Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

6/11/2009

Bach flowers: Panic attacks and emotional crisis

The floral elixirs are re-harmonized soul par excellence. When our emotions are shaken by unexpected news, when we are victims of a slump or experiencing a violent situation that immerses us in a panic, remedies based on flowers can build a bridge to recovery.

Petals health
Dr. Bach, an English bacteriologist and homeopath who was born in 1886, discovered the healing powers of certain flowers.
In his early research, warned that addressing imbalances
mental and emotional health of their patients, their physical condition improved considerably. That led him to understand that good health is the result of a mental and spiritual harmony and that disease is caused by an imbalance between the activity outside and deep desires of each person. Became interested in flowers, because its aim was to find a pure and natural remedy for all kinds of ailments.

Following his studies, found that certain flower essences have positive aspects of our personality disturbance and provide a cure. Bach related the "quality" of the flower with a quality of the human soul. He realized, for example, that fear is challenged by Flower Mímulo because it brings courage. From there, the flowers classified according to their skills and developed a method of preparing the Elixirs that consists of placing flowers selected in pure spring water and exposed to the action of sunlight for several hours.

Today the "Bach Flower" are known throughout the world. Are distributed in pharmacies and stores natural homeopathic.
Are 38 individual remedies can be used alone or in combination with others. There is also a remedy that is ideal for all types of emergencies, especially when in crisis due to an emotional conflict.

The elixir heals the soul
This remedy is prepared with equal amounts of the following Bach flower essences: Cistus, Clematis, Impatiens, and Rafiolepis Campanula isophylla. Can also be purchased already prepared (it is the only case in Bach flowers) under the name Emergency Remedy.
This flower essence acts directly on the emotions, easing the emotional aftermath of a deep trauma. Can be supplied to children.

Administration mode
• The usual procedure is to place 3 or 4 drops of the preparation in a glass with water. Drink slowly.
• In the case of a sudden crisis, it is moistened lips, gums and tongue with an undiluted solution of Remedy Emergency until they manifest signs of recovery.
• Another effective measure is to gently rub wrists or back of the ears with a few drops of the elixir.
• Can also be used on painful physical injuries such as knife wounds and sprains. In this case, you should dampen a clean compress the liquid and apply on affected area.

3/16/2009

Uses calendula flower treatment

Calendula has a great variety of active ingredients allowing their use for different purposes. Among its properties are the most widely used anti-inflammatory action and its healing capacity. For the treatment of gastritis, ulcers, headaches and dismenorreas be administered in the form of tea. Wounds, skin ulcers, nappy rash, eczema and lesions bucofaríngeas find relief with the flushing of calendula.

Cosmetic creams or gels are used to reduce wrinkles, acne scars and youth. The infusion is prepared by adding boiling water on the grass, let stand 5 minutes, strain and drink 2 or 3 cups per day. Another way to manage it is by using 30 drops of the mother tincture dissolved in water 2 or 3 times a day. This plant has no contraindications or side effects, but avoid eating during pregnancy and lactation.

11/17/2008

Magic flowers with powers to fight evil

The magic that is performed by flowers, but until now had been taught to acquire what we want (health, wealth and love), also has a ritual to drive away powers that are detrimental to happiness. This means that the magic with flowers not only brings us what we want and we do well, but it also makes it disappear from our lives so that hurts us.

Sometimes we feel that the whole world has come together to make complicated and that everything we do becomes difficult. We also feel that we lose strength, that nothing goes wrong, that a negative energy surrounds us and prevents forward. In most cases, these symptoms respond to someone who has the desire to misery in our lives. It is not necessary that the person has made a whole seems to sorcery not work, just so we just wanted misfortune.

Through the magic of flowers with Violets can wipe out these evil powers of our lives and scaring when they want to return. The ritual is performed at home, because if these powers away from there, we would also remove from our lives.
The first step is to find something that disturbs the peace in our lives. Realize that beyond that things can be wrong, there is a force that surrounds us and prevents out of our problems. Once we are aware, it is time to use the power of the Violets. This magic only if it is done by the person who needs it.

