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Meadow core is one of the plants of the family called cabbage or cruciferous, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Cardamine pratensis L. As for the name of the meadow core family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Brassicaceae Burnett. (Cruciferae Juss.).
Description of the meadow core
Meadow core is known under many popular names: field mustard, field cardamion, watercress, marsh watercress, gourd, white flower, undergrowth and smolyanka. Meadow core is a perennial plant endowed with a rather short rhizome, the height of which will fluctuate between fifteen and forty centimeters. The stem of such a plant is erect, it can be either simple or slightly branched in the upper part. The leaves of the meadow core will be unpaired and endowed with four to ten pairs of leaves. The root leaves of this rosette will be endowed with long petioles and rounded leaves. In this case, the stem leaves of the meadow core are short petiolate and they are endowed with linear-oblong leaves, and the uppermost leaves are endowed with two or three pairs of linear leaves. The flowers of this plant are collected in about ten to twenty flower racemes, at the very beginning of flowering such a brush will be corymbose, and over time it stretches. The petals of white color are endowed with lilac veins, and their length will be equal to ten to twelve millimeters. The stamens of the meadow core are endowed, in turn, with yellow anthers. the fruits of this plant are polyspermous straight and linear pods, which are located on oblique pedicels, and the length of such pods can reach four centimeters. The seeds of this plant are oblong-oval in shape, their diameter will be about one millimeter, and the length will be equal to one and a half millimeters. The seeds of the meadow core are colored brownish or dark yellow.
The flowering of this plant occurs in the spring and early summer. Under natural conditions, the meadow core is found in the Far East, the mountains of Africa in Ethiopia, North America, the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, Belarus, Western and Eastern Siberia. For growth, this plant prefers grassy swamps, wet meadows, the banks of reservoirs and rivers.
Description of the medicinal properties of the meadow core
The core of the meadow is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the tops of the stems of this plant along with flowers.
The presence of such valuable medicinal properties is recommended to be explained by the content of the glycoside glucochlearin in the composition of the roots and herbs of this plant, which in turn contains sulfur. The flowers contain myrosin and gluconasturtia, and the grass contains ascorbic acid. In addition, myronic acid was found in the seeds of the meadow core, and a glycoside was found in the roots and grass.
Meadow core is endowed with a very effective antihelminthic, diuretic, antiscorbutic, anti-inflammatory, sedative, anticonvulsant and choleretic effect.
As for traditional medicine, this plant is quite widespread here. The broth, prepared on the basis of the herb of the meadow core, is indicated for use as a diaphoretic and stimulant, and is also used for inflammation of the upper respiratory tract and pneumonia. An infusion based on flowers and flowering tops of the meadow core is used as a choleretic and antihelminthic agent, and in addition, such a healing agent is effective for various skin diseases and rheumatism.
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