Popular names: puffed cherry, Jewish cherry. Pharmacy name: Physalis fruits – Alkekengi fructus (formerly: Fructus Alkekengi). Botanical description. Herbaceous plant within 0.5 m in height, traditionally branched stem and ovate leaves. From the greenish-white flowers develop fleshy berries, enclosed in a shiny red calyx in the form of a flashlight. It grows in the south of Europe, in America and […]
popular names – brother-sister, zozulin_ cherevichki, sisters, siriki; Ivan da Marya, field brothers, semi-flower, axes, etc. Violet family – Violaceae. The herb is used for medicinal purposes. It occurs almost throughout Ukraine (with the exception of the Crimea), more often in the forest and in the north of the forest-steppe regions. It grows on forest edges
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One-biennial herbaceous plant up to 30 cm high. The root is thin, branched. The stem is thin, trihedral, hollow, branching. The leaves are alternate, short-petiolate or sessile, all with pinnate stipules, the lower ones are rounded heart-shaped, the upper ones are elliptical. The flower is tricolor (the petals are dark blue or purple above, yellow below, and sometimes
Violet tricolor (Viola tricolor L.) Violet tricolor is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant representing the Violet family (Violaceae). Other names: pansies, brothers, funny eyes, earthflower, triflower. Description: A low herbaceous single or biennial plant with erect or ascending stems and thin roots. Leaves of various shapes: basal almost heart-shaped, stem and apical oblong-oval. Stipules are very large, foliate, pinnatipartite, with
Other names: Pansies, Ivan da Marya, Sparrow Seed, Magpie Seed, Zolotukha, Brothers, Three-flowered, Kamchug, Magpie, Nedushnik, Axes, Semi-flower. Diseases and effects: Acute respiratory diseases, chronic bronchitis and bronchopneumonia, whooping cough, inflammatory diseases of the kidneys, gastrointestinal tract and urinary tract, urolithiasis, uric acid diathesis, allergic dermatitis, exudative diathesis, eczema, rheumatism, gout, scrofula. Active substances: Flavonoid glycoside, violaquercetin, delphinidin,
Popular names: pansies, Ivan da Marya, triflower, brother-and-sister, moths, field brothers, half-flower, axes. VIOLET THREE-COLOR (Viola tricolor L.)An annual or biennial plant of the violet family (Violaceae), up to 45 cm high, with several stems. The stem is simple or branched, leafy, lying, ascending or erect. Stem leaves are alternate, simple, glabrous, large-shaped, oblong-oval, basal – almost
triflower. Parts used: herb. Pharmacy name: tricolor violet herb – Violae tricoloris herba (formerly: Herba Violae tricoloris). Botanical description. This is an annual plant, reaching a height of 20-30 cm. Several subspecies are known. The leaves are oblong or ovate-cordate, serrated along the edge. At the base of the leaves are relatively large lyre-shaped stipules. Flowers, like those of garden violets,
Perennial small plant not higher than 20 cm, with numerous leafy stems, seated with oblong-ovate leaves; the flowers are violet-blue, whitish in the middle, with a spur. The fruit is a three-leaved capsule with numerous seeds. Blooms in May-June. Grows in coniferous and deciduous forests, forest clearings, edges, shrubs. Medicinal raw material is a herb collected during flowering. Drying
Dog violet is a perennial plant that belongs to the Violaceae family. Other names: birch, forest brother, violet, outcast-grass, undergrowth, podzernik, rannik, core, sokirki Description: Perennial small plant not higher than 20 cm in height, with numerous leafy stems, seated with oblong-ovate leaves; flowers violet-blue, whitish in the middle, with a spur; the fruit is a tricuspid capsule with numerous
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Perennial herbaceous plant up to 15 cm high. Leaves ovate-oblong, heart-shaped at the base, with ovate-lanceolate stipules. Flowers blue-violet, fragrant. Blooms in April-May. The fruit is a round tricolor fluffy box. Distributed in the forest and forest-steppe zones of Western and Central Siberia. It grows in sparse birch forests, pine forests, on dry forest edges, in shrubs. Medicinal raw
