Description: Of Latin sedare, to calm, by its emollient properties. Greasy grass with very numerous and next, crawling or turgid stems. The leaves are alternating, fleshy, separated overlapping, little to each other or even sésiles, of elipsoidal form. The point of insertion of the leaf to the stem is slightly amplexicaulo. The flowers are yellow, arranged in escorpioides ears. The chalice has five sépalos, and the corola five acute lanceolados petals. The fruit is a capsule that contains ovaliformes seeds. Common on old walls, on rocks, from the sea to mountains. It measures on the average 5 cm. collects in spring and summer.
Used parts: All the fresh plant.
Composed chemical: Routine, sedidrina, mucílagos, rubber, draw resin from
It is recommended like: Hipotensivo, to harm it, antiwarty, rubefaciente.
Way of use: Juice, infusion, ointment, enolito, liparolito.
Of interest: Internally, although it presents/displays a hipotensiva action, it can produce intolerancia phenomena. Its taste is clearly acid. It has been used like almost always externally effective and innocuous natural calífugo. One is also used like madurador on the forúnculos, although it can produce local irritations. It is a infectante species and it is impossible to conserve given it the difficulties of his drying.