ARMUELLE (armuelleatriplex hortense)

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	ARMUELLE
	*armuelleatriplex hortense*

Name
ARMUELLE

Scientific Name
armuelleatriplex hortense

ARMUELLE

Armuelle is an annual herbaceous plant that can grow until the 2 meters if mima much. The stem and the branches are straight and lampiños; the leaves have triangular form, with winding or indented edges and are maintained by a tip that is used excessive respect in the superior branches. The flowers are small and little showy, although they form a inflorescencia in ear that calls something plus the attention. The fruit is reddish or black, according to the maturation state in which it is. One grows up throughout, although she is original of central Asia.

It blooms in summer. An eatable plant is considered him and in their leaves are their medicinal virtues. In fact, one is not a medicinal plant in the strict sense of the word. Rather we were before a nutritious plant, used from immemorial times. Little by little it was falling in the forgetfulness, until there was necessity and one became to popularize his use. This, that seems something strange, is of most current throughout history: many eatable vegetables that occur in a certain region, when the things go well and it is had foods of better quality, fall in the forgetfulness, although they remain in the memory of oldest of the place; when by any circumstance they begin to be scarce foods, begin then to redescubrir old prescriptions, that in addition usually are exquisite at times from uninformed. Armuelles is a clear necessity food example.

But nonsingle it has nutritious properties; it is also considered that the leaves have slight laxative and diuréticas properties. They contain an important amount of saponinas, nonsingle the herbaceous parts, but also the seeds. Vitamin C or acid ascórbico also is in important concentrations.

When being an eatable plant, the best form to take advantage of its smooth properties is by means of a culinaria elaboration. Thus, it is recommended to take the leaves simply boiled, with a little salt and oil (better if it is of olive). It is a vegetable easy to digest mainly, recommendable in people greater than they need regimes little substance but that they fill the stomach. As far as the possibility of preparing some infusion or any other form of administration, sincerely it is not worth the trouble to bother itself, since if they are wanted to obtain diuréticos or laxative effects are had many other grass of greater activity.

Diurético. Laxative. Nutritious.

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