Zimolubka umbrella is a perennial herbaceous plant from the wintergreen family. Other names: fever herb, stomach herb, wood lice, field star, chicken star, bird star
Description:
Perennial with creeping rhizome and erect stem up to 20 cm in height; leaves are leathery, dark green, shiny, oblong-obverse-wedge-shaped, wintering; flowers in a small amount are collected in an umbrella-shaped inflorescence, five-membered, pink; the fruit is a spherical capsule. Blossoms in July – August. Winter-loving umbrella grows in pine forests.
Contains active substances:
The herb winter-loving umbrella contains arbutin, bitter substances, tinides, resin, methyl ester of salicylic acid.
Medicinal use:
More often they drink an aqueous decoction of the herb winter-loving umbrella, less often tincture of vodka for diseases caused by weight lifting, after childbirth, from bloody urine. Used in homeopathy.