Potentilla palustre

Potentilla palustre

Potentilla palustre: Description. Long-term half-shrub with hairy creeping rhizome and lifts the reddish stems dereveneyuschimi. Leaves are dark green, tomentose below with stipules. Lower leaves are imparipinnate, with five to seven leaflets, upper - trifoliate. The flowers are dark red with podchashiem, in racemes. Lobes of corolla, calyx and leaflets podchashiya five. Petals shorter than the corolla cup. Many stamens and pistils. Fruit - multi-achene, flattened achenes decaying pa with thread-like bars. Plant height 30-100 cm
Flowering time. June-July.
Habitats. It grows in marshy meadows, rivers and lakes, swamp forests and the tundra.
The applied part. Grass rhizome and roots.
Collection time. Grass harvested in June-July, roots - in the fall.
Potentilla palustre: Chemical composition. We know only that the plant contains tannins.
Potentilla palustre: Action. Astringent, hemostatic, analgesic, diaphoretic, anti-early-healing.
Potentilla palustre: Application. Water extract rhizomes with roots and grass are used for diarrhea, flu, cold hunk of the body, bleeding. Chopped herbs applied to the wounds to heal them and to tumors for the resolution (especially for tumors of glands and pile). Decoction of grass and roots - externally to strengthen the gums and reducing dental pain.
Method of application.
1. 1 tablespoon dried grass roots and rhizome Comarum to 1 cup of boiling water, 1 hour. Drink 1 / 4 cup 3 times a day, in the form of heat.
2. 2-3 tablespoons boiling water to brew herbs, wrapped in gauze. Applied topically in the form of hot poultices as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent.