THISTLE MARIANO

Carduus marianus L.
Family: Composed

She fights the hemorroides, the asthma and the cough.
Active components: bitter principles, silimarina, histamina, tiramina, essential oil.
Useful parts: root, leaves and seeds.
Annual P lanta or biennial. It is a beautiful thistle with great leaves and shining, of green color, color flowers purple, tubulosas, and the fruit is aquenio black and shining with yellow Moors. It reaches 1.50 ms of height, it blooms in May and summer and it is multiplied by seeds and division of bush.

Hemorroides
Compresa: 15 are boiled gr. by root and leaves divided in 1/2 liter of water and is left in rest. The compresa with the lukewarm liquid becomes.

Asthma
Infusion: 15 are spilled gr. of seeds in a cup with boiling water, and it is left in rest. One in the morning takes a cup and another one when lying down.

Cough
Syrup: the root is divided, the leaves and the flowers, are expressed and rnezcla in equal amount of honey boils 25 minutes. A spoonful is taken three times to the day.

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SANTO THISTLE

Cnicus benedictus L.
Family: Composed

Against the lack of appetite, the gastritis and the fever.
Active components: cerílico alcohol, bitter principle, tannin, essential oil, mineral salts, vitamin B, mucílago.
Useful parts: stems, flowery leaves and sumidades.
Annual plant of 30-40 cm of height, with the turgid stem, velloso and to pentagular; leaves of pale green color, long; yellow flowers. It blooms in spring and one reproduces by seed and division of bush.

Lack of appetite
Tonic: one bottles a liter and 1/2 of must of grape with 10 gr. of flowery sumidades, equal amount of orange crust and the juice of two oranges. One leaves to the sun 15 days. One filters, taking three small glasses to the day, 1/2 hour before the meals.

Gastritis
Infusion: a boiling water cup on 15 gr. of sumidades floridas1 is covered and it is left in rest. Three cups to the day are taken.

Fever
15 are crushed gr. of stem and a boiling water cup is spilled raises. It is left in rest. Three cups to the day are taken

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CARIOFILADA

Geum urbanum L.
Family: Rosaceous

She fights the conjuntivitis, the diarrea and cures wounded.
Active components: essential oil, tannin, draw resin from, bitter principle, glucósido, vitamin C.
Useful parts: rizoma and leaves.
Vivaz is a rustic plant and, with rizoma short, from which the roots arise; the leaves are fine and teethed, the flowers of yellow color, and the fruits form small balls hirsutas in the end of the stems. It blooms at the end of summer and the flowering is collected when beginning.

Conjuntivitis
Compresa: 10 are put gr. of rizoma divided in 1/2 liter of water, and it boils 15 minutes. Lukewarm compresas are applied on the eyes during 15 minutes.

Hurt
Compresa: liter of water is put to boil 15 gr. of leaves in 1/2. It is let rest and the compresa is prepared, without expressing, fries, applying it on the wound.

Diarrea
Infusion: 10 are spilled gr. of rizoma in a cup with water, and it is warmed up. One leaves in rest 10 minutes and three cups to the day are taken.

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CHESTNUT TREE

Sativa Castanea Miller
Family: Fagáceas

It fights the ferina cough, the faringitis and the diarrea.
Active components: castanotánico acid, greasy and pectínicas glucose, saccharose, matters.
Useful parts: crust, wood, leaves, amentos, fruits.
It is a strong tree, of trunk little elevated but heavy and hard wood; the leaves coriáceas and are pecioladas, with flowers of white color, unisexuales and olorosas. The fruits (brown) are sheltered in groups of 2 or 3. It blooms in summer, it fructifies in autumn and it is multiplied by seed, layer and graft of prong.

Ferina cough

Infusion: a boiling water cup is spilled on 15 gr. of dry leaves, is let rest and they are taken, I warm up, three cups to the day.

Faringitis

Infusion: 15 are spilled gr. of leaves divided in a cold water cup, and it is put to boil. It is let rest 15 minutes, and three cups to the day are taken.

Diarrea

1nfusión: 15 are spilled gr. of leaves in a water cup and one boils 2 minutes. Three cups to the day are taken.

