Antispasmodic, microbicida. Against the tosferina, nervous, espasmos states of the throat and the intestine.
Francois Rabelais, French literato of the century CVL, fan to the plants, in 1546 wrote its work the third book, and in her it made reference to serpol as "the plant that climbs up the ground".
It grows in sunny hills and the meadows of central Europe and Asia, where the thyme does not exist.
The extract of serpol enters the composition of drops and syrups against the gastrointestinales cough, colds and upheavals.
Serpol is like a thyme, of similar qualities and with some superior ones, like their capacity to attack the cough. He is prime (almost brother) of the thyme, and if in the Antiquity it is not spoken of him, he is simply because it was not known in Greece nor in the countries whereupon Greece had commercial relations, that is to say, Mediterranean and some of East. Serpol is developed in Central Europe, where, however, there is no thyme. Both plants in some pirenaicas zones and of the south of France agree.
CHARACTERISTICS: Vivaz is a plant, of ligneous stem, that it grows horizontally and ramifica, leaning in the ground. It produces, also, other vertical ramifications that get to have up to 50 cm of height, just as the ends of the horizontal stems, that they rise until reaching that same height. Many varieties of serpoles with different morphologic characteristics exist, reason why he would be complicated to give a description of each one of them, but it is not of more knowledge of what those differences consist. All has in common the flowers, in tube form that is divided in two lips, the superior one with three deep divisions (unlike the thyme, in which the divisions are very little pronounces
They have the extended leaves and others you even clear its flowers they acquire diverse colorations and they give off different aromas. In some parts wild thyme is called, wild thyme, serpollo, sauce of shepherd.
LOCATION: It lives in the center and north on Europe, in Ios valleys and mountains. 2,500 ms of altitude have been until a. It prefers the barren corners, grounds, stony or the clear ones like the forests. Also it grows in you bark them steep of mountains.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: Flowers and leaves have a rich essential oil in cimol and pineno, aromatic substances (timol and carvacrol, characteristic d thyme, also is, but in very little proportion). Tannins, draw resin from and bitter substances are also own of serpol.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: It has excellent qualities to mitigate the cough. Also he is antiseptic, tonic digestive aid to make the digestion and eliminates the lombrices of the internal. In addition, in general, tonifica the organism when acting on the nervous centers and favoring the sanguineous circulation.
HARVESTING: The flowery sumidades are used, that must take shelter as soon as they open to the cocoons the summer throughout. They are dried in the shade keep safe from the light and the humidity.
USES And APPLICATIONS: The form of more usual application is in infusion: one or two sumidades by cup, three times to the day, generally after the meals. A cup to any hour can be taken, although flower of linden tree to equal breads is not for curing no badly then always will serve to strengthen the body Against the cough can be prepared the infusion mixing, adding a spoonful of honey to sweeten it. It will be taken a sopera spoonful hourly (during the day). Also the flavor is very flavorful that leaves stews when it is used in the meals.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup. To instill during 10 minutes. Three or four cups to the day, before or after the meals.
- essential Oil (to see precautions):
3 to 5 drops, three times to the day, in a cup of infusion or on a lump of sugar.
Capsules (50 mg/cáps.), three to the day, after the meals.
Supositorios (25-50 mg/sup.), one to three to the day.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 20-40 drops, one to three times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:10): 50-100 drops, three times to the day.
- Dust encapsulation: 1-2,5 g/día, in 500 doses from 300 to mg.
External use:
- Decocción: 50 g/l, to boil 2 minutes, to let instill during 10. To apply in form of compresas, vaginal lotions, colutorios, garglings, irrigations, local or general baths, hair frictions, inhalations.
- essential Oil: in form of pomada or liniment: like revulsivo, in rheumatic affections, or pectoral unctions, to treat respiratory affections.
Bibliography
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Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Plantes Médicinales DES Regions Tempérées. Paris: Maloine, 1980, p. 344.
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