GRASS DPIEDRAS (silene saxifraga)

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	GRASS DPIEDRAS
	*silene saxifraga*

Name
GRASS DPIEDRAS

Scientific Name
silene saxifraga

GRASS DPIEDRAS

Description:

The grass of stones is a very small grass that at the most measures a handspan and means of height. However, its height varies according to the Earth in which it is, the climate and another series of elements that influence in their growth. It is a very ramosa grass, with branches that grow annually, knotted and of dark color. The stems that are born of these ramillos are long, fine and green. The leaves are very numerous and are born faced in the knuckles; they are pointed and they have eyelashes in the edges very difficult to observe due to so large reduced his. This plant grows up in the mountainous zones of North half of Spain, fundamentally in the Pyrenees. It is very difficult to see it in nonrocky zones.

Flowering:

The flowering of the grass of stones begins in the month of May and includes all the spring and the summer. The flowers appear maintained by the stalks of a peduncle and are born in the new stems. The chalice is narrow in the inferior and quite wide part in the superior part; it has five petals divided in two lobes with star form. Each petal as well forms appendices of reduced size. The fruit is maintained by a as great support as he; it is of made oval form and it can reach 8 mm of size. The whole plant is not collected, normally when he is young, although either matters to do it when she is already adult.

Used Part

The whole plant.

Active Principles

Without data.

Farmacológica Action

Diurético is considered.

Indications

Popularly used against the urinary litiasis, in an example of fitoterápica application based on the theory of the signatures: when growing almost exclusively in the cracks of calcáreas rocks, it fomented the belief that taken "rompería" the urinary calculations.

Administration:

Infusion. In a liter of water one ounce of the plant cooks. If the grass is young, acquires a green color. It is recommended to sweeten it with sugar and to take a cup from this infusion in uninformed, although it is possible to be drunk at any time.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

- Infusion: 30 g/l, 1-2 liters to the day.

Bibliography

Font i Quer, P. Plantas medicinal. The renewed Dioscórides. 6ª. Barcelona: Work, 1980, pp. 172-3.

Villar, L; Palacín, JM; Bald, C; Go'mez, D; Oscenses Montserrat, G. Plantas Medicinal of the Pyrenean Aragonese and other earth. 2ª. Huesca: Provincial delegation, 1992, p. 225.

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