Matico is the name of the spanish soldier who accidentally discovered the properties of the leaves when wounded in peru. Presenta flores amarillas en inflorescencias con forma esferica o globosa. Propiedades medicinales del matico bienestar medicina. Matico is a tropical, evergreen, shrubby tree that grows to the height of 6 to 7 m with lanceolate. Flores pequenas, verdes, dispuestas en densas mazorcas tienen copas con 5. It is a shrub of about 8 feet high, with many branches thickened. Propiedades y beneficios del molle medicina intercultural. Matico panil buddleja globosa hope nombres vernaculos. Effect of aqueous extract from piper elongatum vahl matico. Igualmente, su uso como emenagoga y abortiva esta muy difundido. The piper genus which includes more than 2,000 species of shru bs, trees and v ines and incl udes two o ther well known pla nts black pepper piper nigrum and kavajava piper methysticum. He learned probably from the indians that applying the leaves to his wounds.