MEDICINAL PLANTS

It is a shrub (almost kills) that forms a woody vine and tortuous, with branches that can reach the thickness of a finger. The branches of the year are abundant herbaceous and hairy and glandular. The leaves, borne by his corner, consisting of three or four round chips, with enhanced and clearly visible ribs. The flower clusters are disrupted and have a bright yellow corolla. It breeds on cliffs and high ground, usually on calcareous soils and not less than 1000 m. High. It's typical to find in the south of Aragon, though not native, as occurs in many other areas of the Iberian Peninsula.

FLOWERING

It blooms from May to June depending on the geographic area where you are. Harvesting for medicinal purposes concern the trunk and branches, although in some areas also use the leaves. This plant is rarely found fructified.

APPLICATIONS

From its composition does not know next to nothing. The use of this facility is only subject to popular wisdom, and who has never studied composition. But everyone knows that this is one of the most potent plants to combat renal colic, ie one of the evils that can be characterized as the most painful that exist. Perhaps our old thought a bush of this magnitude could heal a badly so common then as now, only in our time-luckily for those who suffer-remedies have much more efficient and better prepared. The fact is that the bark of this shrub works great for colic in question, although one can not explain with certainty the physiological mechanism by which it operates. This plant was discovered by some botanists who made a trip to southern Spain and Portugal, in the Sierra Mariola. Never achieved much popularity, although he had many supporters. Perhaps in the not too distant future, with new advances in research, we know the composition of the bush and even seize their virtue to assuage the pain caused by renal colic.

ADMINISTRATION

It is given as master of elaborate formulas in which they become involved in numerous compounds, including chamomile, sugar cane and refined nitre. Once assembled the components, is subjected to a normal cooking and take it as any other infusion.

SUMMARY

FAMILY: Legumes
HABITAT: Limestone mountains of Aragon
FLOWERING: June and July
PART USED: Trunk and branches

USES

Strong against renal colic.