GRAPE OF THE LIZARD (brionia bryonia dioica)

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	GRAPE OF THE LIZARD
	*brionia bryonia dioica*

Name
GRAPE OF THE LIZARD

Scientific Name
brionia bryonia dioica

GRAPE OF THE LIZARD

Other Names:

Nabo of the Devil, Black Nut, Nueza, Parra Zarzalera, Grape of Lizard, White Vine

The buds to tier to us of this plant in spring, can be consumed like asparagus. But it is necessary to have well-taken care of since the root and its red fruits are poisonous. These persist like farolillos until the autumn, after all the plant is dry do. Not even the birds eat them. It agrees to know how to distinguish brionia of zarzaparrilla, whose fruits yes that are eatable and medicinal. This is recognized to have thorns in its stem and leaves in heart form.

Habitat: common in fences and forests of the center and the south of Europe, in special near the borders of the rivers. Also one is in the American continent.

Description: it plants trepadora, of the family of the Cucurbitáceas, that reaches to the 3 meters of height. The leaves have 5 lobes, and next to them, they leave earrings with which it adheres to other plants and trees. The flowers are white or bluish, and the fruits are red berries.

Used parts: the root.

Properties and indications: the root of brionia is nabo very great, that reaches to the size of a human head. He is very irritating for the skin. It contains a resin and an alkaloid (the brionina), that do of laxative her a drastic one. Formerly it was used in cases of cerebral congestión and hidropesía but, due to the diarreas that cause, today other smoother remedies are used.

Use: traditionally one has come using the laxative root like drastic, but at the present time it has fallen in disuse by the energetic thing of his action.

Precautions: the red berries of this plant are very toxic, and they even can be mortal. In case of poisoning (improbable, because they are very irritating and practically incomestibles), it is necessary to cause the vomit, to administer vegetal coal and to transfer with urgency to a hospital.

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