Your Medicinal Plants

Buchu

Familia de Rutaceae

Buchu is an herb native to South Africa.
The scientific name is Barosma Buchu betulina.
This medicinal plant belongs to the family Rutaceae.
This herb is a shrub that reaches 2 m. high.
Its leaves are oval, opposite, and slightly hairy.
All Buchu plant gives off an aroma blend of peppermint and rosemary.
Parts of Buchu used for medicinal purposes are the leaves.
This herb is composed of essential oil, flavonoids, diosfenol, limonene, isomenthone, pulegone, B vitamins, mucilage. Tannins, among other compounds.
Buchu, along with bearberry, is one of the most effective herbs that are known to successfully treat inflammatory diseases of the urinary organs.
This herb is indicated for varicose veins, hemorrhoids, capillary fragility, inflammatory conditions, cystitis, urethritis, urethritis, prostatitis, bronchitis, pharyngitis, hyperuricemia, gout, hypertension, edema, fluid retention.
It is very important not to exceed recommended doses because the Buchu may cause irritation of the urinary tract.
The use of diuretics in the presence of hypertension or heart disease should be done only by prescription and under medical supervision, given the possibility of occurrence of decompensation tension.

Recipes for this herb:

For internal use: you can prepare a tea made with 50 gr. Buchu leaf in a quart of water. Take 3 cups of tea each day. For urethral washings can be used the same infusion

It recommends taking 20 drops of extract of  Buchu (Barosma betulina L.) in a glass of water or juice, 2-3 times per day.

It may take 1 to 2 gr. per day of dried leaves of Buchu.

Infusion, it can take 1 to 2 gr. Buchu for each cup of water 3 times daily.
In dyeing, it may take 2 to 4 ml 3 times daily.

Burning bush, medicinal plants

Familia de Rutaceae

The Burning bush is a plant belonging to the plant family Rutaceae.
The scientific name of this herb is Dictamnus albus.
Dictamnus albus grown in some thick bush and forest. This plant is rare and scarce.
This plant is very fragrant; stem is straight, simple, and smooth on the heel and torments at the apex.
The upper leaves of this herb are sessile and oval, the lower petioles comprised of oval, serrated edge and petioles. The beam was slightly stormy leaves and the undersides glabrous.
The flowers of this herb have five petals, which can be color: yellow, pink and white and are grouped into single clusters.
The flowers of this medicinal plant have medicinal properties such as aromatic, stimulant, digestive, carminative and antispasmodic.
The most common form of consumption of flowers is an infusion.
Care should be taken as well as having medicinal properties; this plant can be toxic mild and mild abortive.
The leaves and flowers of this plant are rich in substance. We have also found an alkaloid called dictamnina which is slightly toxic and exerts its actions mainly on the uterus.
This herb is also composed of furocoumarins responsible dermatitis appears if you touch the money.
For your collection gloves are needed, or if this is not possible, avoid wet skin and sun exposure.

Recipes from this medicinal plant

Infusion: With waving Burning bush can prepare an infusion of 1 gr. freshly collected fresh leaves per cup of hot water. Take two cups a day, after the main meals. You may prepare this tea from the fresh bark of the root, obtaining the same effects.

Decoction: In a proportion of 2%, is prepared simmer the herb in water for a while. If we start from the dried plant, the proportion of active ingredients is considerably diminished, it is appropriate to increase the time of decoction.

Lemon tree

Familia de Rutaceae

The scientific name for lemon is Citrus limonum Risso.
This medicinal plant belongs to the plant family Rutaceae.
The lemon tree is a small tree, known as lemons.
The trunk is irregular with uneven branches.
The lemon tree leaves are 6-8 cm. long.
The flowers of this herb are solitary or in axillary pairs, dyed red exterior, also the shoots. The fruit known as lemon is acidic, yellow, oval, and 8-10 cm. long.
Lemon essential oil is composed, myrcene, limonene, alcohols, Linale, nerol, geraniol, citronellyl, citropteno acid, hesperidin, pectin, citric acid, among others.
The part used Risso Citrus limonum are its leaves, seeds, fruit.
The medicinal properties of lemons are almost countless. Lemon juice contains: citric acid, sugars, minerals like magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and iron, vitamin C, B1, B2 and nicotinic acid, pectins, among which flavonoids hesperidin.
Internal use or tea or juice, or consuming the neutral.
This medicinal plant, its fruit is recommended in cases of arthritis, asthma, gout, gallstones or kidney problems, nephritis, lack of vitamin C, pyorrhea, vermifuge, antispasmodic, colds, indigestion, cough, flu and respiratory infections, anemia, and rickets.
Lemon is used externally against pains and rheumatism.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

Natural: cut the lemon and rub the affected area with rheumatism, Apply 2 or 3 times per day.

Lemon Cure: take a lemon juice fasting, the second day juice of 2 lemons, lemon increasing every day until 10 lemons. Thereafter, a lemon is subtracted each day until the juice of a lemon again. The cure is completed in 20 days.

Infusion: An infusion of lemon leaves antispasmodic and is very good for colds, indigestion and dizziness.

Lemon juice is antirheumatic, and can take up to 3 cups per day.

A tablespoon of lemon juice in a cup of hot tea is possessed of several virtues: against gases, headache and dizziness, heart palpitations, bile and fight fever.

Tea: Tea is sweetened lemon seeds vermifuge (intestinal parasites).

Mascara: fresh lemon juice applied on the face protects the skin from the weather.

A whole lemon in a pint of boiled water and then sweetened with honey is very good for the flu and colds.