INTRODUCTION: This tree is used in diverse zones of America, where the main medicinal application is like tranquilizer of the nerves. The flower or the fruits is the used parts more in cofoundation and ingested like tea. "té of tila", as it is also well-known, it is used like treatment for problems of the heart and the arterial pressure. On the other hand, it is recommended for cólicos and irregularities in the menstrual period. Also, it is used like emollient, sedative and to treat the reumatismo.
Tree of straight stem with smooth crust that it reaches around 18 ms of height. Their leaves have acorazonada form and the flowers are of yellowish color. They are grouped in clusters and they originate fruits of globoso aspect. It is of Mexican earth and it inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm and tempering. It is associated with the vegetation of tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia, forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and pine.
Description:
The linden tree is a tree of good bearing, with dense foliage, that gives impenetrable and fresh shade, teared the pages out of during the winter. It has great leaves, of 8 to 14 cm. in length, of figure of heart, with the unequal sides in the base and the pointed apex, of dentated and irregularly festooned edges, green dark and lampiñas in the beam, paler and slightly vellosas in the inferior face, in which cowhistles of off-white hair in the angles are seen that form the nerves in their starting; in this inferior face or envés of the leaf, the ribbing, that is slapped, with secondary or lateral nerves and other nerves, the tertiary ones stands out much, that, crossing crossed and parallel, form as a stairs between each two of the secondary ones. The leaves of the linden tree are scattered throughout the branches and, as these are placed of horizontal way, in two races, to both flanks of the branches, with the lamina watching at the light or a little tipped.
The flowers are born next to the nipple of the leaf, maintained by a long stalk of a peduncle that dilates and forms as a a long leaf and narrows, of green a pale one, a little coriácea, half of which is frees and loose in the superior part; in the end of the prolonged stalk of a peduncle they are born of three to five flowers on shorter cabillejos.
Each one of these is made up of a chalice of five sépalos of oval figure between and lanceolada, membranosos, a little concave and waxen off-white color; located between each two sépalos, a little are born the five petals more longer Straits and, extended in form of star and yellowish color
very pale.
Estambres is numerous, and has free, white filaments, and anthers, yellows. Pistilo is made up of a cupuliforme and velluda base, the rudimento of the fruit, and a green style and lampiño.
The fruit is also velloso, ovoidal, and shows five longitudinal ribs in rebound; he is dry in the maturity, and it is never opened.
The leaves of the linden tree taste herbaceous something aromatic, pleasant, and loosen certain mucilago similar to the one of malvas; the flowers dismiss smooth aroma, and go to them the bees.
It blooms in June and July, more or less delayed if it lives to much height.
One grows up in the forests of other trees, mixed with them and splashed in the woods,
USED PART MEDICINALLY:
The flowers with its brácteas and the whiteness that is, the deprived crust of its more external cover.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LINDEN TREE
The linden tree can reach to the 35 ms of height. The flowers are of yellowish color and smooth sweet scent.
MAIN COMPONENTS
The flowers: 0,02% of essential oil (farnesol, geraniol, eugenol, linalol, feniletílicos esters) Flavonoides: between 5 and 9% according to it is the species: astragalina, quercitrina, isoquercitrina and canferitrina. Whiteness: it contains mucílagos, tannins, taraxerol, cumarinas and vanillina.
SPECIES OF LINDEN TREES:
Next I detail the diverse types to him of existing linden trees:
Tilia microphylla (European T. L.): One is a aespecie of linden tree of central Europe and subalpine regions.
Intermediate Tilia Of Candolle: Platyphylla is a hybrid of tilia and tilia microphylla. It grows well in the south of Europe
Stormy Tilia Montch: He is original of Turquia and Smaller Asia.
Red Tilia Candolle: He is original of Crimea, Armenian and the Caucasus
Tilia petiolaris Of Candolle: Southeast of Europe is considered according to my investigations like a subespécie of tilia stormy
Tilia glabra Vent: this it is the linden tree of Canada and the U.S.A.
Tilia heterophyla Vent: The U.S.A.
Tilia pubescens H. K. Is original of Carolina, the U.S.A.
Tilia canadensis Mich: North America
Tilia parvifolia: It is a linden tree of small leaves. He is asilvestrado in Europe and it is cultivated in numerous parks.
Use and virtues of the linden tree (Tilia platyphyllos Scopoli)
Most important one talks about its faculty to calm the nervous excitation. All whatever are raised with a coffee cup, and, consequently, they cannot sleep, they recover the calm with a cup of tila, that is sedative and pacifying.
