PAICO (chenopodium ambrosioides)

	P
	PAICO
	*chenopodium ambrosioides*

Name
PAICO

Scientific Name
chenopodium ambrosioides

PAICO

Herbaceous plant that measures up to 1 m of height. It has graft stems and leaves extended with curveados and irregular edges. Their flowers are born in clusters and originate black seeds. It is cultivated in the houses and well is adapted to climates and tempering warm, semiwarm, dry. It grows associate to the tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia, perennifolia, subperennifolia, scrub xerófilo, forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and compound of pine.

Useful parts: The leaves.

Its use: It is a plant used in almost all the country to treat diverse stomach, cólicos pains and parasitic intestinal, for it the infusion is taken from the leaves with water or milk in uninformed. Also it is used in other sufferings like diarrea, vomit, stomach ache, thinning and lack of appetite. It alleviates to some menstrual upheavals such as the cólicos, delay of the period and little fluid, for which one is used single or with robust, and with other grass like zoapatle and maize hair. On the other hand, sterility is recommended and to increase the amount to it of milk in the period of lactancia. One says that he is effective against the puncture of ponzoñosos insects and warts, by means of the crushed one or emplasto with tobacco.

U.E.P. Add to Favorite Home Page Recommend this Plant
2008 © HIPERnatural.COM www.hipernatural.com Your Source of Natural Health in Internet