CAPULIN (prunus laurocerasus)

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	CAPULIN
	*prunus laurocerasus*

Name
CAPULIN

Scientific Name
prunus laurocerasus

CAPULIN

(Prunus laurocerasus L.)

NAMES

Latin: Prunus laurocerasus L.

Castilian: lauroceraso, laurel cherry tree

Portuguese: loureiro real, louro cerejo

French: to laurier cérise, to laurierbnamandier, to laurier aux crèmes

English: cherry-laurel, cherry-bay-tree

Dutch: laurierkers

German: Kirsch-Lorbeerbaum, Lorbeer-Kirshenbaum

Introduction: It is recommended for the lightening of the cough, gripa and badly of rust, by means of the use of the cofoundation of the fruit as use water; also in other regions it is used the crust and the leaves for the cases of diarrea, cold and fever. It is equally useful against affections as disentería and insomnia and diverse indigenous groups of the center of the country use it to cure the badly well-known one like shyness. Another generalized application is its use in cleanings, using the fresh branches in handful; either to pass them through the body or in baths. It is possible to mention that, between the popular beliefs related to this plant, she is the one of the protection that offer their branches to move away the evils.

Tree of up to 12 ms of height, reddish crust and with extended leaves. Their flowers are grouped in clusters; they originate globosos fruits. It inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm, semidry and tempering. It is cultivated in the houses and it grows of wild way associate to the tropical forest caducifolia and subcaducifolia, scrub xerófilo, forests mountain, of encino and pine.

Family: rosaceous

Type: small tree of perennial leaf

Height: up to 8 meters

Leaves: brilliants, alternating, whole, elliptical, oval-oblong coriáceas, and peciolalas

Flowers: very aromatic, small, of white color, arranged in clusters axillary turgid and oblong, shorter than the leaves. The corola has 5 petals

Flowering: as of May

Fruit: drupa ovada similar to the black, acute cherry and of color purple, grouped in clusters similar to those of the grapes

Original: Smaller Asia, cultivated in tempered regions of the south of Europe

Used medicinal part: The leaves

Harvesting of the leaves: in July

PROPERTIES

Something sedative

Antiasmática

Perfuming

Antispasmodic

INDICATIONS

Asthma

Irritating cough

Indigestión

Digestive alterations of nervous type

Stimulating respiratory: water distilled of lauroceraso

USES

Water of lauroceraso: maximum of 2 to 10 grams per day

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Toxic plant. To use single for the elaboration of the water of lauroceraso. It contains hydrocyanic acid that can cause nauseas, vomits, palpitaciones, disnea, elevation of the temperature and espasmos

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