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.

Wild-type Linen Cliococca Selaginoides

The Wild-type, scientifically called Linen Cliococca Selaginoides, is a petty, perennial, glabrous plant that measures from 10 to 25 centimeters high. Generally this is developed with many shafts forming a bush suberecta or semi-spread.

Their sheets are of lineal-filiform character until sub-camiformes, petty and numerous. They are also long, they measure from 5 to 10 millimeters.

It also possesses petty flowers, solitary, almost sésiles, prepared in the apex of the ramillas. The chalice enters sepals 3 nervados and the corolla has free and very petty petals, long of about 3 millimeters. They are of white color or verduzcos, and of pettier size that the sepals.

The fruit of this plant is a spherical capsule that measures from 3 to 4 millimeters of diameter.

It is a South American specie that inhabits fields, banks of streams, zeros and mountains of almost the whole area.

The infusion in the proportion of 40 grams in a liter of water is used as tonic, as appetizer and it facilitates the respiration.

The whole plant, before it flourishes, desiccated to the shade it constitutes a very useful drug in the affections of the respiratory channels when he/she is used without exaggeration.

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.

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.

Bulrush Androtrichum Trigynum

The androtrichum trigynum, receives the name common of bulrush given currently by the masse that uses it against the sanguine pressure.

We should clarify that the "bulrush" name is given to numerous classes of plants.

This, androtrichum, is a Cypera-ceae it sharpens (lacking of sheet) it is very communio in the whole coast sandy platense.

It is only specie of the genus; it was included in the following ones: Cyperus, Eriophorum, Commostemum and Scripus. Of horizontal rhizome, generally very buried, reddish, of about 5 to 7 millimeters of diameter of and long diverse; cylindrical and thin numerous shafts that reach a height from 50 70 centimeters rises in general, with 4 to 5 basal pods of chestnut-colored-reddish color. Inflorescence in antela; I involve from 1 to 4 brácteas. Each antela has 7 to 11 radios; each one of these takes a cabezuela formed by espiguillas fasciculadas. Stamens 3, of filaments very acrescentes and rippled that give to the florescence cottony or lanate aspect. Their shafts, previous squashing, they are used to tie.

As medicinal plant, it is one from the few plants to those that are allocated a single property. It is used against the pressure of the blood; 15 to 20 grams of rhizomes in a liter of water.