St. John's Wort Elongated

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St. John's wort elongated is one of the plants of the family called St. John's wort, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Hypericum elongatum Ledeb. As for the name of the extended family of St. John's wort, in Latin it will be like this: Hypericaceae Juss.

Description of St. John's wort elongated

St. John's wort is a perennial herb, the height of which will be from twenty to fifty centimeters. The stems of this plant are quite numerous, they are rarely solitary, such stems are naked and they are colored in tones from gray-green to brown. The leaves will be quite oblong, they can be either broad-linear or lanceolate. The leaves are endowed with transparent glands, the inflorescences of this plant are racemose-paniculate, the flowers are numerous, they are painted either in golden yellow or in whitish tones. The fruit of St. John's wort is elongated is an ovoid, long pointed capsule, brownish-brown in color. The seeds will be cylindrical in shape, they are whitish, brown in color and two to two and a half millimeters long.

The flowering of St. John's wort falls on the period from May to July. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the Crimea, on the territory of Western Siberia in the Altai and Irtysh regions, as well as in Central Asia and the Caucasus. For growth, the plant prefers thickets of shrubs, dry rocky slopes and steppes in the mid-mountain zone.

Description of the medicinal properties of St. John's wort

St. John's wort is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the herb and seeds of this plant. Grass includes leaves, flowers, and stems. The presence of such valuable healing properties is explained by the content in the plant of vitamin C, carotene, coumarins, tannins, essential oil, quercetin, rutin, hyperin, quercitrin, anthraquinones, anthocyanins, vitamins P and E.

It is noteworthy that the herb infusion of this plant is capable of having an anthelmintic effect. In an experiment, it was proven that the herb is able to increase urine output by one hundred percent.

As for traditional medicine, here St. John's wort is very often used for medicinal purposes. It is recommended to drink the herb infusion for stomach ulcers, gastritis, diarrhea, dysentery, diseases of the bladder, kidneys and liver, as well as for hemorrhoids and rheumatism. The flowers of this plant can be brewed as tea and drunk with jaundice.

A decoction of the herb St. John's wort is also used for liver cancer, and also rinse your mouth with bleeding gums. It is noteworthy that various tissues can be stained with the aerial parts of this plant. In scientific medicine, this plant is used along with St. John's wort. A decoction of the seeds of this plant is used as a laxative and is also drunk for malaria.

As a laxative, you can use the following remedy based on St. John's wort: to prepare such a plant, you will need to take one teaspoon of the seeds of this plant in one glass of water. The resulting mixture should be boiled for five to six minutes, and then left to infuse for one hour, after which this mixture is filtered very thoroughly. Take this remedy in half a glass or one third of a glass per day on an empty stomach. Also, such a remedy can be used for malaria: for this, the broth is drunk one tablespoon three times a day. It should be noted that in order to achieve the greatest efficiency, it is important to observe not only all the norms of preparation, but also all the norms for taking this remedy.