ESPINOSILLA (loeselia mexicana)

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	ESPINOSILLA
	*loeselia mexicana*

Name
ESPINOSILLA

Scientific Name
loeselia mexicana

ESPINOSILLA

NOMBRE(S) COMUN(ES):

Almaraduz, Bachichil, Checamicua tsitsiki (purépecha), Chuparrosa, Espinosa, Espinosilla, blind Hen, Guachichile (tepehuán), Grass of the virgin, Grass of San Antonio, Huachichile, Huachichile (tepehuán), Huasicil, Maraduz, Mirto, red Mirto, Tarepi, Tarepi (purépecha), Tsitsiki tsurhumu (purépecha).

This plant has been used from long ago and it is recommended frequently for the treatment of respiratory diseases like gripa, cough, bronchitis, ronquera and inflammation of throat; also, it serves to control the fever during posparto. The Espinosilla also, is applied for the pain and inflammation of stomach, indigestión, bile, disentería, tifoidea and vomit. In all these cases, the parts of greater use are the branches, with or without flowers, prepared in cofoundation for their ingestion or application in washings; however, in posparto, the use commonest is in baths.

Plant that measures between 50 and 90 cm. of height, of straight stem with pelillos and leaves extended and finished in end. Their flowers have trompeta form and the fruits are small. The Espinosilla or Chuparrosa inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm, semidry and tempering. It grows wild in lands of culture and like weeds of forests temperings, associated to the tropical forest perennifolia, scrub xerófilo and forests of pine and encino.

DESCRIPTION:

Herbaceous of 50 to 80 cm. of height, with the rigid leaves and of rough texture with abundant hairs.

USES:

Ceremonial and religious: The plant is used in branches of the cleanings.

Medicinal: For the indigestión the vomit is caused in the middle taking a tea from flowers liter of water, during the malaise.

The cofoundation of the foliage is used for renales calculations, inflammation the kidney, like purifying diurética and of the blood, like laxative and for cases of scare and air sickness, I vomit, venteados, bronchitis, ronquera and cough. Also it is used for the intestinal heat and in the case of héticos children (in these cases also it is used in infusion). The same cofoundation is used as much taken as in baths in cases from erisipela, rubéola, measles, varicela and postemas. Also it has been reported in cases of inflammation of the stomach, tifoidea and topeaduras (constipation) and fever, the baths for malaises posparto and flow.

The infusion of the leaves is used for badly of tinkles, diarrea and várices, for these same sufferings are used in cataplasms.

In order to lower the fever and to calm the headache, the cofoundation is taken from the leaves, washings occur or baths occur.

It is reported useful in cases of disentería, stomach ache, indigestión, bile and like expectorante.

For the fever a tea is taken from the aerial part along with prepared a fist of doradilla in 1/2 liter of water. One takes 3 times to the day. As remedy in general becomes an infusion with a fist of the plant in 1/2 liter of water and a cup in uninformed is taken.

Domestic use: In order to avoid the fall of the hair the aerial part of the plant is crushed and it is greased to avoid the caida one and that is left brilliant. Also it is used like hair locking device, for this must extrujar to obtain a lacquer. Another form of use against the fall of the hair, dandruff, seborrea and as rinsing is using the water of the cofoundation of fist and means of the dry plant to wash the head.

HABITAT:

It lives in forests of encino, pine, pine-encino, junipero and other coniferous. One is him between the 1900 and 2500 ms.

HANDLING:

It does not receive handling in the forest.

IT COLLECTS:

It is collected of July to September. according to which they establish the criteria, procedures and specifications to make the advantage, it transports and storage of branches, leaves or pencas, flowers, fruits and seeds.

COMMERCIALIZATION:

Espinosilla widely is used in the country. It is used in autoconsumo and it is commercialized so much in dry as in green, in mixtures of grass, single, in handful or packed. Public offers itself in markets, house by house, order and in centers of natural product sale.

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