CARAWAY

Carum carvi L.
Family: Umbelíferas

Combat digestive upheavals, flatulencia and cough
Active components: linoleico essential oil (carvona, limoneno), acids oleicoy, ream, tannin and nitrogenadas substances.
Useful parts: root and seeds.
Herbaceous plant, biennial, of 30-70 cm of height, with white flowers and oblong and aromatic fruits. These are collected before they mature totally and they cut umbelas when the fruits become brown. They are matured to the sun or in the shade and the seeds of the mature fruit shell.

Digestive upheavals
Mixture: it is combined to equal parts seeds of caraway, hinojo and mint (25 gr. altogether) and spills itself in a cup with boiling water. One leaves in rest 10 minutes and two cups to the d are taken: 'a.

Flatulencia
Infusion: 15 are crushed gr. of seeds and they are put in a cup with water to boil. Two cups to the day are taken

Cough
Infusion: 15 are squashed gr. of seeds, they are put in a cup with boiling water and it leaves in rest 15 minutes. Three cups to the day are taken

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ALIARIA

Alliaria officinalis Andrz.
Family: Crucíferas

It fights the retention of it tinkles and it cures ulceraciones and sores.
Active components: essential oil, enzyme, nitrogen heterósido, vitamin C and substances several.
Useful parts: leaves and flowers
Grass biennial of raised stem, two to four handspans of stop, with wide leaves, pecioladas and festooned, the basal reniformes and the other acorazonadas ones. Their flowers are white and small. it blooms in spring.

Retention of tinkles
Decoccion: to boil during 20 10 minutes gr. of leaves and flowery sumidades in 1,4 delitro of water. To leak, to sweeten immediately afterwards and to drink.

Ulceraciones and sores
one boils 1/4 of liter of water and once adjusted cuharada of fresh juice of aliaria is added to him sopera, the ulcers are washed or sores with cotton and ^'are covered with a gauze empada in the same water.

Ordinary use

ALDER

Glutinous Alnus L. Gaerth
Family: Betuláceas

It fights the fever, the diarrea and alleviates the hemorroides.
Active components: tannin, pigments, lipids, sugar, glutinous, greasy oil, alnulina, emodina matter.

Useful parts: crust of young branches and leaves.
Tree that arrives until the 30 ms of stop, straight trunk, the main branches is winding with dark leaves by the beam and clear by envés. Grouped masculine flowers in triggers, of violáceo brown color and the feminine ones in fragmentation hand grenade form. The fruits are slight, flattened, of reddish brown color. It blooms of February to April.

Fever
Infusion: to spill 30 at night gr. of dust of crust in a small glass of white wine. In the morning to leak and to drink in uninformed.

Diarrea
Decocción: to boil in 2 dI of water 15 gr. of crust during 10 minutes. One filters, it is sweetened with honey and a teaspoon drinks hourly.

Hemorroides
Baking: in 1 liter of water 30 are boiled gr. of crust during 10 minutes. Lavajes are made to eliminate inflam ación.

ORDINARY USE

ALSINE

Stellaria average (L.) Villars.
Family: Cariofiláceas

It fights the cough and the bronchitis. It cures wounded and ulcers.
Active components: mineral saponinas, silicon, potassium and other salts.
Useful parts: all the fresh or dry grass.
Annual grass or biennial of 1/2 to 2 handspans of stop, soft stem, in bush, crawling or ascending, with nudosidades; leaves lampiñas, whole, pecioladas and opposed. All the year with white flowers in the armpits of the star leaves blooms. Capsule with 6 teeth. 1a is collected plants in spring and multipli ca by seed or division of bush.

Cough and bronchitis
Juice: it is obtained expressing great amount of fresh grass. 3 spoonfuls to the day are taken.

