Showing posts with label medicinal plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicinal plants. Show all posts

8/04/2009

Aloe vera for healing wounds, and burns


The aloe vera is great for healing cuts and scrapes and alleviating allergic reactions or burns from the sun.

You can use a gel or applied directly to the prepared liquid in the interior of each leaf.

Should apply aloe vera on a daily basis in summer especially since it protects the skin from the sun abuse.

6/01/2009

Herbal medicines against Alzheimer's

Ginkgo biloba, an herb that grew in the East and millions of years ago.
Continues to surprise scientists with its powerful principles medicine. A recognized their positive influences on memory, blood circulation and in particular the brain, combined with his virtues as a general restorative-American scientists added another purpose: to effectively combat Alzheimer's disease or senile dementia, a serious and irreversible degenerative brain disorder that usually manifests itself after 65 years, starting with small memory leaks even a chart of total insanity.

Experiences in people with varying degrees of Alzheimer's disease, showed clear improvement in symptoms after the scheduled administration of 120 milligrams of ginkgo extract daily. "A third of patients to whom they provide treatment, showed an improvement in their memory and recovered a degree of lucidity."

American Scientists attribute the healing effect of Ginkgo encouraging certain phytochemical substances present in leaves and stems of the plant, named by investigators as ginkgos and terpenelactonas.

4/30/2008

The lemon against common illnesses

You are known that, the fruits have many properties besides being flavorful desserts, for example. In this case, we will be in charge of of the lemon, as solution for those more common ailments.

This fruit, has multiple applications for the care of the health. The following recommendations are the best test in it.

I catch a cold or sinusitis:
To arrange different times per day some lemon drops in each nasal grave. This cure can I will accompany drinking broth of onions with the attaché of the juice of a lemon.

Digestive problems:
The lemon juice calms the stomach distress, the flatulence, you help in the indigestions and in the liver dysfunctions and blister. It can merge it with an infusion of chamomile if the dysfunction is digestive and with boldo or lion tooth if you are hepatic.

Headache:
To apply on the field aching lemon slices. When these warm, to delete them t to replace them for other new ones.

Muscle aches:
For pains like for example of sciatica, lumbalgia, hematomas, pains of legs and of column, to massage the field corresponding with lemon juice.

Eye infections:
For the aflame view or in the event of conjunctivitis, to arrange in the eyes juice of dilute lemon with tea of chamomile.

Ailments in the nervous system:
The tea of lemon tree sheets works as sedative and antispasmodic. To prepare it it is necessary to boil three fresh sheets of lemon tree in 300 cc of water, to allow to rest and to filter. To take before go to sleep.

Vaginal uneasiness:
If you exist vaginal flow or itch, to carry out seat bathrooms with water and lemon juice.

4/29/2008

Sage

The sage is a plant with important many properties, mainly medicinal. You are of supreme importance to culture it in your garden, because besides adorning it, you will be you useful for all these things.

- The medicinal properties gave you your derivative name of Latin "salvus" that mean "healthy."

- You are antiseptic, digestive keynote and stimulant.

- To masticate your fresh sheets counteracts the wrong encouragement.

- You are actual against the cough and the resfríos since has a drier effect on the aflame mucous membranes.

- For the sore throat, make an infusion with your sheets; you sweeten it with honey. Strain it, cool it and make gargarisms with her.

- Also, you are used as spice and perfuming of flesh and birds, stews, sauces and in the industry of the liquor.

How to take care of the sage

- You are very resistant to the cold, but you are to take care of it of the wind.

- You are to locate it to full sun and to give you a moderate sprinkling.

- You adapt to all the floor types, whenever these drenados are well.

- One can culture for seeds in spring and you flourish in autumn.

12/22/2007

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.

12/17/2007

Cataract Operation of the Eye lens

He is named cataract to the operation of the eye lens, and it in fact consists on extracting it opacificado. Usually, the eye lens has the form of a biconvex lens and a size of 10 millimeters in equatorial sense and 5 millimeters of anteroposterior axis. For the accommodation quality, thanks to some special fibers, it is the one that completes the most important paper because it is the one that decides the focus of the proximate objects.

The lawsuits that can give place to the cataract are multiple. Among them hereditary factors that would determine in the mature or senile age their formation fit. On the other hand, genetic and embryological factors exist, and already in the maternal cloister he/she can the petty one to lose temper, with the following appearance of a congenital cataract that will show in the youth in occasions.

But, there are also general illnesses that can end up manifesting this illness: the diabetes, the intoxications (be due to the naphthalene, to the thallium or the rye ergot), and certain medicinal preparations that are used to cure the obesity and that they contain dinitrofenoles. Those cataracts generally enter a quite quick evolution and their only treatment consists on the operation. Other less frequent lawsuits exist, as a consequence of dysfunctions endocrinológicos pluriglandulares, as gónadas and paratiroides. In the mongolism and the mixedema it is also conserved, in occasions, the appearance of cataracts.

The most usual case is represented by the call senile cataract whose lawsuit is not still known with accuracy, but that it constitutes a positive manifestation of the age. They probably take place in the organism metabolic general dysfunctions that little by little drive to the formation of the cataract. At the beginning they are noted in one or both eyes diverse symptoms, being the main one the visual gradual forfeiture. He suits to keep in mind that simultaneously to the appearance of the cataract, the sick person can it turns affected by other eye diseases that if they are not on time, they would originate complications that can waste or to already make useless the operation of cataracts.

If the patient uses correction, he notes that her glasses don't help him I eat before, you see the deformed images and he searches a luminous more efficient focus, or on the contrary, the (when the opacificación takes place preferably in the center of the eye lens) sick person is better in the dimness, because when dilating the pupil you go with more easiness. At the beginning, it still fits some change in the corrective glasses, but as the cataract, this measure evolves it is useless, the patient loses vision and the best thing is an intervention for the expert.

12/06/2007

Tree of the Sex in Hazard of Abatement

Very appraised by their estates afrodisíacas, in Africa it is used as the local viagra. People have used it in excess and now risk runs of disappearing.

"The citropsis disappears, people have used it in excess: it is the local viagra!", Robert looses Kungujje, a guide of the forest of Mabira, in Uganda, while it points out with the finger the call Tree of the sex, very appraised by his estates afrodisíacas.

The roots of the citropsis articulata, used in decoction, are effective "in three hours", Kasozi assures Bruham, a 49 year-old peasant and habitual consumer of this beverage. This compatriot lives near the Reservation of Mabira, to 50 km to the east of Kampala, one of the last tropical wet forests of that African country.

"We are concerned because the citropsis becomes scarce, here there is a great problem of impotence and people will have to be deprived to buy an equivalent" medicine, she complains.

"In Uganda we believe to have freedom to use the forest like a personal" petition, Robert explains to Kungujje, it guides of the center of ecoturismo of Mabira, while one of the few ones teaches
citropsis specimens that are in the reservation.

The users of the citropsis have trend to start it of root and they don't remember plantar other to guarantee their survival. "With the unemployment, the alimentary bad habits, the diabetes and the hypertension, linked to the stress, the dysfunctions of the
erection goes for that reason in increase in Uganda people it uses this plant", Maud affirms Kamatenesi-Mugisha, botanist and expert in fertility.

Around the population's ugandesa 80% it depends on the medicinal plants to cure their quotidian ailments because the up-to-date medicines are prohibitive and the clinicians are far from the villages.