CALDERON
trolllus europaeus
CALDERON
Family: Ranunculáceas.
Description herbaceous plant equipped with root issues and stem erect, furrowed, up to half a meter tall, hairless. The leaves are palmatopartidas, incised with lacinia and toothed, dark green on the page top. The flowers are large, yellow gold, forming a floral button collusion with sepals, five petals reduced to a tab and numerous stamens. Follicles carry seeds ovadas. Plant typical of the alpine pastures, in damp, along water courses. Is harvested in August.
Used parts: The root.
Active Principles: Anemonina, protoanemonina, essentially, tannin.
Directions: laxative, rubefaciente.
Use: Decoction, poultice.
Interest: The plant, like all Ranunculáceas, is poisonous, but when dried loses much of its top-toxic. Should be used fully if it is to get fresh action on rubefaciente periarthritis and rheumatism, by applying cataplasms. It was also preparing a distilled water with softer action in order to use it for a nerve NTI.
