Diurética, antiseptic, against infections of vejiga, clarifies tinkles it cloudy
The flowers very produce a nectar looked for by the bees, reason why it is rare to see a bush of brezo in flower without no of those insects. The quality of the honey of brezo is comparable to the one of romero.
Branch of brezo and detail of a flower. This shrub of little height is everywhere, even to great altitudes, if we excepted calcáreos lands.
The infusions of brezo are prepared by decocción of fifty grams of flowery small branches by liter of water, and three cups to the day are taken to alleviate the urinary affections.
This plant abounds in the field, and it is used in gardening (land of brezo) as organic installment. One obtains from the rest of it plants in decomposition that are covering the ground. The roots are even usable: with them pipes make.
CHARACTERISTICS: Bush that does not raise more of a handspan of the ground, although sometimes can reach to a meter. Its winding stem becomes involved with smallest leaves, which also are arranged in ramilletes opposite, each one of them formed by four rows of leaves. The flowers constitute ramilletes in the ends of the stems. Of pink-viola'ceo color, they form like very showy hanging campanitas. Sometimes brezo invades great zones of land inculto and gives the sensation of being a cultivated garden, by the beauty that offers the set when it is in flower. The flowering is in summer in zones you cold, whereas in the tempered zones it is delayed until the autumn. One calculates that one to kill can live up to 40 years. In some parts brecina is denominated to him.
LOCATION: Practically everywhere, in the forest, the level one, hills, the pedregales. One has been in the Solo mountain of 2,500 m.s has difficulties in calcáreos lands.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: It is had isolated more than a dozen of composed that could exert some farmacológica action on the organism; of among them it is possible to emphasize citric acid, glucósidos, tannins, starch and an essence que', it confers his characteristic scent.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: This to plant it is, first of all, antiseptic diurética and, reason why it is indicated in in inflammations of vejiga urinary. Its tannin content makes astringent.
HARVESTING: According to the zone, and depending on the flowering, the small branches with flowers must cut themselves when these already has been opened completely and not yet they have been marchitado.
USES And APPLICATIONS: In general, it is used in decocción: 50 grams of fresh flowery small branches in a liter of water are boiled during 15 minutes about, it goes through the strainer and tirne a drink that taken to tacitas (one after each food) can remedy the renales affections. Also it can be let dry the plant once taken and to use it in infusion or tea (we remember that in the infusion first the water is boiled soon adds the grass and the container of the fire retires), sweetened with honey of bee or black sugar.
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