INTRODUCTION: The old ones used this herbaceous one to treat digestive upheavals like vomit, gastritis, disentería, indigestión, cólicos, bile and infection of the stomach. The cofoundation of the flowers of Manzanilla interferes like tea to calm stomach pains. The same baking, but in used cold and externally is used for affections in the eyes like inflammation, irritation, fatigue and conjuntivitis; also the call also Chamomilla is recommended to calm the cólicos of the menstruation. One has been used to him in other parts of the country for resfriados, cough, asthma, bronchitis and for nose washings. It is said that the Manzanilla, also, is a good remedy to eliminate the acne, the dehydration, the reumatismo; to clarify the hair and to wash superficial wounds.
Grass that measures of 20 to 50 cm of height. The leaves are divided in several parts that resemble a fine embroider and their flowers are yellow and white. It is an introduced species of Europe and Asia, adapted to warm, warm, semiwarm, semidry climates and temperings. It is cultivated in orchards; it grows in all the fields and she is associate to the tropical forest caducifolia and subcaducifolia, forests thorny, mesófilo of mountain and compound of encino and pine.
Most of manzanillas (30 species are known) they are own of South Africa; only few live to the north of the ecuador, but they are most aromatic, like Matricaria chamomilla, own of the eurasiático continent and the ribereños countries of the Mediterranean. In America they do not exist in estado wild, except for a species that grows in California (the climatic conditions of this state are similar to the Mediterranean ones), matricarioides M.s, well-known as pine Apple weed (plant of tropical fragmentation hand grenade).
CHARACTERISTICS: Small annual grass, of not more than 40 cm of height, smooth, shining stem, very ramificado, with leaves of intense green color, estrechas and long, in form of cord, profunda mind divided. The flowers locate in the end of the small branches, forming (just as daisies) a floral button with a yellow head surrounded by white petals that, once developed, hang as if you would estuvieran "tired" and Were incapable to mantener themselves raised. The fruit, tiny, is oval, dry, forming five visible ribs (comes to be like the pipe of sunflower, but much more small. All the plant gives off an aroma that remembers the one of the apple, in some regions receives the camomile name.
LOCATION: It is an original plant of the Southeast of Europe and Smaller Asia (Mediterranean Eastern half), where the properties are known the infusion of manzanilla from before the Christian era. Nevertheless, it lives without difficulty in other climate regions not too cold, and it is developed perfectly or in a garden or a tiesto; in fact, it has continued living in left cultures.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The organ that concentrates the active principles is the flower; in her are considerable proportions of essence, and also other compounds as acid salicílico (from as the aspirin is obtained) or vitamin C.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: Emenagogo is antiinflammatory, antiseptic and antiálgica a plant (that stimulates the menstruation), (against the pain); indicated in the inflammations of the uterus and the pains associated to the menstruation. Also he is sedative, and it facilitates the digestion when regulating the movements of the intestinal musculatura.
HARVESTING: The flowers must be collected as soon as the summer begins, in the European countries, towards the festividad of San Juan (24 of June). It counts the legend that cannot so be after date since, indeed, the eve of that festividad at night and in the successive nights, the witches tinkle on the plants, with which these lose their medicinal aroma and its properties. The flowers are dried quickly, in the shade, in a aired place; soon they keep in closed containers affluent.
USES And APPLICATIONS: Manzanilla is the infusion that can be found in any bar. His it uses more popular is for fighting the heavy digestions, but their qualities do not finish here, and its true curativo paper has it in the menstrual pains: the infusion is prepared with 5 0 6 flowers by cup and it takes three times to the day.
Although the scientific name seems complicated, is enough to know certain properties the plant. Matricaria comes from Latin matrix, that means uterus. what explains that manzanilla serves to deal with the own ailments the woman. On the other hand, the Greek words chamai low and melon apple are united to notice to us that the petals of the flowers hang and that the plant gives off an pleasant aroma to apple.
Small branch of manzanilla common, whose flowers are similar to daisies, but of so large minor and bulky center. In them the active principles, that have antispasmodic properties, digestive, emollient and disinfectants are concentrated.
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