This plant is protected in numerous countries and, therefore, it must cultivate itself specifically to cover the pharmaceutical necessities.
One cotoots of genciana wine, seizure before the meals, constitutes an excellent appetizer, because its bitter flavor stimulates gastric secretions.
Plant of herbaceous bearing, raised stem, more of a meter of height, cylindrical, heavy (of 2 cm. of diameter), smooth, of sure green color that it is dried in winter and it returns to appear in the spring. The root, amarillenta, are long and very graft, very bitter; it takes between 4 and 8 years in originating new floral stems. The leaves, of green color oscuro, are of great dimensions (those of the base, the greater ones, they reach 30 cm of longitud and 15 of width) made oval, finished in end, with very evidentes parallel nerviaciones; they grow of two in two, one as opposed to the other, embracing the stem, with short and wide pecíolo those of the base and without him the superiores. The flowers, of intense yellow color, are developed in the superior part of the stem, reunidas in groups of 3 to 10 flowers protected by a pair of leaves; in each stem several groups meet, forming as an ear of handfuls of flowers, visible from distant spot by their showy aspect, sobresaliendo of between their plants vecinas, much more low. The fruit is a capsule that when mature valvas is opened in two and leaves in freedom winged seeds numerous that contain. Also cauchalgua is known like gengiba.
LOCATION: It lives in all mountainous calcáreos lands, over the 800 ms of although in the north of Europe being near the sea. Its area of expansion includes/understands all the North hemisphere. In the Himalayas gencianas are developed 5000m of altitude (amoena Gentiana). There are or gencianas that live in the South hemisphere, in mountains: in Tasmania or the $andes.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The bitter flavor by the root, and the plant in general, must to the presence of glucósidos, like the genciopicrina, is in greater proportion. The root is organ used in the elaboration of prepared medicinal, and also it contains oils, vitamin C and pigments.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: The root has very energetic febrífugas properties and is excellent a stimulant of the digestive functions. By his faculty to open the appetite, it is indicated in anemias lacks of appetite or to recover of the exhaustion after a serious disease.
HARVESTING: The root (that is not necessary to start) must be cut in autumn, when it begins to dry itself and all the active principles have been concentrated in the root or in spring, but before it begins to appear. Once bare, washed and cut it is let dry to the Sun and one keeps in hermetic containers far from the light and the humidity
USES And APPLICATIONS: The cold water maceration is recommended (5 grams by liter of water 5 hours). A cup is taken before the meals (to stimulate the appetite) or as tonico later stomach as febrífugo it takes two or three cups to the day.
CONTRAINDICATIONS: they can appear vomits, irritation in people with gastric hypersecretion history.
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