YELLOW WALLFLOWER (alhelí amarillo cheiranthus cheiri)

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	YELLOW WALLFLOWER
	*alhelí amarillo cheiranthus cheiri*

Name
YELLOW WALLFLOWER

Scientific Name
alhelí amarillo cheiranthus cheiri

YELLOW WALLFLOWER

The wallflower, according to all treaties of botany, includes/understands several species of two different sorts; therefore yellow wallflower must be called, in order not to confuse it. It is an annual plant that becomes a little ligneous as it ages. The flowery stems are raised and covered of pelitos, like the leaves, that are an a next others; they are of lanceolada figure, acute and of whole edges, a little blanquecinas underneath.

The flowers are of intense yellow color and form ramillete in the end of the stems. The yellow wallflower usually cultivates itself in flowerpots by its remarkable ornamental effect, although also it occurs wild, mainly between walls of old buildings, churches, monasteries, etc.

It blooms from March in ahead. Of the harvesting with therapeutic aims they interest the leaves and seeds. As far as the leaves, they are due to gather in the month of September. In some manuals they dictate to collection norms, making specific the type of climate that must do and even the suitable hour of collection.

Possibly this must to the concentration of active principles, that usually fluctuates throughout the day. The seeds take shelter when the fruits are completely mature, if possible a little before these are opened by themselves. The seeds are very rich in oil and in addition glucósidos contain diverse cardiotónicos. The virtues cardiac of the wallflower were discovered time for other pathologies not long ago. But to the being a species that has direct influences on the heart, is necessary to take care of itself to use it without the prescription of a facultative one much. This type of cardiotónicas substances - this is, that tonifican the heart count on the great disadvantage of which it stops to obtain optimal effects is necessary to fit the dose very well, since it goes of the therapeutic dose to the toxic dose in a matter of milligrams. In addition, also it is necessary to consider the susceptibility of each patient: 2 equal people do not exist and for that reason everyone needs a different dose. Nowadays, all these studies are made in hospitals, in charge of personnel very specialized. And usually it is not used a plant, but that is extracted the products that interest and it is investigated with them, so that therefore the dose is fit very.

Infusion: Using a small amount of leaves previously dried, they are added to a boiling water cup; one drinks to small sorbos, not more than two cups per day and with it excellent diuréticos effects are obtained. In botanical Literature other preparations of greater or smaller activity exist, but it is used almost always in very small amounts and mixed with other grass. It is not necessary to forget that one is a very active and toxic plant if one is used bad.

Toxic. Cardiotónico. Antiinflamatorio.

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