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Familia de Solanaceae
Ashwagandha is a medicinal plant with scientific name: Withania somnifera. It belongs to the Solanaceae plant family. This herb can also be called with the following common names: Indian ginseng, or nightshade higher Orval. It is a perennial herb that grows to 1 m. high approximately. The leaves of Ashwagandha are distributed around the stem, are round and usually have a minimum layer of beauty to the underside. Each leaf grows followed by a much smaller, and between the two leaves are born flowers in clusters of 3 or 4 units. It is a medicinal plant that does not tolerate cold, taking refuge at the foot of walls or fences, usually near cities. It is found in warm regions and blooms almost all year round, but especially in autumn. The flowers are pale yellow, the calyx is bell-shaped, the petals is greater than the calyx. The fruit is a berry about the size of a pea red. With respect to its medicinal properties, is not entirely clear functional activity exerted by this plant in the human body.
Despite this in India is widely used as a sedative to great effect. It is also considered a good home remedy for rheumatism. The root of this herb is what gives it its power sleeping pill. The fruit stimulates and provokes urine, which is used in case of dropsy. Can also be used to soothe pains, toothache, and in some cases has come to be used on the eyes to strengthen sight. Withania somnifera leaves can be used to heal ulcers of various types. It can lead to health problems if not used correctly.
Recipes from this medicinal plant:
Decoction: water must be heated with a handful of this herb for 5 minutes. Is expected to cool and strain the remains of Withania somnifera. It is a very good reliever for toothache.
Juice: Juice is prepared from the root of the medicinal plant and mixed with honey is then used on the eyes to strengthen sight.
Infusion: Boil water with the roots of this herb, let it cool and take a sedative before bed.
Tags:
rheuma,
toothache,
ulcers
Familia de Plantaginaceae
Common plantain is a medicinal plant native to Europe, North America, northern Africa and western Asia.
Common plantain is a medicinal plant that belongs to the family Plantaginaceae. The rim with medicinal properties is the major species with scientific name Plantago major.
Plantago major can also be seen by the common names: Llantén (in Spanish).
The plantain is a medicinal plant cosmopolitan.
Medicinal plant is a widely used throughout the world.
Common plantain is a natural herbaceous plant that grows in vacant lots.
Medicinal plant is a perennial with unbranched stems.
Plantain leaves, are somewhat dented, and from a basal rosette.
The flowers of this medicinal plant are green-white, occur in dense cylindrical spikes.
The fruit of this plant is a pixidio. The seeds are dark.
Some of the properties of this medicinal plant, which has been found in different types of carbohydrates, routine, mucilage, tannins, alkaloids, essences, traces of resins, steroids, amines and sulfur compounds bases, etc..
Studies have been conducted to rabbits and found that administering the medicinal plant, there was a marked decrease in fat, cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood.
Like all rich in medicinal plant mucilage, Common plantain is a plant that has a great anti-inflammatory property and vulnerary at both the internal and external use. Mucilage and contains silicic acid which is used as a pectoral remedy.
Moreover, this medicinal plant is diuretic, expectorant, emollient and healing. In decoction, syrup used to combat the crying colds, bronchitis and asthma.
Externally this plant is used medicinally in the form of compresses for treating burns and ulcers, and also gargles.
Recipes from this medicinal plant:
Cooking: Put to boil a handful of dried leaves of this medicinal plant in 2 cups water for 15 minutes. Gets and is used to wash wounds and also gargle. To clean the wounds can soak a clean cloth or cotton.
Infusion: A large piece of plantain is added boiling water. Left to rest and be sweetened with honey. This infusion is recommended for colds and drink 2 or 3 cups hot day.
Tags:
bronchitis,
burns,
cholesterol,
conjunctivitis,
emollient,
ulcers
Familia de Labiatae
The scientific name is Rosmarinus officinalis L. This medicinal plant (Rosemary) is also known as Romero (in Spanish). This medicinal plant belongs to the family Labiatae.
Is a medicinal plant that grows in all soil types but prefers the arid, dry and somewhat sandy and permeable, very adaptable to poor soils. It grows in coastal areas and low mountains (hills and slopes).
Rosemary is a woody shrub of highly branched evergreen, can reach up to 2 m. high.
Is a medicinal plant that is green all year.
The leaves of this medicinal plant are small and very abundant, they form linear. Are opposite, sessile, entire, with the edges down and a dark green, while on the underside have a whitish color and are covered with hairs. In the area of attachment of the leaf with the stem of the rosemary bunches born floriferous.
The flowers of this medicinal plant is about 5 mm long. They bilabiada corolla in one piece. The color is pale blue violet, pink or white, green or slightly reddish calyx, and also bilabiado bell. The flowers of rosemary are axillary, very aromatic, is located on top of the branches, with two soldiers bent stamens to the corolla and with a small tooth.
The fruit of Rosmarinus officinalis L., is brownish in color and is trapped at the bottom of the cup formed by four small nuececitas trasovadas.
This medicinal plant is composed of: essential oil, flavonoids, phenolic acids (caffeic, chlorogenic, labiático, choline, taraxasterol, lupeol, stigmasterol, campesterol, tannins, acids triterpenic, among others.
The species of bee, Apis mellifera feeding on the flower of the rosemary and continue to contribute to the dispersal of pollen.
The rosemary is used for medicinal purposes especially the leaves and sometimes flowers. It is a plant rich in active ingredients: essential oil is extracted from the leaves of rosemary alcohol is prepared, which is used to prevent ulcers. Also used to treat rheumatic pain. Friction is used as a stimulant to the scalp.
The infusion of rosemary leaves relieves cough and is good for the liver and intestinal spasms tackle. Must be taken before or after meals. Smoke rosemary served as a treatment for asthma.
Because of its antiseptic properties this plant for medicinal decoction can be applied on sores and wounds as healing.
Recipes from this medicinal plant:
Mash: mash that Rosemary is applied to the scalp to stop doing the massage mild hair loss and stimulate growth.
Should be placed in 500 ml of alcohol (50 vol.), A handful of Rosemary and the same amount of thyme.
Let macerate a week in the refrigerator in a sealed glass jar. A week of school this mash Rosemary and Thyme and the resulting liquid (keep in refrigerator in closed glass bottle) is applied on the scalp for a week once a day, then day by up to notice results, and after this once a week, stop the treatment when the hair is completed.
Infusion: In immersion baths mixed infusion of 50 gr. This medicinal plant (alternates with Thyme) per liter of water. This treatment is indicated for rheumatic problems.
Tags:
cough,
intestinal spasms,
scalp,
ulcers Previous entries »
