SALSIFI (tragopogon pratensis)

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	SALSIFI
	*tragopogon pratensis*

Name
SALSIFI

Scientific Name
tragopogon pratensis

SALSIFI

Family: Composed.

Description: Biennial herbaceous plant, with axonomorfa root, cants. The stem is herbaceous, fistuloso. The leaves are amplexicaulas, lineares, lanceoladas, with marked medium nerviación, whole margin. The small heads have a length pedúnculo, with the yellow corola, ligulados. The fruit is aquenio grayish provided with vilano of white hairs. It is a species quite common that it grows throughout the ways, in the meadows. It measures on the average 50 cm. is collected in autumn.

Used parts: The root.

Active Principles: Inulina, inositol, manitol, fitosterina.

Indications: Nutritious, purifying, expectorante, astringent.

Its Uso: Decocción, syrup, fluid extract.

Of Interest: The roots very are looked for like condimento, because of the flavor that confers the inulina to him. Also the leaves are used in the elaboration of menestras. The petals in infusion provide a preparation that clarifies the skin, specially the efélidos ones. The syrup presents/displays advantages in the cases of cough pertinaz and the bronchitis. The distilled water is used in detergent lotions on dry skin. It is a species very cultivated in the orchards.

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