MIOSOTIS (myosotis aiprestris)

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	MIOSOTIS
	*myosotis aiprestris*

Name
MIOSOTIS

Scientific Name
myosotis aiprestris

MIOSOTIS

Family: Borragináceas.

Description: Grass with ligneous, crawling, gray and fibrous, turgid, fragile root, hirsuta, with graft stems. The basal leaves are arranged in rosette, are espatuladas and pecioladas; caulinares, however, is lanceoladas and sésiles. The apicales flowers, arranged in small tops, have bluish tubular chalice snaped like a bwll and corola with fauces yellow. The fruits are aquenios blackish ovoidales. Common in the alpine meadows, the forests, between rocks. It measures approximately 10 cm. is collected in May.

Used parts: The whole plant.

Composed chemical: Tannin, draws resin from, mucílago, salts.

Properties: Healing, oftálmica, astringent.

Way of use: Infusion, juice, distilled water, cataplasm.

Information of interest: Small plant that is cultivated with ornamentales aims. It constitutes an excellent remedy against numerous ocular diseases, and it is used in coiris form. Pressed and applied on the wounds, it heals them. The juice was used in cases of epistasis. In the infantile enteritis she is very active, specially if one is used jointly with the salicaria.

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