MANZANITA (malvaviscus arboreus)

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	MANZANITA
	*malvaviscus arboreus*

Name
MANZANITA

Scientific Name
malvaviscus arboreus

MANZANITA

It is an used species to treat respiratory problems like gripa, tosferina, cough, fever, vomit and tuberculosis. The treatment consists of taking the cofoundation from the flowers, single or with leaves, or the mixture of the Manzanita with bugambilia (veranera) and seeds of bitter orange; in the cases of persistent affections the infusion of the flowers with elder leaves is used, cypress, five negritos and peach tree, sweetened with honey. Also it is a good remedy for disentería, nasal diarrea, hemorrhages, tonsilitis, stomach ache and poles of insects, cases in which are recommended to take the infusion from the branches. It is said that these, but macerated, are used for epithelial affections, applying them directly in the affected part.

Shrub that reaches a height of up to 3 ms, thin and very graft stem. Their leaves are of acorazonado form and the flowers of intense red color. She is original of Mexico and other zones of America. One is in climates and semitempering warm, semiwarm, and grows associate to the tropical forest subcaducifolia, subperennifolia, perennifolia; forests of encino and pine.

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