Features: It is native to South America, grows wild in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Mexico where the conquistadors introduced it to Europe in the seventeenth century. In Europe it is grown very extensively in gardens, but the development of it requires a sunny and humid. It is a deciduous shrub up to 3 m tall, with subleñosos or woody stems on top. Displays up to 7 cm whorled leaves, lanceolate, apicada, with smooth or toothed margin and very short petioles, are light green in color beam, with the underside marked by conspicuous oil glands. Give off a strong lemon fragrance. Flowers in summer, presenting small whitish or whitish-violet flowers, grouped in loose spikes up to 10 cm long. The fruit is a drupe which is divided into two monoseminadas nutlets. The part of the plant used in herbal medicine are the leaves containing the essential oil. Composition: Nettle, Lemon Verbena Instructions: Infusions Presentation: Bag of 10 pyramids amount: 10 pyramids.
Las hojas contienen entre 0,07 y 0,20% de aceite esencial rico en monoterpenos: citral en un 30%, geranial, neral, limoneno, linalol, terpineol y eucaliptol. Cineol y n sesquiterpeno: cariofileno; furocumarinas. Flavonoides.
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