Fruit against osteoporosis

A major challenge undertaken by the medicine of the past few years is to find a solution for osteoporosis, ie, the abnormal loss of calcium from bones, a predominantly female problem that is exacerbated after menopause.

Fortunately, encouraging news comes one that involves a mineral with an unsuspected until recently, activity against osteoporosis: boron. This mineral is one of the components necessary for the body to produce female hormones are important in preserving bone mass.

Specialists say that a small dose of boron and is a guarantee of good results, because the body needs only 4 milligrams per day. But most important is that the simplest and most effective way of incorporating this mineral is through food: apples, pears and grapes are foods rich in boron, therefore, good friends of the bones.

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.