Ammi Dental, Or Visnaga

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Ammi dental, or Visnaga (lat. Ammi visnaga) - a herbaceous biennial plant of the genus Ammi (Latin Ammi) from the Umbelliferae family (Latin Umbelliferae), or Celery (Latin Apiaceae). The healing powers of the plant were known in ancient Egypt, where tea was prepared from the fruits of Ammi toothache, which helps to rid the kidneys of stones. Today, drugs are prepared from the fruits of the plant that have antispasmodic and coronary dilating abilities.

What's in your name

It is believed that the Latin name of the genus "Ammi" is based on a consonant ancient Greek word meaning "sand". This choice was allegedly made in connection with the places of initial growth of the plant associated with dry slopes and saline steppes of the Near and Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe. Today Ammi Dental is scattered all over the world and feels much better on fertile soils.

The specific epithet "dental" is most likely associated with the structure of flowers, five sepals of which have the form of small teeth, and the numerous envelopes in the inflorescences are bristly and sharp. Although the reason for the name could also be the numerous rays on which a lush and dense inflorescence is located, resembling a bunch of toothpicks sticking out of a glass.

Among the synonyms of this type, you can find the following -

Visnaga carrot

Description

In the wild, Ammi dental is a branchy plant with a two-year lifespan, but in culture it is grown as an annual.

A woody taproot with sparse side roots presents the world with an erect, strong, densely leafy stem up to one meter high. The stem has a rounded cross-section and longitudinal grooves on the bare surface.

Decorative vaginal compound leaves consist of linear thin lobules with sharp tips, giving the plant a picturesque openwork appearance.

Long peduncles are crowned with complex umbellate inflorescences, numbering from fifty to one hundred rays, on which numerous small flowers are located, exuding an unpleasant intoxicating smell. The flower petals are white, five petals for each flower. There are also five sepals, they form a calyx with small teeth along the edge.

The crown of the vegetation cycle of Visnaga is the fruits for which this plant is cultivated by humans. The hearth is a crochet, consisting of two semi-fruits. The tiny size of the fruit, the length of which ranges from two to two and a half millimeters, contains valuable active substances that can help a person with very different health problems.

Ripe fruits crumble very easily, therefore, they begin to be harvested when part of the fruits is still in a semi-ripe state. The plant itself also takes care of the safety of its fruits, and therefore the extreme, longer rays of the inflorescence close their ends during the fruiting period, trying to protect the internal rays with more mature seeds from adversity.

Natural pantry of plants

The healing properties of the plant "Ammi dental" are explained by the content in all parts of the plant of substances such as derivatives of furanochromone (an active substance with coronary dilating and antispasmodic effects). The highest content of these valuable components is found in the fruits of the plant.

Of course, these derivatives do not end with the useful composition. Fatty oil occupies a fifth of the fruit, and essential oil, acacetin, flavonoid and others are present in more modest sizes.

Healing abilities

The chemical composition determines the healing properties of the Ammi dental plant.

If in ancient Egypt they made healing tea from the fruits of Visnaga, which was used by the Egyptians to treat kidney stones, today, from the fruits of the plant, medicines are prepared that can prevent attacks of angina pectoris. The antispasmodic properties of the drugs help with problems with a number of organs: intestines, heart, bronchi, urinary and gall bladder.