CUAJILOTE (parmentiera aculeata)

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	CUAJILOTE
	*parmentiera aculeata*

Name
CUAJILOTE

Scientific Name
parmentiera aculeata

CUAJILOTE

Aculeata Parmentiera DC. Fam. Bignoniaceae

This tree is used as laxative and diurético it is recommended, also, to deal with sufferings kidney and its treatment includes the fruit, the crust, the flowers and the root, same that are boiled and ingested like tea. In other cases like calculations and urinary routes, it turns out effective to grind the fruit and to ingest the extract or to roast it and to eat it. In addition the baking to the flower, the root or the fruit, are a good diurético. Also one is used for other diseases like asthma, garraspera, gripa and cough; the flowers with tejocote are boiled and they are sweetened to drink it lukewarm in uninformed during two weeks.

Tree of 4 to 12 ms of height, heavy trunk with cracked crust and leaves divided with thorns. Their flowers leave the trunk or in the ends of the branches, and originate extended fruits. It inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm and tempering. It grows in orchards and it is associate with the tropical forest caducifolia and perennifolia; scrub xerófilo, forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and pine.

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