The ritual lasts three days and each day they run a different way. There is a procedure that is common to the three days before the start of the ritual must be lit two candles sahumerio with violets and a violet scent. In total concentration to read the "First Principle Buddhist," dedicated to the acceptance of that evil is part of our lives and we must learn to live with him but without him:

"Yes, one man was wounded by a poisoned arrow, should not delay their removal by those who know the details of the shot. ... That (name) ... begins to face life as it is, learning
Always own experience and direct "

From this passage common to all three days, were undertaken by different procedures:

Day 1
Distribute 12 vases with violets in the rooms of the house. No room could be without at least one bouquet. If you do not have enough vases can use glasses or mugs, is indifferent.
This must be done in the morning and the vases must remain in place for 24 hours, or until the next morning.
The function of this day is that violets absorb all kinds of evil energy, so it is advisable to locate the vases in the corners and on furniture.

Day 2
Remove all the vases and get three buckets of water to stand in the sun, introducing them into fresh violets. In the two hours out of water violets, using the latter to disinfect the entire house. Try to reach the most hidden corners and furniture higher.
Once completed, turn on a sahumerio of violet in each room.

Day 3
On the third day, after having absorbed and removed the last traces of negative energy, it's time to immunize the house.
Distribute violets in any entry which may have been to the house (doors, windows, chimney, etc.); in this way will prevent any force of evil comes to you. Let these flowers placed where for four days.
It is advisable to obtain a true inner peace, that the seven days following the end of the ritual repetition of the morning, the "First Principle of Buddhism."

11/14/2008

Flowers healing emotions

Since that alternative medicine was imposed in the pharmaceutical market, the concepts of health and disease which postulated the old school varied considerably. The man is an integrated whole: body, mind and soul. Today it is possible to heal the feelings, to rescue a person from wells depression, despondency or disaffection without using chemicals.

Among the alternative medicine, therapy floral was one of the pioneers in this to heal the soul, working with essences of some flowers which, in combination, help the man or woman to heal their emotions.

The Welsh Bach flowers, created by Dr. Edward Bach, won a place on the shelves of pharmacies. Later came the Flowers of California, and joined about 101 essences healing of the spirit.

Long after, a doctor named Ian White, created a floral therapy within which there are only 62 flowers to heal emotional problems, under the name of Bush or Australian flowers. For the first time a set of flower essences help to resolve these conflicts.

The flowers
All the unpleasant sensations or problems unresolved problems of the individual lead
physical nature necessarily. Within the vast network of human relationships are those couples that determine the state of mind of people. When things are not going well and neither have the space to express what you think, tensions build up generating a series of persistent discomfort.
For each specific case, there will be a flower that helps to unlock the emotion.

. The duration of treatment does not exceed 14 days, with a break of a week if necessary repeat the treatment. We carried out a shot in the morning and another at night. Some of these flowers are detailed below:

Trust essence: it is a flower that helps the individual to enhance self-esteem, believing in his talent and personal qualities.

Litle Flannel Flower: when the satiety ends with the ingenuity of the couple to enjoy the relationship and live new experiences, this flower awakens instincts asleep.

Emergency essence: this flower is used when conflict situations beyond psychologically generating sequels in the couple.

Kapok Bush: deshinibir this flower helps those who find it difficult to communicate and express "their feelings.

Jacaranda: It is recommended to couples to revive the passion of the early times used the discussions and intolerance among them. This will help them to flower retrieving the serenity by other means.

Fannel Flower: Used to vitalize the physical contact in the privacy for people who show little with the body and are too shameful.

Bush Gardenia: a flower is ideal for cases of couples who behave in a manner indifferent to the other, neglecting the relationship and pretending that he or she will always be.

Blue Bell: harmonizes the emotions of those people who need love and fear of losing the love of others are expert handlers of semtimientos other.

11/04/2008

Governed by Venus' Charm relentlessly "

It's like obsessed with the whole world. He is an expert in the art of seduction, but it performs this task as if it were an obligation. It is always in a good mood (at least so they see each other) and knows a lot of people, without getting anyone's real friend. Cares about that harmony reigns.

