In Europe, the romero has been considered throughout history like symbol of the life, the love, the fecundity and the death. Old Greece consecrated the Aphrodite goddess, and crowns with leaves of romero, mirto and laurel became. The Belgian tradition remembers that the babies do not bring the storks, but that appear next to a romero bush.
INTRODUCTION: It counts the legend that in the century xvll, queen Isabel of Hungary, to the 72 years, affected of rheumatic pains, recovered the health and rejuveneció thanks to which soon the water of the queen of Hungary would come to be called "": an alcoholic lotion composed of romero, lavanda and mint. After its recovery, its aspect was of such youth, that the king of Poland requested it in marriage, proposal that she rejected by love to God, since she was that had sent him the wonderful one to elixir. His it uses extended quickly between the ladies of certain age to maintain the smooth skin and without wrinkles.
CHARACTERISTICS: It is a bush of less of a meter of height, although it can reach the meter and means in some cases; the stem is ligneous, graft, town of multitude of narrow and long leaves (of about 3 cm. by 3 mm), rigid, like needles, with the edges coiled downwards in all its length, of dark green color in the superior face and blanquecinas by the inferior one, since they are covered of one thick white vellosidad. From the armpits of the leaves the flowers arise, with the petals of violáceo blue color. The flowering takes place constantly, throughout the year. In the coldest climates, the flowers are developed to the year twice, in spring and autumn. The fruits, tiny, secretan gotitas of oil very appreciated by the ants, frequent visitors of the romero. The plant smells as of incense and tastes aromatic (astringent).
LOCATION: He is original of the Mediterranean region where it lives in low earth, near the sea His scientific name could come d Latin ros marine dew and marinus, to designate its situation next to the sea. The Castilian sobrename of "aroma of sea" also agrees in this interpretation. Nevertheless, there is who believes in the Greek origin rhops shrub and murinus aromatic. It is developed in calcáreos lands, next to encinal or populating nonarboreal low zones. The drought resists well. One also knows like rosmarino and aroma him sea.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: Leaves, flowers and stems contain an essential oil, whose proportion varies according to the time of harvesting and the climate to that been it has put under the plant. They have, in addition, organic acids, glucósido, saponina and a bitter principle.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: He is antiseptic (against the infections), stimulating, vulnerario (to cure wounded antispasmodic (regulates the movements the internal) and diurético. Also it serves to fight diverse diseases of the skin.
HARVESTING: Throughout the year, since it always is in flower; nevertheless, the spring mainly seems to be the time in that they concentrate the substance active, if in the previous weeks has not rained. The flowery sumidades take shelter (small branches with flowers and leaves). They are dried in the shade, in a ventilated place and they keep safe from the light.
USES And APPLICATIONS: A small branch is used in infusion (reason why three cups to the day like stimulating or digestive tonic can be taken. The same infusion is very effective against the wounds the sores, applying it directly or soaking a gauze. In frictions or massages romero alcohol he is very useful against the affections of the skin (is prepared let macerate 250 grams of flowery sumidades in liter of alcohol during nine days.
Contraindications
Obstruction of the biliary routes.
Except for express indication, we recommended to abstain to internally prescribe the essential oil 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 oral forms of metering with alcoholic content to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.
Indirect effect
It is necessary to be prudent at the time of prescribing pure the essential oil internally: it can produce muscular migraines, espasmos, gastroenteritis, irritation of endotelio renal, in greater doses, can be neurotoxic (convulsivante) and abortifacient.
In topical use the essential oil produces skin rubefacción, having to be avoided its application on wounds, zones of skin altered and the contact with the mucous.
Precaution/Poisonings
To keep the essential oil outside the reach from the children.
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup, to instill 10 minutes, three cups to the day, before or after the meals.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 30-50 drops, 1-3 times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:10): 50-100 drops, one to three times to the day.
- essential Oil (to see precautions, indirect effect, contraindications): 1 - 4 drops, one to three times to the day, on a lump of sugar, or in capsules (50 mg/cáps, 2 or 3 to the day).
- dry Extract (5:1): 300 mg/cápsula, 1-3/día.
External use:
- Decocción: 30-40 g/l, to boil 10 minutes. To apply in form of baths, washings or compresas absorbed on hurt or doloridas zones; in vaginal irrigations or frictions on the hairy leather.
- essential Oil: diluted to the 2-5%, in alcoholic or oleosa solution, to treat mialgias, neuralgias and inflammations osteoarticulares.
- glicólico Extract (1:5).
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