Creeping pitcher
Creeping gum is one of the plants of the family called Cloveaceae; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Silene repens Patrin.
As for the name of the creeping gum family itself, in Latin it will be: Caryophyllaceae Juss.
Description of creeping gum
Creeping gum is a perennial herbaceous plant whose height will vary between fifteen and sixty centimeters. This plant is short-fluffy, its rhizome will be thin and long-creeping, and the stems, in turn, will be ascending. The length of the linear leaves of creeping gum will be about two to seven centimeters, and the width will be identical; shortened shoots will emerge from the axils of such leaves. The flowers of this plant are in axillary and terminal semi-umbrellas on rather short pedicels; such semi-umbrellas, in turn, are collected into a narrow paniculate inflorescence. The calyx of the creeping gum will be club-shaped, the petals are painted in whitish tones, and the marigolds on top will be bare and expanded. The capsule of this plant is ovoid, its length is six to seven millimeters. Creeping gum seeds will be kidney-shaped and streaked, their length is about one millimeter.
This plant blooms from June to August. Under natural conditions, creeping gum is found in Central Asia, the Far East, Eastern and Western Siberia, as well as the following regions of the European part of Russia: Zavolzhsky, Upper Volga and Volga-Kama regions. For growth, creeping gum prefers flooded meadows, grassy and rocky slopes, river banks, foothills in the mid-mountain and low-mountain zones.
Description of the medicinal properties of creeping gum
Creeping gum 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 stems, flowers and leaves.
The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of saponins, anthraglycosides, vitamin C, alkaloids, essential oil, coumarins, flavonoid saponaretin and vitexin in this plant. It is noteworthy that in the Far East, a decoction prepared from the herb of this plant is indicated for use in various gynecological diseases, and is also used as a hemostatic agent.
Mongolian medicine uses an infusion of creeping campion for purulent otitis, while Tibetan medicine recommends an infusion of its flowers for various ear ailments.
The following highly effective remedy based on this plant is recommended as a hemostatic agent: to prepare this remedy, take two tablespoons of dry, crushed creeping campion herb and add two full cups of boiling water. The resulting medicinal mixture should first be boiled for about four to five minutes in a water bath, then left to steep for about an hour, after which the creeping campion mixture should be thoroughly strained. Take this remedy three to four times daily, one-quarter to one-third of a glass, regardless of meals. When used correctly, this remedy based on creeping campion is very effective, and the results will be noticeable quite quickly.
