Its Latin name, Sempervirens, mean always green, which alludes to that perennifolio is a shrub and to that can live, according to the tradition, more than 600 years.
It grows in the underbrush of the robledales, pine groves and hayedos, and measures of one to four meters. Its wood very is appreciated by its hardness and in its crust and its leaves is the buxina, a very powerful alkaloid, and vitamin C.
LOCATION: Its wood is so hard that if we tried to cut a small branch with a leaf to shave, this one will be broken before that the branch. Such hardness turns it raw material for recorded ornamentales pieces.
CHARACTERISTICS: It is a shrub of persistent leaf. It reaches between one and four meters of height, being able to reach the six. The leaves, small, of intense color green, dark and superficially clear underneath give to the plant a precious aspect that is translated in its use as it plants ornamental. Their small flowers, yellows, grow almost without pecíolo, next to the insertion of the leaves in the stem. The fruit, of not more of a centimeter, is hard, a capsule that contains the seeds. Also it is known him with the boxwood name.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The leaves and the crust (of stems and roots contain a very toxic alkaloid (buxina) vitamin C.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: In century xvi lotions with remedy against the baldness were sold. The salesmen explained the case of a bald farmer, like a billiard ball that rubbed with the liquid at issue and a beautiful hair grew to him; but having to him fallen the liquid by the face and the neck, both zones filled with hair. More ahead it was verified that the boxwood lotion did not have any substance that let grow the hair. Their true medicinal properties consist of making descend the fever and act like laxative.
HARVESTING: The leaves can be collected at any time of the year, but he is advisable to take the plant to decorticate it after to have matured the fruit, that is to say, spent summer.
USES And APPLICATIONS: By his toxicity, he is not advisable to use it like homemade remedy. A high dose can be very toxic. It has been used like substitute of the quinine in the treatment of the malaria.
Famlia
Buxáceas
Used medicinal part
The leaves and their branches
Type of Plant
Perennial matoso shrub
Origin
Central and southern Europe, western Asia and Africa of the North
Height
Up to 6 meters
Leaves
Made oval, opposed, blunt, something pecioladas, perennial, flexible and shining.
Flowers
Of color yellowish and sesiles. Grouped in ramilletes in the armpit of the leaves, separated the masculine ones of the feminine ones.
The masculine ones are external to glomérulo.
The feminine ones are central.
It blooms of May to March.
Seed
Capsule that contains shining black seeds and
Habitat
One is in calcáreos lands of mounts and forests. Very frequent in Spain.
Properties
Febrífugo
Sudorífico
Antiinflamatorio
Antireumático
Colagogo
Indications
Intermittent fevers
Reumatismos
Hepatitis
Influenza
Contraindications
Treatments with parasimpaticolíticos, hypotension, convalecencia, pregnancy, lactancia and smaller children of 15 years, gastritis, ulcus gastroduodenal.
Not to prescribe forms of metering with alcoholic content to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.
uses
Anti-flu dye
Dye of boxwood.................................... 30 g
Dye of agrifolio.............................. 30 g
Dye of pilosella.............................10 g
Dye of sasafrás.............................10 g
Dosage: a teaspoon (of those of coffee) by dose
Additional Informaciíon
The boxwood in front of the Peruvian bark crust
The boxwood is considered a badly sucedáneo one of the properties of the Peruvian bark crust of which as much it is spoken in treatments against the malaria, although by its sudorífica action it is useful in purifying treatments of the generally associated organism to other plants like the fumaria, the root of zarzaparrilla or the same tooth of lion.
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