DROSERA

Drosera rotundifolia L
Family: Droseráceas
It cures the ferina cough_{, the} ronquera and the cough.
Active components: tannin, cardioactivos, flavónidos, glucósidos, mucilagos, saponina, pigments
Useful parts: all the plant.
Plant vivaz of short stem and leaves very pecioladas, in opened basal rosette on moss, and white and small flowers, in ears little dressed. The fruit is an extended capsule. It blooms in summer. The flavor is astrigente. It is collected in summer and it is multiplied by seed.

Ferina cough
Decocción: liter of water is boiled 1/2 and 15 lie down dry gr. of flowers and leaves, letting boil about 10 minutes more, covered. It is let rest 10 minutes and it is strained. To take three cups to the day.  

Ronquera
Infusion: a teaspoon of dry plant in 1/4 of liter of boiling water is spilled. One leaves in rest 10 minutes and it is strained. Two daily cups with honey are taken.  

Cough
Infusion: 10 are put gr. of drosera in 1 liter of boiling water. It is strained, it is sweetened and 5 daily spoonfuls are taken.
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JUNIPER  

Juniperus communis L.
Family: Cupresáceas  
It fights the reumatismo, the bronchitis and the anemia.  
Active components: essential, invested sugar, juniperina, pentosanas, cellulous, greasy oil, wax.
Useful parts: wood of the stem, branches and berries.
Shrub of 1 to 3 ms of height, of reddish and olorosa strong wood. The trunk is raised and the rough crust. The leaves are of green color glauca and target, and the flowers of separated sexes, yellowish. The plant has resinous scent. It is collected in autumn and one reproduces by peg, layer and graft.  

Reumatismo
lnfusión: 20 are boiled gr. of berries in 1 liter of water. One filters and 3 daily cups are taken. This drink gives to rust a violáceo dye.  

Bronchitis
Infusion: the content of a cup of boiling water on two puñaditos of branches and berries is spilled, and it leaves in rest 15 minutes take two cups to the day, very hot, with honey.  

Anemia
Infusion: 5 berries lie down of juniper in a boiling water cup, it is covered and it is left in rests 10 minutes. A cup is taken after each food.
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EPILOBIO

Epílobium hirsutum L.
Family: Enoteráceas
It fights the reddening of the skin, the painful menstruation and the diarrea, prostatitis and badly of vejiga.
Active components: tannin, mucílago, málico acid, pectina.
Useful parts: dry root, flowers and leaves.
Plant vivaz of stem tree trunk, raised and of reddish color, cover of hair as well as the leaves, that are faced and teethed. The flowers are to strain pink alive, hanging, in long loose terminal ear. It blooms as of the summer and the root collects in spring or autumn. It is multiplied by seed.

Reddening of the skin
Decocción: they are boiled during 15 50 minutes gr. by crumbled root, in 1 liter of water. A gauze soaked is applied with I eliminate, lukewarm, on the skin.  

Menstruation
Cocimiento: 35 are mixed gr. of leaves and stems and are boiled in 800 gr. of water until one fourth part evaporates. It is strained and it is taken to discretion.  

Diarrea
Decocción: 35 are put gr. by the root divided in water and it is boiled during 10 minutes. One filters and three cups to the day are taken, with honey. Prostatitis: Cocimiento: 35 are mixed gr. of leaves and stems and are boiled in 800 gr. of water until one fourth part evaporates. It is strained and it is taken to discretion.  
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SPINACH

Oleracea Spinacia L.
Family: Quenopodiaceas      
It fights the constipation, the raquitismo and the anemia  
Active components: chlorophyll, mineral salts, vitamins C, B1, B2, PP carotene, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, glúcidos.
Useful parts: leaves.
It is a hortícola annual plant that grows in all climates and countries. It has narrow and acute, eatable leaves. The flowers lack corola and the sépalos are welded, showing a beautiful green color. It is multiplied by sowing that is carried out in three periods: at the end of the cold time, at the end of the warm one and at the beginning of the warmed up one.    

Constipation
Cataplasm: the well crushed crude spinach and with olive oil, are applied on the belly, and give an excellent result, as much against the constipation as in other ailments of digestive type.

  Raquitismo and anemia
The spinach nourish and cure simultaneously. They are particularly interesting for rickety and anemic by his protein content and high index of mineral salts, mainly iron, element closely related to the blood formation.
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HAWTHORN ALBAR

Crataegus oxiacantha L.
Family: Rosaceous
She fights the palpitaciones, the insomnia and the arrhythmia.
Active components: Flavónicos essence, pigments, amines, vitamin C, histamina, hill.
Useful parts: flowers in cocoon, crust of dried young branches drupas to the furnace.
It is a crust shrub clear gray color when younger; brown later. The leaves are green brilliants and have peciolos lengths and dentated edges. The flowers, weakly perfumed, are white with pink tonality. The fruit is tiny.

Palpitaciones
Tisane: in a cup with boiling water a puñadito lies down of flowers. When ilítra cools off the liquid and it takes a cup during the food and another one in the supper.  

Insomnia
Infusion: one spills 1/4 of Iitro of boiling water on 10 gr. of flowers and crushed fruits; the container is covered, it leaves in rest 5 minutes and toina a cup before lying down.  

Arrhythmia
Infusion: 5 gr. of flowers in a boiling water cup. One filters, it is sweetened and two cups to the day become.
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ESTRAGON

Artemisia dracuneulos L.
Family: Composed  
She cures the pain teeth, aid to the digestion and fights the artrosis.
Active components: bitter principle, essential oil, glucósido, tannin, saponina.
Useful parts: flowery leaves and sumidades.
Plant vivaz of leaves and decorativas flowers. The leaves are great, of intense green color and the small and yellow flowers, grouped like balls. They bloom in chapters in summer. It is collected of spring to autumn. It is multiplied by division of bush with roots

Pain teeth
Cataplasm: flowery, fresh leaves and sumidades are crushed; they are placed in a gauze and they are applied on the sore part.

Digestion
Infusion: 3 or 4 small branches lie down of estragón fresh in 1 liter of water and it is put to boil. It is strained, is sweetened and two or three daily cups are taken, after the meals.

Artrosis
Maniluvios and pediluvios: a handful of estragón in a palangana with boiling water is put and after minutes of maceration it can be used.
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