Hurt and ulcers infusion: 2 teaspoons of dry leaves in 1/4 of liter of boiling water. This is used in form of baths and dressings for the treatment of the wounds and ulcers

ANGELICA

Angelica Archangelica L.
Family: Umbelíferas

It fights the lack of appetite, the diarrea and the influenza.
Active components: essential oil, bitter tannins, principles, wax, pectina, several acids, glúcidos, sugars.
Useful parts: stem, leaves, seeds.
Vivaz and of 1.40 to 2.30 M.s of height is aromatic plant, biennial, of heavy and reddish stem, robust and graft. The roots are white by and outside gray on the inside; the leaves clearer, are underneath divided two or three times in indented foliolos of reddish greenish color. The fruit is diaquenio flattened. It blooms in spring.

Lack of appetite
Decocción: 5 are boiled gr. by root divided in a cup with water during 4 minutes. One leaves in rest 15 minutes. Hour is taken a cup 1/2 before the meals.

Diarrea
Juice: the juice of 15 is expressed gr. of seeds, and a glass without sweetening, three or four times to the day is taken.

Influenza
Infusion: a boiling water cup is spilled on 20 gr. of leaves leaves in rest 10 minutes and two hot cups affluent to the day are taken.

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ANISE

Pimpinella anisum L.
Family: Umbelíferas

It fights the contusions, the gastritis and the cough.
Active components: essential oil, greasy proteins, sugars, pimpínelina, tannins, oils, anetol.
Useful parts: leaves and seeds.
It is an annual herbaceous plant and vivaz, of up to 60 cm of height, with round and graft stem arrives; the inferior leaves are undivided and of dentated edge. The flowers are small, of yellowish white color, forming ramilletes. Winter blooms by the end of.

Contusions
Cataplasm: liter of boiling water is spilled 1/2 on 15 gr. of leaves and crushed seeds and become the fresh cataplasms. They are often applied.

Gastritis
Decocción: 20 are boiled gr. of seeds in a water cup during 1 minute. One leaves in rest 10 minutes and two cups to the day are taken.

Cough:
15 are squashed gr. of seeds. They are put in a boiling water cup and it is covered, leaving in rest 15 minutes. Three cups to the day, very hot are taken.

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WILD CELERY

Apium graveolens
Family: Umbelíferas

It fights the reumatismo, the indigestión and hidropesía.
Active components: essential oil and bitter principles.
Useful parts: leaves, root and fruits.
Rizomatosa plant vivaz, very produces graft raised stems in the apex. The basal leaves are very great and smaller those of the stem the flowers form umbelas of pale yellow color. It is multiplied by division by the root and the fruits.

Reumatismo
Cataplasm: one fills to a fabric bag with leaves and fruits. It is introduced in 3 liters of water and a minute is boiled. One leaves to stock-market 15 minutes in the water and later it is expressed. It is applied on the very hot sore part.

Indigestión
Infusion: boiling water is spilled on 25 gr. by crushed root and divided leaves, the cup is covered and it leaves in rest 10 minutes. Three cups to the day are taken.

hidropesía
infusion: a boiling water cup is spilled on 15 gr. by crushed root and it leaves in rest 30 minutes. Three cups to the day are taken.

ORDINARY USE

BILBERRY

Vaccinium myrtillus L.
Family: Ericaceas

It fights the hemorroides, the diabetes and the diarrea.
Active components: tannin, vitamins To and C, mineral salts, pigments, acids citric, málico and benzoic, sugars, arbutina, antociánicos, ericolina. quercetina, mirtilidina, flavonas.
Useful parts. fresh and dry leaves, mature berries.
It is a shrub of 25 to 50 cm of height, ramosos stems, alternating, flat and made oval leaves, of clear green color. Small flowers of greenish pink color. The fruit is a berry of black blue color, with a very dark juice. Mature they are eatable. It blooms in spring and it is collected in summer.

Hemorroides
Bath of seat: 25 lie down gr. of dry hot water leaves, taking the bath until the water cools.

Diabetes
Infusion: a boiling water cup is spilled on 15 gr. of fresh leaves or dry and it leaves in rest several hours. Two hot cups to the day are taken.

Diarrea
Decocción: liter of water is spilled 1/2 on 25 gr. of leaves and 10 minutes are macerated. One boils 5 minutes later and they take three small glasses me to the day.

ORDINARY USE