Carpesium drooping
Carpesium drooping is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Carpesium cernuum L.
As for the name of the Carpesium drooping family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Asteraceae Dumort.
Description of Carpesium drooping
Carpesium drooping is a perennial plant endowed with a dense branched root. The stems of this plant are thirty to sixty centimeters in height, for the most part such stems will be single, longitudinally finely grooved, erect, and from the middle they will be sparsely branched. The branches of this plant are deflected and erect, with few leaves and sometimes even secondarily branched. The stems and branches are either downy-shaggy or soft-hairy, it is noteworthy that this applies especially to the lower part of the stems of this plant. The leaves of Carpesium drooping can be either elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, and at the top such leaves are slightly pointed. At the very base, the lower and middle leaves of this plant will be wedge-shaped and tapered into petioles that are shorter than the blade. The upper leaves of Carpesium drooping will be sessile on a wedge-shaped, narrowed base, and all leaves on both sides are both prizate-hairy and finely punctate glandular. The flower baskets of this plant will be somewhat compressed and drooping; they are located singly on the slightly swollen and bent downward tips of the branches of the Carpesium drooping stem. The flowers of this plant are yellow in color and the achenes of this plant are fusiform and triangular.
Flowering of Carpesium drooping occurs during the period from July to September. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in Central Asia and the Far East. As for the general distribution, this plant can be found in Central Europe, the Balkans, India, Asia Minor, the Western Mediterranean, Pakistan, Japan, China, Korea, Nepal and Tibet. It is noteworthy that a plant called Carpesium large-headed has also become widespread.
Carpesium large-headed is a perennial plant whose height will reach one meter. The stems of this plant will be single, in the upper part they are branched and also hairy. The length of the leaves will be about ten to forty centimeters, and the width will be three to twenty centimeters. Such leaves are pointed and ovate-lanceolate. The diameter of the baskets of this plant will be about three to four centimeters, and the flowers will be colored yellow. It should be noted that in the vegetative state this plant is very decorative.
Description of the medicinal properties of Carpesium drooping
Carpesium drooping is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. The concept of grass includes the flowers, leaves and stems of this plant.
As for traditional medicine, a decoction prepared from the herb Carpesium drooping has become quite widely used. It is recommended to drink such a decoction of the herb of this plant for colds, which will be accompanied by high fever, as well as for dysentery, toothache, infectious infection of the genitourinary organs, acute enteritis and enlarged lymph nodes.
In addition, it is also recommended to use a finely ground mushy mass of this plant: such a mass should be applied to the affected areas for mastitis, carbuncles, poisonous snake bites and mumps.
