CONSUELDA MINOR
runella (prunella) vugaris
CONSUELDA MINOR
runella (prunella) vugaris
Family
: Labiadas.
Description of the rhizomes creeping herbaceous plant, equipped with numerous radículas. The stems are pubescent, fragile support that leaves opposite, provided the lower petioles, the upper
sessile
, whole or slightly toothed, lanceolate. The flowers are meeting in spike with two basal leaves; numerous bracts cover the chalice as shingles. Corolla is bilabiada, color
purple
or
violet
. Achenes contain the seeds of various -
brown
color. Can reach 25 cm. It is as
spontaneous
and often find it also is grown on calcareous soil. Is harvested in early
summer
.
Used parts:
The whole plant.
Chemical compounds:
Substance
bitter
, tannin, resin compounds.
Properties:
Astringent,
stomach
.
How to use:
Infusion, dyeing, fluid extract, poultice.
Note:
This plant is used frequently to compose fringes in the gardens, and is widely used in folk medicine as
a
mouthwash and as vulnerable on recent wounds and not very deep. Find also apply domestically, making macerated in brandy called grappa, which gives it
a
nice taste
bitter
. It
was
also used as Enema in the affections of
hemorrhoids
, with dubious results, and also in healing the cracks of the breasts.
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