CIRIAN OR CUACOMATE AND ITS PROPERTIES

Tree up to 14m high, has light brown bark and longitudinal grooves. The leaves are gathered in number of 3 that leave of the same point. The flowers are greenish yellow and purple brown, sometimes with purple pink stripes, grow on the solitary stem or in groups of two or three. The fruits are almost spherical, are born stuck to the stem, measure about 15cm in diameter, with pulsa blackish and sweet.

Of unknown origin. It inhabits areas of warm climates, semi-warm, semi-dry and temperate, from l00 and 1554msnm. Wild plant, present in savannah, mangrove, tropical forests; deciduous and sub-deciduous forest, xerophytic scrub, thorny forest, mesophilic mountain forest, oak, pine and mixed oak-pine forests.

The fruit of this species, is used to relieve different respiratory conditions, mainly cough (Estado de México, Michoacán, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla and Sonora). With the pulp of the fruit a syrup is prepared, adding water, sugar and alcohol. With its seeds, toasted and ground, plus cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum), a drink is made like chocolate, that is ingested when there are annoyances; or an infusion prepared with flower and fruit is taken; or a red wine in which the fruit has been left to rest.

In order to treat asthma, the pulp is cooked along with the coriander (Gnaphalium spp.), Eucalyptus, sauco (Sambucus mexicana), obelisk, bugambilia (Bougainvillea spectabilis), tejocote (Crataegus mexicana), myrtle (Psidium sartorianum) of capulin (Prunus serotina subsp. capulli), is taken before meals; during treatment do not drink soda, ice water, coffee, or eat pork. In the same way it serves to relieve bronchitis, tuberculosis and various ailments such as pain and tear of blood of the chest and lung, rhinopharyngitis, phlegm, phlegm and respiratory conditions in general. When there is chest pain, it is rubbed with alcohol where the seeds have been left to stand.

Also, the use of the fruit is important to treat traumatic injuries. It is applied party and mixed with honey of bee on the apostemas and blows. Its pulp is put in the way of poultice to deflate external blows; or take the cooking with piloncillo before the food and before going to sleep. Also with the fruit, a wine is prepared with sugar and alcohol that is ingested to relieve internal blows.

It is used in gynecological disorders: in order to avoid abortion or in the wrongs and hemorrhages, a firming of the marrow of the fruit with tlacopatli root (Aristolochia argentea) and zopilopatli seed is sweetened, sweetened with honey. To provoke menstruation, it is advisable to take a preparation of the fruit with good grass (Mentha piperita) and honey, to which is added mezcal or alcohol; in addition, a bust of the womb, waist and feet should be given to the patient and then wrapped in a sheet to let her sleep for several hours. With the purpose of promoting a good delivery, the cooking of the fruit peel is dosed as water for use and the parturient is covered with a blanket so that sude.

For the treatment of skin problems, hair loss, edema, and used as an anti-cystic, the warm juice of the fruit is drunk. In bruises and burns, a poultice is applied with the crushed fruit. It also addresses some gastrointestinal problems: diarrhea, dysentery, indigestion and ulcer; in kidney disease, varicose veins, earache, insomnia and fright.