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COMMON ONION

Allium Cepal.
Family: Liliáceas

Difteria cures, the inflammation of throat, and the lombrices.
Active components: water, lipids, glúcidos, prótidos, mineral salts (calcium, magnesium, insipid, potash), oligoelementos, sulfur, sugars, volatile oil (tear), vitamins To, B1, B2, B5, C.E, flavonoides and other substances.
Useful parts: the bulb.
It is a biennial, bulbous plant. with bulb, cleared or depressed, it is covered with binzas white or vinosas. It blooms in summer. Their flowers, many and small, form ramillete. The fruits of the onion are small capsules with black seeds.

Difteria
Cataplasms: with linseed flour and roasted onion semicrude and a little honey, applied to the throat every three or four hours.

Inflammation of throat
Juice: ralla the onion and strains the juice, that will take with water and lemon.

Lombrices
Infusion: it is prepared with 1 liter of red wine with a bare and cut great onion in small pieces. It is let air a pair of days and a cup by the mornings is taken soon, in uninformed.

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CELANDINE

Chelidonium majus L.
Family: Papaveráceas

It fights the constipation, warts and the calluses.
Active components: quelidonia, protopina, queleritrina, bloodthirsty, acid quelidónico, málico and citrus, calcic and ammonic-magnésico phosphate.
Useful parts: root, stems, flowers, leaves with the latex.
Plant vivaz, herbaceous, that reaches 50 cm of height. It has rizoma heavy with diverse stems, cylindrical ramosos and. Pinnadas leaves, of clear green color and flowers of golden color. It blooms at the end of winter. It is collected in spring and it is multiplied by seed.

Constipation
Decocción: 10 are spilled gr. by root divided and dry in a cup with water. A minute is boiled and it is left in rest. A cup is taken at night

Warts
Compresa: 15 are put gr. of fresh hot water flowers, and the compresa is applied on the zone affected during a minute.

Calluses
Bath of feet: 1 Iitro of boiling water is spilled on 15 gr. of flowers and leaves and are left in rest. It is strained and it is spilled in the water of the bath, to 37C

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SMALLER CENTAUREA

Centaurium minus Moench
Family: Cencianáceas

It fights the lombrices, the alopecia and the diarrea.
Active components: bitter principles, resins, glucósidos, eritrocentaurina, eritaurina,
Useful parts: stems and flowery sumidades.
An annual or biennial, of 10 to 50 cm of height, with stem of square section, graft plant and lampiño. The leaves are born alternating and the flowers vary of the red one to the target. It blooms in autumn and it is multiplied by seed.

Lombrices
Cocimiento: 50 are spilled gr. of flowery sumidades in a liter of water and it is put to boil. One filters and three cups to the day are taken, sweetening them with honey

Alopecia
Decocción: 50 are put gr. of flowery sumidades in a liter of boiling water. With the obtained liquid fricciona, washes and rinses the hair.

Diarrea
Infusion: 15 lie down gr. of flowery sumidades in a cup with boiling water is covered and it is let rest 15 minutes. A cup is taken three times to the day.

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CLEMATIDE

Clematis vitalba L.
Family: Ranunculáceas

It fights the neuralgia and the scabies.
Active components: caulosapogenina, niricílico alcohol ', acid melísico, clematina, camphor of clemátide.
Useful parts: leaves, flowers and extremities
It is a rattan vivaz, sarmentoso and trepador, of voluble stems, angular and light, of which they bring forth the green and pinnadas leaves. The flowers are white and they meet in corimbos. It blooms in summer. It has an pleasant scent and the flavor is pungent. It is multiplied by seed, graft and division of bush.

Neuralgia
Compresa: liter of water with 20 is boiled 1/2 gr. of dry leaves. It is let rest and a gauze or a cotton is soaked, and it is expressed slightly. The compresa is applied on the part of the head where is the neuralgia, during minutes. The operation is repeated the necessary times with short intervals,

Scabies
Infusion: 30 lie down gr. of flowers and extrernidades in a great water cup. Minute is boiled 1/2, is let rest 10 minutes, flitra and two cups to the day are taken.

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