What it creates anxiety
Need to draw attention. He fears being indifferent to others and hates boredom. His weakness is a tendency to get carried away and pretend it appear to others. That will generate strong disappointments and conflicts of identity.

Exercise auloconocimiento
To overcome such frivolity that it brings no satisfaction, you should try to realize his true identity. That will allow it to dominate this anxiety by being watched and admired as an object. Practice this exercise: Lie on a mat and give several turns on itself. If this activity practiced with consistency, bringing awareness to achieve it.

The remedy: Flower Centaury
Bach flower to the anxiety provoked by the desire to seduce and to create harmony. To take it, follow the instructions in the leaflet that accompanies this flower. You can get it at pharmacies with homeopathy and business naturists.

Governed by Mars "An explosive character"

This kind of anxious is pure action. Not at all introverted, expressed fury at the first provocation. However, they often try to contain. Has trouble mastering their impulses and it is rare that much thought before making a decision.

What it creates anxiety
You get nervous when you try to control their reactions and do not get. If left dominated by anger and fears overstated. If mastered, his mind is disturbed by going against their nature.

Exercise to be calm
The only thing you must do to avoid the anxiety putting it in a tight spot, is a bit slow speed in everything he does. If it is determined to embark on a new project, do it, but slowly. That will allow you to learn to reflect.

The remedy: flowers Beech
Bach is a flower that helps overcome the aggressiveness. If it is determined to take it, follow exactly the recipe instructions. Bach flowers are available in pharmacies and shops naturists.

8/18/2008

Deleting a spell

The white flowers are excellent for repelling spells, and absorbing all the negativity. You can also write your name and your partner in a paper, with green ink, and put inside a small cup, covering it with honey. A crystal quartz washed with ice water and introduced into a pot, or a few sticks of incense burning at dusk also effectively protect you.

Finally, you can take two jars, fill them with water and add 21 drops of your perfume on one and as many in the other. ROC with a few drops every corner of your house so that it will penetrate your heart.

It is very important to your personal attitude to these spells. Note that if your energy is positive, will attract more good vibrations, just as the negative makes you subject to bad vibrations.

7/06/2008

Elixirs healers

Each and every body cell of the body, have their own pattern vibrational sound, and when conflicts everyday stress or break this balance, there is a disturbance that leads to the disease.

What is an elixir? This is a wonderful nature of medicine, composed of various substances that help resume harmonization, encouraging or preventing the various ailments caused.

These essences are prepared concentrating different positive energies (gems, planets, flowers, angels, and others), and are generally used water as a solvent.

Once magnets, elixirs acquire vibration which will dissolve blockages or increase immunity.

4/09/2008

Rose from Jericho

You count the legend that when Jesús retired to pray to the desert, the wind crawled until your feet to Rosa from Jericho, the one that after opening up with the dew of the night, you offered you drops of water to calm your thirst.

This way, you became a beneficial flower and who take care of her you will attract health, you force and happiness.

Here we offer you the Sentence to this flower, so that you bless you and you always bring you prosperity:

"Divine Rose from Jericho, for the blessing that you received, the virtue that you contain and the power that you were granted in the love to Jesús and your infinite mercy, I request you that you protect this place and to all mine of any wrong or adversity."

This sentence can pray her when you want it, without making any ritual with the rose.

4/03/2008

Do you love me or don't you love me?

For many years, people's thousands were in search of the so beautiful daisy-wheel to defoliate them, with the purpose of knowing if that person so desired by him or her, you loved him. For ésto, to each petal that started up of the flower he/she repeated: You love me, you don't love me...

In this opportunity, we offer you another method to obtain the answer, but not with daisy-wheel, but with potatoes. The inducement of this method, is that you won't have to exit in search of nunguna flower, you don't depend on any station of the year, and you are about an element that you are always in all kitchen.

