ALSINE (alsine stellaria media)

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	*alsine stellaria media*

Name
ALSINE

Scientific Name
alsine stellaria media

ALSINE

It is an annual plant or biennial that can get to measure thirty centimeters. The stem is not the sufficiently strong thing like maintaining raised it, reason why normally it is crawling by the ground, except the ends that usually are high. It presents/displays great amount of ramifications. The leaves are of made oval form, with their end finished in end, and they are located had opposed form, starting off of each knot. Peciolo that unites it to the stem increases as we came near to the ground. One is habitually in incultos lands, near walls and in shady zones.

We can find the flowery plant during almost all the year. It has flowers of white color that are located in the apical zone of the plant and are maintained by thin stems. They have five petals and equal number of sépalos; each petal is divided in two, and sometimes it seems that it has ten. The flowers are opened at noon and its form remembers small stars. The fruit is a capsule of ovoid form, with six valvas by which its opening is obtained when it is the suitable moment for his germination.

From old times this plant mainly by its expectorante action has been used thanks to its content in saponinas, although in our days this effect has been surpassed fully by other plants of greater activity. Between the many virtues that traditionally have been attributed to this plant it emphasizes the one that talks about its capacity to clean to the respiratory routes and the lungs. Other times one has been used for the topical washing of the eyes which, thanks to the saponinas, created a similar effect to which they produce present soaps. Also the extracted juice of this plant was used like analgesic optician. In veterinary medicine it has been used like appetizer of birds locked up in cages, that indeed in those conditions of captivity used to lose the appetite. All these actions are enough poor men, so that at the present time its use has practically been eradicated.

Infusion: Ten grams of the whole plant are added to 300 milliliters of boiled water and still it warms up, letting cool it during twelve minutes; the obtained liquid is taken throughout the day, to favor therefore the expectoración.

Juice of the fresh plant: It is possible to be taken a spoonful every eight hours, fortifying of this form the respiratory routes and in special the lungs.

Expectorante. Balsamic. Appetizer.

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