DRÍADA (dryas octopetala)

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	DRÍADA
	*dryas octopetala*

Name
DRÍADA

Scientific Name
dryas octopetala

DRÍADA

Other Names:

Swiss Tea

The farmers of the alpine country par excellence, Switzerland, use the dríada one from immemorial times like digestive and alleviating the intestinal cólicos. The dríada one is so resistant to the cold that even grows up in the Arctic regions of the north of Europe.

Habitat: original of the Arctic regions of Europe, although one is spread by the mountainous regions of central Europe. In Spain one is in the Cantabrian mountain range and the Pyrenees. Stranger in America.

Description: it plants vivaz, of the family of the Rosaceous ones, 5 to 15 cms. of height. Its stem is ligneous and crawling, and the leaves remember to those of the oak, although they are smaller. The flowers are great, solitary, with 8 yellow petals and estambres.

Used parts: the leaves.

Properties and indications: the leaves contain mineral tannin and salts, between which they emphasize soluble silicates. They are aperitive, digestive and astringents. The tisane that prepares itself with them (Swiss tea), very is appreciated in the following cases:

Digestive upheavals: dispepsias, shyness, intestinal cólicos (retortijones) and bad digestions.

Bucofaríngeas affections: buccal tonsilitiss (anginas), faringitis, aftas and diverse inflammations of the oral mucosa (estomatitis). In these cases it is applied in form of garglings.

Use: in infusion of 30 grs. of leaves by liter. of water; to take 3 daily cups before the meals. Garglings: this same infusion is used, although more concentrated (from 40 to 50 grs. by liter).

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