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...