Guisaro

₡2,550.00

SKU: 0935 Category:

Scientific name: Psidium guineense

Family: Myrtaceae

Origin: Tropical Americas

Medicinal use: In the Mexican states Chiapas, Oaxaca and Veracruz, it is used to treat various digestive ailments, such as diarrhea, when it is liquid with food remains, pushing and “tenesmus”; dysentery with blood and mucus, intestinal gas, vomiting and oral diseases. Both the leaves and the fruit or the root are used, mainly boiled.

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