RED SAUCO (sambucus racemosa)

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	RED SAUCO
	*sambucus racemosa*

Name
RED SAUCO

Scientific Name
sambucus racemosa

RED SAUCO

Family: Caprifoliáceas.

Description: Shrub, often of arboreal, graft bearing, with the crust of gray color parduzco and yellowish marrow. The leaves are opposed, tripinnatosectas, with the folíolos slightly peciolados, oval, acuminados, with the dentated margin. The flowers, of greenish color, are grouped in piramidales ovadas ears. Pentalobulada pentadentado and corola tubular chalice. The fruit is an acidulous red berry that contains numerous seeds. It grows in humid and pedregosas the zones of average mountain. It can reach up to 3-4 m of height. It is collected in summer.

Used parts: The fruits, the leaves.

Composed chemical: Málico, acetic, tartárico acid, sugars, tannin, colorante, vitamin C (fruits). Sambunigrina, essence, valeriánico and málico acid (leaves).

Properties: Laxative, purifying (fruits). Sudorífero, diurético, resolvente (leaves).

Its use: Infusion, juice, dusts.

Of interest: It is the species of elder with the most eatable and tasteful fruit, with which excellent jams are prepared. With the wood homemade works are made, and the crust, like in other species of elders, is laxative. The leaves externally find application like resolventes on accesses and forúnculos. The seeds contain greasy oil that could find some utility.

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