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Although it
has
exaggerated the toxicity of the
oleander
leaves, the fact is that is planted in gardens to keep the dogs away.
Plant
itself
from the sea shores, very colorful, beautiful flowers, with leaves poisonous whose extracts were used as
a
heart tonic.
FEATURES:
evergreen
shrub, up to 2 meters high,
but
often come to grow more, even paste the 4 m. Its leaves are narrow and long, harsh, with the edges smooth. Although the
flavor
is unpleasant and rarely lead to the mouth, we have to prevent
children
from the mastics. At the end of the stems emerge four or five stems that culminate in
a
flower
forming
a
joint unit of about 20cm floral. in diameter; coda of them
has
five pink or white petals that make the plant
a
beautiful decorative element. It also called Neri.
ACTIVE:
It contains many substances, mainly glycosides, which exert
a
pharmacological action on heart
rhythm
.
Medicinal properties:
Due to its action on the heart
muscle
, is used as
a
tonic. In the right proportion, glycosides of the
oleander
are less able to speed up
a
heartbeat
or stop it.
COLLECTION:
Any time of] year is good for some cost to an
oleander
leaves,
but
during the
summer
and
autumn
increases its production of active ingredients.
USES AND APPLICATIONS:
Its use is reserved exclusively for specialists, because an inadequate dose could prove fatal, since it would be easy to obtain the opposite effect desired. The
beauty
of the plant, with its size and its beautiful flowers,
has
made the
oleander
plant widely used in gardening. Back in the days of our grandfathers were planted alongside roads for donkeys and mules, who then threw the car, usual means of transport)
was
not entertained during the journey eating the leaves. Also enclosed pasture tunas, which were set up to the limits which could lead the herd. In North Africa, used to prepare
a
paste with
oleander
leaves and honey with which scrub on the scalp, is fighting
scabies
.
The
oleander
is used as an ornamental shrub because of the
beauty
of its flowers, which can be double, as the center of the figure, or simple (top) because there are many cultivated varieties. Below is
a
seed. Its leaves, resembling those of the
laurel
closer
though
, have an unpleasant taste and are toxic. The active principles that glycosides are mainly
home
to have action on the
heartbeat
, while accelerating its pace as slowing, according to the dose and is therefore, that the use of the
oleander
as
a
medicinal plant should be restricted to physicians.
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