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Stellar media (L.) Vill.
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Popular names - Italy: centocchio, lugarina Erba, Erba di li addine; English: chickweed, satin flower.

Stellar Media - herbaceous perennial, 80 cm, green stem, square in section, creeping with ascending branches, the root issue internoduri contact with the earth. Leaves oval-elliptical, the rod is round or cordiforme, the tip is acuminata, margin entire, short petiole and lower leaf-pelos at the top is missing. Flowers 5 mm, are joined in the top of Cime branches or solitary axillary; 5 SEPA, the top oval-oblonga obtuse, pubescent, 5 petals biloba, white. Fruit capsule, green, dehiscence of the superior up to half, oval-oblonga. Seeds flattened, red-brown or black. 2n = 40, 42, 44.

Prefers alkaline land, is common in cultures in wet environments, up to 1600 m. shares

Air side of the plant has propertiesYou have astringent and diuretic. Be collected during the flowering, cut the ground and cleaned of dried leaves. Dry in the shade, in well-ventilated, in thin films and return often to avoid mold. Is preserved in a glass or porcelain vessels.

In external use, applied to its astringent, anti-inflammatory, healing. Not advise the application to the eyelids, swollen or redness.

As a diuretic - 3 g dry herb in 100 ml water. Two to three cups a day.

Tincture - 20 g of dry herb in 100 ml of alcohol 60 °, place it soak for 8 days. Teaspoon two or three times a day.

In the kitchen, branches give good flavor salads and soups.

The leaves are consumed and the birds.

References

David E. Allen and Gabrielle Hatfield - Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition - Timber Press, 2004

Flora of North America Editorial Committee - Flora of North America - Oxford UniversityPress, 2005

Jethro Kloss - Back to Eden - Lotus Press, 1997

Umberto Boni, Gianfranco Patri - Guida pratica e per Riconoscere Illustrate it is Usare Erbe - Gulliver, 1997

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