Description
It’s a vivacious plant of 10 to 50 cm high, with rhizomes, either creeping or ascending. Leaves are soft, alternate, simple and wide. Their shape is somewhere between oval and lanceolate, with the upper face shining and matte beneath. Flowers are very small, greenish or reddish, grow in clusters in the axils of the upper leaves. The fruit is a small, shining brown achene.
Its distribution is cosmopolitan and grows in brushwoods, woods, in wall and rock cracks, steep banks and rubbles. It prefers cool areas rich in organic matter, sunny or semi-shadowed and a maximum of 1,500 m in altitude.
Part used
The aerial apex is used.
Indications
- Urinary infections: cystitis, urethritis, uretheritis.
- Urinary lithiasis.
- Hyperuricemia, gout and rheumatism.
- Arterial hypertension.
- Edemas, oliguria, water retention.
- Hepatobiliary dyskinesia.
- Respiratory tract disorders.
- External use: wounds, burns, contusions.
Bibliography
Plantes Médicinales des Régions Tempérées. L. Bézanger-Beauquesne y M. Pinkas, M. Torck y F. Trotin. Ed. Maloine S.A. 1980.
Plantas Medicinales. J. Fernández-Pola Cuesta. Ediciones Omega S. A. Barcelona 1994
Plantas Medicinales. El Dioscórides renovado. Pío Font Quer. Editorial Labor S. A. 15ª edición 1995.
Artículo de Internet, pag. Fitoterapia.net
Farmacognosia. J Bruneton. Editorial Acribia. 2ª edición.
