Scabiosa coronaria
Scabiosa coronaria is a member of the family Teaselaceae. Its Latin name is Scabiesa comosa Fisch. ex Roem et Schult. (S. fischeri DC.).
As for the family name of Scabiosa coronaria, the Latin name is Dipsacaceae Juss.
Description of Scabiosa coronaria
Scabiosa coronaria is a perennial herbaceous plant, reaching heights between twenty-five and fifty-seven centimeters. Its roots are multi-headed, and its stems are erect, sometimes ascending at the base. These stems are rosette, sparsely branched, or simple. The leaves of the sterile shoots are approximately five to twelve centimeters long, and half a centimeter to two centimeters wide. The pinnately divided stem leaves can be either nearly sessile or borne on fairly short petioles, and these leaves also have linear lobes. The heads of the Scabiosa coronaria are solitary and borne on fairly long stalks, and when in bloom, they reach a diameter of about three to four centimeters.
The flowers of this plant can rarely be white, but are most often blue-violet in color. The corolla of the central flowers is regularly five-lobed, while the marginal ray flowers have an irregularly two-lipped corolla, with a three-lobed lower lip and a two-lobed upper lip.
The Scabiosa coronaria blooms in August, while the fruits ripen as early as October. In the wild, this plant is found in the following regions of Eastern Siberia: Dauria, Yenisei, and Angara-Sayan. This plant prefers riverside sands, meadows, steppes, gravelly slopes, dry meadows, and light coniferous forests.
Description of the medicinal properties of Scabiosa coronaria
Scabiosa coronaria has very valuable medicinal properties, and it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. The herb includes the stems, flowers, and leaves. These valuable medicinal properties are explained by the plant’s content of phenolic acids and their derivatives, alkaloids, steroids, the coumarins bergapten and umbelliprenin, pentriacontane, pentacosane, and the following flavonoids: luteolin, apigenin, diosmetin, cosmosiin, rhoifolin, and apigenin 7-glucoside.
As for Tibetan medicine, here this plant is quite widespread. The aerial part of scabiosa coronalis is used as an antipyretic and emetic, and is also used for various diseases of the bladder and as part of complex mixtures for pneumonia, sepsis, heart disease, gastroenteritis, gastroenterocolitis and various diseases of the stomach. Externally, this medicine is used in the form of rinses for sore throat.
Mongolian medicine recommends using an infusion of scabiose coronalis as a diaphoretic and diuretic, and is also used for various diseases of the bladder, kidneys and urinary tract.
Traditional medicine of Siberia uses a decoction prepared from the herb scabiosa coronalis for fever, pulmonary tuberculosis, diarrhea, respiratory infections, fever and various throat diseases. Externally, such a medicinal decoction based on scabiosa coronalis is used for abscesses, rectal prolapse, hemorrhoids, as well as for the purpose of quickly and effectively removing warts: the effect of use will be noticeable very quickly.
