Purifying of the blood. Upheavals of the liver, bazo and kidneys.
External use: In cataplasms for eruptions of the skin.
In old Rome the verbena to the rank of sagrada plant rose, of such form that any pact that was signed was struck with a verbena branch to confer the Maxima to him credibility.
Branch of verbena with detail of its flower. From always, this plant has been had by medicinal; the Roman soldiers took their stems in provisions to cure the possible wounds military. In the Average Age he was used for the preparation of loving filters.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: In some places of America is known it like grass of the spells, probably by influence of the Gallegos who made it arrive until there, and for which had sagrada meaning. A spell existed to be made love by the wished woman (or by the wished man) that it consisted of reciting verses with a branch of verbena in the hand.
CHARACTERISTICS: Vivaz is a plant (it lives more than two years), of thin, turgid stem, that it does not reach a meter of height. The leaves are arranged faced, of two in two in each knot, more or less deeply lobuladas. The flowers, of color lila, bloom when beginning the summer and in autumn. They are grouped occupying the superior part of the stems, forming an ear, without pecíolos.
LOCATION: It is a Mediterranean plant that prospers in many zones of the American continent, in smooth climates and not excessively cold. It lives in the meadows and lands noncultivated or next to the ways etc.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: As many other plants, have tannins, mucílagos and saponina. Probably the exceptional medicinal qualities must to the presence of glucósido, the verbenalina, it leaves from which disappears in the drying.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: At the moment it is admitted that Time stimulating properties, is useful in the reumatismo and makes to go down the fever.
HARVESTING: To the leaves and the flowery sumidades (flowers along with the branches that supports them) at the end of the spring or at the beginning of summer are taken (and in autumn, during the second flowering). Following with the magic of the verbena, the tradition existed to collect it ceremonially, reason why the eve of San Juan was chosen, at night, for "going of verbena' in group.
USES And APPLICATIONS: The leaves and sumidades are used floridas' in decocción (20 grams by liter of water). He is useful like reconstituyente tonic in diseases of the liver and kidneys. Against the rheumatic pains, it is applied with a cloth. On the sore zone.
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