Your Medicinal Plants

Largeleaf linden

Familia de Tiliaceae

The Largeleaf linden is a medicinal tree that belongs to the family Tiliaceae. There are about 10 species of this medicinal plant, but the more important is Tilia platyphyllos (scientific name). The Largeleaf linden trees are medicinal plants from temperate zones of the northern hemisphere. These plants live naturally in forest shade, no more than 1500 m. elevation. The Tilia platyphyllos tree is a deciduous medicine, which is very common to find in the gardens. Largeleaf linden is of good size, measuring between 20 and 40 m tall, straight trunk and narrow, and provides shade for being very dense. These medicinal plants are very long, can live 900 years. These plants have large leaves, measuring 8 to 14 cm. long, and have heart-shaped. These plant healing leaves are aromatic and herbaceous flavor. The apex is pointed and the edges are jagged. The color of the leaves is dark green, and is arranged along the branches. The flowers of these plants are born small and sustained for a long capita which is a kind of long, narrow leaf, a pale green, and the tip of about 5 flowers born capita. The flowers of the plant healing have a calyx of five sepals. They are pale yellow. The stamens are numerous, and have filaments free, white. The flowers of  Tilia platyphyllos have a mild and pleasant smell. The fruit is hairy, oval, is dry at maturity, and never opens. The most important property of this medicinal that has the style is its soothing ability, because their flowers taken in infusion are very effective. Among other properties such as plant healingis is fighting colds, coughs and other ailments.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

Place in a tea cup boiling water to which they should place the Tilia platyphyllos flowers, the quantity of flowers of lime applied, depends on the desired calming effect. For more flowers, more sedative. I will drink it after meals, as it lessens the acidity of the stomach.

Rue

Familia de Rutaceae

Rue is a medicinal plant whose scientific name is Ruta graveolens L., and belongs to the plant family Rutaceae.
Common name in Spanish: Ruda
Rue is a perennial medicinal plant, the color is gray-green, and a medicinal plant is very fragrant.
Ruta graveolens L. has erect stems that can reach 60-80 cm. in height.
The rough and has small yellow flowers with 4 petals, and fruit are brown capsules that contain black seeds inside.
It regards its functions as a medicinal plant, used to the rough: the nerves, the headache, the dizziness, palpitations, stomach pains, and increases the resistance of capillaries. Rue is also used to induce menstruation.
This medicinal plant is composed of essential oils, esters, aliphatic ketones, alcohols, coumarins and furanocumarinas, vitamin C, alkaloids Quinol, quercetin, resin, ascorbic acid, malic acid, tannins, lignans, among others.

Recipes from this medicinal plant:

Infusion (Tea): Place a teaspoon of dry Rue 1 / 4 liters of water to boiling. It is used as a spasmolytic, mild sedative and regulator of heart. It is not advisable to drink more than 2 cups a day, and provided by medical prescription, as this medicinal plant as well as being very beneficial also contains toxic compounds. This medicinal plant is contraindicated among pregnant women.

Wash: In external use, this herbal medicine used for eye baths, ulcers, wounds and gargle.

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.