Sickle-leaved Euphorbia
Sickle-leaved Euphorbia is a member of the Euphorbiaceae family. Its Latin name is Euphorbia falcata L.
As for the family name itself, the Latin name is Euphorbiaceae Juss.
Description of Sickle-leaved Euphorbia
Sickle-leaved Euphorbia is an annual herbaceous plant, growing between five and thirty centimeters tall. This plant will have glaucous tones and may be slightly pubescent or bare. Most often, the stems of this plant will be numerous, but sometimes they can be solitary. Sickle-leaved Euphorbia has only three to five terminal flower stalks, and like the axillary flower stalks, they are often bifurcated at the tip. The leaflets of the involucre and lower involucres from the cuneate base can be either lanceolate or oblong, with a length of approximately one and a half to two and a half centimeters and a width of approximately three to ten millimeters; these leaflets will also be quite pointed. The involucre leaflets of this plant are ovate, five to sixteen millimeters long and approximately five to ten millimeters wide. The cup of the falcate spurge is bell-shaped, one to one and a half millimeters wide, glabrous on the outside and downy on the inside. The nectaries of this plant are hornless and crescent-shaped. The trichophyte of the falcate spurge is conical-ovate, glabrous, and weakly trifurcated, and its length will be two to five millimeters. The seed of this plant is oblong and compressed-tetrahedral, and its length is one and a half to two millimeters.
Sickle-leaved spurge blooms from June to September. In the wild, this plant is found in European Russia, the Caucasus, Ukraine, Crimea, Central Asia, and Primorye in the Far East. It prefers variegated rock outcrops, limestone, rocky and gravelly slopes from the foothills to the mid-mountain zone. The plant can also be seen as a weed among cotton and wheat crops.
Description of the medicinal properties of sickle-leaved spurge
Sickle-leaved spurge has very valuable medicinal properties, and the herb is recommended for medicinal purposes. The herb includes the flowers, stems, and leaves.
The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content in this plant of higher aliphatic ketones, triterpenoids, the diterpenoid obdusifoldienol, higher aliphatic hydrocarbons, catechins, rubber, ellagic acid, vitamin C, resins, higher aliphatic alcohol tetracosanol, as well as the flavonoids hyperin and quercetin. The seeds of this plant contain fatty oil, which contains the following acids: palmitic, linolenic, margaric, linoleic, oleic and stearic.
Euphorbia crescent is endowed with very effective emetic, laxative, analgesic, diuretic and keratic effects. In addition, this plant has become quite widespread for various heart diseases. Aqueous and hydroalcoholic extracts based on sickle milkweed are endowed with choleretic and laxative effects. It is noteworthy that the resins of this plant will also have an epithelializing effect.
The following remedy is used as a diuretic and analgesic: one teaspoon of dry crushed herb of this plant per two glasses of boiling water. This mixture is infused for two hours and then filtered thoroughly. Take this remedy based on milkweed crescent three times a day, one tablespoon.
