FALSE URSINA (heracleum sphondyllum)

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	FALSE URSINA
	*heracleum sphondyllum*

Name
FALSE URSINA

Scientific Name
heracleum sphondyllum

FALSE URSINA

Family: Umbelíferas.

Description: Of Heracles Hercules, reference to the energetic properties of the plant. It is graft, hollow, angular and pubescente a grass that reaches up to 2 ms of height, with fasciculada root and raised stem. The leaves alternating, are pennadas, composed, with sawed pinnatosectos or lobulados folíolos. The flowers, ready in umbela terminal or to put in a home, are white. The chalice is pentadentado and the corola, pentapétala. The fruit is diaquenio that is divided when arriving at the maturity in two compressed parts. He is frequent in selvático state in the humid meadows of mountain and next to the water obstacles. It is collected in autumn.

Used parts: The root and the leaves.

Composed chemical: Heracleína, essence, glutamina, draw resin from.

Properties: Sedative, antihysteric, afrodisíaca, digestive.

Way of use: Decocción, dusts, flowed extract, tincture.

Note: The stem emits a sweetened juice that coagulates in contact with the air. All the plant can be used for the obtaining of an alcoholic liquid. The young root, buds and the leaves can eat if they are boiled previously. The dye of the aerial parts is used in the cases of genésica asthenia, although the mechanism of its action is not known with detail.

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