The berries of yezgo are toxic, and agrees to differentiate them from those of the elder. Both plants belong to the same botanical family, and have similar applications, although it is used plus the elder, by his more tolerable scent.
Habitat: spread by edges of forests and fresh lands of all Europe. Naturalized in the American continent.
Description: it plants vivaz, of nauseous scent, stem raised of up to 1.5 meters of height, the family of the Caprifoliáceas. The flowers are small, white and in umbela. Their fruits are black berries in clusters raised upwards.
Used Part
The flowers, the root, crust, leaves and fruits.
Properties and indications: all the plant contains glucósido, essential oil, tannin and saponina. It has noticeable sudoríficas, diuréticas and laxative properties. For that reason one is used like:
Diurético in case of edemas (retention of liquids in weaves) or of renal insufficiency.
Sudorífico in the febrile affections (resfriados, influenza, paludismo, etc.).
Antireumático: their decocción or its alcoholic extract externally is used in compresas or frictions to calm the rheumatic pains.
Insecticide: its fresh leaves, or the liquid of their sprinkled decocción, drives away the insects.
The same properties are attributed to him that to the elder. The dried crust, leaves, flowers and fruits, are used popularly like diurético, diaforético and laxative. The root, like laxative and vomiting.
Use: in decocción of 30 grams of leaves and/or root by liter of water, boiled during 5 or 10 minutes, they are taken up to 3 daily cups.
Externally, compresas soaked in one decocciñ like the used one internally. Also they are possible to be applied with the alcoholic extract. Frictions with the decocción or the alcoholic extract.
Precaution/Poisonings
The berries are toxic. The use, in overdoses, of leaves or fruits can cause the vomit. Because the fruits do not taste bad, the accidental poisoning in children can get to be mortal.
Bibliography
Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M. You plant dans to Them the Therapeutique Moderne. 2ª. Paris: Maloine, 1986, p. 382.
Bézanger-Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M; Trotin, F. Plantes Médicinales DES Regions Tempérées. Paris: Maloine, 1980, p. 361.
Him Floc'h, And Contribution to unites Etude Ethnobotanique of the Flore Tunisienne. Imprimerie Officielle of the République Tunisienne, 1983, p. 239.
Mulet, L. toxic Flora of the Valencian Community. Castellón: Provincial delegation, 1997, pp. 385-6.
Paris, RR; Moyse, M. Précis de Matière Médicale. Take III. Paris: Masson, 1971, p. 385.
Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Figuerola, R. Gui'a of Plantas Medicinal of the Valencian Community. Valencia: The Provinces, 1996, p.72.
Creek, D; Obón, C. Gui'a Incafo of Plantas Useful and Poisonous of the Iberian Peninsula and Baleares. Madrid: Incafo, 1991, p. 936.
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