2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Hungarian catman is one of the plants of the family called labiates, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Nepeta pannonica L. As for the name of the Hungarian catnip family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Lamiaceae Lindl.
Description of the Hungarian catnip
The Hungarian catnip is a perennial herb, the height of which will fluctuate between fifty and one hundred and twenty centimeters. The stems of this plant are numerous and strong, grooved and tetrahedral. In the lower part, such stems will be either naked or almost naked, and in the upper part they are pubescent. The upper leaves of the Hungarian catnip will be sessile, and the lower ones are short petiolate, all leaves on both sides will be shortly pubescent, and their length can reach ten centimeters. The inflorescences of this plant are quite numerous and loose, they will consist of about two to five flowers, which are located on rather short peduncles. The length of the cup will be about four to five millimeters, it will be hairy and can be painted in both green and purple tones. The corolla of this plant is hairy on the outside, its color can be from pale purple or pinkish to white. The fruits of the Hungarian catnip are triangular nuts, endowed with hairs and outgrowths.
The flowering of this plant occurs in the month of June, while the ripening of the fruits will occur in the period from July to September. Under natural conditions, the Hungarian catnip is found in Central Asia, the European part of Russia, Crimea, in the Dnieper region and the Carpathians in Ukraine, as well as in Western Siberia and in the Yenisei region of Eastern Siberia. For growth, the plant prefers steppes, places among shrubs, forest edges, open slopes, meadows, light forests up to the upper mountain belt.
Description of the medicinal properties of the Hungarian catnip
The Hungarian catnip is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. The concept of grass includes flowers, stems and leaves of the Hungarian catnip.
The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of steroids, alkaloids, ursolic acid, essential oil, tannins, flavonoids, vitamin C and iridoids in this plant. In the inflorescences, essential oil will be present, and the flowers, in turn, contain vitamin C. As for the seeds, they contain the following useful substances: wax, sterol, higher aliphatic carbohydrates, triacylglycerols, and fatty oil. This fatty oil contains triacylglycerol fatty acids: linoleic, palmitic, stearic, oleic and linolenic.
An infusion of catnip herb is recommended for syphilis and asthenia. It is noteworthy that the essential oil of this plant is very suitable for use in perfumery.
For chronic fatigue, it is recommended to use the following remedy based on the Hungarian catnip: to prepare such a remedy based on this plant, you will need to take two tablespoons of dry crushed grass per three hundred milliliters of boiling water. The resulting mixture should be infused for about thirty to forty minutes, and then the mixture should be very thoroughly filtered. Take the resulting product based on the Hungarian catnip three times a day, one third of a glass for chronic fatigue syndrome. To achieve the fastest positive result, all norms for the preparation and use of such a healing agent should be observed.
