PENNY ROYAL
Mentha pulegium L.
Family: Labiadas

Con lombrices, bad digestion and jaqueca.     Active components: mentol, tannin, mentona, carvona, pulegona, levulosa, salicylate, essence of penny royal.
Useful parts: flowery leaves and sumidades. Annual plant and vivaz of short and ramosos, velludos stems and something esquinados. The leaves are small, vellosas and descoloridas. The flowers show a pale blue color.

Lombrices
Tisane: an infusion with 25 becomes gr. of flowery sumidades and 1 liter. of boiling water. After filtering it it is administered, without honey nor sugar, a good glass, in two takings.

Digestion
Infusion: 15 are put gr. of flowery sumidades in 1 liter of water. It is boiled, one filters and it is sweetened with honey. A cup is taken after each food. This infusion is a great intestinal antiseptic.  

Jaqueca
Infusion 25 lie down gr. of penny royal (flowery sumidades and leaves to equal parts) in a liter of water and the normal infusion becomes. Three cups to the day are taken.

ORDINARY USE

POLIPODIO
Polypodium vulgare L.
Family: Polipodiáceas

It fights the constipation, reumatismo and ictericia. Active components: saccharose, acids benzoic and salicílico, fitosterina, oxalato calcic, greasy, manita oil. Useful parts: rizoma dry. Common fern that reptante subterranean forms rizoma, covered of membranosas grudges, of blond color and flavor dulzón. From he himself pinnadas leaves arise (frondes). It has esporas that mature in summer.

Constipation
Tisane: 20 gr. of rizoma of polipodio, 10 gr. by root of regaliz and 5 gr. by root of Angelica with 200 gr. of water. Polipodio is boiled and soon the regaliz and the Angelica lie down. One leaves in rest 12 hours. It is sweetened and it is taken in uninformed.  

Reumatismo
Tea of polipodio: with 2 teaspoons by root of polipodio in 1/4 of liter of water. One boils 5 minutes. Three daily cups are taken.  

Ictericia
Infusion: with 20 gr. by root of polipodio, 10 gr. by root of regaliz, 2 gr. of flowers of wormwood and 2 gr. of leaves of salvia, in 1 liter of water. It is taken outside meals.

ORDINARY USE  

PRIMULA
Primula veris L.
Family: Primuláceas

It fights the reumatismo, it alleviates to the blows and the influenza.   Active components: mineral saponina, enzymes, salts, vitamin C, essential oil, acid salicílico.
Useful parts: root, rizoma, leaves and flowers with chalice. Well-known plant vivaz also like - “Spring”. One pays attention to the ground by rizoma that forms many raicillas. The leaves are extended and made oval. Flowers of greenish off-white color, arranged in umbelas. The fruit is a capsule locked up in the chalice. The roots in September are unearthed. It is multiplied by seed and division of bush

Reumatismo
decocción: 100 lie down gr. by roots in 1 liter of water. It is let boil and the roots, very hot are applied in form of emplasto, on the painful parts.  

Blows
Cocimiento: 100 gr. of rizoma in 1 liter of water, that is boiled until it loses 1.3 of the volume. The compresas absorbed in this liquid are applied on the doloridas parts.  

Influenza
infusion: 20 lie down gr. of rizoma in 1 liter of water it is boiled and one filters, sweetening With honey. 3 cups to the day are taken.

ORDINARY USE    

PUERRO
Allium porrum L.
Family: Liliáceas  

It cures the punctures, the swellings and the aphony.
Active components: glucósido heleboreína, metilaliína, cicloaliína, rich in mucílago, mineral sulfur, salts and other substances.
Useful parts: the whole plant. Plant biennial that usually is cultivated annually, with an extended and simple onion, a stem of 30 to 80 cm and flat, long, green, narrow and whole leaves. It blooms in spring and the flowers are in umbela, with petals reddish white color.

Punctures
energetically to friccionar the part affected with puerro just cut.  

Swellings
Cataplasm: to cook the white part of puerro surrounded in wet paper, under ashes, during 1/2 hour. To reduce it to papilla and to mix it with the same amount of vegetal butter and to apply it in cataplasm form, renewing every seven hours until, the swelling disappears.  

Aphony
Decocción: to boil during 300 minutes gr. of pulp of puerro. To take three tacit ones to the day, outside the meals.

ORDINARY USE

PULMONARIA
Pulmonaria oflicinalis L.
Family: Boragináceas

It cures the inflammation of throat, sabañones and the cold. Active components: mucílago, tannin, salicílico acid, salts mineral, saponina.
Useful parts: flowery leaves and sumidades. Plant vivaz of 15 to 50 cm of height, raised and vellosos stems, with great leaves, stained of target, in a faint and pelosas. Red, blue or violated flowers, and dry and multiple fruit. It is multiplied by seed.  

Inflammation of throat
Decocción: 15 lie down gr. of flowery sumidades in a water cup. It is boiled and garglings become.  

Sabañones
Cataplasm: 25 lie down gr. of flowery sumidades and leaves in 1/2 liter of water. It is boiled and with this liquid a compresa is soaked that to be applied on sabañones several times to the day.  

Cold
Cocimiento: 30 are put gr. of leaves or flowers in 1 liter of water; one boils about 15 minutes, it is strained and it is sweetened with honey. Several cups to the day are taken.

Ordinary USE