Excellent tonic, stomach, carminativa and antispasmodic. Sudorífica and emenagoga. To small doses, he is rather sedative
Introduced in the West in the Average Age, as a result of the Crossed ones, it had such acceptance that quickly its culture extended by all Europe, arriving to be used much more that in the countries of origin, individual in the kitchen, like spice, for the inlay elaboration and to prepare stews.
The mejorana presents/displays beautiful flowers in chalice form. The parts that are collected are the flowery sumidades, that taken in infusion, are used to fight all luck of upheavals.
This plant contains terpenos, that are responsible for their aroma.
Small plant covered with pelusilla White, turgid stem, not more than 50 cm, square section, like the oregano. The leaves, made oval, present/display a dark green coloration, masked by the fine layer of white hairs that confer the false apparent clear tonality to him. The flowers, small, in form of glass, pink white or, are grouped in dense ramilletes that form an ear in superior half of the stems; summarize, like the oregano, gotitas of essence, yellow color. All the plant dismisses a very pleasant perfume; to the taste, she is bitter. Also one denominates mayorana, true oregano and almoradux.
LOCATION: Its natural area of location includes/understands the northeast of Africa (Egypt), and it extends from Arabia India. In Europe and single America it exists as it plants cultivated.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: It has been used to fight everything of upheavals, like infections, I gave abdominal and of other classes. It is a tonic it favors the digestion, it regulates the menstruation and she is sudorífica.
HARVESTING: Sumidades use flowery (ends of stems that contains leaves) that is cut when the plant begins to bloom, that is to say, to horse between the spring and the summer, according to the climate. It does not have to hope to that they are all the completely open flowers, since all are not developed simultaneously, and when the last flower this in its maximum splendor, first already I know marchitado. They must be let dry, in the shade, more soon possible after the reaction, and keep them in bottles closed hermetically and safe from the light.
USES And APPLICATIONS: Usually it is taken in infusion, although s gives to prepare two modalities. (approximately a stem with its flowers and leaves for a water cup) it is, tonic general who favors the night rest. Strong (the 5 times it concentrates more, it uses to help to the digestions after an abundant food, to calm abdominal pains and to cause the menstruation when this one does not arrive in predicted dates. Against the resfriado one, 20 grams are due to make inhalations boiling of flowery sumidades in liter of water water and breathing (by the nose), steam that are given off.
Used Part
The flowery sumidades.
Active Principles
Essential oil (0.7 to 3%), rich in terpineol, with timol, carvacrol and terpénicos hydrocarbons; phenolic acids: caféico, clorogénico, rosmarínico; flavonoides: derivatives of apigenol, luteolol, kenferol, diosmetol; hydroquinone.
Farmacológica Action
The essential oil confers espasmolíticas, sedative, hypotensile, digestive and carminativas properties to him. The phenolic, flavonoides acids and hydroquinone are responsible for their bactericidal activity, diurética, antiseptic urinary and reinforce the hypotensile action. By external route he is analgesic and healing.
In topical use: inflammations osteoarticulares, mialgias, cocurl, sinusitis, herpes, hurt.
Contraindications
Except for express indication, we recommended to abstain to internally prescribe essential oils during the pregnancy, the lactancia, to smaller children of six years or gastroduodenales patients with gastritis, ulcers, syndrome of the null and voidable intestine, ulcerosa colitis, neurological disease of Crohn, hepatopatías, epilepsy, Parkinson or other diseases.
Not to administer, neither to apply topically to smaller children of six years nor to people with respiratory allergies or well-known hypersensitivity to this one or other essential oils.
Not to prescribe forms of metering with alcoholic content for oral administration to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.
Precaution/Poisonings
The continued use of the plant (more than two weeks) can cause migraines and somnolencia.
The essential oil, to high doses, can be narcotic, causing muscular migraines and espasmos.
It can produce allergic irritation of the mucous and reactions (broncoespasmos).
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup, in digestive alterations, to instill ten minutes, three cups to the day. In cases of nervous excitation, a teaspoon of coffee by cup and to take three more or to the day.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 25-50 drops, one to three times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:10): 50-100 drops, one to three times to the day.
- essential Oil (to see precautions) 2-4 drops, three times to the day. Capsules (25 to 50 mg/cáps, 2 or 3 to the day).
- Dust: 0,5 to 2 g to the day, in 250 capsules of mg
Topical use:
- Infusion: 30 g/l, applied in form of general baths, lotions, compresas, pomadas, garglings or colutorios.
- essential Oil: frictions on the affected joints (in alcoholic solution).
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