Scandix Venus crest
Scandix pecten-veneris L.
As for the name of the Scandix family Venus’s crest itself, in Latin it will be like this: Apiaceae Lindl. (Umbelliferae Juss.).
Description of Scandix Venus’s crest
Scandix Venus crest or Scandix comb is an annual herbaceous plant, the height of which will fluctuate between ten and fifteen centimeters. The stem of such a plant is highly branched; it can be either almost bare or pubescent. The leaves of Scandix Venus’s crest are doubly pinnately dissected and triply pinnately dissected, they will be endowed with pinnately divided segments, and their terminal lobes are linear. The umbrellas of this plant will most often be endowed with one to three rays, while the umbrellas are endowed with an involucre, which in turn consists of four to six ovoid or oblong-shaped leaves. The petals of Scandix Venus’s crest are painted in white tones, the column will be quite short and its length will not exceed one and a half millimeters. The length of the fruit of this plant is about fifteen to seventy millimeters; such a fruit will be endowed with a very long, flattened nose, which will be bristly along the edge.
Scandix Venus’s crest blooms in the spring. For growth, this plant prefers gardens, fallow lands, vegetable gardens, dry mountain slopes, roadsides, hills, rocky slopes, crops and boundaries. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Crimea.
Description of the medicinal properties of Scandix Venus comb
Scandix Venus comb is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. The term grass includes flowers, stems and leaves. Such medicinal raw materials should be harvested exclusively during the entire flowering period of this plant.
The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of polyacetylene compounds in the roots of this plant. The aerial part of Scandix Venus’s crest will in turn contain polyacetylene compounds and oleanoic acid, while the following flavonoids are present in the stems and leaves: luteolin 7-glucoside and apigenin 7-glucoside. The fruits contain fatty oil, which contains numerous beneficial substances: gamma-terpinene, alpha-pinene, undecanoic acid, santiene, camphene, limonene, lauric acid and alpha-thujene.
A decoction prepared from the herb Scandix Venus crest should be used as a very valuable antitumor, diuretic, laxative and expectorant. In addition, a decoction of the herb of this plant is endowed with the ability to exhibit antibacterial activity.
As an expectorant, laxative and diuretic, it is recommended to use the following remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a healing remedy, you will need to take two tablespoons of crushed dry Scandix Venus crest herb per two glasses of water. The resulting medicinal mixture should first be boiled over fairly low heat for about three minutes, then left to infuse for one hour, after which this mixture based on Scandix Venus comb must be filtered very carefully. Take the resulting medicine based on this plant before meals three times a day, one third of a glass.
