PAMPAJARITO
sedum acre
PAMPAJARITO
sedum acre
Family
: Crasuláceas.
Description:
From the Latin sedate, calm, for their emollient properties. Fat grass stalks with numerous and very close, crawling or erect. The leaves are alternate, fleshy, slightly separated from
each
other or even overlapping,
sessile
, so elliptical. The insertion of the leaf to stem is slightly amplexicaulo. The flowers are
yellow
, arranged in spikes escorpioides. Goblet
has
five sepals, five petals and Corolla lanceolate acute. The fruit is
a
capsule containing seeds ovaliformes.
Common
on old walls, on the rocks, from sea to the mountains. It measures 5 cm on average. Is collected in
spring
and
summer
.
Used parts:
The whole plant fresh.
Chemical compounds:
Routine, sedidrina, mucilages,
rubber
, resin.
It is recommended as hypotensive, vulnerable, antiverrugoso, rubefaciente.
How to use:
juice, infusion, ointment, enolito, liparolito.
Of interest:
On the domestic route, although it presents
a
hypotensive action, can produce phenomena of
intolerance
. Its taste is clearly acid. It
has
been
almost
always used externally as an effective and harmless
natural
calífugo. It
was
also used as
a
matured on boils,
but
can cause local irritation. It is
a
kind and it is impossible to keep the
infection
because of the difficulty of drying.
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