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Sedum purple is included in the number of plants of the family called Crassulaceae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Sedum purpureum L. As for the name of the family of stonecrop itself, in Latin it will be like this: Crassulaceae DC.
Description of stonecrop purple
Sedum purple is a herb, endowed with tuberous roots and single erect stems. The height of such stems will fluctuate between thirty and eighty centimeters. The leaves of this plant are sessile, alternate, succulent, ovate-oblong, serrated along the edge, and also endowed with a rather sour taste. The flowers of stonecrop purple are rather small in size, they are painted in pink tones, endowed with five petals, five pistils and ten stamens. Such flowers will gather at the very top of the stem of this plant in a corymbose panicle. The fruit of the purpurine stonecrop is a multileaf.
Under natural conditions, this plant is found on the territory of Ukraine, the European part of Russia, Belarus, the Far East, Western and Eastern Siberia.
Description of the medicinal properties of purpura stonecrop
Sedum purple is endowed with extremely valuable medicinal properties. Remarkably, the leaves and stems of this plant have been shown to respond positively to alkaloids, while the herb will respond positively to flavonoids. In the form of lotions and as an external wound healing agent, it is recommended to use water that was previously distilled through the fresh leaves of this plant. Such healing agents are used for burns, cuts, bleeding, bruises, ulcers, warts, calluses, for the healing of carbuncles and old wounds, in addition, such agents are used as anti-inflammatory, blood-purifying, hemostatic agents.
Scab, panaritiums, scrofulous tumors, wounds and ulcers should be washed with the juice of the purpurine stonecrop herb. Ointments and poultices prepared on the basis of the herb of this plant are indicated for use in hemorrhoidal cones and chronic ulcers.
An infusion prepared on the basis of the herb of this plant is recommended for use in case of palpitations, pneumonia, pulmonary tuberculosis, epilepsy, heart failure, and also as a tonic for various nervous disorders and general weakness. Earlier, for infertility and as an aphrodisiac remedy, an infusion of an herb based on this plant and its fresh roots were used.
This plant is effective in various diseases of the kidneys and bladder, scurvy, dropsy, fever and tumors. In addition, such funds are used for rheumatism and gout, and are used for colds. With gastralgia, lack of nutrition and various gastrointestinal diseases, it is recommended to use the herb purpurine stonecrop.
Fresh herbs of this plant should be used as an emetic, antihelminthic and laxative. It is noteworthy that it was experimentally found that the extract of the herb of this plant will enhance the regeneration of blood proteins, and also increase the amount of total protein that is in the blood serum with a simultaneous increased content of fibrinogen, globulins and albumin in the blood. Also, such an extract will weaken or remove violations of protein metabolism, which were caused by repeated blood loss. As a biostimulant, a preparation based on the fresh root of the herb of this plant is used: in effect, such a remedy will be similar to the juice of aloe leaves.
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