specific pieces of purple, violet
The scientific name is Viola odorata. It is very common across the peninsula. Favors shady and grassy. It is also cultivated for ornamental purposes thanks to its capacity, in time, to form a beautiful purple carpet. Flowers usually from March to June. If you use all the parts, even if the flowers, collected in full bloom and dried, are the most used for various uses. It tastes sweet and bitter tending.
It 'a seedling appreciated since ancient times. The Greeks, for example, placed a soothing and beneficial. So usually used to crown himself with violets, especially when the meal very abundant, they had exceeded the consumption of wine. The modern herbal confers other properties, such as that of a sedative or to resolving the bronchial catarrh. The simple infusion of leaves and flowers, drink a dose of two cups per day, is useful in inflammation of the airways. You just boil a pint of water with 5 grams of dried leaves.
If you take 25 grams of fresh flowers and boil them in a quart of water, you'll get an excellent tea of violet, useful to relieve cough; is also considered a good remedy for headaches. The decoction is used as an expectorant.
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It is prepared by boiling a liter of water 20 g of violet root. You may have to let it evaporate until you have got half a liter of liquid. Sweeten with honey then. .
Folk medicine uses it the seeds against bladder stones and urinary retention. You stomp 35 grams of seeds, add 200 grams of decoction of chicory, a glass of the decoction of violet and two tablespoons of sugar. It is filtered and reduced together until mixture is smooth and syrupy consistency. For external use using the infusion method of lotion to treat inflamed eyelids and anti-cracking of the hands and face. For mature abscesses using the fresh leaves of violets. Must be cooked in hot water and used again
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