It is a species whose medicinal use is ample and old, is used mainly to deal with sufferings the heart. The recommended treatment is to boil the crust with the flowers and to ingest the resulting cofoundation like tea, three times to the day. However in other regions they use it like an effective diurético, for it boil the crust with the flowers so that the infusion is taken as water from use. It is of very old use; in century XVI she was used to fortify the heart and to alleviate upset stomach. Later the leaves were used like astringent and in cofoundation to cure the drop. From the present century, the infusion of the flowers is used like antispasmodic.
Tree of 8 to 15 ms of height, stem little cracked and showy foliage, with leaves coiled downwards. The flowers have great fleshy white petals and the fruits are small and similar to fragmentation hand grenades. It lives in climates warm and semiwarm; it is cultivated as ornato and in the average wild subperennifolia is associate to the tropical forest and to the forest mesófilo of mountain.
ProductosList of Products of HIPERnatural.COM with MAGNOLIA: