GRASS OF SAN PEDRO (parietariaparietaria officinalis)

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	GRASS OF SAN PEDRO
	*parietariaparietaria officinalis*

Name
GRASS OF SAN PEDRO

Scientific Name
parietariaparietaria officinalis

GRASS OF SAN PEDRO

Other Names:

Basil of River, Crazy Albahaquilla, Cañarroya, Caracolera Grass, Grass of San Pedro, Grass of the Wall, Mariquillas, Pelosilla

Habitat: one grows up between the cracks of rocks and the walls. Spread by all Europe and dry regions of South America.

Description: it plants vivaz of the family of the Urticáceas, that reaches up to 30 cm of height. Their leaves are covered of a nonurticante hair.

Used parts: the stems and the leaves.

Used part: leaves.

Properties: diurética and against the inflammations.

Indications: appropriate in all the cases of retention of liquid in the body (hidropesía, edema, etc.), it tinkles little, etc. Recommendable to fight the irritations and inflammations of the urinary routes (kidneys, uréteres, vejiga, uretra).

Use: in form of brief cofoundation (three minutes), at the rate of a sopera spoonful of leaves crushed by each cup of tisane, to take three cups to the day, properly spaced. Externally it is used, with very good results, to cure wounds, burns, cracks of the lips, the skin and the nipple, and fissures annals.

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