Your Medicinal Plants

Oregano

Familia de Labiatae

Oregano is an aromatic herb widely used to season foods.
Its scientific name is Origanum vulgare and belongs to the Labiatae family of plants.
Among its medicinal properties, is digestive, is also good for problems in the liver and gallbladder, helps to pass gas, colds, coughs, colds and sore throats.
Also in a good herb for diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, diseases of the respiratory tract, improves memory and blood circulation, reduces fever and is very good for menstrual cramps.
You can use oregano in external applications such as compresses, baths, inhalations, and gargle.
This herb is also a very good disinfectant of wounds and ulcers. Oregano is also good for relieving muscle aches, rheumatism, tonsillitis, laryngitis, fatigue or chronic fatigue, insomnia for its sedative properties.
Oregano has lots of antioxidants. Non-toxic but should be given sparingly and should consult a doctor before using natural medicine.
The use of this herb can be very beneficial for health but with caution.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

Its use as a condiment produces no contraindication.

Solar Fixer: Place 5 gr. fresh oregano leaves or 20 gr. of dried leaves in 50 cc. Water. Boil for 5 minutes and let cool. Moisten the skin after sun exposure.

Oregano Lotion: Put 10 gr. dried oregano leaves to 200 cc. cold water. Bring to low heat until boiling. When boil, add 10 cc. White spirit and 1 gr. borax. This lotion acts oregano oily skin, stimulating circulation, helping to close slightly pores.

Ephedra

Familia de Ephedraceae

This herb grows in almost all tropical and subtropical areas. For medicinal purposes the whole plant is used. It has an action similar to that of adrenaline.
The scientific name of this herb is Ephedra distachya.
Ephedra belongs to the family of plants Ephedraceae.
Ephedra is a shrub with erect branches up to 1.5 m., ridged longitudinally organized in nodes and internodes.
It grows on lime-rich soils, dry and very sunny.
The leaves of this herb are small, scaly membranous and without chlorophyll, located at the nodes.
Flowers are unisexual Ephedra bit showy.
This plant has protected seminal primordial after fertilization scales that become fleshy and acquire a red color simulating a whole berry.
Sun-loving bushes and evergreen forest fringes planifolia inland of the Mediterranean Region.
I enter the active ingredients of ephedra are: protoalcaloicles, flavonoids, proantocianidoles. The branches containing macrocyclic oxazolidone and alkaloids.
Medicinal properties: Sympathomimetics, expectorant, bronchodilator, vasoconstrictor, cardiotonic, antihistamine (allergy), central nervous system stimulant.
This herb is used in cases of: asthma, bronchitis, rhinitis, dyspnea, emphysema, persistent cough. Allergies: hay fever, vernal conjunctivitis, urticaria. Migraine. Heart block.
Distachya Ephedra can produce side effects such as pupil dilation, vomiting, headache, sweating, abdominal pain, tachycardia and hypertension.
Ephedrine (Ephedra compound) can cause anxiety, tremors, insomnia, and more rarely, toxic psychosis, is considered a natural amphetamine, for its intense stimulant-euphoric effect.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

Infusion infusing one teaspoon per cup of ephedra. Drink two cups a day.

Infusion: 2% infuse 10 minutes, drinking two or three cups a day after meals to prevent allergic reactions.

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.