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European dodder is one of the plants of the family called dodders, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Cuscuta europaea L. As for the name of the European dodder family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Cuscutaceae Dumort.
Description of European dodder
European dodder is an annual plant endowed with curly smooth stems, painted in yellowish-reddish or reddish tones. The thickness of such stems will be about two and a half centimeters. Dodder flowers will be pinkish-white or pinkish. Such flowers are collected in spherical glomeruli, the diameter of which will be about one and a half centimeters. The length of the calyx of this plant will be equal to three millimeters, at the base such a calyx will be fleshy and it will be somewhat shorter than the corolla. The blades of such a corolla are ovoid or wide-triangular, and they will also be whole-edged. The scales under the stamens of this plant are either whole or bipartite. The pistil of European dodder is endowed with two columns, and the fruit is a spherical box, endowed in turn with four seeds.
The flowering of this plant occurs in the summer period. Under natural conditions, this plant is found on the territory of Ukraine, the Caucasus, in all regions of Russia, in the southern regions of the Far East, in the mountains of Central Asia, Western and Eastern Siberia. For growing dodder European prefers forest edges, alder groves, river banks and streams, damp meadows and humid mountain slopes, as well as vegetable gardens. It is noteworthy that in addition to this, the plant will parasitize on many wild-growing herbaceous plants, young trees and shrubs. It should be noted that European dodder is also a poisonous plant.
Description of the medicinal properties of European dodder
European dodder is endowed with very valuable medicinal properties, while it is recommended to use the whole plant for medicinal purposes, including its flowers and stems. It is recommended to harvest such healing raw materials in the period from June to July.
The presence of such valuable healing properties is recommended to be explained by the content of flavones, tannins, cuscutin glycoside, carbohydrates, phlobophenes, leukoanthocyanins and many other useful substances in the composition of this plant.
This plant is endowed with a very valuable analgesic, diuretic and laxative effect. Previously, European dodder was recommended to be used for various stomach and colds, toothache and headache, painful menstruation, liver disease, cancer and skin rashes.
As for traditional medicine, here this plant is quite widespread as a laxative. In homeopathy, the essence on the basis of European dodder is taken for various gynecological diseases and for the flu.
In addition, traditional medicine is recommended to use this plant for angina, nervous and mental illnesses, for flu, rabies, fevers and algodismenorrhea. It is also used as a laxative and diuretic. An infusion prepared on the basis of European dodder is recommended for diathesis, metrorrhagia, angina pectoris and alcoholism. Tibetan medicine uses this plant as a hemostatic and expectorant, and is also used for croupous pneumonia and lung diseases: such a healing agent is very effective.
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