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Cornflower headgear is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Compositae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Jurinea cyanoides (L.) Reichenb. As for the name of the cornflower head family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Asteraceae Dumort. (Compositae Giseke).
Description of cornflower head
The cornflower headgear is also known under the following popular names: bilka, podbeel, red headgear and male thunderbolt. Cornflower headgear is a perennial herb, the height of which will fluctuate between twenty and seventy-five centimeters. The stem of this plant can be either simple or slightly branched; it will be cobweb-tomentose and small-leaved. The leaves of the cornflower head are lanceolate, from below they will be a little cobweb, such leaves are painted in dark green tones, from below they will be densely white tomentose and endowed with curled edges. Also, such leaves of the cornflower head will be more or less deeply pinnate-separate, they are endowed with either linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate lobes, but rarely they can be whole. The lower leaves of this plant are collected in a rosette, the upper leaves will be stem and linear, the flower baskets of the cornflower head are on rather long legs and will be slightly close together, and also endowed with a whitish-woolly wrapper. All flowers of this plant will be bisexual. There are only five stamens, and the anthers at the very base will have ciliate-fringed appendages. The ovary of the cornflower head is lower, single-seeded and unilocular. The fruit of this plant is a wedge-shaped tetrahedral glabrous achene, endowed with longitudinal ribs. The stem of this plant will be endowed with blades that are short and obtuse.
The flowering of cornflower headgear occurs in the summer and autumn periods. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in Western Siberia, Belarus, Moldova, the Caucasus, Ukraine and the European part of Russia. For growth, this plant prefers sands, steppes, pine forests, calcareous and chalk slopes.
Description of the medicinal properties of cornflower head
Cornflower headgear is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the leaves of this plant for medicinal purposes. The presence of such valuable medicinal properties should be explained by the content of alkaloids, coumarins, anthocyanins, rubber, flavonoids, tannins and sesquiterpenoids in this plant. It should be noted that the leaves of this plant are recommended for use as a therapeutic and prophylactic agent for scarlet fever. It is noteworthy that the cornflower headgear has the ability to increase the milk yield of cows.
For the prevention and treatment of scarlet fever, it is recommended to use the following healing agent based on this plant: to prepare such a healing agent, you will need to take three tablespoons of dry crushed cornflower head herb per liter of boiling water. The resulting healing mixture should be infused for about two hours, after which it is recommended to strain such a mixture very thoroughly. Such a remedy is taken on the basis of cornflower headgear three times a day from one tablespoon to one second part of a glass: the intake rate will be regulated by the patient's age. To ensure the greatest efficiency when taking such a healing agent based on this plant, it is recommended not only to strictly follow all the rules for taking such a healing agent, but also to comply with all the rules for taking it.
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