Saussurea bitters
Saussurea bitter is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Asteraceae; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Saussurea amara (L.) DC.
As for the name of the bitter sosurea family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Asteraceae Dumort. (Compositae Giseke).
Description of bitter saussurea
Saussurea bitter is a perennial herbaceous plant whose height will vary between fifteen and sixty centimeters. The entire plant will be bluish in color, usually rough, but sometimes smooth. The stem of Saussurea bitter will be clearly grooved and straight, in the upper part it is branched, but sometimes it can be simple. It is noteworthy that the leaves of this plant can vary greatly both in shape and in the trimming of the edges. The basal and lower stem leaves of this plant are endowed with a rather long petiole; they will be elliptical in shape. The width of the plate will be about five to twenty centimeters, while the stem leaves can be either sessile or short-petioled. The baskets of bitter Saussurea are bell-shaped, they will form rather dense corymbose-paniculate inflorescences, and the width of the baskets will be equal to one to one and a half centimeters. The flowers of this plant can be colored either pink or white. The length of the achene is about fifteen millimeters, such an achene is smooth and does not have a crown.
Saussurea bittersweet blooms from July to September. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the territory of Central Asia, the Amur region and Primorye in the Far East, the Dnieper region in Ukraine, in all regions of Western Siberia except the Ob and all regions of Eastern Siberia except the Yenisei region, as well as in the following regions of the European part of Russia: Zavolzhsky, Lower Volga and Volga-Kama. For the growth of Saussurea, bitter prefers places near housing, steppe and saline meadows.
Description of the medicinal properties of bitter saussurea
Saussurea bitter 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. The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of tannins, rubber, sucrose, alkaloids, monosaccharides, coumarins, the sesquiterpenoid cinaropicrin and anthraglycosides in this plant. The inflorescences of Saussurea bitter contain flavonoids, tannins and alkaloids.
Saussurea bitter is endowed with hemostatic properties. At the same time, it was proven that the water-ethanol extract and the sum of sesquiterpenoids in the composition of this plant will be endowed with the ability to exhibit antitumor, antibacterial and cytotoxic activity, while the herbal decoction will exhibit bactericidal activity. The essential extract of the roots and the tincture based on them are endowed with the ability to exhibit antibacterial activity, and the tincture of the roots also exhibits antiprotozoal and tuberculostatic activity.
Tibetan medicine quite widely uses a decoction prepared from the herb or leaves of Saussurea bitter. Such healing agents are used for various malignant formations and infectious diseases, and are also used as an infectious-allergic and hemostatic agent. In Siberia, a decoction prepared from the bark of Saussurea bitter is indicated for use in various female diseases, and in Transbaikalia such a decoction is used for epilepsy, fever and diarrhea.
