Serpouhi

Useful properties and applications of sebuhi crowned

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Botanical characteristics of serpouhi

Serpouhi has a strong erect stem, the height of which can range from 50 to 110 cm Is a herbaceous plant with alternate leaves ovate and oblong edges boasts a graceful floral baskets. They are quite large, located on the ends of the stems and are purplish-Magenta hue. Serpouhi blooms around July and August, fruiting smooth brownish seed. She is an excellent honey plant.

Widespread this plant in the forest-steppe zone of the Russian Far East and Siberia. This grass prefers forest edges and birch groves.

Useful properties of serpouhi

Serpouhi contains a large number of traces of alkaloids and ascorbic acid. It is recommended to take for various gastric and cardiac disease, severe anemia and jaundice, as well as with various neuroses. She has a slightly pronounced astringent and choleretic effect on the human body. It should also be noted that the plant has long been used as protivomigrenoznogo, anti-emetic, anti-inflammatory and sedative.

The use of serpouhi

To prepare serpouhi suggest to take 2 teaspoons of dried herb no more than 1.5 cups of boiling water. This exceptional tool has to brew for about three hours, after which it is carefully filtered and can be drunk 3 or 4 times a day 1 tablespoon.

This infusion of serpouhi shown for rinsing sore throat in angina and other inflammatory processes.

Sabuha crowned

Sabuha crowned is a herbaceous perennial plant, the height of which does not exceed one meter. Glubokopronikayuschaya each sheet has a pronounced oblong lobe with a fairly large a few teeth. Large flower baskets are bright red hue located several pieces on the ends of the stems. Blooms sabuha crowned in mid-July and in August. It is often found in the wilds of the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Crimea, and in Siberia and the far East.

Serpouhi don

Serpouhi don – this is an unusual korotkodnevnye perennial. This species prefers mixed grass meadow steppes and mountain slopes, alsotends to gravelly soils and upland forest edges.

Serpouhi Donskoy strong upright stem, alternate oblong leaves and rather large flower baskets purple. This herbaceous plant is widely distributed in Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus. Don serpouhi blooms in early summer, from may until July.

Serpouhi dye

Serpouhi dyeing delights with its ovoid-cylindrical flower baskets, collected in total corymbose-paniculate inflorescence. Dark purple flowers in diameter of approximately 6 mm. Once the leaves are oblong-lanceolate or lyrate form. The altitude of the dyeing serpouhi can reach 90 cm the erect stem of the plant is quite sturdy and branching. Short rhizome threadlike supplemented by lateral roots. The fruit presents achene grayish with a yellowish crest.

Dye serpouhi blooms all summer, and the fruits-achenes ripen in the early fall. This perennial plant inhabits forest edges, clearings, in forests and thickets. It is common in the Middle part of Russia.

Contraindications to the use of serpouhi

For medical use of serpouhi contraindications to date have not been identified.