A herb for gastrointestinal protection
The Paico is a herbaceous plant about 30 to 50 cm tall, very characteristic for its pungent odor.
It is a plant native to Mesoamerica (southern Mexico and Guatemala), but has become naturalized in temperate regions nearly worldwide. It spreads by seeds small dark brown.
According to experts in the field every 100 grams of their leaves contains 5gramos protein, 9.2 grams carbohydrate, 459 milligrams of calcium, phosphorus 65 milligrams and 6.3 milligrams of iron, forming a food that provides nutrients and calories. For its nutritional, digestive and carminative, is currently used as an important food.
Due to their known antispasmodic (used to relieve spasms) and carminative (helps expel gas) is used to relieve digestive problems, colic and gas for the expulsion of intestinal worms.
The risk of intestinal parasites due to their negative effects and pathological performed not only in the intestine as to reach their adult stage, previously passed by larval stages and larvae usually do a tour of various organs such as lungs heart, brain. In some cases, larvae were definitively located in one of these organs, with corresponding consequences for example, larvae of the tapeworm that comes to stay in the human brain causing cysticercosis.
This is why it is recommended that a natural laxative saline Paico , this action will only at-intestinal digestive tract, so it is recommended to extract the juice of fresh leaves, and take a tablespoon of this juice together with a salty food (broth) or sweet (fruit juice) fasting, repeat dose 3 times a week.
