LEAF SANTA (SMALL CORD) (acoyo, yierba santa,)

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	LEAF SANTA (SMALL CORD)
	*acoyo, yierba santa,*

Name
LEAF SANTA (SMALL CORD)

Scientific Name
acoyo, yierba santa,

LEAF SANTA (SMALL CORD)

MOMO Or SMALL CORD

Piper auritum Kunth Fam. Piperaceae

Of this plant, the leaves are of ample use where it is applied on affections of the skin. Also corno is used for sufferings vaginal inflammation, infection of the matrix, galactógeno (to increase the milk of the women that they nurse) and to accelerate the childbirth, by means of the leaves soaked in alcohol. Also, it is used in upheavals of the digestive apparatus like stomach ache, lack of appetite, constipation, diarrea and inflammation of stomach. One says, in addition, that it is a good remedy against the bronchitis, cough and to lower fever, for it the leaves are cocen and the resulting liquid interferes. Other common uses of the Leaf Santa are for affections like asthma, laryngitis, reumatismo, desparasitante, sores and ocular irritation.

Herbaceous leafy that measures up to 2,5 ms of height; it has great acorazonadas leaves of penetrating scent and their flowers resemble ears like small cords. It lives in climates warm, semiwarm and semidry. It is cultivated in orchards and it grows in ways, streams and lands of culture. She is associate to the tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia, perennifolia and forests mixed of pine and encino.

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