WHITE GRASS (senecio vulgaris)

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	WHITE GRASS
	*senecio vulgaris*

Name
WHITE GRASS

Scientific Name
senecio vulgaris

WHITE GRASS

Family: Composed.

Description: Of Latin senex, old, by the white hairs of the vilano. Herbaceous plant with axonomorfa root and many radículas. The stem is fragile and little graft. The leaves are alternating, superior the espatuladas ones and lobuladas with obtuse segments, sometimes teethed. The inferior ones also are extended and espatuladas. The flowers are grouped in a inflorescencia formed by hanging small heads. The brácteas are longer than the chalice and form I involve in whose interior the yellow leaves with the pentadentada corola are arranged. The fruit is aquenio pubescente, off-white, almost cylindrical, with vilano. It can surpass the 30 Frequent cm. in the edges of the ways, between ruins and in the orchards. It is collected in May.

Used parts: The whole plant.

Composed chemical: Senecionina, draws resin from, potassium inulina, glucose, salts.

Recommended like: Emenagogo, vasoconstrictora, sedative cardiac.

Forms of use: Infusion, tinctures, flowed extract, dusts, syrup.

Of interest: In some places this species is consumed in the salads, but its use by the presence of alkaloids is advise againstable. The pregnant women do not have to use it because she exerts a congestiva action of the uterus. Their popular prescriptions like laxative and colagogo do not have to consider. The plant was used successfully in form of pomada for the hemorroides, by its vasoconstrictora capacity

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