MEDICINAL PLANTS THAT CAN BE CULTIVATED AT HOME

Good morning dear friends who belong to this platform, today they share with you information about some plants that they can grow at home, and that can grant good medicinal aspects, besides being many times as spices for the dressing of the meals, In this opportunity, two plants are described, such as Albahaca and Llantén. Where will be addressed aspects such as generalities and uses, in addition to a small recipe with Llantén. So let's start with their respective descriptions:

The basil whose scientific name is Ocimun basilicum, is an herb that grows in abundance and can have it in your home planted directly on the ground if you have a flowerbed or orchard or in a flowerpot or pots, it is recommended to plant the plant in places where there is an excellent solar radiation, since it does not tolerate cold climates, summers are ideal for the growth of the plant, one of the techniques to keep your plant healthy is to pay it gradually. Uses: it is widely used as condiments, also in its garden it has fundamental value since it has a repellent effect for some insects. For this reason it is widely used in vegetable gardens, on the other hand it is important to emphasize the medicinal properties that they present as it is widely used in: control of migraine and insomnia, is antispasmodic, digestive, has analgesic, antiseptic and healing properties.

Llantén whose scientific name is Plantago major is a plant that we can observe many times in gardens, roadsides, pastures among other places, and many times we do not identify it and much less know the medicinal properties that it brings, likewise it happens with a high percentage of plants that we do not know and we think are weeds and we remove them from our garden, or any productive space. Focusing on the llantén we can say that it is a plant that commonly develops in rainy seasons, it does not require a rigorous agronomic management, it can be sown in a vegetative way using part of the stem of a plant. USES: can be used as an expectorant, acts effectively when there are respiratory tract conditions such as cough, hoarseness, throat disorders; It is also useful to make gargles made with infusion of it to reduce inflammation of the throat.

Ointment: the fresh leaves are crushed, and the juice left by the leaves is added, in a container with melted cow lard. This ointment can be used to calm the discomfort caused by hemorrhoids.

Fresh Leaves: the leaves are cleaned well with water and then placed with boiling water, once this process is done, the leaves can be placed on difficult sores and ulcers.

To conclude, it is necessary to point out that the objective of this post is to recognize, through the published photographs, the plant of basil and llantén, besides knowing which are the medicinal properties that they present. I hope I have awakened the curiosity of the whole community and can thoroughly investigate the benefits of these two plants that Mother Nature gives us. In the next post I will be describing other kind medicinal plants, I hope they are to your liking. It says goodbye @amestyj.