VEDEGAMBRE (veratrum album)

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	VEDEGAMBRE
	*veratrum album*

Name
VEDEGAMBRE

Scientific Name
veratrum album

VEDEGAMBRE

Family: Liliáceas.

Description: Perennial plant of rizoma crawling, with a series of marks corresponding to the leaves lost, dark, fibrous, with numerous radículas. The leaves are alternating, something coriáceas, ovaladoelípticas, with the acute apex, parallel longitudinal nerviaciones, whole margin, superior lamina glabra, envainante, with the turgid, fistuloso stem. The flowers are grouped in mazorcas, provided each one with them of pecíolo of greenish yellow color. The tépalos, lanceolados, are arranged in number of six. The fruit is a capsule to trilocular that it locks up a series of flat seeds. It can reach a meter and means of height. It abounds in the montanos meadows of all Europe. It is collected at the beginning of autumn.

Used parts: Rizoma.

Active Principles: Protoveratrina, germerina, jervina, veratramina, veratrosina, veratralbina, quelidónico acid, rubber, sugar, starch.

Indications: Analgesic, emetocatártico, antirheumatic, sneezing.

Its Uso: Dusts, tincture, liparolito.

Of Interest: Very poisonous plant that does not have to be used in domestic medicine because of the paralyzing action that it develops on the nervous system. The external prepared ones are used like the analgesic premises, on skins without wounds. The decocción of the plant is insecticide, and this property is used with action equivalent to chemical agents. The inhaled dusts produce estornudos. It agrees to pay attention during the harvesting in order not to confuse the root of the genciana with the one of vedegambre. It is a easy error, since the leaves of both species are practically equal.

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