WHITE AJEDREA (ajedrea blanca satureja fructicosa)

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	WHITE AJEDREA
	*ajedrea blanca satureja fructicosa*

Name
WHITE AJEDREA

Scientific Name
ajedrea blanca satureja fructicosa

WHITE AJEDREA

Its height oscillates between 1 and 2 handspans. It has a off-white aspect since pelusilla of this color is covered by one. It has a stock that lasts during long time and of which are born piston rods every year. The leaves are of made oval form, they are faced and they are united to the stems by means of a tip. Its size varies depending on the place in that they are, being greater those than they are more near the stock, whereas those of the ends they are much more small. One grows up between calcáreas rocks and in channels of dry rivers. The white ajedrea has very small flowers that are grouped in ramilletes that they are born next to the leaves of the superior ends. They are formed by a chalice of tubular form with a size nonsuperior to the 3 millimeters. In the end he is very dentated and it has a species of hair tuft that excels. Its scent, very pleasant and strong, remembers the mint. The flowers and the leaves at the end of June, having taken care of are collected of not spoiling the stock so that it returns to bloom the following year. It is placed to the sun so that one dries up and it is conserved surrounded in linen cloth and kept in a crystal bottle. Usually one does not spoil, since it is not an excessively delicate plant.

This plant has been used fundamentally in Valencia and Catalonia; outside Spain practically it is not known.

Good remedy for stomach problems is had as and it is used to make good digestions or to alleviate pains when it feels bad some food. Formerly one thought that it was a very effective remedy against the mordeduras of serpent and the rage, but nowadays is demonstrated that this is not certain and that its effectiveness in these cases is null. Their flowers are used in many places, more than nothing by their pleasant scent to mentol.

Infusion: 30 are put gr.. of the white ajedrea approximately to boil in the middle liter of water during 30 minutes. The rest of the plant are strained and it is let cool. It is recommended to take three cups to the day after the meals.

Dusts: The plant is crushed until turning it fine dust and it is mixed with other three, obtaining "polvos against rabia" that the mordeduras of rabid dog cure and that they also constitute a remedy for the poison of the vipers. This he is very old preparing that does not have any real effect.

Antiseptic. Healing. Digestive.

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