SMALLER CELEDONIA (ranunculus ficaria)

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	SMALLER CELEDONIA
	*ranunculus ficaria*

Name
SMALLER CELEDONIA

Scientific Name
ranunculus ficaria

SMALLER CELEDONIA

Spanish: Smaller Celedonia

English: Lesser Celandine

French: Petite Chélidoine.

Of the family of the Papaveráceas.

Antiescorbútica. Antihemorroidal

Description:

The smaller celandine is a grass vivaz, with numerous fleshy and thickened roots, in form of small clubs. The radical leaves are maintained by long tips, with a great membranosa case in the starting. The flowers are being born solitary in the end of the short piston rods and are of an intense yellow color. The small fruits, cleared, are grouped in a small head. It vegetates very easily in the meadows of the most humid zones of the peninsula, on the brink of madness drains and brooks, in fences, etc.

Flowering:

It blooms in winter and beginnings of the spring. 250 species of the sort exist approximately "ranúnculos", of which 70 in our peninsula can be found, almost all of them with such active principles and similar virtues. The root is the part that is used with medicinal aims and for it it must be collected in spring and dry up outdoors and in the shade.

Administration:

. - Infusion to put in infusion in 1 boiling water l. 100 gr.. of the plant and, next, to expose the ill part to the steam. This operation must at least twice repeat to the day - Dye. it is prepared from the fresh plant, just taken, to equal parts with alcohol of 90º. The flowery sumidades must be cut previously in small small pieces. Once mixed alcohol and product, it is left in maceration during nine days; later the dye filters. The dose is of 40 drops three times to the day.

Common Uses:

Hemostatic Antihemorroidal vitamin Source C

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