Alisma is a plant vivaz of the family of the alismatáceas. This family is made up of 70 species of warm countries and temperings that generally are herbaceous and own of humid places.
This plant has the stock a little thickened and the stem is raised very, hard and without leaves. The leaves start directly of the stock, appear maintained by long tips and in general they are of made oval form, acorazonadas in the base. The flowers are small and they are located on long tips that leave from the same point of the stem and return to ramificar themselves to form ample ramillete. One grows up in marshes, pools and waters of slow course of all the country.
It blooms in spring and summer, as long as it finds the sufficient humidity adapted to its characteristics. Of the harvesting with medicinal aims they mainly interest the leaves, which can be taken throughout the year better - although if this is carried out when still the plant has not bloomed, since it is at this moment when more concentration in active principles has.
Alisma stores great amount of starch in the stock. This polisacárido is the one that is in greater concentration; but in addition it contains other many sugars, a tánicas resin, matters and a substance of pungent color that disappears after the baking process. As much in the leaves as in the stock of alisma applications can be found farmacológicas if they are used of suitable way. Mainly species is considered astringent, antiinflammatory and rubefaciente, although in some towns in where it abounds they attribute other many properties to him that nevertheless the pain does not deserve to comment. In fact one is a species little activates from the medicinal point of view, or at least little studied as far as his composition. Of all the species that compose this family, so single it is known that alisma is used for curativos aims, being discarded the rest of the plants of the family.
In some old books the following description can be found: "la alisma (called damasonio by some) produces leaves similar to those of llantén, single that narrower and inclined towards earth. Drunk one or two dracmas (old measurement of volume) by its root with wine, gasterópodo aids to which swallowed something of marine hare (sailor of reduced size that tóxico)" secretes a liquid;.
Fresh leaves: The fresh and crushed leaves are applied directly on the skin, which produces an intense inflammation.
Astringent. Antiinflamatorio. Rubefaciente.
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