GRASS SAN JOSE (verbena carolina)

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	GRASS SAN JOSE
	*verbena carolina*

Name
GRASS SAN JOSE

Scientific Name
verbena carolina

GRASS SAN JOSE

Castilian: Grass of the wizards, cúralotodo, sagrada grass, verbena,

male verbena, straight verbena, right verbena, greater verbena,

fine verbena, grass santa, grass of the spells

To this species virtues for sufferings of digestive type like vomit are attributed to him, diarrea, stomach ache, disentería and like laxative. Nevertheless, it is the bile, weakness, lack of appetite and the headache, the malaises for which the Verbena is used more, and the branches are the part of greater use to elaborate an infusion to take like tea. Also these, boiled, are used for seat baths, and the root is used in form of infusion or washings to avoid the fall of hair and the dandruff.

Grass of 30 to 70 cm of height, with graft stems and places setting of pelillos. The leaves are extended and waved and its flowers they are thin ears. It predominates in climates warm, semiwarm, semidry and tempering. It grows in culture lands and she is associate to the tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia and perennifolia; scrub xerófilo, forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and compound of pine.

Verbena

(Verbena officinalis)

INTRODUCTION: In old Rome the verbena to the rank of sagrada plant rose, of such form that any pact that was signed was struck with a verbena branch to confer the Maxima to him credibility.

Branch of verbena with detail of its flower. From always, this plant has been had by medicinal; the Roman soldiers took their stems in provisions to cure the possible wounds military. In the Average Age he was used for the preparation of loving filters.

ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: In some places of America is known it like grass of the spells, probably by influence of the Gallegos who made it arrive until there, and for which had sagrada meaning. A spell existed to be made love by the wished woman (or by the wished man) that it consisted of reciting verses with a branch of verbena in the hand.

CHARACTERISTICS: Vivaz is a plant (it lives more than two years), of thin, turgid stem, that it does not reach a meter of height. The leaves are arranged faced, of two in two in each knot, more or less deeply lobuladas. The flowers, of color lila, bloom when beginning the summer and in autumn. They are grouped occupying the superior part of the stems, forming an ear, without pecíolos.

LOCATION: It is a Mediterranean plant that prospers in many zones of the American continent, in smooth climates and not excessively cold. It lives in the meadows and lands noncultivated or next to the ways etc.

ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: As many other plants, have tannins, mucílagos and saponina. Probably the exceptional medicinal qualities must to the presence of glucósido, the verbenalina, it leaves from which disappears in the drying.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: At the moment it is admitted that Time stimulating properties, is useful in the reumatismo and makes to go down the fever. In colds of the stomach and the internal, slow lacks of appetite, digestions, colds of the respiratory routes, affections of the liver or the kidneys.

HARVESTING: To the leaves and the flowery sumidades (flowers along with the branches that supports them) at the end of the spring or at the beginning of summer are taken (and in autumn, during the second flowering). Following with the magic of the verbena, the tradition existed to collect it ceremonially, reason why the eve of San Juan was chosen, at night, for "going of verbena' in group.

USES And APPLICATIONS: The leaves and sumidades are used floridas' in decocción (20 grams by liter of water). He is useful like reconstituyente tonic in diseases of the liver and kidneys. Against the rheumatic pains, it is applied with a cloth. On the sore zone.

Used part medicinally:

The leaves and the flowers

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

Internal use:

- Infusion: A spoonful of dessert by cup. To instill 10 minutes. Three cups to the day.

- stabilized fluid Extract (1:1): 30-50 drops, one to three times to the day.

- It tinctures (1:10): 50-100 drops, three times to the day.

External use:

- Infusion to 5%, in form of ocular washings.

- Decocción: 50 g by liter, to boil 10 minutes. To apply in form of compresas or inhalations.

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