Your Medicinal Plants

Bittersweet

Familia de Solanaceae

The scientific name is Solanum dulcamara.
The Bittersweet is a climbing shrub that grows along the walls, growing in all types of terrain. It is a plant native to Europe and Asia, spreading around the world.
This medicinal plant belongs to the the Solanaceae plant family.
The Bittersweet is a perennial herb can reach 4 m. high. The stem of this plant is slender and cylindrical, branched, brown.
The leaves of this plant are 4-12 cm. long arrowhead and lobed.
Bittersweet flowers arranged in clusters of 3-20 and consist of five purple petals and yellow stamens.
The fruit of this herb is scarlet red when ripe, ovoid, and poisonous to humans and livestock.
Birds are capable of feeding on the fruits of this plant without problem.
Solanum dulcamara is used as a medicinal plant for skin conditions and allergies of Herpes.
The stem or root of this plant is used for tea, the leaves are digested, pure, and they cannot be put in hot water because they are its medicinal properties.
This herb is applied in cases of: inflammation of the prostate, diabetes, gastritis, tumors in the ovaries, menstrual cramps, cysts, asthma, bronchitis, migraine, AIDS, hair loss, gangrene, diabetic wounds, swellings, pimples, bumps, burns , warts, vaginal inflammation, etc..

Recipes from this herb:

Cooking: The decoction of the stems of this plant has diuretic properties, cleansing, sweat and slightly sedative. In addition, taste, slightly bitter stimulates gastric secretions, which is indicated as an appetizer. Prepare a decoction of 20 gr. tender stems and leaves of Solanum dulcamara crushed per liter of water. When you release the boil, strain, and can have a cup every 6 hours. Taking a cup before bed, can act as a mild sleeping pill.

Poultice: To soften pimples and boils. Prepare one liter of red wine, 4 handfuls of leaves and stems of Solanum dulcamara pounded, 125 gr. flaxseed flour and 200 gr. unsalted butter or lard. Boil over low heat and stir until it is consistent. Apply as hot as the skin that can resist.

Belladonna

Familia de Solanaceae

The Belladonna is native to Europe and was linked to witchcraft and multiple stories of famous poisonings.
The scientific name is Atropa belladonna L.
This medicinal plant is also known as a Deadly Nightshade.
This medicinal plant belongs to the family Solanaceae.
The Belladonna is a perennial shrub, and resistant. The plant grows in the shade of trees, wooded hills and coal deposits, it can reach a height of 1.5 meters.
The flowers of this medicinal plant are dark purple, with a characteristic bad smell.
The fruit of the berry Belladona is a spherical and the size of a black cherry, and contains 0.1% of atropine.
The root of Atropa belladonna L. has higher concentrations of the drug ranging from 0.4 to 0.6%.
Its alkaloids (hiosciamina, atropine, scopolamine), derived from tropanos, make it a poisonous plant.
The deadly nightshade is a legal drug, can be grown and sold freely. Preparations do not require medical prescription.
The use of claims Belladona caution administered to high doses produces a little dizziness, nausea, dilated, delusions, hallucinations and often death.
A peculiar symptom of poisoning by belladonna is the complete loss of voice, and continual and uncontrolled movements of the fingers and hands.
In herbal medicine often brews prepared with the fences of Atropa belladonna L. and the root of the plant.
Despite its toxic properties, the currently applied locally belladonna in solution during ophthalmic interventions, and tablets, capsules or drops by oral administration. The effects start between 15 and 30 minutes. On reaching the brain in low doses, atropine blocks acetylcholine receptors depress the terminals of nerve impulses in high doses, a depression before stimulation.
This medicinal plant is applied in medicine in cases of neuralgia, nervous cough, asthma, seizures, epilepsy, spastic constrictions and some eye diseases.
Atropine is also used as a diuretic, sedative, analgesic and mild antidote to poisoning by fungi that contain muscarinic alkaloids.
Mild doses reduce salivation and sweating. With higher doses of this plant increases the pulse and breathing, the action of the involuntary muscles decreases, accelerates the heart rate, dilation of pupils is very strong and inhibits ocular accommodation, ie the lens is fixed vision for the distant and near objects are blurred.
Prolonged use of Atropa belladonna L. can cause chronic constipation.
In case of accidental poisoning with this plant is recommended as soon as possible any substance that causes vomiting.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

Within the herbal medicine for intraocular application is required each one to three drops of extract of belladonna leaves.

For skin applications, 5 mg. sheets or 2 mg. of the pulverized root of this plant.

For oral ingestion of Belladona, 5 to 15 drops of berries macerated in alcohol. In Western medicine the low therapeutic doses ranging from 0.5 to 1 mg and high for 2 to 5 mg, more than 10 mg are considered dangerous.