Daniel on February 12th, 2010

Popular name: Water hemlock, Aioto, Wild Fennel

Principals Substâncias: cicutina, coniina,

Name Cientifico: Conium maculatum

Usefulness: Water hemlock was formerly an employee as anesthetic. It has properties antispasmodic. It is used to relieve pains in: nervous prostate, tumors, affection, sensory nerves and muscular of all the organs; asthma. Possui propriedades antiespasmódica. É usado para aliviar dores em: próstata, tumores, afecção nervosas, nervos sensoriais e muscular de todos os órgãos; asma.

The form of Use: The commonest form, it is in ointments, but also there is quoted the use of tea (use for his risk itself)

OBS: A small overdose can cause great intoxication, bigger doses can cause deaths.

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Conium Maculatum

Water hemlock

Water hemlock

INFO: Scielo.br

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Daniel on January 2nd, 2010

Popular name: Brave lettuce, Lettuce of the Opium, Wild Lettuce, Wild Lettuce, Bitter Lettuce, Rauschlattich, Karyumu karyumu Rakutu

Principals Substâncias: lactucina, lactopicrina, manitol, asparagina, acid oxálico, málico and citrus.

Name Cientifico: Virose Lactuca

Usefulness: Sedative, it can be used in the cases of hyperactivity and stress. Against nervousness, insomnia. It incites the secretion in the edemas of the liver. It was used by ancestors to increase the state of dream. Contra nervosismo, insônia. Incita a secreção nos edemas do fígado. Era usado por ancestrais para aumentar o estado de sonho.

The form of Use: In the form of tea more at once in a day. In the form of eaten or inhaled briefcase. Em forma de pasta comida ou inalada.

OBS: Elevated doses can cause intoxication.

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Lactuca

Lactuca

L.virosa

Lettuce

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Daniel on November 3rd, 2009

The burns are classified in the next way:

  1. degree – When there happens only an increase of the blood irrigation in the place, the called hyperemia. The reached place is reddened and the scarring is slow, however certain.
  2. degree – When do the already quoted phenomena happen, more the formation of gall bladders (blisters full of liquids).
  3. degree – Is destructive of the skin and of all the near cloths of the burned place.
Recommendations:

Before any thing, to put cold water in the place!

To do immediately after the burn 1 () cataplasm of grated pumpkin, in a least time of 2 hours. Also: To do a cataplasm of grated raw potato, renewing it each 2 hours. Fazer uma cataplasma de batata crua ralada, renovando-a cada 2 horas.

To put the internal part of the bark of banana in the place (any type of banana since it is ripe).
To do 1 () cataplasm of ripe tomato, while laying.
It is possible to apply a cataplasm from clay, or to put alternadamente a cataplasm of grated potato and different from clay.
As Kozel applied in the place reduces inflammation on the curdled milk in marvelous way. And the olive oil also is very recommendable.

Another natural treatment what advised is to put carrot raw and grated on the burns. To wash the burns with rib-grass water, cavalinha or melon of são-ca monk. The juice O suco
of the leaves and stalks of purslane they relieve the pain immediately. To favor the expulsion of the strange substances, it is convenient to burst the blisters that appear like consequence of the burns. When the burns are serious and there is fever, the patient must guard rest in the bed. The intestines must be preserved clean by means of washings with mallow water or cavalinha. Quando as queimaduras são graves e existe febre, o paciente deve guardar repouso na cama. Os intestinos devem conservar-se limpos mediante lavagens com água de malva ou cavalinha.
To remove the internal fever, to put cold compresses on the belly. To apply daily two or three cold restoring health-resorts, of 20 minutes of duration. Fruits diet, specially I suck of lemon and of orange (oral road). Dieta de frutas, especialmente suco de limão e de laranja (via oral).

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Daniel on October 22nd, 2009
Brazilian Food: Moqueca

Brazilian Food: Moqueca

Ingredients

  • 1 spoon (coffee) of ground garlic
  • 1 lemon
  • 2 onions minced in slices
  • 3 tomatoes pricked in slices
  • 2 peppers in slices
  • Salt to taste
  • half a pack of pricked green cilantro
  • 400g of palm heart in slices
  • half a seaweed spoon nori pricked
  • 50 ml of coconut milk
  • 2 tablespoon of oil of palm oil
  • Way of Preparation

    In a pan put layers with half of the onion, tomatoes, peppers, a little of salt, half of the cilantro. Put the slices of palm heart and sprinkle with the seaweed. Cover with the remainder of the onion, tomato and peppers, cilantro, sprinkle the salt. Water with the palm oil oil. Lead to the gentle fire and leave to cook. Water with the coconut milk, and leave to boil. Sprinkle more cilantro, and withdraw of the fire. Serve with rice, vatapa or caruru. And pepper. Cubra com o restante da cebola, tomate e pimentões, coentro, salpique o sal. Regue com o azeite de dendê. Leve ao fogo brando e deixe cozinhar. Regue com o leite de coco, e deixe ferver. Salpique mais coentro, e retire do fogo. Sirva com arroz, vatapa ou caruru. E pimenta.

    Bon appetit

    Daniel on October 20th, 2009
    Caruru

    Brazillian Food: Caruru

    It prescribes version Vegan of the Bahian cookery.

