GRASS LUISA (lippia triphylla kuntze)

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	GRASS LUISA
	*lippia triphylla kuntze*

Name
GRASS LUISA

Scientific Name
lippia triphylla kuntze

GRASS LUISA

Castilian: grass luisa, Maria luisa, cidrón, grass of the three leaves, cidrera grass, grass princess,

English: vervain, lemon verbain, herb louisa

Of the family of the Verbenáceas.

Indications: Digestive upheavals, menstrual, cólicos pains biliary and renales. Anxiety.

INTRODUCTION: The scientific name honors to A. Lippi, a doctor added to the French embassy sent by Luis XIV to Egypt, where it studied the plants of the Egypt Stop and Sudan, discovering many species, among them several Lippia. It died assassinated in 1705, next to the Blue Nile.

The grass luisa combines the beauty of its flowers with the aroma to lemon and the medicinal properties of its leaves. Their infusions are a good stomach, digestive and antispasmodic tonic.

From well-known stimulating effects, the grass luisa has been coming using for long time to reanimate the decayed ones.

It is a arbustiva plant, of ligneous stem, until a meter and means of height, of elliptical leaves, extended, with pecíolo and others without him, coarse to the tact by the superior face and smooth by the inferior one. They arise from three in three of each knot of the stem (of there the name of "verbena of three leaves"). The flowers, pequeñitas, in glass form whose superior part is divided in four portions, are of violet color by outside and white by the interior. The fruit, dry, contains several tiny black seeds. The plant gives off a very pleasant aroma, like of lemon. Between synonymous the most usual ones they emphasize: cedrón of Peru, verbena of three leaves, grass princess.

LOCATION: She is original of South America, of the Andean western slope (Chile and Peru), where it grows spontaneously; nevertheless, one cultivates without problems in gardens and flowerpots in any tempered climate.

ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The leaves contain high proportions of limoneno, an essential oil that explains its intense scent to lemon. Also it enters his composition other substances like geraniol, verbenona (that share with verbena) and others, also aromatic.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: As to most of the plants it give from old times, to the grass luisa one has attributed multitude to him of virtues, because calm the nerves and reanimates to which of they vanish. It is a good digestive stomach tonic (indicated in the difficult digestions), besides to have antispasmodic and carminativas properties (that eliminate intestinal gases).

HARVESTING: The leaves at any time can take shelter of the year, but the best one is during flowering, at the height of summer: then the plant has but activity synthesizes greater amount of substances. The leaves of one in one can be taken or the branches that contain them if they are not used at the moment, must be dried in the shade and keep in fiasco closed hermetically and the dark.

USES And APPLICATIONS: It is used in infusion, prepared with about 5 grams of leaves (a small branch) by stomach tonic cup As or to stimulate appetite three cups to the day are taken, before the meals. In order to favor the intestinal digestion or to eliminate gases, he is preferable to take the infusion after the food in any case, can at any time take a cup in which some digestive anomaly notices.

Drupa that frequently does not get to mature with the exception of the origin countries.

Without doubt one of the aromatic and medicinal plants that more captive to many people by its characteristic aroma that gives off very similar to the lemon, by the beauty of its leaves and the form in which one propagates and she grows in shrub form. In addition the utilities that we can find in the grass luisa, infusions, licores, perfumería are many, etc. We are then going to explain as it is this plant and as we can utlizar it medicinally and like seeding it in our orchard, garden, balcony or simply in a flowerpot.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup, three or more to the day.

- fluid Extract (1:1): 15 to 20 drops, two or three times to the day, after the meals.

- It tinctures (1:10): 30 to 50 drops, one to three times to the day.

Bibliography

Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M. You plant dans to Them the Therapeutique Moderne. 2ª. Paris: Maloine, 1986, p. 274.

Bruneton, J. Elementos de Fitoquímica and Farmacognosia. Zaragoza: Acribia, 1991, pp. 254-5.

Fernandez, M; Grandson, To Plantas Medicinal. Pamplona: Editions University of Navarre, 1982, p. 111.

Paris, RR; Moyse, M. Précis de Matière Médicale. Take III. Paris: Masson, 1971, p. 253.

Fitomed. Information system in Fitomedicina. Cuba: Infomed, 1997 (http://www.infomed.sld.cu/fitomed/yel.html).

Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Vanaclocha, B. Applied Fitoterapia. Valencia: M.I. Official school of Phamacists, 1995, pp. 321-2.

Hellemont, J. Compendium de Phytotherapie go. Bruxelles: Association Pharmaceutique Belge, 1986, pp. 234-5.

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