Although the toxicity of the leaves of the rosebay is had exaggerated, the certain thing is that it stands in the gardens to maintain the dogs remote.
Own plant of the marine shores, very showy, of beautiful flowers, with poisonous leaves whose extracts have been used like tonic cardiac
CHARACTERISTICS: Always green shrub, of up to 2 ms of height, although is frequent that gets to grow more, paste the 4 m.s Its leaves are even narrow and long, hard, with the smooth edges. Although its flavor is disagreeable and rarely will take you to the mouth, is necessary to avoid that the children chew them. In the end of the stems four or five pedúnculos arise that culminate in a flower forming the set a floral unit of about 20 cm. of diameter; coda one of them has five white petals pink or that make of the plant a precious decorative element. Also nerio is denominated.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: It contains many substances, mainly glucósidos, that exert a farmacológica action on the heart rate.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: Due to his action on the cardiac muscle, it is used like tonic. In the suitable proportion, the glucósidos ones of the rosebay are so able to accelerate a heart rate like restraining it.
HARVESTING: Any time of ] year it is good to cost some leaves to a rosebay, although during the summer and the autumn it increases his production of active principles.
USES And APPLICATIONS: Its use is reserved to the specialists exclusively, because an inadequate dose could be fatal, since it would be easy that an effect in opposition to the wished one was obtained. The hermosura of the plant, with Its bearing and its precious flowers, has made of the rosebay a plant very used in gardening. At the time of our grandparents one already stood next to the ways so that asses and mules, that at that time threw of the cars, (average of habitual transport), the leaves were not entertained during the passage eating. Also it delimited tunas of pasturing, with which the limits paid attention until which the flock could arrive. In North Africa, a paste with leaves of rosebay and honey used to prepare itself with restregada which on the hairy leather, the scabies was fought.
The rosebay is used like ornamental shrub given the beauty of its flowers, that can be double, like those of the center of the figure, or simple (above), because numerous cultivated varieties exist. Down a seed is observed. Their leaves, seemed to those of the laurel although narrower, taste disagreeable and are toxic. The active principles that lodge are mainly glucósidos that has action on the cardiac beat, as much accelerating their rate as enlenteciendo it, according to the dose; it is for that reason, that uses of the rosebay as it plants medicinal must be restricted to the doctors.
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