Probadla, mainly, as it is this: prepared exclusively with conserved flowers affluent, safe from the dust and of the light. The infusion of linden tree flower considerably lessen the acidity of the stomach; therefore, it recommends to return it at the end of the meals in the cases of gastric Hiperacidez: You weigh 1 ounce of flowers and distribuidlas in twelve parts; each part, envolvedla in a white, well clean paper, and guardadla thus. With the flowers of each one of these piquetitos you will be able to prepare a cup of tila, complimenting in the boiling water, covering the earthenware vessel and retiring it immediately of the fire. Tila is taken sweetened with sugar or honey.
There is one who, to heighten his action, adds to this tisane an orange blossom water teaspoon.
Linden tree
(Tilia platyphyllos)
Perhaps the most famous linden trees of the world are those that, in four lines, stood throughout the denominated avenue Unter den Linden (Under the linden trees), which, starting off of the Door of Brandeburgo, goes into a kilometer in which it was Eastern Berlin.
Sacred tree of the old germanic civilizations, between mochas legend related to the linden tree emphasizes the one of Sigfrido, that snatches its treasure to a legendary town of dwarves, the nibelungos. (Sigfrido is invulnerable thanks to a blood bath that covered its body, but a leaf of linden tree fallen on its back avoided the contact of the blood with the skin and marked its weak point there.) The dwarves end the life of Sigfrido sending to him an arrow to the back, between the omóplatos, where is its weak point, and recover their treasure.
LOCATION: It lives exclusively in the tempered and subtropical regions on the North hemisphere; it does not form forests, grows up next to other trees, since there are or maples, in shady zones. In the mountain, 1,800 ms of height grow until a.
CHARACTERISTICS: It is a leaf tree expires of 15 to 40 ms of height, of smooth trunk, with acorazonadas leaves, of sawn edges, whose dimensions vary in great way according to the species. The flowers, of five yellowish petals, small, form groupings of between 5 and 10 united by pedúnculo common that I know insert in the branches accompanied by a bráctea or "leaf of protection", a species of widening of pedúnculo, in language form, that protects the inflorescencia and favors the aerial dissemination of the fruit when acting like flying organ. The flower produces very pleasant nectar to the sense of smell, that attracts multitude of bees. E1 fruit is globulose, with 4 0 5 ribs. It gives off a very pleasant aroma. Also one denominates tilia, tillo, tillón and arguma to him.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The flowers have essence, rich in farnesol, an alcohol that confers part to him of its medicinal virtues. Also are tannins, mucílago and oils.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: Today we know "tila" (infusion of linden tree flowers) like a tranquilizer the nerves, but also he is sudorífico, antispasmodic and it attenuates the acidity of the stomach.
HARVESTING: It says the tradition that there is to rise the tree to gather the flowers; certain, because the branches are few to which it is reached from the ground. Principles active only find in flowers, reason why they must to use without bráctea (that "hojita" in language form that protects the inflorescencia), although is well certain that the herbolarios give the flowers with the bráctea, perhaps so that we know that it treats, really, of linden tree flower; in any case, also it is certain that the brácteas, although in much less amount than the flowers, also contain active principles. The just open flowers must be chosen, neither the cocoons nor the withered ones. The flowering takes place in the first third of the summer. Once dried they will keep safe from the light, in dry places, not being advisable to keep them more from a year; that is to say, with each flowering, we will throw, if still we have left, those of the previous year.
USES And APPLICATIONS: We have to arrive at the Xlll century so that the great effectiveness was known the linden tree like tranquilizer of the nervous excitation. It is administered in infusion (well-known with the name of tila), a teaspoon of flowers by cup after the meals. An only taking is effective to calm a momentary state of excitation.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Infusion (inflorescencias): a spoonful of dessert by cup, to instill 10 minutes. Two to four cups to the day.
- Decocción (whiteness): 30 g/l, to boil 15 minutes, two to four cups to the day, half an hour before the meals. Specially indicated in disquinesias biliary and migrañas. It is recommended to follow you cure discontinuous: 10 to 20 days to the month.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 20 to 40 drops, 3 or 4 times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:5): 50 to 100 drops, one to three times to the day.
- dry Extract (5:1): 0,3 to 1 g/día.
External use:
- Infusion: 300 to 600 g in four liters of water. To instill 30 minutes. To add to the water of the bath.
- colorless fluid Extract or glicólico extract (1:5), in creams, gels or champúes.
- distilled Water of linden tree.
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