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.

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.