Onion

ONION Allium sepa - Liliaceae - Persia

The onion has large bulbs, which give life to tufts of fleshy leaves and are of cylindrical  form. Flowers small and numerous, bloom in Summer.

Corns: -
Infusion - Boil 1 cup of vinegar with sliced ​​raw onion. Allow to warm, placing the infusion in a colander, squeezing the pulp Onion skirt so that all the juice has been pressed out. Employ the liquid compresses on the calluses.

DIURETIC: -
Infusion of Wine - A pint of good quality white wine, 250 gr of sliced ​​fresh onions, 80 g of honey. After 24 hours, filter the liquid and consume it before meals.

DYE:
Crush 100 gr Fresh onion, trying not to waste the juice, putting them in a bottle with 100 g of alcohol at 90 °. After about 24 hours, filter the liquid and store it in a glass with polished lid, a teaspoon before meals.

STOMACH (DIGESTION) - Dye - See diuretic.

HEMORRHOIDS: - Salve (1) - Cook a little Onion on Flax oil, let cool and squeeze the juice and pulp to blend well with the oil. The ointment thus obtained is applied over the hemorrhoids and serves to prevent inflammation.

Ointment (2) -
Into a pound a raw onion mix a piece of butter. Apply the pope over the affected region.

Chilblains:
Ointment - 1 Crush Fresh onion, to make out the juice, mix it with ½ teaspoon of Lanolin, rubbed with this ointment to the affected area.

BLEEDING NOSE: -
Cut one fresh onion into two halves  and suck the juice through nostrils.

GUT (INFECTIONS AND CONSTIPATION) - Dye - See diuretic

Decoction -
Cut 1 onion into slices, cook them in ½ liter of water sweetened with honey, filter the liquid and drink a cup in the morning and one at night.

BEES BITE:
To ease the pain caused by bee stings, rub the affected area with 1 sliced ​​onion.

COLD - COUGH: -
Infusion - Cook 1 sliced ​​onion in 1 cup of milk heavily sweetened with honey and drink hot before bedtime.

Syrup -
Cooking 1 kg of fresh onions. 300 g of honey, 750 g of sugar in 1 liter of water, and simmering for three hours, allow the compound to cool before filtering it through a sieve.

WORMS: -
Infusion - Into a bowl put ¼ liter of water and 1 large onion, cut into slices. Leave to infuse for an entire night, after passing the liquid through a strainer, crushing the onion to make out all the liquid. Drinking infusion fasting.

Infusion of Wine - see diuretic -

VETERINARY: - Chickens -
Administering to broilers 2 to 3 times a week, a raw onion, prevent infectious diseases.

See also:
http://curartenaturalment.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/ojo-con-las-cebollas.html
 

Bark-a-anta

BARK-A-ANTA Drymis chilensis, drymis winter - Magnoliáces - Chile

Source - Medicinal plants used by the Mapuche Indians:

http://www.oocities.org/aukanawel/obras/cienciasecreta/plantas/foye.html

Plant with leathery leaves and white flowers on the cob.

DIURETIC: -
decoction -
Boil 1 minute 5 g of bark in ½ liter of water, filter and drink it in small cups during the day.

Infusion -
in ½ liter of boiling water put to steep? for 5 minutes, 10 g of leaves bark Anta, filter the solution and consume it in small cups during the day.

STOMACH: (Difficult DIGESTION ) -
Decoction - See diuretic. A cup after meals.


Rheumatism - FATIGUE: -
Bath -
Prepare a decoction in ½ liter of water with 10 g of bark Anta, filter and add to bath water.

Ulcerations: -
Washes -
Prepare an infusion with 5 gr of shell and 500 grams of water. While warm, filter it and use to wash.

Cana common

CANA COMMON Arundo donax - Grasses

The straight, robust Fuste is employed to keep piles of vineyards.

Cleanser - DIURETIC:
Infusion - In 1 liter of boiling water, put 40 gr root Cana Common, sliced, filter and sweeten and drink the infusion at a dose of 4 cups a day.

FLU:
Infusion - See cleanser, the drink should be consumed hot and sweetened with honey if possible.

BORAGE

BORAGE Borago officinalis-Borragináceas

It is grown in gardens, as the leaves are used in salads. The plant of 30 to 40 cm is completely enclosed by a fluff hard, off-white, and the sheets are radial rough. Flowers large, stellar, blue and red, gather in clusters at the end of the rod.

Cleanser: - Infusion
Putting in a liter of boiling water, 20 g of each of the following herbs: Borage Cress, Dandelion, dandelion, would smoke, Silvestre chicory, chervil, strain and sweeten. Take 3 to 4 cups daily, beginning in the morning under fasting conditions.

WINE cleanser DIURETIC: -
Place a handful of leading fresh Borage flowering in 1 liter of good quality wine. Macerate for a week, strain and take sips before meals.

Gout - Arthritis: -
Poultice -
Cooking a handful of dry leaves of Borage in very little water, when all the water evaporates, leaves extend over gauze, squeeze it to get out all the liquid, apply the hot poultice on the affected part.

