Transcript Herbal medicine

Socrates-Coménius
“Green Harmony”
Medicinal Plants
and
recipes from our grandmothers
Portugal
These are some recipes taken from our parents and
other researches. This is just the beginning of a work we
want to present in our school this school year.
Homemade recipes are made according to ancestral
folk wisdoms, believed to have highly beneficial
properties and sometimes neglected by conventional
medicine.
The “mézinhas”, as they are called in portuguese are
therefore “remedies “ popular medicine, or medicine
nowadays seen as «alternative»
Cabbage, “Brassica oleracea “
Burns
Burns dressing, this "Compress" plant must be placed
on top of the burn and should be renewed when dry.
Ingredients-cabbage leaves, olive oil.
Soak a face of a cabbage leaf in olive oil and place on
top of the burn. Don't forget to renew, for a new leaf also
soaked in olive oil, when dry.
Carrots, “Daucus carota“
Kidney stone:
Infused for kidney stone, this infusion should be
drunk at least once per day.
Ingredients-20 to 30 g raw carrot, one gallon of
water
Put raw carrot in one gallon of boiling water and
allow to infuse for 10 minutes. Filter and drink.
Cough:
Cut a carrot slices and cover ir with yellow sugar.
Let it until the carrot dried. Take a spoon of this juice.
Chamomile, “Matricaria recutita”
Relaxing:
Infusion of Chamomile Ingredients-30 g of
Chamomile flowers, one gallon of water.
Heat a gallon of water, and when boiling
add the chamomile flowers. Let infuse, i.e. boil
for 10 minutes. Filter and drink a cup very hot.
Cherries, “Prunus avium”
Bladder afections:
Make and infusion with stems of cherries
and take several times a day.
Citron Tree, “Lipia citriodora”
Digestion
Ingredients-30 g citron tree leaves, one
gallon of water.
Heat a gallon of water and when boiling
add the citron tree leaves. Let infuse, i.e. boil
for 5 minutes. Filter and drink
Claw of cat, “Uncaria tomentosa”
For acne:
Since they blow out, clean it with an
infusion of claw of cat (Uncaria tomentosa).
Eucaliptus, “Eucalyptus globulus”
Coughs:
The vapours of this infusion for respiratory problems
must be inhaled (with both nose and mouth) before
bedtime. If necessary, use a towel to cover your head.
Ingredients - 4 new branches leaves of eucalyptus, one
gallon of water.
Prepare the infusion warming up to boiling a gallon of
water. Add the Eucalyptus leaves and boil 10 mn.
Garlic, “Alium”
For insect bites:
Rub with vinegar.
For the bee stings, rub half a garlic in the
bite.
Geranius, “Pelargonium hortorum”
Bladder afections:
Boil a few leaves of Geraniums and take
this infusion.
Hard Wheat, “Trigo Durum”
Herpes skin or body:
Burning wheat to achieve a kind of oil, that
you have placed in all affected areas. (use to
be done by the be blacksmiths which floated
this oil)
Laurel tree, “Laurus azorica“
Insomnia:
Ingredients-15 g of laurel tree leaves, one
gallon of water.
Bring to boil one gallon of water in a
stainless steel container. Add the laurel tree
leaves and leave to infuse for 10 minutes.
Filter and drink a cup before bedtime.
Lemon, “Citrus limonum”
Colds:
Take a glass of lemon juice and honey
before bedtime.
Lettuce, “Lactuca sativa“
Insomnia
Ingredients - 30 g lettuce leaves, one
gallon of water.
Place lettuce in stainless steel container
with a gallon of water and bring to the boil so
thoughtlessly. Filter and drink a cup before
bedtime.
Linseed, “Linum usitatissimum”
Fever:
Rubber with linseed oil, forehead and
pulses and cover it with a bandage.
Maize, “Zea mays”
Bladder afections:
Make an infusion with the beard maize
and take several times a day. (mixed bristles of
corn in a gallon of water and boil)
Netle , “Urtica dioica”
Chilblian:
Stroke the with a nettle in affected areas. (No bites
feel, and this activate circulation, improving quickly).
Rheumatic pains.
Prepare a cup with boiling water and take three
times a day for rheumatic pain, appetite lack and
prostata, acne and other skin conditions. Very good for
brittle nails.
Olive tree, “Olea Europaea”
Bellyache:
Rubbed the belly with hot oil and lay upside down.
Make an infusion with five or six leaves of olive tree and drink it several times a day.
Pain ears:
Heat a litle of olive oil, wet a cotton and put it in the ear.
Burns:
Burns dressing, this "Compress" plant must be placed on top of the burn and should be
renewed when dry.
Ingredients-cabbage leaves, olive oil.
Soak a face of a cabbage leaf in olive oil and place on top of the burn. Don't forget to
renew, for a new leaf also soaked in olive oil, when dry.
Chap foot:
Wharm a litle of olive oil and mix with onion, skin and apply on
feets before dress them.
Infusion for hypertension:
This infusion should be taken three times a day.
Ingredients – 30 g. of olive tree leaves, one gallon of water.
Heat the water in a stainless steel container and when boiling add
the olive tree leaves. Simmer for 10 minutes. Filter and drink.
For colds and pulmonar afections:
Heat a little of olive oil and rubb the chest and cover with an
absorbent paper.
Onion, “Allium cepa”
Throat and cough:
This infusion should be drink three times a day while symptoms
persist.
Ingredients-a gallon of water, a lemon, dried onion peel, honey or
sugar to taste.
Place a quart of water in a stainless steel container along with the
lemon cut into quarters and onion peels. Simmer on medium heat until
bake lemon and after filter. When drinking sweet with honey or sugar.
Cut an onion in two and put it o the night table berfore bedtime.
Parsley, “Petrosolium sativum”
For the babys constipation:
Places a parsley stalk with olive oil in the
ass of the baby
Potato, “Solanum tuberosum”
Headache:
Cut a potato in slices and the put around
of the head with a bandage.
Rosemary, “Lavandula stoechas”
Insomnia:
Ingredients - 20 g Rosemary, a gallon of
water.
Bring to boil one gallon of water in a stainless
steel container. Add rosemary and let it infuse,
i.e. boil for 10 minutes. Filter and drink a cup
before bedtime.
Wild Fig, “Solanum sodomeum”
Warts:
Short stem Wild Fig and applied his juice in
the wart.
We are working in this subject with
several classes in Project Area.