Scientific Name pilocarpus pennattifolius JABORANDI
Used part: whole or pulverized leaves. Properties: Sudorífico; it increases the secretion to salivar and it stimulates the páncreas.
Indications: in those states in which it interests to cause the sweat to derive and to eliminate in amount toxins of a disease. Acute colds of the respiratory routes; in the influenza, as well as in other febrile and infectious states. Also one is used externally to avoid the fall of the hair.
Use: as much inner as externally, the infusion of leaves is used. To the interior, a teaspoon by cup, a cup to the day distributed in two or three takings during two hours. To never exceed this dose.