COPAYERO (copaibacopaitera officinalis)

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	COPAYERO
	*copaibacopaitera officinalis*

Name
COPAYERO

Scientific Name
copaibacopaitera officinalis

COPAYERO

Other Names:

Amacey, Cabimbo, Camíbar, Copayero, Currucay, Marano, Wood of Balsam,

Wood of the Oil, Tacamaca

In the river basins of the Amazon and the Orinoco, several species of trees of the Copaifera sort grow, that secrete a resin when the trunk is perforated to them. By distillation of this resin, the call is obtained "oil of wood" or "balsam of copaiba", that already was used in America in century XVII like remedy against the venereal diseases, calls today ETS (diseases of sexual transmission).

Habitat: tropical regions of South America, specially Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and also the Antilles.

Description: tree of beautiful bearing, of the family of the Leguminosas, that reaches of 15 to 20 meters of height. The flowers are of white color, and grow in ears. The fruit is an oval case that contains a single seed surrounded by pulp.

Used parts: the extracted resin of its trunk.

Properties and indications: balsam of copaiba contains oil essential and resin, in whose composition the copaíbico acid predominates, that is eliminated by the kidneys, and acts like antiseptic and antiiflamatorio on urinary the genital mucous and. He is effective against blenorragia or gonococia masculine and feminine, venereal disease that attends with inflammation and irritation of uretra (conduit by which it is eliminated tinkles it to the outside). Also it has been used like balsamic in cases of bronchitis.

Use: the balsam of copaiba takes a teaspoon from dessert (about 5 grams), of 1 to 2 times to the day.

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