LORETO (laurel laurus nobilis)

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	LORETO
	*laurel laurus nobilis*

Name
LORETO

Scientific Name
laurel laurus nobilis

LORETO

Other Names:

Lauredó, Loreda, Loreto

In classic Rome the laurel was consecrated the God Apolo, patrocinador of the triumphs, the beautiful arts and the medicine, and archetype of the masculine beauty. The Roman emperors, the winning athletes and soldiers, were crowned with a laurel garland, that assumed was going them to protect of rays and of other forces you vitiate.

Habitat: original of the Mediterranean countries. One grows up in regions next to the tempered climate coast. Cultivated and naturalized in the American continent.

Description: tree of perennial leaf, of the family of the Lauráceas, that can

to measure of 2 to 8 meters of height. The leaves are lanceoladas, coriáceas, shining by the beam and you kill by envés. The flowers are small, of white or yellowish color. Their fruits are drupas similar to the olives, that only produce the laurels female.

Used parts: the leaves and the fruits.

Properties and indications: the medicinal effects of the laurel are his sciatic, twists of ankles, etc.las leaves of the laurel are rich in an oil volatile essential oil composed in a 45% of cineol; they also contain tannin and a bitter principle. The fruits contain in addition a 25% to greasy matters formed by acids láurico, oleic, palmítico and linoleico. The active principle responsible for the medicinal effects of the laurel is its essential oil. These are the properties of the laurel:

Appetizer, eupéptico (it facilitates the digestion) and carminativo (it eliminates gases of the digestive conduit). It agrees then to the inapetentes and to which they suffer of difficult or heavy digestions.

Smoothly diurético.

Applied very effective antiinflammatory Antireumático and externally. It is laurel oil or the antirheumatic balsam that is prepared with its leaves uses in frictions to alleviate tortícolis, lumbalgias, sciatic, twists of ankles and other pains osteomusculares (of bones and muscles).

Use: in infusion done with a liter of 30 water and 20 to grs. of laurel leaves, to which a handful of mature fruits can be added to obtain greater effect. As aperitive one takes a cup 10 minutes before each food, and like digestive, a cup after each food.

Externally the laurel oil is used that prepares itself letting macerate during 10 days to sun 30 g of leaves of laurel in a liter of olive oil; it is applied in lotion on the sore part; it also serves to drive away parasitic insects. Also it is possible to be used like antirheumatic balsam that is prepared crushing in a mortar a good handful of mature berries of laurel; they are put to boil water covers during about 10 minutes; they are later expressed with a linen cloth, leaving to cool the liquid, and the layer takes shelter of fat that floats; this fat or butter of laurel is applied in frictions on the affected zone: she is not apt to be ingested.

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