Medicinal herbs

Folk names: oil flower, cow flower, March bush, milk flower, light, air flower. Parts used: grass with root. Pharmacy name: dandelion (all plant) - Taraxaci radix cum herba (formerly: Radix Taraxaci cum herba), dandelion root - Taraxaci radix (formerly: Radix Taraxaci). Botanical description. Extremely stable and durable dandelion feels great on any soil. Its powerful rod root, up to 30 cm long, holds it firmly in the ground. Leaves in the root rosette, from 5 to 25 cm long, arch-shaped, pinnatipartite, with serrated blades...

Seed Oats Cereals are Poaceae (Gramineae). Parts used: Scale-free fruits (such as food and diet), fresh flowering plant (in homeopathy), green oats and oat straw (for baths). Pharmacy name: oat fruits - Avenae fructus (formerly: Fructus Avenae), oat grass - Avenae herba (formerly: Herba Avenae), green oats - Avenae herba recens (formerly: Herba Avenae recens), oat straw - Avenae stramentum (formerly: Stramentum Avenae). Botanical description. Oats are a cultivated plant that is cultivated everywhere...

Folk names: soap grass, white carnation, cuckoo soap, dog soap, cleanliness. Parts used: grass and rhizome. The substances contained in the medicinal soap dish have a positive effect on tone and chemical reactions in muscle tissue. Pharmacy Name: Soap herb - Saponariae herba (formerly Herba Saponariae), red soap root - Saponariae rubrae radix (formerly Radix Saponariae rubrae). Botanical description. Perennial plant 25-80 cm high, with strongly branched reddish-brown, yellowish rhizome inside the finger-thick...

Pharmacy name: peppermint leaves - Menthae piperitae folium (formerly Folia Menthae piperitae), peppermint oil - Menthae piperitae aetheroleum (formerly Oleum Menthae piperitae). Botanical description. Peppermint is a hybrid that was found in England in 1696 among the mint plantations of Mentha spicala L. and has since been cultivated. Therefore, peppermint used for medicinal purposes is not found in a wild state of peppermint: even the "wild" plants that emerged from the crops soon undergo a reverse splitting...

Folk names: fire salad, male flower, March flower, sand flower, tobacco grass, uncle's leaves. Parts used: leaves, less often inflorescences. Pharmacy name: mother-and-mother leaves - Farfarae folium (formerly: Folia Farfarae), mother-and-mother flowers - Farfarae flos (formerly: Flores Farfarae). Botanical description. This perennial plant pleases us in early spring with its bright yellow blossoms with a smell of honey. Long before the leaves appear, the creeping rhizome throws out the erect...

Poisonous! Guarded. Lilyceae - Liliaceae. Folk names: eye grass, May lily, bells of Maria, snow droplets. Parts used: leaves. Pharmacy name: lily of the valley grass - Convallariae herba (earlier: Herba Convallariae), lily of the valley tincture - Convallariae tinctura (earlier: Tinctura Convallariae). Botanical description. In places of lily of the valley, large dark green oval (before lanceolate) leaves more than 10 cm long and almost 5 cm wide are striking. They depart from the light brown (up to whitish-gray) creeping rhizome...

The Laurels are Lauraceae. Parts used: fruits and leaves. Pharmacy name: Lauri fructus (formerly: Fructus Lauri), Lauri oleum (formerly: Oleum Lauri), Lauri folium (formerly: Folia Lauri). Botanical description. The native land of this evergreen plant is Asia Minor; however, now it grows both in culture and wildlife throughout the Mediterranean, in the subtropics of Russia, in Central and South America. This slender shrub or tree can live for up to 100 years. At the end of April, the laurel blossoms with its whitish flowers, forming shrubs of false umbrellas or short panicles...

Folk names: gout tree, pork chestnut. Parts used: seeds, but also flowers, leaves and bark. Pharmacy name: horse chestnut seeds - Hippocastani semen (formerly: Semen Hippocastani), horse chestnut flowers - Hippocastani flos (formerly: Flores Hippocastani), horse chestnut leaves - Hippocastani folium (formerly: Folia Hippocastani), horse chestnut bark - ippocastani cortex (formerly: Cortex Hippocastani). Botanical description. It is quite pointless to describe a chestnut tree, familiar to both...

Source: Polygalaceae. Folk names: bitter thrushcropper, voznesenskiy color, milky, Uzhoviy color, pilgrim's color. Parts used: all flowering plant (with roots). Pharmacy Name: Bitter source herb with roots - Polygalae amarae herba cum radice (formerly: Herba Polygalae amarae cum radicibus). Botanical description. This perennial plant develops from a multiheaded root a few non-rooted upright stems up to 20 cm high. Leaves form a rather noticeable root rosette and alternate on the stem, becoming smaller and smaller as they move towards the top...

Lichenes are lichens. Parmelian - Parmeliaceae. Folk name: Icelandic lichen. Used parts: the whole plant. Pharmacy name: Icelandic moss - Cetrariae lichen (formerly: Lichen islandicus). Botanical description. First of all, it should be said that the name "Icelandic moss" is incorrect from the point of view of botany, as we are dealing here not with moss, but with lichen. It reaches a height of 4-12 cm and is a sprawled bush with a forked, leafy layer reminiscent of deer horns. Some branches have a width of 5-20 mm, but they are usually curved and grooved...

Folk names: Blood grass, hard hay, grass of Jesus' wounds, wounds. Parts used: aboveground part of the plant. Pharmacy Name: Hyperici herba (formerly Herba Hyperici), Hyperici oleum (formerly Oleum Hyperici). Botanical description. Perennial plant, 25-40 cm high. In the upper part of the stem will branch abundantly. Leaves are supple, elliptical or ovate, up to 1.5-3 cm long, all-edged, uncut, with translucent points of oil glands. Five-membered golden-yellow flowers are collected in a paniculate inflorescence...

Poisonous! Krushinovye - Rhamnaceae. Folk names: Thrush berries, witch thorn, laxative crush. Parts used: mature fruits. Pharmacy name: fruits of a joster laxative - Rhamni cathartic! fructus (formerly: Fructus Rhamni cathartici). Botanical description. It is a shrub of about 3 heights, with bulging branches. The bark, while it is young, silver-grey, later becomes brown-black. The joster can be easily recognized by the straight prickle, into which the tops of the branches turn. Suprotive leaves with petioles, ovate, glossy, with recessed veins, on the edge of the town-sawn...