Your Medicinal Plants

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.

Mexican tea

Familia de General

Mexican tea is a medicinal plant also known as goosefoot, pazote, Caan miri, among many others.
This medicinal plant was used by the Maya.
The Latin name for this plant is Paico.
This medicinal plant belongs to the family Chenopodiaceae.
The scientific name is Chenopodium ambrosioides L.
It is an erect herb, 60 cm. 1 m high. Its leaves give off an aroma very typical, very different to that of commonly used medicinal plants. Its flowers grow in long spikes.
Mexican tea is widely used as insecticide.
The part of this plant used for medicinal purposes are: stem, seed and fruit.
The medicinal properties of this plant are: diaphoretic, emmenagogue, carminative to remove intestinal parasites, antispasmodic, febrifuge and bronchitis.
The chemical composition of the herb is: the whole plant is rich in essential oil, one of whom, the ascaridol, is causing the effect of this plant parasite. The high content of oil Paico this is in the seeds. In this essential oil has been determined the presence of ascaridol, p-cymene, (-)-limonene, (+)-camphor, aritasona, safrole, docosane N, N-hentriacontano, N-heptacosane, N-octacosano, beta – pinene, methadieno, methyl-salicylate, dimethyl sulfoxide, delta-terpineol. Also reported in different parts of the following compounds: Ambrose, betaine, and B chenopodiósidos, chenopodium saponin A, kaempferol and santonin Rhamno.
Mexican tea can be dangerous in doses not recommended, you can generate tables of acute poisoning, especially in young children, while there is a risk of causing death.
Side effects of this medicinal plant include: vomiting, bloody diarrhea, headache, drowsiness, visual disturbances, decreased muscle strength, and other disorders.
Recipes from this medicinal plant:
Infusion: The preparation of a handful of leaves in infusion Chenopodium ambrosioides L. works as a repellent of mosquitoes and flies.
You can also put fresh plant in the areas you wish to keep free of insects.

Chamomile

Familia de Asteraceae

The scientific name of this medicinal plant is Matricaria chamomilla L.
This medicinal plant belongs to the family Asteraceae.
Chamomile is a native of Europe, but is now widespread in many parts of the world.
Chamomile thrives well in warm weather, relatively moist, a plant is not demanding in terms of quality of soils. This medicinal plant is very adaptable to different soil types.
Matricaria chamomilla L. is a herbaceous annual plant, much branched that may reach up to 60 cm. high.
The leaves of this medicinal plant are sessile, alternate, bipinnate at the top and the bottom tripinnadas with line segments.
The flowers of chamomile are associated with long peduncles chapters placed on a vacuum receptacle and the flowers are external ligule white flowers while the interiors are tubular with yellow corolla. The fruits of this plant are small achenes, yellowish green.
The scent of the flowers of this medicinal plant is nice and distinctive, and the flavor is somewhat bitter.
Part of this medicinal plant used for medicinal purposes are their heads.
Matricaria chamomilla L. is a medicinal plant that contains essential oil, flavonoids, resins, tannins, vitamin C, mucilages, fatty acid, salicylic acid, steroids, etc..
Among the qualities of this plant  medicinal are: it is an anti-inflammatory (helps relieve inflammation processes taking it or using it both externally), is antimicrobial and fungicide, is used to gargle, is good for healing, digestive problems, it is soothing and tranquilizer (mild sedative), assistance in cases of eczema and hemorrhoids, eases the discomfort and eliminate their menstrual period, is used to clarify the hair, decongest and soothe skin irritations, a mild diuretic, helps with problems: gout, arthritis , sinusitis, asthma and flu.
This medicinal plant is also used in cosmetics, perfumes and liquor.
Among the contraindications are: allergies, but very rarely, and is not recommended during the first trimester of pregnancy because it may have abortifacient effects.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

The most common use of this medicinal plant is its infusion (tea), which is pleasant tasting.

Hair dyes is very good to clarify your hair without chemicals and in a progressive manner. You must prepare a chamomile tea with two bags, or 2 tablespoons of flowers of this plant, and allow to cool. Apply to dry hair.

Chamomile can be used for bathing, cleaning wounds, or in compresses or massage.
Chamomile vapor serves to clean the face.

Infusion was placed in a teapot (¾ liters) 1 tbsp of chamomile flowers, filled the kettle of boiling water. This school and may take 2 to 3 cups daily, which also has a sedative effect.
In cases of ocular inflammation, use soaked gauze and applied directly on the eyes.