CUAJILOTE
parmentiera aculeata
CUAJILOTE
parmentiera aculeata
Parmentiera aculeata DC. Fam. Bignoniaceae.
This tree is used as
a
laxative and diuretic is recommended, too, to treat
kidney
ailments and their treatment includes the fruit, bark, flowers and roots, which are boiled and eaten as
a
tea
. In other cases such as calculations and
urinary
tract, is effective grinding and eating the fruit extract or asarlo and eat it. Besides the cooking of the
flower
, root or fruit, it is
a
good diuretic. Also used for other
diseases
such as
asthma
, garraspera, cough and colds, the flowers are boiled with tejocote and sweetened drink warm fasting for two weeks.
Tree 4 to 12 m in height, trunk with thick crust cracked split with
thorns
and leaves. Their flowers come out of the trunk or at the ends of the branches, fruit and stem elongated. Lives in warm climates, temperate and semi. It grows in gardens and is associated with the tropical deciduous and
evergreen
forest; Xeric scrublands, mountain cloud forests of
oak
and
pine
.
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