Salts of grass

The salts of grass show up as alternatives to season the foods, without increasing the salt, although you are not always this way.

Not they are salts without salt." Some yes they contain salt, the percent usually oscillates between the 70 and 90%.

In some cases, mixtures lacking sodium exist with similar flavor to the salt; they are contraindicated in cases of renal dysfunctions.

In fact, people that should cap your usage of salt, would have to make the same thing with this class of salts. Of consuming them, they will choose the products with a smaller percent of salt and that they are of biologic origin, I eat for example, the salt of garlic.

Without any doubt, the aromatic plants are a better election like replacement of the salt. To know how to exploit the flavors and aromas of the thyme, the basil, the romero, the sage or the tarragon is an option that integrate better the pleasure with the health.

Useful grass in the homemade medicine

The fitoteraphy nowadays, is elementary to help to control problems of the organism of the humans. As you are here about a discipline that use grass to contribute with ésto, we explain to you the uses of some of these grass, as well as your preparedness mode according to your corresponding destination.

Crataegus (Crataegus Oxiacantha)
Your common name is Hawthorn Blanco or Hawthorn Amber. You are at the same time a regulator of the heart rhythm that you dilate the coronary arteries. Also, you improve the operation of the heart and you normalize the pressure, since it diminishes her if you are high and you go up it if you are low. Another of your advantages is that you are sedative of the nervous system and antispasmodic.
To make an infusion with this grass, you pour a cup of water boiling on two spoonfuls of this same one. You take two or three cups per day. The indispensable thing is that you take one of these cups before going to bed.

Olive Tree (You Surge European)
You are the same tree of which the olives are harvested. Your sheets download the arterial pressure, the cholesterol, the diuresis increases and they download the fever.
To prepare an infusion with her, you boil a spoonful of your sheets in a cup of water during ten minutes. You take a cup in you fast and another when going to bed.

Seven Indentations (Glutinous Cuphea)
You are a grass that are characterized to download the arterial pressure, the glucose, to debug the blood and the urinary channels, for what also seek advice for the rheumatism.
To prepare the infusion, you boil two spoonfuls of this grass in a cup of water during ten minutes. Taking of three to four cups of this preparedness per day and you will see the results.

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.

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.

Solanum Nigrum

Solanum Nigrum, is an annual grass, subglabra, pubescent or hairy, that can reach a height of up to 70 centimeters.

Their sheets are you alternate, of soft sheet, ovado-rhombic until lanceolada, of entire edge, sinuado or with some tooth.

Their flowers are white, rotáceas, of a centimeter or less than diameter, prepared in summits lax umbeliformes pediceladas. The peduncle is of 2 or 3 centimeters, opposed to the sheets in general. The corolla is in star's form with the doubled petals (wolves) back. Stamens of 5, of yellow anthers. Their fruit is a berry of black color and from 6 to 8 millimeters of diameter. The peduncles generally bend down when the fruits mature. It flourishes in spring and in summer.

This grass is European and he/she lives spontaneously in many parts of the world. In our mean he/she behaves as overgrowth of little importance; as such he/she is also in aborted lands, banks of roads, railroads and other.

It should be used with much care. The young plants can be toxic.

It is lightly narcotic.

The shaft and the sheets are the most used thing. The desiccated plant has as much effect as the fresh plant if the desiccated one is made to the shade and quickly. Stove or constructive fire help for this process. The Moorish Herb has medicinal virtues since it is stimulant, sudorific and depurative.

The decoction in the proportion of 20 grams in a liter of water is the one that should be preferred.

The tizanas with sugar has effectiveness in illnesses of the skin, the colds and the chronic rheumatism.

The fresh (after being well washed), mashed sheets and applied on the skin he/she has good goods in eczemas, ulcerations and forúnculos.

The decoction in more proportion is good in laundries against hemorrhoidss. It is also it a pomade that is manufactured digesting to the heat fat or adeps ovillus with sheets of the fresh plant.