RHEUMATISM: -
Decoction - In 1 liter of boiling water for half an hour 10 g of dried leaves of Borage, filter and sweeten with honey, drink 3-4 cups a day.

Cough: -
Decoction - 40 g of leaves in 1 liter of water. Boil for ¼ hour, strain, sweeten with honey and drink 2 to 3 times a day.

Infusion -
15 g of leaves and flowers of Borage in 1 liter of water. Macerate for ¾ hour, filter, sweeten with honey and drink 1 cup every 3 hours.

Portulaca

Portulaca oleracea Purslane - Portulaca - Brazil 

Grows in arid and dry areas,  has creeping rhizome, sumosos branches and strong, narrow wedge-shaped fleshy leaves, reddish flowers corolla 5-6 petals brightly colored, red, yellow, white, orange, violet, solferino.
 

Nutritionally,
this plant is very rich in potassium and omega-3, today commented as important in strengthening the immune system and circulatory systems. This and other nutrients and self molecules that act in a very synergistic with our body.

Medicinally, it can be said in a few words: antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, diuretic, emollient, among other features. Translation: fighting bacterial infections, inflammations, worms, and aids in digestion and kidney function. Just to include in the diet is already at least take partly  these effects.

Another simple idea is to use the leaves in infusion, either as a tonic and blood cleanser (internal use) or as a healing (external use). But all this is still only a part of the power of this plant.

Reference:
"Medicinal Plants in Brazil - Native and Exotic," Harri Lorenzi and F. J. Abreu Matos. 2nd Edition, Nova Odessa, SP: Instituto Plantarum, 2008.

DIURETIC: Infusion - Infusion put in a quarter of an hour, a pinch of leaf purslane. Filter, sweeten and drink in 2 times.

Bardana

BARDANA Arctium lappa - Composite



 Stout root, stem ramosa, rough and conical broad leavesl with the upper and lower green - greenish white. The leaves have vivid and bright color glitter.

ARTHRITIS:
Poultice - against acute pain, crush dried leaves gauze and apply on affected areas.

HAIR (FALL):
Decoction -
10 gr. burdock root, sliced, cooked in a little water. When the root is softened crush it to be reduced to a pap. Thereafter rubbing the scalp once a day.

MILK CRUST, HEMORRHOIDS:
Poultice -
cook a handful of fresh leaves washed and lean, with a little milk, when the milk evaporates, put the leaves in a cheesecloth and apply on affected area.

Cleanser:
Infusion -
60 gr. burdock root,
25 gr. Licorice,
50 gr. of dandelion,
40 gr. of grass,
20 gr. root of endive,
save these herbs in a container. A spoonful of this mixture serves to prepare an infusion with a cup of hot water. Drinkit when fasting without sweetening.

DIURETIC:
Infusion - 30 gr. burdock root in 3 cups water, boiling water, leave to infuse for half an hour, strain and drink twice a day.

Furunculosis:
Poultice -
See healing. Depurative. External demand - boil a spoonful of chopped burdock root in a cup of water. When the water evaporates, extend the poultice on the affected region.

MEASLES:
Herbal Tea - 25 gr. burdock in a quart of water. Sweeten bit and administer the drink spoons every 5 minutes.

ULCER:
Poultice - crush the fresh leaves of burdock washed and clean, applied as a poultice.

Sorrel

Sorrel Oxalis acettosella - Oxalidáceas

Grass clover-shaped. The long petioles have at the base two oval stipules.  The flowers have varied color tones and the fruits in capsules contain many seeds.
 

Cold abscesses: -
Poultice - mix a few fresh leaves cooked in a tablespoon of olive purest, apply a piece of gauze.

DIURETIC: -
decoction - Boil for 5 minutes Sorrel of 50 g in 1 liter of fresh water,  taken in cups during the day.

FEVER:
Boil 60 grams of leaves and roots of Azedinha in a liter of water, sweeten slightly and take cups during the day.

GUT: -Decoction -
Boil in a saucepan with 25g of olive oil, 50 g of fresh leaves of Wood Sorrel, 15 grams of fresh leaves of chervil, 15 g of dried leaves of beets, wait cook and pass the liquid through a sieve, pressing well to extract all the liquid from the leaves. Drink a tablespoon every hour.

Artichoke

ARTICHOKE - Cynara scolymus - Composite

Plant stems are tall and straight: The leaves have prickly spines and apex are dark green and whitish in its base. The branches end in large chapters by fleshy bracts that form the edible part.

Gallstones - Decoction:
boil 80 gr. Artichoke in 1 liter of water for 10 minutes. Take 3 cups a day.

DIURETIC - Decoction:
boil for 5 minutes 20 gr., Artichoke in 1 liter of water, allow the liquid to warm, filter and sweeten. Take 3 cups a day.

WINE MEDICINAL:
Place in container 1 liter of good wine and 20 grams of artichoke leaf. Allow to stand for 5 days. Filter and take 2 cups a day.