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.

Sarsaparilla

Familia de Liliaceae

Sarsaparilla is a vine plant also known as Viper. This herb can grow to up to 50 m. long.
Belongs to the family Liliaceae and its scientific name is Smilax officinale, there are about 200 different species of Sarsaparilla but none with as many properties as Smilax officinale.
Sarsaparilla is a vine, with stems bear spines. The leaves are glossy and sometimes with spiny margins. The flowers are small, yellow, sweet perfume, hanging in inflorescences. There are male plants and female plants. The female are the small little fruits are reddish / purple.
The root of this herb is the part used for medical purposes, and looks long and tuberous.
Among their habitats are forests and brush areas, and covering the trunks of trees and shrubs.
Before our time, Sarsaparilla was already used by the natives of  Central America, for treating sexual impotence, rheumatism, skin diseases and as a tonic for physical weakness.
It is a medicinal plant that contains minerals such as: Aluminum, Calcium, Chromium, Cobalt, Phosphorus, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Potassium and Zinc, among others.
Sarsaparilla is a medicinal plant native to the Amazon, known in America and Europe for its excellent healing properties and therapeutic blood purification, blood sugar, atherosclerosis, diabetes, removes excess high cholesterol, high triglycerides, acid , arthritis, rheumatism, gout, cramps, numbness, leg swelling, fever, clean mucus and unhealthy adiposity, bronchi, lungs, asthma, choking, coughing, impurities of various kinds, cramps, stomach and intestinal inflammation, chronic gastritis, cysts and fibroids of the uterus and ovaries, diverticulitis, glaucoma, farsightedness, cystitis, headache, bad breath, cirrhosis, hepatitis, anti carcinogenic, liver purifying.
Do not drink during pregnancy, as recommended caution and care in heart problems.
The Sarsaparilla is one of the most important medicinal plants in natural medicine and homeopathy, in the form of drops, capsules, syrups, creams.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

Infusion:  The part used for this recipe root beer must be the root.
You must place 1 tablespoon of the herb (finely chopped) per liter of water, boil and let stand 10 minutes. Store in the refrigerator.
3 cups are taken daily, half an hour before meals, 1 cup before breakfast, after lunch and after dinner. Take warm.
Sarsaparilla recommended for this infusion of asthma, choking, cough, bronchi, lungs.
For best results it should take this herb for not less than 9 days to 45 days.

Cat’s claw

Familia de Rubiaceae

Cat’s claw is a medicinal plant that grows in many tropical forest countries. The scientific name of this herb is Uncaria tomentosa. This plant is in the family Rubiaceae.
This herb can also be found with the following common names: Samento, Saventaro, Hawk Claw, Scribble, Peace and Justice, Bejuco cat, and Uña de gato (in Spanish).
Cat’s claw is climbing shrub, vine grows to form among the nearby trees.
This herb has simple leaves, with acute apex, base obtuse, entire edge of 17 cm. long by 10 cm. wide, color is yellowish green,
The stem of this medicinal plant is a vine up to 20 m. long, with young branches quadrangular, woody, and have solid spines 2 cm. long.
The flowers of these medicinal plants are yellow, the corolla is funnel-shaped, 5 cm. long by 0.6 mm. diameter, and are hermaphroditic.
The fruits of  Uncaria tomentosa capsules bivalves are about 12 mm. long.
The seeds of these plants are dicotyledonous, longitudinally, up to 4 mm. long.
Among its medicinal properties is that cat’s claw has various anti-inflammatory properties, such as arthritis, gastritis, skin inflammations and genital tract.
Applied treatments of tumors and certain types of cancer. It was also discovered recently that served in the treatment of AIDS. Effective in gastric ulcer and viral processes.

Recipes from this herb:

Cat’s claw can be used in teas, Dyeing and Dry matter, perhaps the most effective preparation in tablet form 100 to 500 mg.