      Ingredients

    • 2 spoons (soup) of oil of olive
    • 1 middle onion peeled and cut in small cubes
    • 1/2 pricked middle pepper
    • 2 crushed garlic teeth
    • 4 Pricked middle tomatoes
    • 2 spoons (soup) of fresh cilantro stew
    • 1 cup of tofu pricked in strips
    • 500g of pricked okra
    • Salt to taste
    • 2 cups of toasted peanut, peeled and hit the liquidizer
    • 2 water cups
    • 2 spoons (soup) of oil of palm oil

    Preparation

    Heat the oil and sauté the onion, the garlic and the pepper. Add the tomatoes and season with cilantro. Add the pricked tofu and the okra. Season with salt and add water. When the okra is soft, join the peanut. Put two or more tablespoons of oil of palm oil. Acrescente o tofu picado e o quiabo. Tempere com sal e acrescente água. Quando o quiabo estiver macio,junte o amendoim. Coloque duas ou mais colheres de sopa de azeite de dendê.

    Prontinho.

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    Daniel on October 17th, 2009
    vatapah

    Brazillian Food: Vatapá

    It writes prescriptions: Vatapá

    Income comes from the region of the Bahia, in Brazil, in Vegetarian version.

    Ingredients

    • 2 dawned and pricked breads
    • Half a water cup
    • 1/4 of cup of oil of palm oil
    • Half pricked onion
    • 1 pricked green pepper
    • 2 spoons (tea) of cilantro in powder
    • 100g of tofu
    • 250g of palm heart
    • 1 spoon of seaweed sea (Fucus visiculosos)
    • 1 pepper spoon calabresa
    • 1 tomato without skin and without seed
    • Juice of 1 lemon
    • 1 spoon (tea) of grated ginger
    • Half a cup of milk of coconut
    • 1/4 of cup of cashew nut
    • 1/4 of cup of toasted peanut
    • Half a pack of green cilantro
    • Salt and black pepper

    Preparation

    Put the bread in the water, leave to soften well, sauté the onion and the garlic in the half of the oil of palm oil. Add the pepper, mix with the cilantro in powder. Add the Tofu, and the palm heart. Season with the Fucus, the pepper calabresa and a little of salt. Add the tomatoes, the juice of lemon, and the ginger. Add a little of water to help to cook, join the milk of coconut and mix well. Withdraw the slices of palm heart and await. Withdraw half of the stew and there hits the liquidizer, with the cashew nut and the peanut, the wet bread, half of the pricked green cilantro. Put the cream in the pan together with the stew and mix well. Cook moving not to stick in the bottom of the pan. Prick the slices of palm heart and add to a vatapá. Add the remainder of the oil of palm oil, cook moving up to loosening of the bottom. It is only to serve. Acrescente o Tofu, e o palmito. Tempere com o Fucus, a pimenta calabresa e um pouco de sal. Adicione os tomates, o suco de limão, e o gengibre. Acrescente um pouco de água para ajudar a cozinhar, junte o leite de coco e misture bem. Retire as rodelas de palmito e reserve. Retire metade do refogado e bata no liquidificador, com a castanha de caju e o amendoim, o pão molhado, metade do coentro verde picado. Coloque o creme na panela juntamente com o refogado e misture bem. Cozinhe mexendo para não grudar no fundo da panela. Pique as rodelas de palmito e acrescente ao vatapá. Adicione o restante do óleo de dendê, cozinhe mexendo até desprender do fundo. É só servir.

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    Daniel on September 16th, 2009

    Pneumonia is the given generic name ás several inflammations that take place in the lungs. They can be provoked by bacteria like estafilococos, estreptococos, pneumococo. Or even get the flu and resfrirados when they were badly cured. The principal symptoms are: intense shudder, it coughs up wet with mucus and pus, intense fever, nuisances for the generalized body, headache, pain while speaking, difficulty to breathe bottom, increase of the pulsation and pains in the thorax. Ou mesmo gripes e resfrirados mal curados. Os principais sintomas são: calafrio intenso, tosse úmida com muco e pus, febre intensa, incômodos pelo corpo generalizado, dor de cabeça, dor ao falar, dificuldade para respirar fundo, aumento da pulsação e dores no torax.

    Advices

    • The patient wraps up well, principally the feet, if possible to maintain a water bag warms in the feet.
    • During the treatment, chicken lifts completely the use of flesh-colored foods, fishes, oily (fried food, margarine, eggs and chocolate) and of any product been derived from the milk., frango, gordurosos (frituras, margarina, ovos e chocolate) e de qualquer produto derivado do leite.
    • Substitute them for natural food been composed of raw vegetables, fresh fruits of the time and pure and fresh water in abundance.
    • To take, looking for an interval of 2 in 2 hours, a cup of hot lemon soda with honey or tea of eucalyptus.
    • To do 2 inhalations in a day with elder, lemon, and onion.
    • To apply compresses warms of 15 minutes in the chest and in the back, using tea been composed of lemon verbena and eucalyptus.
    • In the dinner to alternate between hot banana and hot apple, sweetened with honey.

    Treatment

    Pumpkin – Stalks of the leaves of the aboboreira. To fry 1 00 g in olive oil and to apply lukewarm cataplasm in the chest, 3 times in a day, with duration of 20 minutes.

    Artichoke – Cooked and seasoned with oil of olive and salt. To eat the artichoke and to take the broth of the cooking.

    Okra - Leaves and haggard flowers of the foot of okra. To add oil of hot olive and to apply lukewarm cataplasm in the chest, 3 times in a day, with duration of 20 minutes.

    Orange – natural Juice. To take 250 ml, 3 times to the day heated and sweetened with honey of bees. To add 30 drops of Acrescentar 30 gotas de
    própolis. (adults less than the half for children younger than seven years).
    3 times include in the Meals at least in a week.

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