Stinking Dragonhead
Stinking Dragonhead is a member of the Lamiaceae family. Its Latin name is Dracocephalum foetum Bunge.
The family name of Stinking Dragonhead is Lamiaceae Lindl.
Description of Stinking Dragonhead
Stinking Dragonhead is an annual plant with a reddish stem that is shortly hairy, often branched from the base, and grows to a height of about five to fifteen centimeters. The leaves of this plant can be ovate or oblong-ovate, tapering toward the base. Stinking dragonhead flowers are borne on short stalks in six-flowered false whorls at the end of the stem. The calyx is eight to nine millimeters long, bilabiate, and the corolla is light purple and fifteen to eighteen millimeters long.
Dragonhead stinking blooms from June to August. In the wild, this plant is found in Mongolia, as well as in the Daurian and Angara-Sayan regions of Western Siberia. It prefers locations along roadsides and rocky steppe slopes near dwellings, all the way to the mid-mountain zone.
Description of the medicinal properties of dragonhead stinking
Dragonhead stinking has valuable medicinal properties, and it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. The herb includes the leaves, flowers, and stems. These valuable medicinal properties are due to the plant’s flavonoids and essential oil. In folk medicine, infusions made from the leaves or flowers of this plant are quite common. These remedies are recommended for vomiting and diarrhea, and also serve as a wound-healing and hemostatic agent.
The powder of the flowers of this plant is used to combat scurvy and its complications, as well as for ascites, arthritis and as an antipyretic. An infusion of the herb of this plant is used for gingivitis and stomatitis. Crushed fresh herb is used topically as a wound healing agent for various cuts, wounds, abscesses and boils. It should be noted that the chemical composition of this plant has not yet been fully studied, so it is possible that new products based on the stinking snakehead may appear.
For stomatitis and gingivitis, for rinsing, as well as in the form of lotions, the following is used as a wound-healing agent: to prepare such a remedy, take three tablespoons of crushed dry leaves of the stinking snakehead in half a liter of boiling water. The resulting mixture should be left to infuse for two hours, after which this product is filtered very carefully. Take this remedy for diarrhea and vomiting, one third of a glass or half a glass three times a day before meals. It is important to note that in order to achieve the greatest effectiveness when taking such a remedy based on the stinking snakehead, you should not only strictly follow all the rules for preparing such a remedy, but also all the rules for taking this remedy.
For ascites, arthritis and as an antipyretic, it is recommended to use the powder of stinking snakehead flowers. This remedy is taken one gram three times a day, washed down with plenty of water.
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