CIDRÓN (hierba luisalippia triphylla kuntze)

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	CIDRÓN
	*hierba luisalippia triphylla kuntze*

Name
CIDRÓN

Scientific Name
hierba luisalippia triphylla kuntze

CIDRÓN

Other Names:

Cedrón, Cidrón, Cidrera Grass, Grass of the Spring, Reign Luisa, Olorosa Verbena

The grass luisa is another one of the great gifts of the flora of the New World, along with the tomato, the potato and many more. In Europe it comes being cultivated from century XVIII. Some confuse it with the verbena, but it is different plants pertaining even to different botanical families.

Habitat: original of Peru and Chile, but acclimated in Europe, where is cultivated it as it plants aromatic ornamental and.

Description: small shrub of the family of the Verbenáceas, that reaches up to 2 meters of height. Their leaves are lanceoladas and rough, and give off an intense aroma to lemon when they are restregadas. The flowers are of pale violet color or lila, and grow in ramilletes.

Used part: the leaves.

Properties and indications: all the plant, and mainly the leaves, are rich in an essential oil made up of more than one hundred substances between which it emphasizes the citral, the limoneno and the cariofileno. This essence confers digestive, antispasmodic and carminativas properties to him (it favors the gas expulsion of the digestive apparatus). The grass luisa is indicated in the following cases:

Digestive upheavals: dispepsias acute (shyness or indigestión) and chronicles (heavy digestions) and flatulencias.

Biliary and renales Dolores menstrual (dismenorrea), cólicos, by its antispasmodic action.

One is indicated in different types from nervous alterations, specially in case of anxiety, since in many cases it obtains better results than some chemical tranquilizers, with the advantage of not having the indirect effect of these drugs.

Use: in infusion done with about 30 grs. of leaves by each liter of water. To take a hot cup after each food. It tastes very pleasant.

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