LAUREL

SCIENTIFIC LATIN NAME

VULGAR NAME: .SPANISH: Laurel, Bay Laurel
.BASK: Erramu
.ENGLISH: Laurel

MORPHOLOGICAL
DESCRIPTION:
MORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION: Stem (tronco, tallo)
Flowers
Seed (semilla)
Leaves (hojas)
Branches (ramas)

DRAWING OF THE PLANT:

MYTHOLOGICAL SIMBOLISM:
mythological simbolism: When Dafne ( a
beautiful girl) is persecuted by Apolo, she asked
god if she can converted in tree. Good became in
tree and this tree is a Laurel. Apolo not found and
cried next to Dafne (laurel) and dafne was
growing.

CLASSICAL AUTHORS:
Homero Odisea IX 186
Hesodo Teog. XXX; Trab y das 435 ss
Pausanias VIII 20,2
Teofrasto II 1,3; II 5,6; III 7,3; IV 13,7
Virgilio 45-55
Ovidio Met. I 452-600
Dioscrides I,78; I 40
Plinio XIII 152-157; XV 130,134, 137; XXIV 132
Suetonio Galba I

The ancient writters wrote Dafne

and Apolo. Today is a famous
istory

USES OF THE PLANT:

Aqueous extracts of bay laurel can also be used as astringents and even as a reasonable salve for open wounds.
In massage therapy, the essential oil of bay laurel is reputed to alleviate arthritis and rheumatism, while in

aroromatherapy, it is used to treat earaches and high blood pressure. A traditional folk remedy for rashes caused by
poison ivy, poison oak, and stinging nettle is a poultice soaked in boiled bay leaves.
The chemical compound lauroside B isolated from Laurus nobilis is an inhibitor of human melanoma(skin cancer) cell
proliferation at high concentrations.
---Parts Used: Leaves, fruit, oil.
Very important: careful not to confuse the laurel ( Laurus nobilis) with laurel - cherry or true laurel ( Prunus laurocerasus
) to which it somewhat resembles . The latter plant is toxic by ingestion for humans.

When the people had won in Pompei, for example, they put a laurel crown in their head.