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Meaning of cirigüeya



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

cirigüeya
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It is one of the common names that give the Spain plant Chelidonium majus, Papaveraceae (poppy family) family. It has medicinal uses, especially in severe cases of dermatitis. It also receives the names of ciriguena, swallow, Celandine, herb warts, type as and many more. It is a unique species in the genus Chelidonium.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Also ciriguena, cirguena, ceriguena, cerigona or celandine. So they call in my land perfectly this herbaceous plant of many uses in folk medicine. I remember his beige latex from their stems to remove warts. Its technical name, chelidonium majus, though they also say ciriduena, ciriuena, swallows, hirundinaria, warts grass, grass quitaverrugas and in many other ways.

  










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