COTTON PLANT (algodonerogossypium herbaceum)

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	COTTON PLANT
	*algodonerogossypium herbaceum*

Name
COTTON PLANT

Scientific Name
algodonerogossypium herbaceum

COTTON PLANT

The cotton plant is a herbaceous plant by all well-known, since the fiber that is extracted of him uses current as material of cures, in addition to in other many applications as soon we see. In Spain the cotton usually does not last more than one season: sowing in spring and dies in winter.

It has great leaves, of slapped ribbing, divided in five gores the inferior ones and three the superior ones. The flowers are born of one in one in the armpits of the leaves, that appear maintained by their stalk of a peduncle. It is an original plant of East and at the moment very extended by all the Peninsula.

It blooms in summer and autumn. Of the harvesting with medicinal aims they interest filaments of the seeds - what vulgarly we know with the cotton name. This cotton is surrounding to the seeds within a fruit with form of ovoid and divided capsule in three cavities.

The filaments of the cotton plant seeds are constituted almost exclusively by cellulose (approximately in a 95%), with a small layer of fats and waxes, along with fatty acids like the palmítico, esteárico and pectínico. In the seeds we found an amount of oil and other compounds of smaller interest important. The fibers of the cotton plant, properly prepared - this is, cleanings and taken the grease out of they have the virtue to absorb great amounts of water quickly. By this hydrophilic cotton is called to him. This fiber is used much as material of cures, until the point of to have replaced other weaves used in other times. Nowadays cotton in any homemade medicine kit can be found, to cure any small wound. In hospitals also much like surgery material is used. Of the cotton plant seeds an extract is extracted that increases the production of milk of the cows, if it is provided daily. With this same aim one occurs to the nursing woman, in smaller amounts. Another component of the oil of the cotton, diastasa proteolytic, is used like powerful antihelmíntico, although it is necessary to administer following it guidelines concrete. In fact, much in cases of people is used who do not tolerate the crust by root of distinguished or the male fern. The cotton is applied of topical form on any wound, or single or soaked in an antiseptic substance. It agrees to have kept it in dry place and if possible in hermetic bottles so that their properties are not altered. It is possible to be acquired with the due sanitary guarantees in any office of pharmacy. Normally it exists in two presentations: volute or in zigzag, being both equally valid as material of cures.

Absorbent. Galactógeno. Antihelmíntico.

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