Cornflower
Cornflower
Family
: Composed.
Castilian:
cyan, tile, aldiza, dark circles, lindita, liebrecilla, buttonwood, shooting Cabezudo,
brush
.
English
: Blue bottle, bluebow, hurtsikle,
cornflower
.
Description:
The
cornflower
is
a
herbaceous plant of the
family
of the compound, which may be annual or biennial. On average, the subway does not usually happen in height. Its stems are thin and flexible and leaves long and narrow, denticuladas and whitish. It
has
some cones ovoid, with the involvement of either leaves or bracts overlap, narrow, and an appendix with apical ciliate. In this
flower
heads are of two kinds: the
peripheral
, which are very ostentatious and
a
deep blue color, and the center, much smaller and bluish -
purple
color. This grass grows
almost
everywhere in the north of the country, being one of the more typical plants mesegueras. It comes from the East and
was
widely distributed along with many
grains
of those lands.
Administration:
Infusion.
A
spoonful of dessert per cup of boiling water. You can take up to three cups
a
day. This same infusion - extreme - hygienic conditions can be prepared to make eye baths or for use as eye drops astringent. In the pharmaceutical market is in various forms, such as plant and cut
vegetable
extract.
Bloom:
It blooms from May. For medicinal use are harvested
flower
chapters, namely the radial flowers, are far more blue, more concentration in active ingredients will have. Dry as possible and scattered in ventilated place for them to lose moisture quickly.
Common
uses:
Anti - inflammatory antibiotic Diuretic.
PART USED:
Flor.
COLLECTING:
The flowers are harvested only radio, mostly.
the other, and usually
a
very intense blue;
must be well - scattered dry, ventilated place in order to.
they lose moisture quickly.
DIRECTIONS:
Oliguria.
Topical use:
Conjunctivitis
and skin
disorders
.
ACTIVE:
Flavonoids, anthocyanins cyanocentaureina.
PROPERTIES:
Mild diuretic.
Antiinflammatory.
Astringent.
DOSAGE.
INFUSION.
Add boiling water in
a
quantity equivalent to one cup
a
1 - 2 teaspoons of dried flowers and let infuse for 10 minutes. Take three times
a
day.
BATHING OCULARES.
Washes to eyes with gauze soaked in the previous infusion.
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