Gray-green hiccup (Berteroa incana L.)

Hiccup gray-green is a herbaceous plant from the cabbage family. Other names: hiccup grass

Description:

A biennial, grayish, shortly pubescent plant with an upright, branched stem 20-60 cm tall; leaves lanceolate, entire; flowers are small, white, in dense capitate racemes, elongated with fruits; fruits – oval bivalve strings; seeds are flat, tuberculate, brown. It blooms all summer. Hiccup grows as a weed in the fields, it is also found in upland meadows and along roads.

Medicinal use:

A decoction of the whole plant is drunk for women’s diseases, leucorrhoea; bleeding after childbirth; with nervous hiccups; diseases of the stomach; from headache; decoction washed contaminated wounds.