GARLIC BEAR (allium ursinum)

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	GARLIC BEAR
	*allium ursinum*

Name
GARLIC BEAR

Scientific Name
allium ursinum

GARLIC BEAR

Family: Liliáceas.

Description: Perennial grass with the bulb of carrying white color of I escape floral. The leaves leave from the same bulb; very they are pecioladas, oval and of green color dark brilliant. The flowers meet in umbela apical on I escape, locked up in first instance by a espata that is opened in the flowering, of color white and formed by six tápalos. The fruit is a capsule to trilocular, that contains the angular seeds. It grows in the shady and humid places of Europe, preferredly next to the water obstacles. I escape can reach the 40 cm. of height. One collects in May and June.

Used parts: The bulb.

Active Principles: Unstable vinyl essence, sulfide, salts, aldehydes.

Indications: Purifying, rubefaciente, hipotensivo, antihelmíntico.

Its Uso: Pulp dye, syrup, decocción, juice, cataplasm, essence.

Of Interest: From the medicinal point of view this species presents/displays comparable properties to those of common garlic. At the present time it is used widely in form of juice in adelgazantes diets. The tender leaves take advantage of like condimento to perfume some salads. The essence is used like rubefaciente in the rheumatic diseases and solution like liquid disinfectant of the atmosphere.

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