This specie whose name scientist is Dorstenia Brasiliensis, is a perennial grass of little size, acaule, rizomatoso-tuberose. The whole plant gives off very similar odor to that of the communio fig.He/she has sheets in short number, prepared in rosette; being of oval sheet and cordada in the base, from 3 to 5 centimeters long generally of edge crenado, of consistency subcoriacea, raw in the higher face. Long petiole from 1 to 5 centimeters.
He/she has very petty, masculine and feminine flowers blended in the holder of the inflorescence; the first with two long stamens 1 millimeter more or less; the feminine ones have style bífido; both have bare perianto, composed by 2 segments soldered the feminine ones to each other, and of 4 segments the masculine ones.
The fructified holder measures from 1 to 3 centimeters of diameter. It flourishes and it fructifies they give the months of September and October.
It is a South American plant that he/she inhabits Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
In Uruguay it is in stony fields, hills and mountains with enough frequency, being less frequent in the coast platense.
Their relatively thick roots and the whole plant, they contain lightly aromatic substances and of acerbic flavor.
The infusion of the root, in the proportion of 10 grams in a liter of water, is toned and antifebrífuga; in more proportion it is emenagoga.
It has also been used in the typhoid fevers and still against the dysentery.
Many use the juice of their sheets and also the root mashed as remedy applying them on bites of snakes and stings of insects and of scorpion.
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