The Myrtle

The myrtle (blepharocalyx tweediei), shows up in the mount like tree of little height or already as a shrub. Their trunk generally of little thickness, he/she has persistent and finally split cortex.

Their sheets are opposed, in way lanceolada until lineal or lineal. lanceoladas, of entire edge narrowed toward their apex where they are extremely acute, long from 3 to 8 centimeters; their petiole doesn't pass of 4 millimeters.

White Flores, of 1 centimeter, not very more or less, of diameter, prepared in peduncles axillary trifloros and shorter than the sheets.

Their fruit is a spherical, red or orange buoy that measures about 5 millimeters of diameter; and he/she has sweet but extremely raw flavor. It is communio in almost all the places where this shrub class exists that is generally in mountain mounts.

It is used as ornamental plant in parks, tours and still in terms.

The name common of "myrtle" was given by the Spaniards that found to this specie similar to the myrtle (Myrtus communis) that he/she receives the names common of "myrtle", "murta" or "myrtle" in Spain. The infusion treiforme of its sheets has pleasant flavor when he/she gets ready using the quantity of 4 or 5 for cup.

As medicinal some prepares their fruits in form of liquor that is toned.

It is a rich plant in tannin.

The sheets in infusion (5 grams of fresh sheet in 100 of water) are used in stomach affections and as digestive.

The decoction of the same ones, 10 grams in 100 of water, it is used against the diarrhea.

The desiccated sheets, or roasted to a soft, and then powdered heat, they are used to cure the drop of the umbilical cord. They also use, with very good result, in the colds and against the cough, the infusion of the fresh sheets, 6 or 7 for cup, boiled one minute in milk, adding burned sugar.

Rinitis

The word rinitis (of the Greek "rhin-rhinos" nose and the suffix "itis" inflammation), designates the inflammation of the mucosa of the graves named nasal pituitaries.

He/she can have several origins or lawsuits, I eat the common cold for example. He/she shows up especially in the cold times of year, being one of their symptoms the rinorrea (or exit of mucosities more or less flowing of the nose), accompanied by sneezes, of nasal (difficulty in breathing through the nasal graves) obstruction, and of discreet (headache) migraine. He/she can also appear during some days, a decrease of the capacity olfatoria, as well as something of fever.

The box, in general, lacks importance and it is enough, of not arising complications, the management of analgesic drugs, antitérmicos, bedrest and the application of some preparation in the nasal graves, either moderate and suspended so soon they waive the acute symptoms of the coriza, because habit and being can create then detrimental. In the event of not to waive the acute box in a few days or to suspect the appearance of complications, the revision is imposed on the part of the physician.

Although, inside the rinitis, the acute coriza is the most current form, other varieties that obey other lawsuits exist and that they are more important. One of the most frequent is the allergic coriza, of origin polínico, that is to say, the patient in this case is sensitive to the pollen of having determined plants; the most communio form is the call fever of the hay.

But they are not only the pólenes those producing of such cortizas, but rather a person can be allergic to chemical, textile, alimentary, bacterial products, to the domestic powder, etc. In these cases, the sick persons see each other suddenly affected by a sternutatory crisis, accompanied by nasal abundant secretion, I shed tears and breathing difficulty. It is imposed a revision then thoroughly on the part of the otorhinolaryngologist and even of the allergist with the purpose of attempting the search of the call alérgeno, unchaining factor of the box.

The acute rinitis acquires capital importance in the infant, because the boy, when having clogged up the nasal graves, he/she cannot breathe in the moment of the suction and bad taking the chest or the baby bottle. Separate their repercussion in channels more low, this respiratory rinitis, for the vicinity of the hearing, it can meet in the otitis. It is this case, the boy it should become under the pediatrician's cares. It is very important not to instill drops without discrimination, because those that are suitable for an adult are contraindicated for the infant. This rinitis type hardly ever studies alone, but rather he/she goes accompanied by the encumbrance of those fleshy formations located behind the nose and that we name adenoid that frequently should be medically or to proceed to its surgical extirpation.