2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Southern dodder is one of the plants of the family called dodders, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Cuscuta australis R. Brown. As for the name of the family of this plant itself, then in Latin it will be like this: Cuscutaceae Dumort.
Description of the southern dodder
Dodder southern is an annual plant, endowed with rather thin filamentous stems, which will be smooth and branched, and such stems will be painted in orange-yellow tones. The flowers of this plant are rather small in size, their length is equal to two millimeters, they are painted in yellowish tones, and are also almost sessile or can be on rather short pedicels. Such flowers of the southern dodder will form dense glomeruli, which in turn will be supplied with thin, obtuse, lanceolate and almost transparent bracts. The corolla of this plant will almost double the calyx, the necks will be small and they are endowed with rather short fringes, and the stigma is capitate. The fruit of the southern dodder is a box that is fleshy in the upper part, such a box will not open correctly, and also breaks into pieces or may fall off entirely from the very base.
The length of the seeds of the southern dodder is about one millimeter. This plant will parasitize on weeds or herbaceous plants, on herbaceous cultivated plants, and also has the ability to defeat industrial, garden, melons and ornamental crops. It should be noted that this plant is one of the most vicious weeds.
Under natural conditions, this plant can be found in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Western Siberia, the Far East, the Mediterranean, the Balkan Peninsula, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, Australia, Ukraine and the following regions of the European part of Russia: Black Sea, Lower Volga and Lower -Donsky district.
Description of the medicinal properties of the southern dodder
The southern dodder is endowed with very valuable medicinal properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the seeds of this plant. Such medicinal raw materials should be harvested in the autumn period, when the seeds are fully ripe. You should remove the stems from the plants, then dry in the sun and cover the seeds. The presence of such valuable medicinal properties is recommended to be explained by the content of stigmasterol, beta-amyrin, cholestrerol, beta-sitosterol and campesterol in the seeds of this plant.
In China, the following healing remedy based on this plant has become quite widespread: to prepare such a remedy, you will need to take a certain amount of southern dodder seeds. Such seeds are sifted through a sieve, and then they begin to fry until the color of the seeds changes to gray-brown and they look like a thick gruel. After that, such raw materials should be well crushed and a cake is prepared from it, cut into pieces and then dried in the sun.
With severe anxiety of the fetus in the womb, general loss of strength, too frequent urination, darkening in the eyes, dizziness, loss of semen, aches in the lower back and hip joints, it is recommended to use the following very healing remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a remedy, take six to fifteen gram of tortillas and make a powder from them. Such a remedy based on this plant should be taken with boiled water. It should be noted that Chinese medicine widely uses such a healing agent and it turns out to be very effective when used correctly.
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