ZAHAREÑA (rabo de gato sideritis angustifolia lagasca)

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	ZAHAREÑA
	*rabo de gato sideritis angustifolia lagasca*

Name
ZAHAREÑA

Scientific Name
rabo de gato sideritis angustifolia lagasca

ZAHAREÑA

Other Names:

Land Grass, Siderítide, Zahareña

Plant very appreciated in the east and the south of Spain, whose use has extended quickly in the last decades. One began to use in veterinary medicine, to cure to the hurt animals, and are such his results, that one has become of common use between the farmers and Mediterranean cattle dealers.

Habitat: Slopes incultas and losses of the Spanish Mediterranean coast, from Tarragona to Malaga.

Description: plant of ligneous base, of the family of the Labiadas, that reaches from 20 to 50 cms. of height. Of their turgid small branches flowers of yellow color are born lemon.

Used parts: the flowery sumidades.

Properties and indications: it contains an essence with antibiotic, as well as flavonoides properties of antiinflammatory action. It is used internally, with very good results in dispepsias, gastroduodenales gastritis and ulcers. It has an intense antiinflammatory action on the digestive apparatus. Its application commonest is the vulneraria: it heals the wounds and it cures the contusions with an amazing rapidity. He is useful in all class of gallings, contusions, hurt (infected or not), cutaneous ulcers and infections of the skin.

Use: in infusion with 30 or 40 grams of flowery sumidades in a liter of water, from which 3 or 4 daily cups are taken.

For external use, compresas soaked in the same infusion of internal use. They pay attention on the skin affected by means of a smooth bandage, and 3 or 4 hours change every. Washing of the zones affected with this infusion.

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