SORGHUM (sorghum vulgare)

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	SORGHUM
	*sorghum vulgare*

Name
SORGHUM

Scientific Name
sorghum vulgare

SORGHUM

Family: Gramíneas.

Description: Plant with fasciculada, fibrous root, turgid, knotted stem. The leaves wide, are indented, escabrosas, guided, with ribs. Apical ear formed by several espiguillas reddish. The oblong fruit is seed. This species comes from India and at the moment it is cultivated everywhere. It reaches a height superior to 2 m.s collects in summer and autumn.

Used parts: The inflorescencia.

Active Principles: Starch, sugar, acids, pirogalol, pectina.

Indications: Astringent, hemostatic, antidiarreica.

Way of use: Infusion, tinctures, enolito.

Of Interest: The plant is cultivated widely like forage for the cattle, since she is very nutritious by his sugar content. One also takes advantage of for the manufacture of brooms. With the roots and the stem decocciones concentrated for fattening food of of ocas and hens are prepared. The extraction of the sugar from the cane was tried, to compete with the one of beet, but the substances that form dregs are of difficult elimination.

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