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Harmala ordinary (lat. Peganum harmala) - a herbaceous plant of the genus Garmala (lat. Peganum) of the family Selitriankovye (lat. Nitrariaceae). Despite the species epithet "ordinary", this is a plant with a mysterious history and magical abilities that have been used by humans for thousands of years in religious rituals to communicate with the gods. The healing abilities of the plant have rescued Mankind many times from the invasion of harmful viruses. And the appearance of the plant is very attractive, and its high endurance is amazing.
What's in your name
If the Latin name of the genus "Peganum" is based on an ancient Greek word, then the plant owes the species epithet "harmala" to the Arabic language. This commonwealth of languages in the name of the plant teaches people to be more tolerant of communities that speak incomprehensible languages. After all, sometimes you can understand each other without even knowing another language, and even better, at least a little acquaintance with other languages, so as not to get lost in the world of plants, and in the world of people.
The official name of the plant has many popular synonyms, such as "Wild rue" (Wild rue), "Syrian rue" (Syrian rue), "African rue" (African rue), although morphologically with the plant Ruta Garmala ordinary does not have nothing in common. Simply, Ruta sometimes ennobled the smell of Harmala ordinary, adding it to the seeds of Harmala in ritual procedures.
As for the Russian synonym names, they are not so lyrical. Among them we meet: "Grass Grass", "Dog Shit", "Strelina" and many others.
Description
This hardy perennial plant in particularly favorable conditions can grow up to eighty centimeters in height, but, as a rule, it is in no hurry to rise upward, stopping its growth at a height of about thirty centimeters and directing its stems along the surface of the earth. It would be more accurate to call the plant creeping.
The plant “grows downward” is much more successful, penetrating the soil with its roots to a depth of six meters, when it has to live in very dry soil in order to extract nutrients and moisture from low horizons.
In the Northern Hemisphere, Garmala vulgaris blooms from June to September. White single flowers are rather large, reaching in diameter from two and a half to almost four centimeters. In the center of the flower, a dozen yellow stamens playfully stick out. The corolla of the flower is supported by sepals, fused only at their base, and then in separate long thin lobes embracing the corolla from all sides. There are five petals and sepals.
Three-chambered seed pods with a diameter of about one and a half centimeters contain more than fifty seeds, and one plant is capable of giving birth to one hundred and twenty seeds. It is to the help of these boxes that they resort to rituals when people need the help of the gods, or they are trying to drive out evil spirits that threaten a prosperous life. The boxes are thrown onto a hot metal dish or flat stone, where they crack under the influence of high temperature, like corn kernels when making popcorn, and exude a stupefying smell that can "break through walls" between different worlds.
Areal of the plant
Common garmala is of Asian origin and grows in the Middle East and southern Asia, mainly in India and Pakistan. Having spread throughout the world, the plant, due to its high endurance, has become a threat to other local plants growing in saline lands, displacing them from their inhabited places.
Magical and healing abilities
Over the millennia of the history of human society, people have been very respectful of the hardy plant, using its magical powers, toxic not only for humans, but also for all kinds of evil spirits, pathogenic viruses, in order to resist their destructive forces. Even the plague, which mowed down people without distinction of rank and age, retreated before the power of the plant.
The chemical composition of Garmala vulgaris, growing in very poor natural conditions, is impressive in its diversity and medicinal power. Apparently, the very bowels of the Earth feed the roots and the entire plant.
Toxic alkaloids, in certain proportions, help calm the heart rate; defeat depression, tubercle bacillus; reduce spasms of smooth muscles; expand a person's creativity.
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