Your Medicinal Plants

Southern adders tongue

Familia de Ophioglossaceae

This medicinal plant living in water-saturated soil, in meadows, bushes and large
Plains most of the Northern Hemisphere, also in South Africa, Iberian Peninsula and even in the Betic mountains.
Southern adders tongue belongs to the plant family Ophioglossaceae. The scientific name of the snakes tongues, is Ophioglossum vulgatum.
Is considered an endangered plant, which is why we must be very wary of using it as medicinal silver. Should plant more copies of this herb.
Southern adders tongue is a small fern. Has only one page (sometimes 2 pages) oval and elongated.
At the bottom are the sporangia. Are grouped at one end, quite narrow reminds the language of snakes.
It is a medicinal plant short rhizome and fibrous.
It has no flowers. Contains male and female sexual organs and the fertilized female organ is the Southern adders tongue, where this procedure may take several years to grow another new Ophioglossum vulgatum.
For medicinal purposes is collected the aerial part of the plant. The composition of Ophioglossum vulgatum not knows much because it is a plant widely studied.
Among its medicinal properties we need is: vulnerary, used to heal wounds and sores.
In ancient times it was used to cure ulcers and even hernias.
In our times is only used as a home remedy to heal wounds.

Recipes of the medicinal plants:

Poultice: this herb is ground and made a poultice that is applied externally on wounds and sores.

Cooking: Boil a liter of water and add it handful of snake tongue.
Strain and cool. Drink 3 cups a day before meals to heal wounds or internal injuries.

Butterwort, medicinal properties

Familia de Lentibulariaceae

The common name of this plant is Butterwort.
The scientific name is Pinguicula Vulgaris. This medicinal plant belongs to the plant family Lentibulariaceae.
It is a grass provided a short fibrous root. The leaves, arranged in basal rosettes, are ovate oblong, sessile, fleshy. With the winding limbo, viscous, able to digest small insects. The flowers are held a long and fragile stalk, own, spur, and are purple. The fruit of this herb is a capsule containing numerous seeds ellipsoidal elliptical rough. It is quite common in almost all places flooded, swamps, and wet rocks. The average stem reaches a height of 10 cm.
The parts used medicinally are the leaves. Instructions: juice, fluid extract, infusion.
This plant is composed of mucilage, tannins, benzoic acid, gum, and enzyme.
Among the medicinal properties of this plant found it: I coughed leak, antispasmodic, sedative bronco, purgative, diuretic. In external use have vulnerary and hemostatic properties.
The plant has an action on the airway similar to that of the sundew, and can be used in your link. Its proteolytic enzyme is. The leaves applied externally as a poultice have vulnerary action.

Recipes for this herb:

Infusion: The most common use is as an infusion, 20 gr. Butterwort leaves in a quart of hot water. Allow to marinate for 5 minutes and take 3 cups daily.

Dye:  is prepared with 200 d.c. alcohol of 70 º and 20 gr. Pinguicula vulgaris leaves. A teaspoon dissolved in warm water or an infusion has antitussive properties, 3 times a day.

Both tea and tincture of this herb is recommended in cases of catarrhal conditions, access to asthma, flu, or those diseases where there is retention of urine or liquids.

Scabiosa, medicinal plant

Familia de Dipsacaceae

The scientific name of this herb is Scabiosa Succisa. Furthermore, this plant can be found with the synonym: Succisa pratensis. This plant belongs to the plant family Dipsacaceae.
It is a healing plant native to the temperate zones of Europe and North Africa. Is a root herb branched, blackish in color, which seems to bite (hence the name Devil’s bite.) The stem of Scabiosa Succisa is fragile, hairy and branched. The lower leaves of this herb are oval and entire margins. The above are lobed. The flowers of Scabiosa Succisa are have a long stalk, are grouped into heads are globular and bluish-purple or scraped. This herb is commonly found on roadsides and in vacant lots. All aerial part of the Scabiosa has medicinal properties; it is purifying, diuretic, febrifuge, diaphoretic, vulnerary and menstrual regulator. Commonly used in teas devil’s bite.

Recipes from this herb:

Infusion: Infusion placed in 20 gr. Scabiosa per liter of water.

Tincture: placed 200 d.c. alcohol of 70 º and 40 gr. of Scabiosa. Drinking a teaspoon dissolved in warm water 3 times daily.

Poultice: the poultice of crushed leaves well Scabiosa is used to apply on bruises and facilitating its reabsorption.