Scientific Name vara de oro solidago virga-aurea GRASS OF THE JEWS
Other Names:
Grass of the Jews, Pagan Grass, Solidago, Tea of Gredos, Twig of San jOse
Its name must to the rigidity of its stem crowned by yellow flowers had in clusters in the superior bearing the stem.
Habitat: it grows in forests and noncalcáreos land scrubs of all Europe. Naturalized in the American continent.
Description: it plants vivaz of the family of the Composed ones, with raised stems that they reach to a meter of height. Their flowers are yellow and they are grouped in terminal chapters.
Used parts: the flowery sumidades.
Properties and indicciones: it contains action tannins astringent; saponinas and cumarinas, people in charge of its diurética action; and flavonoides with diurético effect. It is applied in renales affections, since it is a good diurético, that besides to increase the amount of it tinkles, favors the good operation of the kidneys. It agrees upon edemas (accumulation of liquids in weaves), renales nefritis (inflammation of the kidneys), nefrosis (albuminuria, loss of albumen with tinkles it) and calculations (it favors his dissolution).
Prostate cystitis and affections: it provides an antiinflammatory action on the urinary organs. Calm the annoyances of the micción.
You cure depurativas: it favors the elimination of remainders of the metabolism, like úrico acid. It agrees upon the cases of arthritism, drop, eccemas, and whenever one needs to clean the blood of toxic substances.
Obesity: by its diurética and purifying action, a good complement in the treatment is from the obesity.
Diarreas and colitis: by its action astringent, in many places of Spain the gold twig is used to cut the infantile diarreas, specially summery and those that take place agreeing with the period of the teething.
Astringent and vulneraria: in external application it is used to heal wounded and to cure ulcers (sores) tórpidas, or applied in compresas, lotions or cataplasms.
Use: it is taken in decocción of 30-40 grams of flowery sumidades by liter of water, during 5-10 minutes, up to 5 daily cups. For the treatment of the infantile diarreas it is recommended to prolong the decocción until I eliminate is reduced to half, and to add to him to integral sugar (brown) or honey so that a syrup forms, that is administered to spoonfuls.
Externally, compresas soaked in one more a concentrated decocción than para.uso.interno: (50-100 grams by liter). Lotions with the concentrated decocción. Also cataplasms of the plant crushed applied directly on the skin during 15 minutes, 2 or 3 daily times.