AQUILINE (aguileña aquilegia vulgaris)

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	AQUILINE
	*aguileña aquilegia vulgaris*

Name
AQUILINE

Scientific Name
aguileña aquilegia vulgaris

AQUILINE

The aquiline one is a plant that renews every year and usually reaches the meter of height. Their leaves are born of the stocks and they are ramifican at the top of the plant. They have very long tips and each leaf is divided in three of three gores each una.Esta plant grows up in fresh zones, mainly in forests,

precipices and meadows. We can find it in the North zone of the Iberian Peninsula. In the south it is more difficult to find it, although nonimpossible. The time of flowering of the aquiline one begins in April and includes the months of spring and summer. Their flowers are maintained by an extended stalk of a peduncle; they are of blue color, although its tonality is very variable, and they even can get to be white. They are compound of five petals that have form of spur, and five sépalos of similar aspect to the petals. Estambres is very abundant and is free to each other. The fruit is made up of five parts that are opened in their mature inner zone when. It is difficult to find two aquiline due to the great variety of colors and sizes equal that exist. Of this plant the flowers are collected, leaves and seeds.

At first one thought that it contained alkaloids, fact that were not strange because the ranunculáceas are characterized to produce numerous alkaloids in addition to other substances that act of very violent form on the human body. Nevertheless, this theory was rejected later. What yes they contain the flowers and leaves is glucósido nitrile in small amounts, which when being disturbed produce hydrocyanic acid. This substance also is in the seeds, that in addition they contain greasy matters.

To this plant numerous virtues have been attributed to him from remote times: it was used in medicine by his diuréticas, sudoríficas and desecantes qualities, among others; also one was used to facilitate the childbirths. To the children it was administered to them when they suffered measles or smallpox. Also very the use of the aquiline one was accepted to avoid so feared garrotillo. In England the aquiline one was used to heal to the ardor of mouth and throat. Also it was used frequently in syrup form to cure fevers. Of any way, at the moment it is not used practically more than as adornment plant. Several authors have located this plant, like other many of their family, within the toxic species. Therefore, he is not recommendable to use the aquiline one in homemade medicine.

Toxic. Antipyretic. Astringent.

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