HERB Meon
euphorbia serpens
HERB Meon
euphorbia serpens
Names:
"Meon yerba", "yerba of the dove", "yerba to swallow, " "lechetres, " "milk", "CAA - cambuy", "CAA - ambuí", "tupaci - cambuy", "tupa cambú - sign ", " Aare ", " kapindéi "language Toba, " Will kachú " (grass track) in araucano - pampa.
Geographical distribution and habitat:
From
U
. S. Georgia)
Central
America
, Panama to
Argentina
. It is very
common
at the foot of walls, gardens, orchards, edges of sidewalks.
Brief description of the floor - lying grass,
evergreen
, with alternating branches and knots radicantes, glabrous. Leaves opposite, ovate - circular to oblong, edges intact, unevenly roped into the base, cutting petiolated. Tiny flowers, terminals. Fruit, ovoid capsule, less than 2mm. With
a
smooth and ovoid seeds. It blooms in
summer
.
Uses and part used:
The whole plant is used as
a
diuretic and emenagogo; latex is antitumor, dramatic, against
diseases
of the skin (corns, warts,
herpes
, tattoos, external)
Frequently
Spergularia
replaced by rubra (L. J. et
C
. Presl. According Amorin (1969)
Obs. According Amorin (1977:
18) occurs frequently the case reverse: to replace
Spergularia
rubra "arenaria red" by Euphorbia serpens "Meon. ".
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