RIVET ALBAR
Quercus robur L.
Family: Fagáceas

It fights sabañones, the leucorrea and the diarrea.
Active components: mineral tannin, saponina, matters.
Useful parts: crust of young branches, leaves, acorn and nutgalls. Hard wood tree, of heavy and low trunk, brown gray crust, with leaves glabras, green dark and superficially clearer by down. The flowers, masculine, are hanging, of yellow color. The fruit is a sweet acorn. It is multiplied by seed and graft of prong.

Sabañones
infusion: 2 liters of water are boiled and 30 are spilled in her gr. of oak crust. When retiring of the fire one filters. The hands and the feet with sabañones submerge in this water.  

Leucorrea
Decocción: 100 are boiled gr. of crust in 1 liter of water by 10 minutes, and east liquid is used, once leaked, for lavajes and irrigations.  

Diarrea
Decocción: 10 are boiled gr. of the crust in 200 gr. of water during 10 minutes one filters, it is sweetened and a teaspoon becomes hourly.

Ordinary USE  

ROMERO
Rosmarinus officinalis L.
Family: Labiadas

It fights the alopecia, the asthma and the cough.
Active components: essential, pineno, confeno oil, cineol, borneol, camphor, heterósidos, hill, tannins.
Useful parts: flowery leaves and sumidades. Subarbusto of up to 1 m of height, very aromatic, with ligneous, square stems, of cracked crust. The leaves are composed, faced and green by the beam, blanquecinas by envés. The flowers grow in axillary clusters and are of pale blue color. All the year blooms almost. It is multiplied by seed and it pegs.  

Alopecia
Friction: the essence of the romero is used to friccionar two or three daily times the hair, (this essence is sold in pharmacies).  

Asthma
Smoke of romero: on a hot iron plate, not to red the alive one, a handful lies down of dry leaves of romero and the smoke is inhaled that takes place.  

Cough
Infusion: 20 lie down gr. of leaves in 1 liter of boiling water. One filters and 3 cups to the day are taken.

ORDINARY USE  

WILD ROSAL
Canine rose L.
Family: Rosaceous

She alleviates the inflamed eyes, the heavy digestions and cures the burns.
Active components:. vitamins To, B, C, and, K, P; organic tannin, pectina, acids, gomosas matters, carotina, essence, multiflorina.
* Useful parts: roots, leaves, petals, fruits, seeds. Shrub vivaz and sarmentoso of 1-3 m of height, of greenish stem and raised branches and penduladas, with pinnadas leaves of 5-7 indented foliolos, Flowers of pale pink color, are born solitary or in corimbo. It blooms in spring and it is multiplied by seed.  

Inflamed eyes
Compresas. 10 are put gr. of the flowery sumidades in 1/2 liter of boiling water, filters and the compresas for the eyes are prepared.  

Heavy digestions
Infusion: it is prepared with a spoonful of dry boiling water petals, one filters and it is sweetened with honey. It is taken after the meals.  

Burns
Lavajes: liter of pure vinegar is boiled 1/2 and it lies down in a bottle with a handful of fresh petals. One leaves to the bottle to the sun 15 days. Filtrate is used.

ORDINARY USE  

ROBUST
Route graveolens L.
Family: Rutáceas

It favors the menstruation, it cures the abscesses and the nefritis.
Active components: essential oil, tannin, alkaloids, draw resin from, rubber, glucose, vitamins C and P
Useful parts: tender leaves and aerial parts. Plant vivaz of 40-60 cm of height, that becomes, with time, in ligneous, with its stock. The leaves are alternating, lampiñas and of green color glauco. Small flowers, clusterd in the ends, of color lemon. The fruit is capsular. It blooms in spring and summer and it is multiplied by seed

Menstruation
Infusion: a hot cup is taken from liquid in which there will be been in infusion during 10 5 minutes gr. of leaves of robust.  

Abscesses
Cataplasm: one extends on the abscess 10 gr. of fresh leaves, crushed.  

Nefritis
Oil of robust: 60 are crushed gr. of robust fresh, spilling the juice in a bottle. One adds 1/4 of liter of olive oil, is covered and it is left the sun, inverted, 40 days, after which one filters I eliminate, with that fricciona the sore part.

TO USE WISELY  

RUIBARBO
Rheum rhabarbarum L.
Family: Poligonáceas

It fights the constipation and the forúnculos.
Active components: laxative entraquinosas, tánicas matters, glucósido.
Useful parts: rizoma, leaves and inflorescencias. Plant vivaz of underground stem or rizoma, of which it brings forth a rosette of great, slapped and waved leaves. Of this rosette the flower stems are born; the flowers are small, of yellowish white color, without corola. The fruit is dry with a single seed. It blooms in summer and it is multiplied by rizoma.

Constipation
Infusion: 10 are spilled gr. of ruibarbo and 5 gr. of sódico bicarbonate in 200 gr. of boiling water. One leaves in rest 15 minutes and it is strained. Half is taken at night, when lying down, and the rest to the following morning.  

Forúnculos
Cataplasm: with the pulp of the figure of ruibarbo cataplasms are prepared, that will be resolutivas or madurativas according to the cases.
NOTE Agrees to remember that the green part of the leaves of ruibarbo is frankly dangerous and does not have never to be consumed. Nevertheless, peciolo fleshy and acid of the leaves, usually eats in compota, jam or confitura.

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