Balsamic Touch-me-not

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Impatiens balsamic is one of the plants of the family called balsamic, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Impatiens balsamina L. As for the name of the family of the balsamic mellitus itself, in Latin it will be like this: Balsaminaceae Rich.

Description of touchy balsamic

Balsamic touch-me-not is an annual herb, endowed with an unbranched and straight stem, the height of which will be about twenty-five to forty-five centimeters. The leaves of this plant will be rather narrow and lanceolate, at the top they are pointed, but at the base they will be wedge-shaped, they run down the petiole, and along the edge they will be serrate. The flowers of touch-me-not balsamic will be quite large, they are on short pedicels and cluster several in the axils of the leaves, and the length of such flowers will be about two and a half to three and a half centimeters. Such flowers will be painted in purple-white or pink tones, they can be either variegated or double. The spur of the petal sepal of this plant will be bent, and its length will be about one to one and a half centimeters. The fruit of touch-me-not balsamic is a pubescent egg-shaped capsule.

The flowering of this plant occurs in the period from July to the month of August, while the ripening of the fruits of the touch-me-not balsamic will occur from August to September. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the Far East, southern Europe, Ukraine and Central Asia. As for the general distribution, this plant is found in India, Asia Minor, southern Europe and China.

Description of the medicinal properties of Impatiens balsamic

Touch-sensitive balsamic is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for therapeutic purposes it is recommended to use the seeds and flowers of this plant both fresh and dry. Seeds should be harvested from August to September after they ripen. The fruits should be torn off the stem, then dried and sifted through a net.

The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of fatty oil, parinoric acid, saponins and basaminosterol in this plant. In the aerial part of the touch-me-not balsamic and in its seeds there will be an essential oil, amino acid, proteins, sugar, while quercetin and kaempferol were found in the flowers.

Aqueous solutions based on the stem and seeds of this plant have the ability to inhibit and suppress the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, typhoid bacillus, causative agents of dysentery, green purulent bacillus and streptococcus. A decoction prepared on the basis of balsamic balsamic flowers is recommended for use with various kinds of bruises, amenorrhea and rheumatic pain in the joint.

As for external use, the fresh flowers of this plant should first be crushed to a mushy mass. After that, such a remedy based on touch-me-not balsamic is recommended to be used topically for poisonous snake bites, lichen, carbuncles, boils and various kinds of difficult-to-heal wounds. It is noteworthy that the root of touch-me-not balsamic with white flowers of this plant is recommended to be used as a very effective anesthetic and narcotic.

It should be noted that the chemical composition of this plant has not yet been studied well enough, for this reason, it is possible in the near future the emergence of new methods of using valuable medicines based on touch-me-not balsamic, which is very, very effective in therapeutic terms.