How to make it:
Then, in order to discover if your couple relationship will be durable and the true love exists between both, one day Friday you will put a potato in a vessel or flask with water until the half. The water of the vessel should be renewed every day Friday. You leave the potato in the water during 2 or 3 weeks, until seeing if you rot or you toss roots. If you rot, you mean that you will have problems with your couple. Now then, in case you toss roots, you will be able to bury the potato in a gavel and to make sure a great period of happiness. Also, if the potato grows in the earth, this means that your couple's future will be very promising, full of tranquility and a lot of happiness.

In case you have problems, debit sides to know that all the couples cross crisis moments or fights in those that certain distancings that transform them to both into true strangers take place. To avoid them, you are only necessary to have good communication and to achieve the understanding between both.

The ideal thing, and that many times you are difficult of sobrellevar, you are to learn one of the other one and to understand the reaction forms in these occasions. The communication can be through the sincere dialogue or simply, with a deep look that allow us to know that you are thinking and feeling the other one. Then, thanks to the understanding between both, you will be easier to combat the desencuentros and to avoid the big couple conflicts.

2/18/2008

The Cauliflower

The cauliflower integrates the group of the cruciferas, together with the broccoli, the cabbage and the turnip, among other. You possess contained first floor of hydrates of carbon and very few calories; you are very rich in vitamin C, iron and potassium.

Your name derives that you are the flower of a plant very similar to the broccoli. You form a compact head of buds of white flowers that you/they are not developed, and you are recovered of green numerous sheets that protect it of the sunlight. Your cultivation needs big cares and you grow well in hot climates.

In a cauliflower of good quality, the flowers have to be clear and you zip; the fresh sheets, of green intense color and firm textira. The size is not eñal of quality. You suit to avoid the spotted head or with trademarks of blows.

The same as all the crucíferas, the cauliflower contains vegetable acids that release a very strong aroma during the cooking. The more time the cooking, strong má lasts you are this odor. You are advisable a quick cooking that also allow to maintain the texture and the color, and you limit the forfeiture of nutritious elements.

The ajedrea or the flavored with anise incorporate seeds to the cooking, they can avoid eventual flatulence problems.

The cauliflower reached great celebrity in France in times of XIV Luis. You are counted that the King Sun was an enthusiastic fervoroso of this vegetable, especially if you were cooked in a consommé perfumed with nut moscada and with a touch of lard that the heat melted.

The head of the cauliflower can separate easily in flowers and to be served hang-over or cooked. It can be cooked you inform; but the certain thing is that you delay more time in being clever and it can also lose a bigger quantity of nutritious.

The cauliflower cool air or congealed you possess in general the nutritional same estates. The difference resides in that this last lose part of your content during the trial in vitamin C and potassium of blanching.

A head of average cauliflower, that is to say, of on or about 18 diameter cm, you weigh around 1 kilo and you are enough for 4 or 6 people.

The cauliflower can be conserved in the cooler up to 5 days in very good state. The ideal thing is that the head remains wrapped in a plastic perforated or open bag up to impede that you are formed dampness. However. the best flavor is obtained of the recently bought vegetable.

Gardening - commissions and homemade tricks

If you have garden or simply if you like the topic, we offer you some useful practical commissions when making decisions in your care. You follow these steps and you will see the results.

Division of undergrowths: the spring is a good time to exercise this task in plants as ferns, marantas, and other. You remove the plant of the gavel and you start an or different undergrowths carefully. You separate the earth gently so that you can see the connections among the buds. Separate them. Transplanta the buds in gavels with the suitable earth for each specie, you delete 30% of the foliage of each new plant on or about.

Esquejes: spring and start of the summer, they are the most suitable times to reproduce plants for esdqueje of shafts. So that the esqueje develops quicker roots, you take a bath the end of the cut with powders of enraizamiento hormone. Añgunas plants can reproduce for sheet esqueje, I eat the African violet, the sansiveriana and some begonias for example.

