TREE OF PERU (schinus molle)

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	TREE OF PERU
	*schinus molle*

Name
TREE OF PERU

Scientific Name
schinus molle

TREE OF PERU

Introduction: It is a species of ample use and it is recommended for digestive sufferings like cólicos, bile, stomach ache and constipation. Also it serves for the pain perforated teeth, teeth and the healing of wounds, in which the resin is applied. It is used for the annoyances of the reumatismo, having used the branches macerated like papilla or boiled for his local application or soaked in alcohol to rub the affected part. When affections like cough appear, gripa, asthma and tuberculosis, the infusion is taken. In diseases like the gonorrhea, as well as in the cases of irritated eyes, conjuntivitis and cataracts, the leaves in cofoundation or the crushed one of these for washings are used. On the other hand, it is used for badly angers, scare and fright, which commonly are called clean or sweepings.

Arbol that measures up to 15 ms of height, has the cracked crust and he is always green and its hanging branches. The flowers are tiny and originate ramilletes of globosos fruits. She is original of America and it inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm, semidry and tempering. It grows of wild form to borders of ways and is associate to scrub xerófilo, pastizal, forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and compound of pine.

Brazilian PEPPERTREE

Family: Anacardiaceae Schinus

Common names: Brazilian Peppertree, Aroeira, Brush, Peruvian Peppertree, Peruvian Arbol of Mastic, California Peppertree, Arbol de Mastic, Aroeira Sauce, Turpentine tree, Pepper of American, Anacahuita, Castile, False Pepper, Gualeguay, Balsam of Jesuit, Molle Of Peru, Mulli, Arbol de Pimienta, Pimentero, Pimientillo, Pirul

Brazilian Peppertree, small tree that grows 4-8 feet of height with a trunk 25-35 cm. in the diameter and narrows the leaves of spiky. It produces a small abundance flowers formed in pedúnculo, supports a fruit similar to the berry to the months of December and January. He is indigenous to the South and central America and can be found in the tropico and the United States. Three species of trees is used interchangeably, molle of Schinus, aroeira of Schinus, and terebinthifolius of Schinus.

Virtually all parts of this tropical tree have been used medicinally through the tropical including their leaves, the crust, the fruit, the seeds, the resin and oleorresina or the balsam. It has an old history of the use and the plant appears in devices or ídolos Amerindian old monks of the Chilean. All parts of the tree have a high oil and the essential oil content that produces an sharp aromatic scent. The leaves of Brazilian Peppertree have such a high oil content that leafs through pull of pieces and torsion when it placed in the hot water as the oil is freed. The berries taste of peppery and it has been used in syrups, the vinegar and the drinks in Peru, in Chilean wines, and Africa is dried and they are ground like a substitute of the pepper. The fruit dried has still was used like a adulterante of black pepper in some countries. The tree also produces a resin and oleorresina or balsam that are used medicinally.

Brazilian Peppertree has a long history of uses through Sur and central America and inquires to be astringent, balsámica, collyrium, diurética, emmenagogue, masticatorio, piscicide, purgativa, stomach, tonic, antiviral. Their uses by the natives in the countries where it grows it well are documented. In Peru it is used like a purgativo and diurético, and the whole plant is used externally for you fracture and as an antiseptic of topical use. The oleorresina in Peru is used externally as they heal and for pain teeth and takes internally for reumatismo, a popular disease called "Suto, " and like a purgativo. In the Africa of the South, a leaf tea is used to treat the resfriados ones, and a decocción of leaf is inhaled for resfriados, hypertension, the depression, and arrhythmia. In the Brazilian Amazon, a crust tea is used as a purgativo and a tea of crust and leaf are used like stimulating and an antidepressing one. In Argentina, a decocción takes control of the leaves dries and is taken for disorders from menstrual, the infections of stretch and disorders as well as respiratory and urinary.

The Brazilian Peppertree is still used in the botanical medicine in many countries. It is used for many conditions in the tropical including, amenorrhoea, you apostemate, blenorragia, the bronchitis, the cataracts, dismenorrea, gingivitis, gonorrhea, drop, oftalmia, the reumatismo, the sores, the swellings, the tuberculosis, the ulcers, uretritis, the disorders of urogenital and venereal and volute. In the botanical Brazilian medicine, the dry crust or leaves is used for fever, the urinary disorders of ardor and pain, for cystitis, uretritis, blenorragias, the coughs, the bronchitis, and other superior respiratory problems, the complaint, the diarrea, the disorders of hemorrhages and menstrual with excessive bloody, the tumors, and general inflammation. An extract or tinctures liquids prepared with the crust are used internally like stimulating, tonic and an astringent, and externally for reumatismo, drop and sífilis. The leaf and the fruit have added to baths for volute and the ulcers.

The analysis of photochemical of Brazilian Peppertree reveals that the plant contains tannins, alkaloid, flavonoides, saponinas of steroids, sterols, terpenos, the rubbers, the essential resins, and oils. The essential oil, presents/displays in the leaves, the crust and the fruit, is a rich source of triterpenes, sesquiterpenes and monoterpenes and many of the plant are the documented biological activities are attributed to essential oils found in the plant. The fruit can contain up to 5% of essential oil and the leaves can contain up to 2% of essential oil. In the laboratory it proves, the essential oil thus like also an extract of leaf demonstrated good to very strong actions of antifungi against numerous fungi and innocent in the Vitro. The essential oil and leaves clinics have demonstrated to antibacterial activity of Vitro and numerous antimicrobial activity of con bacteria and pathogenic in several studies. In 1996 a patent of the U.S.A. was granted for oil an essential preparation of Brazilian Peppertree like a tropical medicine of bactericidal of used against eruginosa of Seudomonas and golden of Staphylococcus for humans and animals and like an ear, the preparation of nose and throat against bacteria. The same company was granted another patent in 1997 a similar preparation to be used as antibacterial of topical use a cleaning volute. In much more early in tests of Vitro, an extract of leaf of Brazilian Peppertree demonstrated antiviral effect against several virus of the plant and 9kb was to be cytotoxic against cells of cancer. The crust and the leaves contain a phytochemical, the acid of gallic, that has been documented with ANTI inflammatory, antimicrobial, the properties of antiviral and anticarcinoma that can explain part of the properties more early documented of extracts of leaf and crust.

Several groups of investigation have lead the studies animals on the years in Brazilian Peppertree that has justified some of its many traditional uses in the herbal medicine. An extract of the fruit and an extract of the leaf were to produce a hipotensivo activity in dogs and rats, as well as stimulating activity of of uterine in conejillos of Indians and rabbits. Very recent, the extracted extracts of the leaves have been proven by other investigators between 1996 and 1997 and their demonstrated analgesic and antispasmodic activity to in mice in rats. The essential oil also was to be an effective repelente of insect against the domestic fly common in 1996.

Today, natural facultative hervoralarios and of health in as much in the superior use of the North as South America Brazilian Peppertree to a large extent for bacterial viral and infections appreciates the resfriados ones, influenza, asthma, bronchitis and other respiratory infections, when an aid of heart for the hypertension and the arrhythmia, and when a grass to balance of female for numerous disorders of menstrual, menstrual prevents, PMS and the menopause.

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