Orchids – Orchidaceae. Popular names: Ivanov’s hands, orchid. Parts used: daughter tubers. Pharmacy name: orchid tubers – Salep tuber (formerly: Tubera Salep). Botanical description. When it comes to several species even of the same genus, which serve as a source of a medicinal product, it is difficult to give a single description. Nevertheless, I will try to characterize our local […]

Perennials with two tubers (young growing and old dying), palmate or round. Stem single, erect, unbranched. The leaves are alternate, entire, linear or lanceolate, with parallel veins. The flowers are irregular, brightly colored (purple, violet-red, etc.), in apical racemose inflorescences with bracts. Perianth simple, corolla-shaped, of six leaves in 2 circles. The outer leaflets are almost the same, of the

Perennial herb with a reddish-purple densely leafy stem. Leaves lanceolate, hairy underneath. The flowers are yellow, collected in an umbrella-shaped inflorescence. Seeds are reddish-brown. Distributed in the forest and forest-steppe zones of Siberia and the Far East. It grows more often in pine forests, in mixed aspen and birch forests and in pegs. Honey plant. Medicinal raw material is the

Popular names: rock flower, small hawk, mouse ear. Parts Used: Blooming above-ground part. Pharmacy name: hairy hawk herb – Hieracii pilosellae herba (formerly: Herba Hieracii pilosellae; an earlier name is still found in pharmacies: Herba Auriculae muris). Botanical description. The hairy hawk belongs to the extensive family of Compositae and differs from other closely related species by a leafless

kropiva bіla.   Lamiaceae family – Lamiacea (Labiatae). For therapeutic purposes, corollas of flowers are used. It occurs almost throughout Ukraine, with the exception of the southern Steppe. It grows in sparse forests, forest edges and clearings, thickets of shrubs, old gardens, as a weed on estates, streets, under fences, rarely in fields, forest belts, road

Perennial herbaceous plant with straight, slightly pubescent tetrahedral stems, up to 60 cm high. Leaves are ovate or heart-shaped on long petioles, opposite, large-serrated along the edge, similar to the leaves of nettle dioica, but not causing burns. The flowers are large (up to 20 cm long), white, clearly bilabiate. Arranged in whorls of 8-9 in the

Lamiaceae – Lamiaceae (Labiatae). Popular names: dead nettle, cuckoo nettle, dead nettle, white nettle. Parts Used: Flowers. Pharmacy name: white lamina flowers – Lamii albi flos (formerly: Flores Lamii albi). Botanical description. A perennial plant with a long creeping rhizome and a tetrahedral hollow stem, up to 30-40 cm in height. Pure white, relatively large flowers with a pleasant honey

An annual herbaceous plant with ascending tetrahedral stems and a creeping rhizome. Leaves lanceolate, sessile, arranged in whorls of 6-8. The flowers are small, white, in semi-umbrellas; corolla lobes obtuse, fused to the middle, lanceolate, slightly recurved; 4 stamens adhering to the corolla tube. The fruit is dry, spreading into 2 nuts. Blooms in May-June. The whole plant smells like coumarin

Common name: goat tree. Parts Used: Compound leaflets. Pharmacy name: ash leaves – Fraxini folium (formerly: Folia Fraxini). Botanical description. This is a tree reaching a height of 30 m. It is easily recognized by black dots and pinnate leaves. Leaves, consisting of 7-13 leaflets, opposite, cruciformly alternating on the branches, develop only after flowering. The flowers are collected in bunches,

Popular names: ash manna, heavenly bread. Pharmacy name: dried juice (gum) from manna ash trunk – Manna. Botanical description. Tree 8-10 m tall, with smooth gray bark, odd-pinnate leaves and yellowish-white flowers collected in dense, closely spaced panicles. Grown in Sicily along with olives and chestnuts; it also took root in the Crimea, the Caucasus and Australia. Active ingredients: up to 90%