Fertilizers: the deadnettles are excellent fertilizers, very rich in iron besides effective insecticides against the plant louse and the acarids. You allow to macerate in the sun 1 kg of sheets itched (without seeds) in 10 liters of water. The intense odor that dislodge the mixture, will announce you when she is clever. You dilute then 20 times to water new plants, and 50 times if you use it as insecticide.
The water in that you boiled eggs or potatoes with your respective shell, is also an excellent fertilizer.
The wine is a good energy for the ferns.You are also advisable to add you, from time to time, the previously saliferous meat juice, since you are an ideal nuetriente. Of this last it should not be abused.

Acidity of the floor: the sprinkling contínuo "sweeps" the sour components of the floor. The acidity is main to prevent the proliferation of plagues. To restore it, you blend 1/2 cup of apple vinegar in 5 liters of water, and you water later on more or less with her each 15 or 20 days.
Another homemade petition consists on dumping the herb of the mat, used, in the mecetas; to blend it well with the earth and then to usually water.

Bulbs: so that the bulbs quick brotenmás, you are that colcarlos already prepared in a vessel with very fertile earth. Then wrap them with plastic or newspaper sheets. Maintain them in a fresh place until the shaft has a height from among 2,5 and 4 cm. Then, uncover them and transfer them to a hot environment so that they flourish.
Every two weeks, you add a dose of liquid fertilizer to the sprinkling water. After the floración, the bulbs are taken out of the earth, they allow to dry off and you guerdan.

Ants: These so voracious insects are elérgicos to the lemon. If you discover that they have invaded your rosebushes, for example, or to another of your trees, you go lemon by the trunk and the paths.

Homemade insecticides: To delete plant lice, you pulverize your plants with an infusion of tobacco plant.
Prepare it leaving 4 or 5 cigarettes in a liter of water the whole night. Filter it and you add soapy water of laundry soap the clothes. The white communio soap is very actual to almost combat the whole more common plagues. In a liter of water it dissolves a soap piece until achieving a good foam. With clean cotton untrozo with this infusion the sheets one for one. You repeat the following week. The treatments for plants should be applied at dusk, so that they act during the night.

12/22/2007

Sesbania Punicea Meek Acacia or Acacia of Having Taken a Bath

These acacias (Sesbania Punicea), it is a shrub of 1 and ½ to 2 ½ meters high: it sometimes succeeds in forming a shrub of about 4 meters not very more or less.

Their sheets are composed; from 8 to 12 centimeters long, made up of folíolos in number from 6 to 14 pairs, in way largely elliptic, glabrous, obtuse and apiculados, measuring from 12 to 22 millimeters long; peciolulos from 1 to 1 and ½ millimeters; you stipulate caedizas.

It possesses red flowers, of about 2 centimeters long, prepared in clusters that in general are shorter than the sheets.

Its fruit, as most of the leguminous ones, is a vegetable; long from 6 to 10 centimeters, tetrágona, stocked of coriaceous and wide, relatively wide wings.

It is a plant it would originate of Uruguay, Argentina and south of Brazil. He/she lives in wet places, you border of having taken a bath, lagoons, etc.

Many times it is cultured in the gardens. Their flowers are very showy.

The infusion of the cortex and also of the root it serves as vomitive in the proportion of 10 grams in a liter of water.

The flowers are used to manufacture liquors and to perfume doughnuts.

The infusion or the maceration of the fresh flowers in alcohol, cane, etc., administered in drops desleídas in water it is a good antispasmodic and they are used in the nervous hysteria and press of the heart.

The decoction of the cortex that is rich in tannin, is used in the proportion of 20 grams in a liter of water, as astringent to wash wounds, ulcerations and also in crops for the inflammations of the buccal mucosa.

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.

Geoffroea Decorticans

Geoffroea Decorticans, is a low tree or more commonly shrub, with ramillas that end in acute spina in general. Of right or tortuous trunk, very characteristic for the exfoliations of their cortex that come off in boards and strips that, rolled they are for some stuck lapse of time; the same thing happens in their paths.

It is of thin foliage and I expire. Their sheets are you cut, you alternate, sometimes fasciculadas of glaucous color; with 5 to 9 folíolos, more rarely with 3, entire, emarginados, in an obovado-elliptic and long way from 5 to 20 millimeters.

