MIELGO (yezgosambucus ebolus)

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	MIELGO
	*yezgosambucus ebolus*

Name
MIELGO

Scientific Name
yezgosambucus ebolus

MIELGO

Other Names:

Actea, Ayebo, Chavos, Ébulo, Enzo, Matapulgas, Mielgo, Negrillos, smaller Elder, Yambú, Yubo

The berries of yezgo are toxic, and agrees to differentiate them from those of the elder. Both plants belong to the same botanical family, and have similar applications, although it is used plus the elder, by his more tolerable scent.

Habitat: spread by edges of forests and fresh lands of all Europe. Naturalized in the American continent.

Description: it plants vivaz, of nauseous scent, stem raised of up to 1.5 meters of height, the family of the Caprifoliáceas. The flowers are small, white and in umbela. Their fruits are black berries in clusters raised upwards.

Used parts: the root and the leaves.

Properties and indications: all the plant contains glucósido, essential oil, tannin and saponina. It has noticeable sudoríficas, diuréticas and laxative properties. For that reason one is used like:

Diurético in case of edemas (retention of liquids in weaves) or of renal insufficiency.

Sudorífico in the febrile affections (resfriados, influenza, paludismo, etc.).

Antireumático: their decocción or its alcoholic extract externally is used in compresas or frictions to calm the rheumatic pains.

Insecticide: its fresh leaves, or the liquid of their sprinkled decocción, drives away the insects.

Use: in decocción of 30 grams of leaves and/or root by liter of water, boiled during 5 or 10 minutes, they are taken up to 3 daily cups.

Externally, compresas soaked in one decocciñ like the used one internally. Also they are possible to be applied with the alcoholic extract. Frictions with the decocción or the alcoholic extract.

Precautions: not to exceed the prescribed doses by root or leaves. The berries are very toxic.

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