Full-time field flower (Anagallis arvensis L.)

Full-time field flower is a plant from the Primulaceae family. Other names: chicken blindness, night blindness, scratch aid, oak fern, earthen fern, viper grass, reed grass, red couch grass, seagrass root, night blindness, chicken blindness, chicken blindness

Description:

An annual or biennial low plant with several stems and a thin tap root; stem prostrate or ascending, leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, green above, with black dots below. Flowers singly on long pedicels emerging from the axils of leaves, sepals and petals 5 each. Calyx shorter than spicate brick-red corolla; stamens 5. The box is spherical, cracks across and opens with a lid. The full-time flower blooms in June-July. The full-time field flower grows in the fields, along the outskirts of roads, in weedy places.

Contains active substances:

Full-time field color contains saponins, bitter substances, glycoside cyclamine, flavonoids.

Medicinal use:

A decoction of the whole plant is used internally and externally for all kinds of bleeding, as a gastric remedy, for dysentery, headache; bathe weak children.