GRAPEFRUIT (citrus aurantium)

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	GRAPEFRUIT
	*citrus aurantium*

Name
GRAPEFRUIT

Scientific Name
citrus aurantium

GRAPEFRUIT

Names

Spanish: naranjo bitter

Portuguese: laranjeira sour

English: to bitter orange tree, Seville orange tree, bigarade orange tree

French: orange to amer, to bigardier

Dutch: they bitterorangen

German: Pomeranzenbaum

Italian: arancio clary

Generally the bitter orange is more aromatic than the candy.

In fitoterapia also they are used "naranjillas", immature fruits of dark color green or brown that fall of the tree before maturing.

Its name "naranjo" it derives from the sánscrito nagarunga and the Arab narandj.

The essential oil of naranjo bitter is known with the essence name néroli

FAMILY: Rutáceas

USED MEDICINAL PART: Denominated leaves, flowers orange blossom, fruits without maturing, pericarpio or rind of the immature or almost mature fruit.

TYPE OF PLANT: Evergreen of twisted irregular branches and something that get to form a semihemisférica glass with long and rigid thorns. Naranjo bitter, botanical is similar to naranjo sweet, emphasizing some differences in its leaves, flowers and fruits. Pecíolo of the leaves of naranjo bitter is wider and winged, and the rind of the fruit or pericarpio is heavier containing a bitter juice.

ORIGIN: Eastern Asia, more concretely of the Northeast of India. It is cultivated in the Mediterranean river basin from the Antiquity, arriving itself to extend by all the tempered zones of the world. On the contrary, naranjo sweet is original of China, much more being extended as species of culture everywhere.

HEIGHT: Between 4 and 6 ms.

LEAVES: Of shining green color and a length between 5 and 10 oval, alternating, perennial cm. Acute or acuminadas, with peciolo slightly winged

FLOWERS: One denominates orange blossom flowers. They are axillary, white and they have an intense characteristic scent dulzón. They have a chalice in glass form and a corola with five fleshy petals

FRUITS: Corticada berry that it has in his interior of 10 to 12 segments. Before maturing she is green and orange or reddish when maturing.

The mature fruits present/display the same form and size that the sweet oranges, although are something darker and with pericarpio rougher, with white a dense layer of parénquima underneath the outer crust.

HABITAT: Tempered zones worldwide.

COMPONENTS

In the leaves

Essential oil....................0,3%

Terpénicos carbides............ (limoneno)

Terpénicos alcohol...........75% of linalol and 15% of geraniol

Antranilato of methyl

Flavónicos bitter compounds with glicósidos (neohesperidina and triterpenos amrgos

Betaína, Estaquidrina, Hesperidósido (glicósido flavçónico)

In the flowers

Rich essential oil in néroli and d-limoneno

In the green fruits

Essential oil......................hasat a 2,5%

Citric acid

Málico acid

In the pericarpios of the fruit

Essential oil......... 2.5% in the dried rind

d-limoneno............... 92%

citral

citronelal

esters of linalilo

esters of nerilo

esters of geranilo........2,1%

Heterósidos flavónicos bitter

hesperidósido

naringósido

limonina

naranjina

auranciamarina

auranciamárico acid

neohesperidina

In the pulp of the sweet orange are organic acids (acid citrus and málico), Vitamin C (acid acórbico)

The Leaves are Aromatic, Sedative, Bitter

The Flowers are Espasmolíticas, Sedatives, Aromatic

The Fruits without maturing are used like Bitter appetizer and

The Pericarpios is Aperitive and sedative light

The Juices (juice) of sweet oranges are Tonic, Antiescorbútico and Antiinfeccioso

ITS INDICATIONS: Digestive lack of appetite, Pregnancy (sweet fruits and juices), Posparto (sweet fruits and juices), abdominal Problems (pericarpio), Dolores (pericarpio), Vomits (pericarpio), Nervousness (pericarpio mixed with valeriana), Infections (juice of sweet oranges)

CONTRAINDICATIONS: They are not known

USES:

Infusions of leaves or flowers: 5 grams by liter of water

Water of orange blossom (hidrolato of flowers of naranjo bitter): up to 100 cc per day

Decocción of crusts to 10%: to boil during 10 minutes and to untimed fire 10 grams of crusts in a liter of water. To leave a rest of 10 minutes more. This tisane can mix itself with manzanilla, mint or mint to you separate equal obtaining an excellent tisane with stomach effects. If what is desired it is a tisane with sedative action we will mix it with lúpulo and double amount by root of valeriana. Half an hour to take a cup before lying down.

Essential oil of néroli: up to 5 drops per day

Dye: 20 drops 3 times to the day

Dye mother: 30 drops three times per day

Fluid extract: up to 10 drops by dose

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