CAPUCHINO (tropaeolum majus)

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	CAPUCHINO
	*tropaeolum majus*

Name
CAPUCHINO

Scientific Name
tropaeolum majus

CAPUCHINO

Castilian: capuchina, marañuela, pelón, flower of the blood, sores of Christ, spur of gallant, pajarillamastuerzo of Indians.

English: large Indian cress, common nasturtium,

FAMILY

Tropeoláceas

USED PART

All the plant

TYPE OF PLANT

Annual succulent, weak, lampiña, of stems of up to 30 cm. in length.

ORIGIN

Peru

HEIGHT

Up to 35 cm.

LEAVES

Alternating, not absolutely orbiculares, of 30 cm. of diameter, flácidas and of peciolos lengths.

FLOWERS

Tapeworms, very colorful and showy, abracando from the orange yellow to the intense one.

The chalice has five sépalos and the corola five somewhat unequal petals of up to 3 cm. in length.

All the year blooms case depending on the climatology of the place, but preferredly from June to November.

FRUITS

Fleshy, of white color and 12 mm wide.

Propagation: By seeds outdoors from March to May.

HABITAT

One is cultivated in orchards and gardens proliferating easily in fields very to which they do not need humidity. Something prefers the shaded places.

COMPONENTS

Essential oil...........0,03%

- tiocinato of bencilo derived from the glucotrepeolina - Acid ascórbico - isoquercitina - helenina

PROPERTIES

Afrodisíaco, antianemic, antibiotic (thanks to its content in tiocinato of bencilo), antiescorbútico, antinefrítico, purifying, diurético, expectorante, laxative, laxative appetizer, (Its dry fruits), vulnerario, emenagogo, Tonic

INDICATIONS

Affections of urinary routes, Alopecia, Vitamin deficiency, Bronchitis, Cystitis, Resfriados, To strengthen of the hairy leather, Nefritis, Infections of the urinary routes, Influenza, Hair with dandruff (Decocciones or champús), Traumatismos (Leaves in form of cataplasms), Contusions (Leaves in form of cataplasms)

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Internally and to great doses it can irritate the stomach due to its content in tiocinato of bencilo

USES

Dust of seeds

Up to 2 g in several times per day

Food

Vitamin source C, is very useful in salads. The people prone to suffer epilépticos attacks would have to eat it crude every day. It is a good antispasmodic

Maceration

We are going to talk about to the way in which the Dr recommends Luis G. Cabrera of Mexico: "La plants must previously be used in form of maceration of the stems, leaves and seeds, crushing them and leaving them during 12 hours in water (two or three grams for 15 of water), to take that amount in uninformed during two or three días"

Dye mother

Up to 30 drops three times per day

Against the cough, tosferina, cold and bronchitis

To crush 4 fresh leaves and to put them to macerate in 3/4 of cold liter of water during a minimum of 12 hours. To leak

Dosage: to drink one or two preferably glasses to the day with a spoonful of good honey.

Hurt and ulcers, sores

Applied the fresh leaves of the capuchina in cataplasm form are antiseptic, preventing the infection of hurt and ulcers and accelerating their healing.

Aftas, orzuelos and fires in the mouth

The juice of the leaves and its flowers are applied in the affected zones

Cholesterol in the elevated blood, diseases of the liver, kidneys, urinary prostate and routes

In the middle to take 20 drops from capuchina dye glass of water three times to the day.

This same dye to way of frictions in external use alleviates "makhurkha" or muscular pain and the pain bones

Insecticide against flies, fleas...

To friends mine who raise dogs I recommended to them that they seeded capuchinas around the perreras with which they were able to eliminate the great problem of the fleas in summer.

Also the infusion of this plant is very useful to sprinkle places where flies and fleas exist. Also it can be applied in the body of the animals that contain garrapatas and other parasites. Not to use in the cows since they are licked and is toxic

Pulmonía, inflammation of kidneys, vejiga and urinary routes

To crush 4 fresh leaves and to put them to macerate in 3/4 of cold liter of water during a minimum of 12 hours. To leak

Dosage: to preferably drink all the content distributed throughout the day to the day with a spoonful of good honey.

COMMENTARIES

Commentary of doctor Monardes (1578):

"La majada leaf and position the juice della in any fresh wound consolidates it and heals, curing it by the first intention: and they use della nor but nor less than it is used of the Tobacco, pa rezientes wounds, washing with the juice and putting borujo encima"

Commentary of Cobo father in 1653 from Peru:

Indian "Los call ticsau to him, and the Mastuerzo Spaniards of the Indians. The Indians occur to a bath with the desta cofoundation grass when they feel with headache, and if the pain is in all the body, they give bath in all thus with the leaves like with rayzes; and if they have scabs, grains and other infections of the leather, they are left dellas by means of the bath free: and the cozimiento done with clean wine and dries llagas"

Fray Navarrese Juan

It gave the name him of "mastuerzo of the Perú" because the leaves and the flowers taste sharp similar to the one of the watercress. And in its manuscript "Jardín Americano" it describes therefore the units of Mexican capuchina: "Pelonxotitl, or Mastuerzo of Peru, because it was engaged in there. In Spain they call the capuchina, according to I heard it say to Don Vicente Cervantes, university professor of botany in the city of Mexico. He is hot and dry almost in fourth degree. Their flowers in salad, are useful to the stomachs cold or adoloridos by ventosidad; majadaas and applied to the chest is against the cough. The majadas leaves and flowers are distilled in alquitara with alum grains, and with this the sores are washed although they are in the mouth, and is as good as the water luminosa"

Its culture

Of easy culture even in terraces and gardens to enredadera way. Very rich in vitamin C

Some perreras seed the capuchina in their fences to preserve to the dogs of lice and other parasites

In our garden we must seed leaving it space sufficient so that one extends, since otherwise it will invade to other plants.

In flowerpot also we can seed it although one will not become as great as in direct ground. In the balconies with a flowerpot the sufficiently great thing can give a touch of color to the balcony if we left it is entangled in the railing.

He is not recommendable to water it in excess since it would cause that their roots rotted and died the plant. An irrigation to the week will be sufficient.

Harvesting

In the middle of summer, before they bloom since they have more vitamins. To collect the leaves during afternoon to last hour.

Other related species

Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruiz and Pavón.

Also call cubios, nabios, añú. This species is of the tropical zone Andean of South America, that grows between the 2,500 and 3,500 ms of altitude, mainly in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Different varieties are known. With respect to these species Cobo father comments the following thing: "Tiene virtue this root to repress the venereal appetite, according to says the Indians; and thus they affirm that Incas of Peru commanded to the kings to take the copy of this maintenance to their armies, so that eating of him its soldiers, they forgot its women. The cofoundation by these roots taken in uninformed with sugar, acquittal the pecguguera, and done the cozimiento with these roots and those of the parsley and drunk in uninformed with juice of Lima, bankruptcy the stone of the kidneys and vejiga"

As it indicates its name well, it has tubercles of conical form, that are the medicinal part of the plant. The stems are succulent and of reddish color, presenting/displaying the flowers a corola of 1 cm. in length, of purple dwelled red color. One has been between his active principles mirosina, benzílica mustard essence. The tubercles are eatable and of an intense flavor to iron. Its tender leaves, like the capuchina previously mentioned, is consumed crude in salads. This plant is considered diurética being used its tubercles in topical treatments of eccemas and irritations of the skin

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