WHITE FIR (miller)

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	WHITE FIR
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Name
WHITE FIR

Scientific Name
miller

WHITE FIR

Names

Castilian: white fir, white pine, silverplated pine, male fir, common fir

German: Fichte, Eibisch

Italian: Abete

Portuguese: fir.

It is of the family of the Pináceas, grows from the 800 to the 2,000 meters being its type of evergreen, has flat, solitary leaves and linear being in two lines of off-white color in the inferior part, during the spring it flórese and in autumn they mature the seeds in fragmentation hand grenade form. It grows until a height of 50 to 60 meters

Medicinally the yolks and the leaves in resfriados of the high and low respiratory routes, problem renales, problems of the micción (it tinkles), affections of the skin, reumatismo, arthritis, etc. are used.

Preparation: One boils by ä 6 minutes, are possible to be taken from 3 to 5 cups to the day mixing a teaspoon by hot cup

Baths become of steam of chest and head: 30 grams in each bath.

In the antiquity the doctors advised their leaves to the convalescent ones of pulmonary and asthmatic diseases. The difference between the white fir and the red fir this in the clear color of the trunk of the white fir. It is of this fir of which the best essence of trementina is extracted, guayacol, creosotes and terpina and that so is used for varnishes.

Recommendations:

Acidity of stomach: To boil 50 gr.. of yolks of fir in 1/2 liter of water during 3 minutes. To let rest 5 minutes. To strain and to drink three cups to the day sweetened with bee honey.

Colds, bronchitis: To boil 50 gr.. of yolks of fir in 1/2 liter of water during 3 minutes. To let rest 5 minutes. To strain and to drink three cups to the day sweetened with bee honey.

Lumbago, sciatic reumatismo and: Two parts of resin of white fir by three are mixed simple petroleum jelly. This emplasto is applied in form of frictions on the affected or sore zone.

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