VIVRORERA
echium vulgare
VIVRORERA
echium vulgare
Family
: Borragináceas.
Description:
From the Greek ekios, Snake, by reference to the similarity of the fruit with the head of this animal. Biennial or perennial plant, with upright stems and roots fusiform simple, silky, hispida, stained with black spots. The leaves are lanceolate and lower whole tomentosa, hispida; the upper
sessile
and narrow at the base. The flowers,
red
blue and white occasionally, meet spikes in pyramid with top escorpioidea. Corolla
has
five lobes in the form of
a
funnel and five stamens. The fruit is rough and spikes, formed by four achenes. Species
common
in vacant lots, along roads in the plain areas throughout Europe. The stems can reach one meter in length. Is collected in July.
Parties used:
The floral limbs.
Chemical compounds:
mucilage, cinogloxina, consolicina, nitrates, tannin.
Properties:
Báquica, diuretic, vulnerable.
How to use:
Infusion, juice, powders, enolito, tincture.
Note:
When you are not yet hispida, outbreaks of the leaves are eaten in salads like
borage
and presents its properties. The root
has
been used for extracting
a
substance
red
coloring of tissues. The juice is also used in
cosmetics
as an effective emollient for the
red
or sensitive skins. Cataplasms of limbs are used fresh for the healing of boils and tabs.
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