MEDICINAL PLANTS

The snuff is a herbaceous plant belonging to the family Solanaceae. Including this herb in a treatise on medicinal plants is not surprising at all, because apart from the damage that is causing today worldwide, it is a plant with medicinal properties are proven and some others that are currently studying. In addition, the Spanish have a lot to say about it, because we were the ones that we import from America. From its morphological description not worth commenting on anything, because anyone knows. What is perhaps less known is that Spain is currently in arable farming, particularly in Extremadura, Andalusia and Valencia, where it is a summer crop.

FLOWERING

Flowers in summer and autumn. The part that takes advantage of the plant are the leaves which are harvested once a laborious process technology into cigars that everyone knows.

APPLICATIONS

The active snuff best known is nicotine, an alkaloid liquid, colorless, which darkens on contact with air. The leaves contain it in widely varying quantities, depending on the variety concerned. Along with nicotine, on the ground are many other substances (other than those generated in the combustion of the cigarette) that are responsible for most of the ills that come along with snuff. As to the merits of this controversial herb, one can say that nicotine is a stimulant of the nervous system at low doses. Used with due caution, one could see some benefits, without doubt, are lost when you get in the habit of smoking. The real problem is that snuff produces a very difficult addiction to overcome and is slowly destroying not only the bronchial tree, but many other structures and internal organs, but does so slowly that we hardly notice, until the agency releases a serious warning. Moreover, the problem of addiction bind certain social connotations that make it the drug of initiation for all young people. Recently, some utilities are discovering it, provided it is used sparingly and for different routes of Obviously, the best way to manage it in the form of snuff nicotine patches "to quit."tion to the respiratory tract. Thus, nicotine is administered as patches in certain inflammatory bowel diseases, which seems to be working well. This does not mean that smoking is good, but there is no doubt that within the leaf snuff there are substances that deserve further study.

ADMINISTRATION

Obviously, the best way to manage it in the form of snuff nicotine patches "to quit."

SUMMARY

FAMILY: Solanaceae
HABITAT: Extremadura, Andalusia and Valencia
FLOWERING: Summer and autumn
PART USED: Sheets
CASTILIAN: Hierba el diablo
CATALAN: Tabac
BASQUE: Tabako

USES

Relaxing breathing Leve, Mild general stimulant.