It counts the legend that the devil, when recognizing the virtues of the escabiosa, got angry itself, and so that nobody took advantage of her, it broke its root of a bite, which explains its peculiar form.
Branch of escabiosa next to a detail of its fruit. Her their flowers and leaves take advantage of to prepare expectorantes tisanes, and of his rizoma becomes an infusion of depurativas properties.
Its name derives from Latin the scabies, that scabies means. It makes reference to his power to cure the diseases of the skin or cutaneous manifestations of other diseases like sífilis or the plague, for which very it was used during the Average Age. At the moment it is used by the homeópatas in dye form to cure certain dermatosis.
CHARACTERISTICS: Vivaz is a plant, that surpasses a meter of height, with a green stem, completely straight that it culminates in several floral appendices formed by spherical inflorescencias of small bluish or violet flowers in chalice form. The leaves, made oval, narrower by their end, are arranged of two in two, throughout the stem, one as opposed to the other, forming a common base to both. Under earth, the stem is high and mighty and grows horizontally until certain point in that she appears like cut with a knife (of there the legend of the devil). Of this underground stem (rizoma) they hang frayed raicillas of absorbent function.
LOCATION: It is an own of the europeo continent, own plant of the humid meadows, in the mountain or the low earth, it grows spontaneously by all part is until 2000m of height
Used Part
The flowery sumidades, the leaves.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: All the plant contains escabiósido denominated characteristic glucósido in addition, have been tannins, minerals (in special potassium salts) rizoma has saponina, that is not in the thallus or the leaves in the stem nor in the leaves.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: If, initially, their applications became in a diseases of the skin, today it is known that she is purifying (of there its virtues in the affections of the skin), astringent, expectorante and vulneraria.
HARVESTING: The flowering begins in summer and with the autumn; it is the time during which it can take the plant, because she is used all, mainly rizoma with the adjacent roots. Also there are some who they prefer rizoma before the flowering, since it is when it contains greater proportion of active principles, but also then its size is smaller.
USES And APPLICATIONS: The flowers and the leaves, fresh, can be used to prepare a expectorante and fluidificante tisane of the respiratory routes useful in resfriados affections as simple bronchitis or (is enough to prepare infusion c puñadito of flowers, or 3 or 4 leaves, or both half and half and to take warm up it three times to the day well. In order to take advantage of the depurativas properties his it uses the infusion of rizoma.
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