Tenacious Geneva

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Tenacious geneva is one of the plants of the family called labiates, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Ajuga genevensis L. As for the name of the geneva tenacious family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Lamiaceae Lindl.

Description of the geneva tenacious

The geneva zhivuchka is a herbaceous plant, the height of which can reach fifty centimeters. The basal leaves of this plant will be either obovate or spatulate in shape, they can be both coarsely crenate-toothed and distantly crenate-toothed, sometimes such leaves can be entire. The lower stem leaves are oblong, and in the upper part they are separately crenate-toothed. The bracts of this plant are large-three-toothed or three-lobed, in shape they can be broadly ovate or ovoid. The flowers of the geneva tenacious are painted in blue tones. The fruits are nuts, the length of which reaches only three millimeters. Such fruits will be hairy, sharply reticulate and dark brown in shape.

The flowering of the geneva tenacious falls on the period from April to the month of July. Under natural conditions, this plant can be found throughout the entire European part of Russia, with the exception of only the Dvinsko-Pechora, Nizhnevolzhsky and Karelo-Murmansk regions. The plant is also found in Moldova, Belarus, the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia in the Syrdarya region. As for the general distribution, the plant is found throughout Europe, with the exception of the Arctic, as well as in the Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Armenia, Iran, China, Afghanistan and the Balkan Peninsula.

Description of the medicinal properties of the geneva tenacious

The tenacious geneva is endowed with very valuable medicinal properties, while it is recommended to use the leaves and grass of this plant for medicinal purposes. Grass includes flowers, leaves and stems. The presence of such valuable healing properties is explained by the content of essential oil, aucubin, flavonoids, tannins, harpagid and phytol in the plant.

The plant can be used as a hemostatic, wound healing, anti-inflammatory agent, and is also used for malaria and metrorrhagia. It is noteworthy that both the extract and the juice of the geneva tenacious are endowed with hemostatic properties, which can not only activate the contractile activity of the myometrium, but will also increase the motor activity of the intestines.

An infusion of this herb is used in the treatment of stomach ulcers, diarrhea, hemoptysis, bronchitis, epididymitis and rheumatism. Also, the plant is used for ulcers, burns, wounds, tonsillitis and stomatitis. As for the decoction of the leaves, it is recommended to drink it for fever, pulmonary tuberculosis and dysentery. Outwardly, such a decoction is used to enhance hair growth, and baths are used for asthenia.

In folk medicine, such an external remedy, as a decoction made from the herb of the geneva tenacious, is used for bone fractures, as well as for injuries, during heat from carbuncles and poisons, and besides this, also for painful tumors from blows.

For all of the above diseases, as well as to enhance hair growth, the following remedy is used: for its preparation, take three tablespoons of dry crushed leaves in two glasses of water. The resulting mixture is boiled for three to four minutes, and then infused for two hours and filtered very carefully. In case of diseases, such a remedy is taken in half a glass or one third of a glass three times a day. To enhance hair growth, the agent is used externally.