AHUEHUETE (taxodium mucronatum)

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	AHUEHUETE
	*taxodium mucronatum*

Name
AHUEHUETE

Scientific Name
taxodium mucronatum

AHUEHUETE

He is own of Mexico although also one is him in America Center and it is cultivated mainly in the Valley of Mexico. Old the Mexicans pricked several parts of this tree in their popular medicine. Mainly the burned crust, which had applications like healing astringent and and to heal burns, escoriada skin and ulcers. Nowadays it is used in sufferings as the diarrea by means of the cofoundation of the leaves and the stem, although with the same purpose the crust, the fruit, the wood and the resin are used. In addition, the cofoundation of the two first along with leaves and the buds serve as treatment for the sores and the problems as circulatory type. Other sufferings in which the Ahuehuete or Sabino is used are against the hemorroides, hidropesía, menstrual upheavals and affections cardiac.

Great and leafy Arbol that measures between the 20 and 30 ms of height, that has the crust coffee and the foliage of shining green color. The fallen leaves are as threads and their fruits are conical and spongy, of green-bluish color, and with abundant seeds. It inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm and tempering. It grows associate to the tropical forest caducifolia, scrub xerófilo and forests of encino and pine.

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