and essential oil that is rich in limonene, eugenol and anethole, among others, that such actions give carminative, so it is very convenient in cases of flatulence and heartburn caused by foods difficult to digest. Its content of coumarins, flavonoids and caffeic acid and chlorogenic give lactogogue properties, that is, it increases the formation of breast milk.

Recipes for this herb:

Infusion: to prepare an infusion of 20 r. Dill seeds per liter of water. It should take 3 cups per day, and is used as a digestive and carminative.

In external use the seeds of this herb have emollient and antiphlogistic. Bath is heated to a pint of olive oil with a tablespoon of seeds, keeps a low heat for 1 hour. Apply warm over boils, pimples, etc. Soothes the pain and helps rapid maturation.

Tincture: you can make excellent digestive Dill making a tincture with 200 cc alcohol of 60 º and 40 gr. seeds of this herb. It is advisable to dissolve one teaspoon in coffee or tea to be taken after meals.

Centella asiatica

Familia de Apiaceae

Centella asiatica is a medicinal plant native to subtropical areas of Asia: India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Malaysia.
It is one of the medicinal plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
This medicinal plant can be found under other names such as Indian Pennywort, Gotu.
Its scientific name is Centella asiatica, although it may be synonymous with the call: Hydrocotyl asiatica L.
It is highly effective in the prevention of cellulite, stimulates the elimination of liquids.
Part of this medicinal plant used for medicinal purposes are the leaves.
The composition of this highlights the medicinal plant saponins content triterpenic (Asiatic, FLASH, Bram and braminósido), sugars (madecacósido), essential oils and tannins.
Gotu is a perennial plant, herbaceous, and usually grows in damp areas.
Indian Pennywort is the thin stems, rounded leaves are green and soft to the touch, and they make glasses.
The flowers of these medicinal plants are pink to red, in small and rounded, tail and hermaphrodite.
The Indian Pennywort besides its medicinal propieties, can be eaten in salads.
It is also one of the medicinal plants effective in problems of hypertension.
This plant has healing properties and is used externally to treat sores, wounds and burns.
In cosmetics (gels, creams, soaps) is a widely used medicinal plants, helping to combat cellulite, promote the circulation and to help with problems of varicose veins.
Cellulite primarily affects women, which are changes in the dermal connective tissue, appearing in the circulation and alterations in fat cells.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

Infusion: An infusion is prepared with a teaspoon of Centella asiatica leaves in 200 ml. water. We recommend 3 cups per day.