{"id":699,"date":"2023-12-23T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T22:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2023-12-23T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T22:45:59","slug":"la-farmacia-de-oropopo-hombre-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/2023\/12\/23\/la-farmacia-de-oropopo-hombre-grande\/","title":{"rendered":"La Farmacia de Oropopo: Hombre Grande"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Empezamos este espacio de plantas y \u00e1rboles medicinales hablando de un arbolito muy especial, que tiene propiedades \u00fanicas que lo hacen un gran aliado de nuestra comunidad. Me refiero al Hombre Grande, nombre com\u00fan de la Quassia amara. Debe su nombre a\u00a0 Quassie van Timotibo, un esclavo africano que consigui\u00f3 su libertad en Surinam e hizo popular esta planta en la colonia holandesa.\u00a0

El Hombre Grande contiene sustancias muy amargas (los diterpenes quassinoides) por lo cual se usa para aumentar el apetito, como t\u00f3nico\u00a0 digestivo y hepatoprotector. Adem\u00e1s ayuda a eliminar par\u00e1sitos y tiene propiedades insecticidas y antimicrobiana, siendo usado en agricultura org\u00e1nica para control de plagas. Es originario de Am\u00e9rica tropical y se reproduce por semillas o estacas. Adem\u00e1s es muy ornamental, por sus hermosas flores rojas.

Uso:

Usamos 4 cm. de una rama de por lo menos 1 cm de di\u00e1metro, que ya no sea verde, desmenuzamos la madera en pedazos peque\u00f1os, a\u00f1adimos 2 litros de agua y\u00a0 hervimos por 15 minutos. En seguida colamos y tomamos una taza en ayunas en la ma\u00f1ana, por una semana. Como t\u00f3nico hep\u00e1tico, es muy eficaz mezclado con c\u00farcuma y un poco de pimienta negra, tambi\u00e9n hervidas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La farmacia de Oropopo es una secci\u00f3n de Stefano Silvestri, bot\u00e1nico que lleva d\u00e9cadas inmerso en el mundo de las plantas medicinales, las cuales recolecta del bosque o de su jard\u00edn bot\u00e1nico en la Reserva Natural Oropopo para despu\u00e9s hacer diferentes remedios. Para saber m\u00e1s sobre este c\u00e9lebre personaje de nuestra comunidad, puede visitar la entrevista que hizo con Santa Teresa Hoy.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Oropopo’s Pharmacy: Bitter wood<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We begin this space of medicinal plants and trees by talking about a very special tree, which has unique properties that make it a great ally of our community. I am referring to Hombre Grande or Bitter wood, the common names of Quassia amara. It owes its name to Quassie van Timotibo, an African slave who gained his freedom in Suriname and made this plant popular in the Dutch colony.
Hombre Grande contains very bitter substances (quassinoid diterpenes) which is why it is used to increase appetite, as a digestive tonic and hepatoprotective. It also helps eliminate parasites and has insecticidal and antimicrobial properties, being used in organic agriculture to control pests. It is native to tropical America and reproduces by seeds or cuttings. It is also very ornamental, due to its beautiful red flowers.

Use:

We use 4 cm From a branch of at least 1 cm in diameter that is no longer green, we crumble the wood into small pieces, add 2 liters of water and boil for 15 minutes. Then we strain and drink a cup on an empty stomach in the morning, for a week. As a liver tonic, it is very effective mixed with turmeric and a little black pepper, also boiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oropopo’s pharmacy is a section by Stefano Silvestri, a botanist who has been immersed in the world of medicinal plants for decades, which he collects from the forest or from his botanical garden in the Oropopo Nature Reserve to later make different remedies. To learn more about this famous character of our community, you can visit the interview he did with Santa Teresa Hoy.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

—English below—Reading time 1’\/ Tiempo de lectura 1′ Empezamos este espacio de plantas y \u00e1rboles medicinales hablando de un arbolito muy especial, que tiene propiedades \u00fanicas que lo hacen un gran aliado de nuestra comunidad. Me refiero al Hombre Grande, nombre com\u00fan de la Quassia amara. Debe su nombre a\u00a0 Quassie van Timotibo, un esclavo … Continue reading La Farmacia de Oropopo: Hombre Grande<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":235223963,"featured_media":723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[768136400],"tags":[768136411,9710,184,705,859744,452476],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-farmacia-de-oropopo","tag-ambiente","tag-costa-rica","tag-environment","tag-local","tag-malpais","tag-medicinal-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santateresahoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hombre-grande-1.png?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peOIQI-bh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235223963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santateresahoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}