Doronicum altai
Doronicum Altai is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Asteraceae; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Doronicum altaicum Pallas.
As for the name of the Altai Doronicum family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Asteraceae Dumort.
Description of Doronicum Altai
Doronicum Altai is a perennial herbaceous plant, the height of which will fluctuate between ten and eighty centimeters. The rhizome of this plant is thick, its diameter will not exceed a centimeter, such a rhizome will be horizontal, and sometimes it can be oblique. The stem of this plant is single, simple and straight; in the upper part it will be densely glandular and hairy; its color can be either green or brown. It is noteworthy that sometimes the stem can be colored in reddish-violet tones. The basal leaves of this plant often dry out; they can be either inversely elliptical or ovate, and less often they will be rounded. The lower stem leaves of Doronicum Altai will be ovate-oblong in shape, they taper into wide winged petioles, the length of which will be about two centimeters.
The basal and lower stem leaves of this plant can quite often be reduced at the base of the stem into small scale-like stem-encompassing leaves. The remaining leaves of this plant will be broadly ovate, and they will also be stalk-embracing and broadly heart-shaped at the base. All leaves of Doronicum Altai are smooth, slightly pointed or blunt, sometimes they are entire, and along the edge the leaves will be glandular-ciliated.
The baskets are large, the involucre is endowed with equal leaflets, the outer baskets of this plant will be oblong-lanceolate, they are coarsely hairy at the base, the inner leaves are either linear or linear-lanceolate. The reed flowers of Doronicum Altai are endowed with yellow corollas, the middle tubular flowers are also endowed with yellow corollas. The fruits of this plant are smooth or scatteredly hairy achenes, colored in dark brown tones. Also, such fruits are endowed with white tufts and quite numerous jagged bristles.
Doronicum Altai blooms from June to August. Under natural conditions, this plant can be found in Western Siberia: namely, in the southern part of the Ob region, in the Irtysh and Altai regions, as well as in Central Asia and in the following areas of Eastern Siberia: in the Yenisei, Angara-Sayan and Daur regions. As for the general distribution, Altai doronicum is found in Northwestern China and Mongolia.
For growth, Doronicum Altai prefers rocky slopes in the high mountain zone, places near snowfields and glaciers, as well as alpine and subalpine meadows and tundra. In addition, the plant is also found among trees and shrubs, as well as along the banks of mountain streams and rivers. It should be noted that in addition to all its advantages, Altai doronicum is also an ornamental plant, distinguished by a particularly striking appearance.
Description of the medicinal properties of Doronicum Altai
Doronicum Altai is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and for medicinal purposes it is most often recommended to use the herb of this plant. Most often, for medicinal purposes, it is recommended to use a decoction prepared from the herb Doronicum Altai, which is used for a fairly severe dry cough.
For medicinal purposes, a decoction of the herb is used for severe dry cough.
