In the island of Java marta lives one that is fed on mature fruits of coffee. The agriculturists never have prevented it, since he chooses the best fruits. This way, in their excrements the best seeds can be, than they stand to obtain new units.
The fruits of the coffee, formed by a fleshy mass that surrounds two flattened and united grains, are compound basically of a nutritious weave that contains caffein 2 %.
The term coffee designates to the seed of a denominated tree coffee plant, and also the infusion prepared with her. The original plant precedes of Ethiopia, of where it happened to Arabia towards the Xlll. century was consumed There in infusion of leaves or after fermenting the seeds. The toasting process is more recent: the first drinks, so eat we know them now, instituted the Arabs in the dawn of the Xlll century At the end of the XlX, an African fungus ended all the tropical plantations. It had to resort to planting new resistant varieties.
CHARACTERISTICS: Tree of up to 8 ms of stop, white flowers, very perfumed, that are developed in numerous groups, on the branches, with short pecíolos. The flowering is characteristic, because in a coffee plantation all the flowers of the same generation are opened simultaneously, reason why, of a day for another one, it is possible to be happened of a plantation of green color to totally white other. The fruit is one drupa (seed with fleshy envelope) of the size and color of a cherry and in each one are two grains of coffee, appear the first flowers to the third year of life, but until seventh the production begins to be profitable of which she is very high during three or four years to begin to decay until 20 0 30.
LOCATION: Original of Africa, it is cultivated in the tropical regions worldwide. Only temperatures between 10 and 25 and are lethal 5 inferior temperatures ° C below cero. The African species is preferred for the coffee production nevertheless, in Brazil, for example, the Coffea species has been implanted liberica, and in Mauricio islands, the one that has been baptized like mauritiana C.. It requires deep permeable grounds, even eats those of several zones of Brazil, that provide some of the best coffees of the world, arriving to move mythical "moka" Arabic.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The basic component of the coffee is the caffein, that represents 2 % of the seed approximately. In addition, it contains sugar, cellulose, fats and tannins. With the toasting it modifies grain the Í composition very little. The heat destroys sugars, oxidizes fats and makes appear an essence caféona, that it gives to the infusion his characteristic aroma.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: The coffee stimulates the circulation, the breathing and the nervous system and elevates the arterial tension slightly. The fatigue diminishes, facilitates the psychic work. Practitioner in the recovery is very from poisonings alcohol.
HARVESTING: It is made in dry time, taking the mature fruits one by one. In some plantations one hopes to that they fall of the tree gather of the ground.
USES And APPLICATIONS: It is used in infusion from the dry, toasting and ground grain, with infinity of variants at the time of preparing it.
Used Part
The seeds.
Farmacológica Action
Caffein is a stimulant of the central nervous system, at psychic level and to neuromuscular. The potassium salts confer a diurética action to him, reinforced by acids clorogénicos, responsible for their colerética and expectorante activity. It increases to the gastric motilidad and the intestinal peristaltismo. In topical application he is lipolítico.
Not to associate to tranquilizers nor to other stimulants: ginseng, eleuterococo, nut of tail, guaraná, kill, efedra, etc.
Indirect effect
Insomnia, nervousness, tachycardia, palpitaciones. By his content in alkaloids he is advisable to take from discontinuous form. Its prolonged use produces addiction.
Precaution/Poisonings
The inclusion of caffein in antimigrañosas formulations is frequent, when being demonstrated that it increases the effectiveness of analgesic ones. In treatments on the other hand prolonged it can produce migraines like effect bounces, besides to create dependency.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
- Infusion (5-7 g/l): one to two cups to the day, after the breakfast and food.
To take during short periods.
- topical Use: Caffein or glicólico extract (1:5), in gels or lipolíticas creams.
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