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Squill is one of the plants of the family called liliaceae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Urginea maritima (L.) Baker (Scilla maritima L.). As for the name of the sea onion family itself, then in Latin it will be like this: Liliaceae Juss.

Description of sea bow

The squid is a perennial herbaceous bulbous plant with thick and fleshy roots that can be up to four centimeters in diameter. The bulbs of this plant are very large, their weight will be about one to three kilograms. The bulbs of sea onions are fleshy, they are endowed with a pear-shaped shape, and can be either reddish-brown in color or white with a slight yellowish tinge. The leaves of this plant are juicy, smooth and broadly lanceolate, and their length is about forty to fifty centimeters. It is noteworthy that at the end of the growing season, such leaves will dry out. The flower arrow of this plant is most often erect. The development of such an arrow occurs in an adult plant until the appearance of leaves, such an arrow will be endowed with a cylindrical shape, and its height will be about one meter. The upper part of the scallop arrow is endowed with quite numerous flowers, painted in greenish-white tones, and also endowed with six-membered corolla-shaped perianths and stamens, the length of which will be equal to half the petal. The three-nested ovary of the sea bow is endowed with a column that will end in a split stigma. It is noteworthy that the fruit will contain quite a few small round seeds. The shape of such seeds is oval, and sometimes they can taper, sharpen towards the top and expand at the very base. Seeds of sea onions are quite flattened, they will be endowed with unevenly rounded edges.

The flowering of sea onions occurs in the period from June to August. For growth, this plant prefers the southern coast of France, the coast of Portugal and Spain, Italy, Greece, Morocco, Algeria, the northern coast of Africa and the islands of the Atlantic Ocean.

Description of the medicinal properties of sea onions

Sea bow is endowed with very valuable healing properties. The presence of such valuable medicinal properties should be explained by the content of the bulbs of this plant lisi, saponins, tannins, sitosterol, stigmasterol, scillarene A, scillipheoside, scillicryptozide, phytoncides, chelidonic and citric acids.

White sea onions are used in the form of infusions, powders, decoctions, extracts, pills and extracts. An infusion prepared on the basis of bulbs is indicated for use in chronic and acute circulatory failure, in heart failure in patients with coronary sclerosis, as well as in circulatory disorders due to insufficiency of the mitral valve of the heart.

Red onions will have a very effective rat-control effect and are recommended for use as a rat-control agent. The rats will eat the onions, and then they die pretty quickly. For the composition of such mixtures, you can take one hundred grams of grated red sea onions, fifty grams of fat and fifty grams of flour. It is also permissible to make butter, which will then be spread on bread: to prepare such an oil based on this plant, you will need to take six hundred grams of flour, four hundred grams of water and fifty grams of lard. All this mixture should be mixed, and then you will need to finish off the grated red onion in a volume of five hundred grams. Such agents are found to be very effective against rats.