Their flowers are yellow and orange, grooved of red, papilionadas, long of 1 centimeter and prepared in hacecillos racimosos.

Although it is a leguminous one it produces fruit drupáceo, spherical or ovoid, of reddish and lucid color; their habitual size varies from 1,5 to 3 centimeters. It is edible and it flourishes in the month of September.

It is a South American plant that lives in a large part of Argentine Republic, some parts of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. In the last they are to the West of the same one.

The fruit is edible, sweet, of pleasant flavor and one of the main foods of the Indians of Great Chaco; it is made of him a fermented (it houses of chañar) drink, brandy and he/she is allocated estates antiasmáticas. With them he/she gets ready it wraps up.

The knowledge of its cortex with attaché of honey, is used as expectorant, particularly in the cough convulsa of the children. Also against the asthmatic cough.

The ritidomas (exfoliations of the cortex) used in decoction, they have given good results to combat the asthma.

Ricinus Communis Dorstenia Brasiliensis

This specie whose name scientist is Dorstenia Brasiliensis, is a perennial grass of little size, acaule, rizomatoso-tuberose. The whole plant gives off very similar odor to that of the communio fig.

He/she has sheets in short number, prepared in rosette; being of oval sheet and cordada in the base, from 3 to 5 centimeters long generally of edge crenado, of consistency subcoriacea, raw in the higher face. Long petiole from 1 to 5 centimeters.

He/she has very petty, masculine and feminine flowers blended in the holder of the inflorescence; the first with two long stamens 1 millimeter more or less; the feminine ones have style bífido; both have bare perianto, composed by 2 segments soldered the feminine ones to each other, and of 4 segments the masculine ones.

The fructified holder measures from 1 to 3 centimeters of diameter. It flourishes and it fructifies they give the months of September and October.

It is a South American plant that he/she inhabits Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

In Uruguay it is in stony fields, hills and mountains with enough frequency, being less frequent in the coast platense.

Their relatively thick roots and the whole plant, they contain lightly aromatic substances and of acerbic flavor.

The infusion of the root, in the proportion of 10 grams in a liter of water, is toned and antifebrífuga; in more proportion it is emenagoga.

It has also been used in the typhoid fevers and still against the dysentery.

Many use the juice of their sheets and also the root mashed as remedy applying them on bites of snakes and stings of insects and of scorpion.

Eupatorium Subhastatum

Eupatorium Substratum, is a plant erecta that rises from 40 to 50 centimeters high, of thin and woody shafts, generally branched in the extremity florífera; with hair híspidos.

Their sheets are you Alternate, sometimes opposed, numerous to the long of the shaft, of triangular or ovado-triangular sheet, long from 2 to 4 centimeters, with hair in both faces; very short petioles.

The flowers are blue to almost violáceas, in cylindrical chapters that measure 6 or 8 millimeters long, and they are prepared in inflorescence corimbosa in the extremity of the shafts.

It flourishes in February and March. In South America it is very frequent in the flora of the area, mainly located in the south of Brazil, being also in Argentina and Paraguay. He/she lives with preference in dry lands, stony fields, hills and mountains.

In this area there are other plants that also receive the name of "Eupatorium Substratum", "Herb of Charrúa" and also of "Charrúa" simply. This "Eupatorium Substratum", is another plant whose desiccated and powdered root is used to cure the drop of the umbilical cord. The infusion of their sheets or of the whole flourished plant, in the proportion of 40 grams of fresh plant in a liter of water is used as diruetic and anti-rheumatic.

Many also use it in the mat to believe it afrodisiac.

The cocimiento of the fresh sheets in the proportion of 100 grams in a liter of water, it is used to wash wounds and illnesses of the skin.

Trichocline Sinuata

This plant (Trichocline Sinuata), is a plant acaule, of lanate thick rhizome in its apex.

Their sheets are in rosette, put to bed, high or lengthened, of 1 ½ to 2 ½ centimeters wide, attenuated in the base, of abnormal edge, with big teeth, triangular, acute wolves and sometimes, almost entire or sinuadas, glabrous in the higher face and target-tomentosas in the inferior one.

