Stellaria calyx-flowered
Stellaria calyx-flowered is a member of the Caryophyllaceae family, and its Latin name is Caryophyllaceae Juss.
The family name of Stellaria calyx-flowered is Caryophyllaceae Juss.
Description of Stellaria calyx-flowered
Stellaria calyx-flowered is a perennial herbaceous plant, growing approximately ten to twenty centimeters tall. Its rhizome is slender, branched, and creeping. The stems of Stellaria calyx-flowered are rather slender, tetrahedral, weakly branched, and ascending. These stems can be either glabrous or slightly pubescent at the top. The leaves are sessile, thick, ovate, and elliptical-lanceolate. These leaves are two to four centimeters long and about one to five millimeters wide.
The flowers of this plant form a sparse semi-umbel, with the apical bracts glabrous and herbaceous. The sepals are ovate-lanceolate and can be either pointed or acute. These sepals are two and a half to three and a half millimeters long; petals may be absent, or sometimes shorter than the calyx. The capsule is either oblong or ovoid, and is one and a half to two times longer than the calyx itself. The seeds of this plant are dark brown in color, and their diameter does not exceed one millimeter.
The flowering period of the calyx-flowered chickweed begins in July and ends in August. In the wild, the plant is found in the European part of Russia in the Dvina-Pechora and Karelo-Murmansk regions, as well as in the European and eastern Arctic, as well as in the following regions of the Far East: Sakhalin, Okhotsk, and Kamchatka. The plant prefers stream banks, coniferous forests, gravel beds, and coastal shrub thickets.
Description of the medicinal properties of the calyx-flowered chickweed
It should be noted that chickweed calyx is endowed with very valuable healing properties. An infusion prepared from the herb of this plant is recommended for use for scrofula. For scrofulosis, it is recommended to prepare the following remedy based on chickweed calyx: to prepare such a remedy, take one tablespoon of herb per glass of boiled water. The resulting mixture should be infused for one hour, after which this mixture is filtered very carefully. Take this remedy three times a day, one tablespoon. It is noteworthy that in order to achieve the greatest effectiveness when taking such a remedy, you should strictly follow not only all the norms for the preparation of such a remedy based on chickweed calyx, but also all the norms for its administration.
It should be noted that the juice of the herb of this plant is recommended for use for burns and bone fractures, and the juice is also used for baths in order to get rid of diathesis, as well as to relieve swelling of the legs.
As an external remedy intended for baths and washes, it is recommended to use a rather valuable remedy based on chickweed calyx: to prepare such a remedy, take ten tablespoons of fresh herbs from this plant. This mixture should either be boiled or infused in one liter of water, then strained very carefully. In addition, the following remedy is quite effective: for this you only need to take the plant juice one teaspoon at a time, sweetening the juice with honey.
