ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS (adiantum capillus-veneris l.)

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	ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS
	*adiantum capillus-veneris l.*

Name
ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS

Scientific Name
adiantum capillus-veneris l.

ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS

Other names:

Castilian: Culantrillo of well, adianto, cilantrillo, culantrillo of Montpellier, culantrillo, capilera, small spider.

Portuguese: adianto, avenca, aivenca, avenca-dos-poços, coentro-of-poço, capilária, capila'ria-of-Mompilher; colandrillo, capilaria, small spider.

Italian: capelvenere, felcequercina.

French: capillaire.

English: to maidenheair fern.

Dutch: to venushaar

German: to venushaar, to frauenhaar.

The ferns characterize by a general predominance of a series of leaves, denominated frondes (then they are not true leaves), on the other anatomical elements. There are them so showy that they are used as plants ornamental. Culantrillo, a fern, was well-known centuries before Jesus Christ: Greek already to used to fight respiratory diseases and of the hairy leather.

Its Latin name, Adiantum, mean "that it does not get wet", and it makes reference to the fact that, in spite of always living in wet lands, next to the splashes of the water of torrents, their leaves always remain dry.

DESCRIPTION: Culantrillo of the well is characterized by (having frondes divided in small triangular lobes, in whose inferior part the esporas are developed. The stem is underground and does the times of root (as in all the ferns) receives the name of rizoma and runs horizontally.

LOCATION: It lives in any corner with little light and much water, that it prefers to receive in form of drops (splashes of sources, water jumps, drippings of filtrations...).

ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: It has an pleasant essence to the sense of smell. It contains tannins and bitter substances.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: The fine pedúnculos that unite frondes, of golden color, have compared culantrillo with the Venus goddess and virtues have been attributed to him associated, like the one to fortify the hair. To fight the cough and to facilitate the menstruation.

HARVESTING: Preferably after the summer, when frondes is in their Maxima expansion.

USES And APPLICATIONS: Against the cough, taking frondes fresh, crushed in a mortar with a little water and sugar until obtaining a doughy consistency. This paste also can be used to cure the mordeduras of animals directly applying it. Also boiling syrup is prepared frondes with little water and adding sugar: two cups by one of water. Are also effective the infusions. In order to facilitate the menstruation usually it is taken mixed with wine. The water of the baking has been used in massages to vitalizar the hair and to avoid its fall; with this same aim also the resulting ashes have been used to burn frondes. Whenever it is possible, it is desirable that the plant is fresh, since if is let dry loses part of its active principles.

One old belief persists according to which the esporas of the male fern mature the eve of San Juan, and if at that moment any man is not before the plant, esporas j become sterile and fall to the ground. i

Thanks to the enteric extract of the male fern, medicine employee as much as in veterinary medicine, the hooks and cupping glasses of the head of the tapeworm (right) are come off and left the intestine of their guests.

Family:

Polipodiáceas/filíceas

Habitat:

Near streams, humid and shady wells, caves and places.

Height:

Up to 40 cm.

Used part medicinally:

The whole plant

Important components:

Mucílagos

Tannins

Bitter principles

Gálico acid

Essential oil in smaller amount

Therapeutic indications:

Cough, asthenia

Commentary:

One is a fern that have refrescantes and tonic properties and something astringent. It is plant very adapted for the children since it does not have indirect effect nor toxic. For that reason it is possible to be used in the syrup composition against the cough by its Antitusivo effect.

Form of preparation:

In infusion

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

- Infusion: a dessert teaspoon by cup. To instill during 20-30 minutes. To take three cups to the day after the meals.

- Decocción to 2%: Preferably with anise, mint or regaliz, to improve the flavor.

- fluid Extract (1:1): 30-50 drops, two or three times to the day.

- It tinctures (1:10): 50-100 drops one to three times to the day.

- Syrup (15% of fluid extract): 30 to 60 g/día. Specially indicated for the children.

Bibliography

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Fernandez, M; Grandson, To Plantas Medicinal. Pamplona: Editions University of Navarre, 1982, p. 23.

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