Their flowers are yellow-orange, dimorfas, in solitary thick chapters on long axisim from 10 to 25 centimeters in general.

The Soothing Herb flourishes at the end of the spring and also in the summer.

It is a plant of the Rio Plata flora, also living in Brazil and in some counties of Argentine Republic.

He/she is usually found in stony fields, sometimes in the fields graminosos and in the sandbanks.

He/she has some likeness mainly in the chapters with the specie European Arnica Montana.

Of the Soothing Herb their flowers are used macerated in alcohol in the proportion of 200 grams in a liter of water, constituting an useful tincture in the wounds and bruisings.

This same tincture is used in dose from 10 to 80 during the day like stomach and sudorific sedative.

The infusion of the whole plant in the proportion from 40 to 50 grams in a liter of water, is used as stomach and digestive. This infusion should be very laundry because of the hair of the same plant that, ingested they take place, for mechanical share, irritation in the mucous ones.

Anagallis Arvensis

It is about an European grass that has extended for many parts of the world. In South America he/she doesn't have communio and little name he/she is known; in Spain he/she receives the name of "Anagalia" and in France that of "Mouron des Champs." It is yearly or biennial, glabrous, of spread shafts and bottom-up, long from 10 to 60 centimeters, thin and of quadrangle section.

Their sheets are opposed, sometimes in verticilos of 3, sésiles, oval until oval-lanceoladas, they are long from 1 to 2 centimeters.

Their flowers are of color red minium or blue, from 5 to 8 millimeters of diameter, axillary, solitary, supported by thin peduncles, from 1 to 3 ½ centimeters long. Their corolla is rotácea, of 5 petals. 5 stamens. Gineceo of ovary súpero, spherical; I am used short.

The fruit is capsular (pixidio) of about 5 millimeters of diameter, with dehiscencia equatorial and numerous seeds.

It flourishes from October to November. He/she generally appears in fields, banks of roads, aborted lands and I eat overgrowth of gardens; still in the sandbanks of the coast platense.

It is used as medicinal from the antiquity, he/she has contradictory employments. Discórides praised to this grass against pains in general and especially quernstone pains, against humor of the nasal mucosas and the ulcers of the cornea. Also against chronic affections of the liver and kidneys.

It was formerly also considered as good detersivo and it was also used by the women to clean and to put smooth the complexion of the face. Others assure that it is toxic plant and that it can cause acute enteritis.

It seems to not be grass studied from the therapeutical point of view. For some it is used in decoction at the 20 for thousand giving good results to combat the asthma.

He/she also makes sure that their juice is corrosive and it can be used as sinapismos on the skin.

Although the infusion at the 10 for thousand, excites the secretion of the urination. It is also said that their tizanas was used with great success in the epilepsy. In Europe he/she had fame like antidote in the hydrophobia.

Sisymbrium Officinale

Sisymbrium Officinale, is an annual or biennial, pubescent grass, from 50 to 120 centimeters high.

It possesses inferior sheets prepared in rosette, sometimes lifted, pecioladas, pinnatífidas, long from 15 to 25 centimeters, with terminal bigger or pettier wolf that the lateral wolves; the higher (caulinares) ones gradually reduced, being the most high in sheet lineal-lanceolada, of entire edge until largely hastadas or largely lobado-hastadas.

Their flowers are very petty, yellow and they are prepared in clusters or racimillos and they are supported by pedicelos from 1 to 2 millimeters.

Their fruit is the silículas, from 10 to 15 millimeters long, tight against the axis. It flourishes in spring.

It is a spice it would originate of Europe and he/she lives in adventitious form in America. In our mean it is something communio beside highways, roads, railroads and in suburban sidewalks.

The infusion or the decoction of the plant flourished in the proportion of 20 grams in a liter of water with good results in the hoarseness is used and in illnesses of the throat.

In more proportion it can be used in gargarisms.

The tizanas, in pettier proportion, is stimulant and expectorants in the laryngitis, pulmonary cold and in the aphonia for fatigue of the vocal chords.

The new sheets can be used as the watercress.