Euphorbia prostratea
Euphorbia prostratea is a member of the Euphorbiaceae family, and its Latin name is Euphorbia humifusa Schlecht.
The Latin name for Euphorbia prostratea is Euphorbiaceae Juss.
Description of Euphorbia prostratea
Euphorbia prostratea is an annual herbaceous plant, growing between five and thirty centimeters tall. The plant is colored in glaucous tones, often turning red when ripe. The root of Euphorbia prostratea is upright and slender, while the stems are several and prostrate. The flowers of this plant are solitary and forked. The calyx of the prostrate spurge is funnel-shaped, less than one millimeter long, and one millimeter in diameter. This calyx has triangular lobes. The prostrate spurge has only four nectaries, which are transversely oblong. The trichodon of this plant is truncated-ovate, approximately one and a half to two millimeters long, and trifurcate. The seed of the prostrate spurge is grayish in color, oblong, smooth, and tetrahedral, and only slightly exceeds one millimeter in length.
The flowering period of the prostrate spurge begins in June and ends in September. In the wild, this plant is found in Crimea, southern Ukraine, Central Asia, the Amur and Primorye regions of the Far East, the Altai region of Western Siberia, the Daurian and Angara-Sayan regions of Eastern Siberia, and the Lower Volga and Lower Don regions of European Russia. It prefers cotton fields, cliffs, rocky slopes, roadsides, riverbanks on gravel and sand, millet fields, and mountains at altitudes of up to 1, 500 meters above sea level. It is worth noting that Euphorbia procumbens is a poisonous plant, so extreme caution should be exercised when handling this plant. Description of the medicinal properties of Euphorbia prostratea
Euphorbia prostratea is endowed with very valuable medicinal properties. For medicinal purposes, it is recommended to use the roots, milky juice, and grass of this plant.
The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of phenolcarboxylic acids and their following derivatives in this plant: quercetin, gallic acid and gallic acid methyl ester. The milky juice of milkweed prostrate contains malic acid, while the roots contain resins, and the leaves and inflorescences contain flavonoids.
It is recommended to use the roots of this plant as a diuretic for food poisoning, absence of menstruation, severe diarrhea, cardiac and kidney edema.
It is noteworthy that this plant is very widespread in Tibetan medicine. It is recommended to include milkweed prostrata in the form of root powder in multicomponent preparations, while a decoction prepared from the roots of this plant is indicated for use as a very effective laxative.
In Chinese medicine, an infusion or decoction of the herb of this plant is used for heavy bleeding and as an anthelmintic. It should be noted that the milky juice of Euphorbia prostrata is an effective remedy for removing warts.
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