3,000 cultivated species of grapevines exist in the world, that produce one of the fruits more medicinal than they are known. All the old civilizations of the Mediterranean area knew the grapevine and they used it widely. As much the fruit, as
leaves and the sap of this noble plant, have abundant medicinal properties, and constitute an excellent food-medicine. The grape juice is rich in substances of high biological value: sugars of great nutritious value, proteins, vitamins and minerals. The grape juice is food and medicine.
Habitat: original of Smaller Asia and widely spread by all the Mediterranean countries, where plants can be wild. At the moment it is cultivated in the five continents.
Description: trepador shrub of the family of the Vitáceas, with grouped flowers of small size in compound clusters. The fruits, the grape grains, are berries of black or greenish color that contain of one to four ligneous seeds.
Used parts: the leaves, the sap, the berries (grapes) and the seeds.
Properties and indications: all the parts of the grapevine have interesting medicinal properties. The leaves, specially of the grapevine red, contain effect tannins astringent, and abundant flavonoides and antociánicos pigments, that confer protective on the sanguineous capillaries and hemostatic action to him. They are used in the following cases:
Venous circulatory affections: hemorroides, sabañones, varices, legs tired or swollen by upheavals of the hair permeability. He is one of the vegetal remedies more assets against these affections. In these cases, to reinforce the effect, it is recommended to combine the applications commits and external; that is to say, that besides to take the decocción from leaves, can be made baths with that same decocción.
Chronic Gastroenteritis, diarreas and specially disenterías with depositions sanguinolentas, by the effect astringent and antihemorrágico that they have.
Hemorrhages: specially useful in the upheavals of the menopause, to avoid the frequent losses of blood; also in case of hipermenorrea (too abundant rules); as well as to standardize the menstrual cycle in the dismenorrea (irregular or painful rules). It stops epistaxis (nasal hemorrhages) if it is applied directly, inhaling the dust of the crushed dry leaves, besides to take its infusion.
The sap of the grapevine is obtained cutting the sarmientos in spring, before they bring forth the leaves. This "water of stocks" that "cry" the sarmientos, is used successfully from very old curing the irritations of the skin (eccemas and diverse eruptions), and, mainly, washing the affected eyes of blefaritis (inflammation of the eyelids), orzuelo, conjuntivitis and queratitis (inflammation of the cornea). Also it can uses like coiris for the preventive ocular hygiene. It contains sugars, tartárico acid, organic tartaratos and other acids. It has antiinflammatory and healing properties.
The grapes contain a 16% of sugars (glucose, levulosa and saccharose); until 1% of proteins (10 g by kilo); 0.5 lipid k; vitamins To, complex B, G and P; mineral salts, specially of potassium and iron; organic acids; and antociánicos pigments in the skin. They have tonificantes, descongestivas, laxative, depurativas and antianemic properties.
The seeds (nuggets) of the grape contain poliinsaturados fatty acids, useful in the treatment of the excess of cholesterol. They are used in oil form.
Use: decocción of leaves, 40-50 grams by liter of water; to take 3 or 4 daily cups, before the meals. The oil of grape seeds (nuggets) is consumed like any other eatable oil, at the rate of 2 to 5 spoonfuls per day.
Externally, in baths of seat against the hemorroides; pediluvios (baths of feet) against sabañones; and to improve the sanguineous circulation with the same decocción of leaves referred in the previous paragraph. Dust to cut the nasal hemorrhages, inhales the dust of the dry leaves as a I shaved. Sap of the sarmiento that takes shelter in a clean bottle, and is directly applied on the skin or the eyes; it is not possible to be conserved, reason why it is used solely in spring.
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