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Donkey biennial is one of the plants of the family called fireweed, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Onagra biennis (L.) Scop. As for the name of the biennial primrose family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Onagraceae Juss.
Description of the biennial primrose
The biennial donkey is known under the following popular names: zhovtets, wormwood babek, pelept, donkey, forge, levkoya field candle, night candle, jar, night violet, blue, cunino. The biennial donkey is a biennial herb, the height of which will fluctuate between sixty and ninety centimeters. Such a plant will be endowed with a rather dense rosette of basal leaves, which in turn can be both basal obovate and obovate. The flower stem of the biennial primrose will be straight and strong, as well as leafy. The lower leaves of this plant are petiolate, while the upper ones will be sessile, obtuse and notched-toothed. The flowers of this plant are painted in yellow tones, they are quite large in size and fragrant: such flowers are collected with a long apical brush. The fruit of the biennial primrose is a short-cylindrical box, which will be thickened downwards, such a box is four-leafed and tetrahedral, and its length is two to four centimeters.
The flowering of this plant occurs in the summer and early autumn. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the Caucasus, Ukraine, the European part of Russia, Kazakhstan, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and Primorye in the Far East. For growth, the biennial primrose prefers river banks, forest edges, pastures, wastelands, fields and embankments.
Description of the medicinal properties of two-year-old primrose
The two-year-old donkey is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. Grass includes flowers, stems and leaves. It is recommended to harvest such raw materials throughout the entire flowering period of this plant.
The presence of such valuable medicinal properties should be explained by the content in the leaves of this plant of ceryl alcohol, ascorbic acid, tannins, sitosterol, invertase, resins, mucus, flobafens, as well as the flavonoid kaempferol, quercetin and their derivatives. The flowers of the biennial primrose will contain yellow pigment and sitosterol, while the roots will contain mucus, sitosterol and invert sugars.
An alcoholic tincture of the herb of this plant in folk medicine is used in drops for children's diarrhea. In addition, biennial primrose herb is used as a very effective astringent for dyspepsia, chronic exhaustion and various gastrointestinal diseases. A decoction prepared on the basis of the herb of two-year-old primrose is recommended to be used as a diuretic and an agent with the ability to stimulate the liver, spleen and stomach.
As for traditional medicine, here an infusion based on the leaves and bark of this plant is used as an anticonvulsant for bronchial asthma, cough and whooping cough, as well as a sedative for various neuralgic heart diseases. A decoction of biennial primrose roots is recommended by traditional medicine for pulmonary tuberculosis, and a decoction of inflorescences is used for nephritis and for washing wounds of various nature. A decoction based on the leaves and roots of biennial primrose is used for skin rashes, lichen, eczema and urolithiasis.
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