Your Medicinal Plants

Common Mallow, medicinal plant

Familia de Malvaceae

Common Mallow is a medicinal plant that can grow up to 1.5 m. high.
The scientific name of this herb is Malva sylvestris L., and belongs to the Malvaceae plant family.
Common Mallow is a perennial medicinal pant its leaves are highly variable, with a petiole 10-15 cm.
The stem of this herb is very woody and hairy.
The flowers of these herbs have a size of 2-4 cm. Are pink or pale purple with darker veins species that are marked on the petals. The flowers of Malva sylvestris L. pendulums are also 2 cm. approximate.
The fruits of these medicinal plants are about 3 mm. and are hairy.
This medicinal plant contains mucilage, vitamins A, B1, B2, C, carotenoids, essential oil (oleic acid), tannins, among other components.
These medicinal plants are well known for its emollient properties for pimples, boils, eczema, etc. They can also be used as antibacterial in sore throat, cough, hoarseness, rocker, chest pain, inflammations in the mouth, etc.
Among other functions of these medicinal plants are found to be very good for dry eyes and also as a laxative.

Recipes from this herb:

Cooking: Boil a liter of water a handful of flowers and dried leaves of Common Mallow. The result obtained was put cold compresses or slightly warm, suitable for eye wash (dry eyes), also for a gargle, and eczema.

Infusion: We leave for 5 minutes in boiling water 1 teaspoon Common Mallow flowers with two leaves of Eucalyptus, take 2 cups per day. This infusion is indicated as a gargle.

Cooking: Put to boil in a liter of water for 20 minutes, 30 gr. flowers and dried leaves of this medicinal plants, herb, metural medici. It should take 3 cups per day, given as a laxative in constipation problems.

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.