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.

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.

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.