Core white
The white heart is one of the plants of the family called cabbage or cruciferous plants; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Cardamine leucantha (Tausch.) 0. E. Schulz.
As for the name of the white heartwood family itself, in Latin it will be: Brassicaceae Burnett. (Cruciferae Juss.).
Description of the white core
White core is a perennial plant, endowed with shoots of rather thin rhizomes, the height of which can reach twenty centimeters. The height of the stem of this plant varies between thirty and seventy centimeters, while at the top such a stem will be more or less branched. The stem of the white core is sinuous, and together with the leaves it will be densely hairy and short-haired. The leaves of this plant are endowed with two or three pairs of lateral leaflets, while the leaves themselves are sharply serrated. The flowers of the heartwood are white in color, and the fruits are pods endowed with sparse hairs.
This plant blooms from May to July. Under natural conditions, white heartwood is found in the Far East and Eastern Siberia. As for its general distribution, this plant can be found on the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Northeast China. For growth, the white heartwood prefers river banks, wet meadows, shady moist forests, willows, forests and places near streams.
Description of the medicinal properties of white core
The white heartwood is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and it is recommended to use shoots of the roots of this plant for medicinal purposes.
It should be noted that in China this plant has become quite widespread as a medicinal plant. For whooping cough, bruises and injuries in China, it is recommended to use about fifteen to twenty-five grams of a decoction prepared from the white heart.
For whooping cough, it is recommended to use the following very effective medicinal remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a medicinal remedy, the Chinese recipe advises taking from twenty-five to fifty grams of fresh shoots of the roots of the core white in about two hundred and fifty milliliters of water. After this, you should prepare a decoction that should be drunk in three doses per day, and if the use of this medicine based on the white core is planned in children, then the volume of the decoction should be exactly half as much. In addition, Chinese medicine recommends using a medicine based on this plant for whooping cough: the dry rhizomes of the white heart should first be ground into powder, and then the mixture should be mixed with bee honey. After this, such a medicinal mixture based on this plant should be rolled into balls, which must be taken orally.
It should be noted that traditional medicine most often uses meadow core. A decoction prepared from this plant is indicated for use in cases of inflammation of the respiratory system and pneumonia, and is also used as a diaphoretic and stimulant. For rheumatism, an infusion based on the flowers and flowering tops of this plant is used, and externally this healing agent is used for various skin diseases. In addition, it is quite acceptable to use this plant as a choleretic and anthelmintic agent. A decoction prepared from the seeds of the plant should be used as a very effective diuretic, and an aqueous infusion of flowers is used for various nervous and epileptic diseases.
