ALIARIA (alliaria officinalis)

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	ALIARIA
	*alliaria officinalis*

Name
ALIARIA

Scientific Name
alliaria officinalis

ALIARIA

Other Names:

Grass of Garlic

It has an aroma very similar to the one of garlic, and shares with him some of its noble virtues. It is recommended to use the fresh plant, just a short time after to be started, because it loses properties when the curing. Some add to the salad their buds to tier to us of spring, which communicates a stimulating flavor to him.

Habitat: frequent in mountainous regions and you cold of Europe. Also one grows up in the American continent.

Description: it plants herbaceous of 30 to 90 cm of height, the family of the Crucíferas. Its aspect is similar to the one of the mustard. Their flowers are white, and they are grouped in a terminal cluster.

Used parts: the fresh whole plant, without the root.

Properties and indications: all the plant contains glucósidos sulfurated similar to those of garlic, in addition to essential sinigrina (glucósido present also in the mustard) and oils. It has diuréticas, stimulating and antiseptic properties. It is useful in the following cases:

Primaverales asthenia and fatigue. Very appropriate to do one it cures purifying. It agrees specially to obese, gotosos, arthritic and hypertense.

Hurt tórpidas and ulcers of the skin: after washing them with fresh juice of aliaria, they heal more quickly, by the revitalizante action and disinfectant of the plant. After washing the wound, to reinforce the healing effect, a compresa or dressing soaked in the same liquid can be placed on her (water with fresh juice of aliaria).

Use: the best form to take advantage of to the maximum the virtues the aliaria, is obtaining its fresh juice; for it it is crushed in a mortar, and it is expressed in a linen cloth of cotton, or faster way, by means of a mixer; to take 2 spoonfuls from juice after each food.

Externally, the wounds and ulcers of the skin are washed with boiled water, to which a pair of spoonfuls of fresh juice by each glass is added to him. After washed the wound a cloth of cotton soaked in that same water with fresh juice is placed above.

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