GRASS OF THE KNIFE (pimpinela menor sanguisorba minor)

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	GRASS OF THE KNIFE
	*pimpinela menor sanguisorba minor*

Name
GRASS OF THE KNIFE

Scientific Name
pimpinela menor sanguisorba minor

GRASS OF THE KNIFE

Other Names:

Grass of the Enjaretadura, Grass of the Knife, Pampanilla, Perifollo, Smaller Sanguisorba

The buds to tier to us primaverales of pimpinela smaller are used in salads by their pleasant and refrescante flavor. Like pimpinela greater, this plant was not well-known either by the great DES medical and botanical of the classic antiquity. Its use extended by Europe from the Renaissance.

Habitat: one grows up in ribazos, forests and incultos places of all central and southern Europe, but lack in the north of the continent. Also one occurs in North America.

Description: it plants of the family of the Rosaceous ones, 0.2 to 1 meter of height, that is characterized by its angular stem, of reddish color, and its small flowers, terminal and of greenish color.

Used parts: the whole plant, including the root.

Properties and indications: all the plant contains important amounts of tannin, an essential oil and vitamin C. These are their properties:

Hemostatic astringent and: thanks to their great tannin content, parched and coagulate the mucous and the skin. Good results in the treatment of the gastritis and acute gastroenteritis, even when sanguinolentas are depositions (disentería), and in the one of the muco-membranosas enterocolitis (a serious form of diarrea) of the suckling babies have been obtained.

Digestive Carminativa and: by effect of his essential oil, it reduces the gaseous content of the intestine, and facilitates the digestion.

Diurética: well tolerated smooth effect and.

Healing: it is used externally for the treatment of hurt and ulcers of the skin.

Use: the crude buds in salads and other plates. Decocción with 50-100 grs. by root by liter of water, during 15 minutes; the aerial parts of the plant can also be added; they interfere 4 or more cups every day.

For external use, lotions with the same decocción that is used internally. Compresas soaked with the liquid of the decocción.

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