My experience with "llantén" in times of COVID-19

The "llantén" is a herbaceous plant, with green stems, not very woody, (only the spikes that give rise to the seeds that become woody when dry) that can grow in any garden because if you want it is something wild. It does not require much care but it is widely used to make decoctions that can heal various ailments.

Traditionally it is used as an anti-inflammatory and in that sense goes my experience with this plant because there was a time when I suffered a lot of tonsils, they were inflamed and infected and the fever did not wait so I used it to gargle and thus reduce inflammation of the tonsils, just make a decoction of the leaves, strain it and let it cool a little, still warm, gargle. It is as they say "an errand".

Also, you can take the decoction but for this you have to remove the veins previously, because they say they are poisonous. It is boiled, strained and then taken to dissolve the cysts in the ovaries.

In the same way, by passing it through water, they are crumbled and a touch of lemon and a few drops of honey are added for an excellent mask for the skin.

I know but not from my own experience that its mucilage is used as a pectoral remedy and as eye drops for conjunctivitis, the latter if I have heard from some plant connoisseurs.

This is the little or much I know about this plant and I hope it serves to provide more knowledge because many people have it in their yards or green areas, especially you get to see him in vacant lots, among debris or between the slots of places treated with cement and proliferates easily as a "weed" and do not know the utility of it and to grow as "bush" is quickly pruned and discarded without giving any use.

Today we are called to retake the ancestral knowledge for the benefit of ourselves and those who are in our care, especially when we are facing a global pandemic that leaves us at the mercy of other circumstances that we must take care of ourselves due to the shortage of medicines and health care centers that are in primary care with the COVID-19 and in many cases with enclosures contaminated by this virus, so we must avoid them as much as possible.

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Written by Nadia Padrón: @hojaraskita