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Harmala, or Burial ground (lat. Peganum) - a small genus of herbaceous flowering plants of the Selitryankovye family (lat. Nitrariaceae). Some botanists attribute the genus to the Parnifolia family (lat. Zygophyllaceae), therefore, in the literature, you can also find this genus belonging. To date, the genus includes only four plant species. All of them are very hardy representatives of the flora of our planet, growing in arid areas. Perhaps it was the harsh living conditions that turned at least one species into a unique creation of nature, whose abilities were noticed by people in very distant historical times.
What's in your name
The Latin name of the genus "Peganum" is based on the ancient Greek consonant word, which was called the plant "Ruta". This was due to the fact that when using the seeds of Garmala for religious rituals, the leaves and seeds of the Ruta plant were mixed with them, apparently to improve the smell and enhance the psychotropic effect.
The Russian name of the genus "Burial" is possibly associated with the specific smell of the plant.
Description
In the wild, plants of the genus Garmala are found in arid soils, which made them acquire a powerful multi-headed root that plunges into the soil to a depth of two to six meters. Such a root allows the plant to endure drought for a long time, since its long shoots reach the aquifers, which provide the plant with the moisture necessary for growth and development.
The root reveals green, bare, branched stems on the surface, which do not tend to pull away strongly from the surface of the earth, growing, as a rule, no higher than thirty centimeters in height. If the living conditions of the plant fall out more favorable, the stems can grow up to eighty centimeters in height.
The leaf blade of short petiolate or sessile leaves is divided by nature into linear pointed lobes in an amount from three to five. Which is also related to the arid environment. This shape of the leaf is more effective in saving moisture from the leaves from evaporation.
Solitary, relatively large, flowers have five white oval-oblong petals and fifteen stamens, forming a yellow core of the flower. The corolla of the flower is protected by a calyx composed of five almost separate sepals, which remains when the fruits ripen.
The crown of the growing season is a tricuspid, three-celled fruit pod filled with numerous seeds.
Varieties
Today there are four plant species in the genus, of which the most important is the species "Harmala ordinary" (lat. Peganum harmala), or ordinary burial ground. More or less well-known is the species with the name "Garmala chernushkoobraznaya" (lat. Peganum nigellastrum).
Plant seeds in spiritual practice
Plants of this genus are interesting because their seeds have been used by humans for thousands of years in the rituals of many cultures and religions. This applies to the seeds of a plant of this genus called Harmala vulgaris, which remain a popular tool in both spiritual practices and folk medicine, for such a long period of history of the human presence on Earth that some historians suggest that Harmala vulgaris is exactly that plant. whose name has been lost to history, but whose medicinal power is mentioned in many ancient Indo-Iranian texts telling about the mysterious drink "soma" (soma), which helped the clergy to enter into contact with another world, the world of the gods, becoming intermediaries between them and the earthlings.
Healing abilities
The plant "Peganum harmala" was revered as a cure for thousands of diseases, as well as a protector against evil forces.
History confirms that the plant saved people from disease-causing viruses, including the terrible plague and other infectious plagues, periodically sent to the human community by evil spirits.
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