Erect cinquefoil
Leaf blade of the plant was cut into 3 toothed lobes, and at the base of the leaf there are still 2 small stipules, why it seems that 5 of them. Therefore, the plant received the name - cinquefoil: a leaf, and indeed resembles a chicken leg. And sitting on the leaves of the plant stalk, not in vain botanists such leaves are called sessile. Stem cinquefoil of the species name of the plant - upright - erekta.Rhode bloodroot has over 500 species of herbaceous plants and dwarf shrubs, including 150 found in the territory of our country is used in medicine only five-finger erect. The generic name "Potentilla" - translated from the Latin word "force" - linked to the healing properties of this unprepossessing, small herbaceous plants. But with the first warm May days of the green carpet of small plants revived ornament of flowers with 4 golden-yellow petals and numerous stamens, which are located at the ends of thin branches of the stem. By the way, all the impurities cinquefoil flowers consist of 5 petals, and on this basis it is easy to distinguish them from the upright cinquefoil.
Cinquefoil not one of the plants, which in ancient times composed the myths and legends. But people are willing to plant the rhizomes used for black and red paint, know that it contains a valuable therapeutic agents, and used it to treat many diseases. In the Middle Ages rhizome "tormentilly" was almost the only way to fight dysentery, no wonder the name translates as "strength" and "dysentery".
a long time about the bloodroot, unselfish friend that man is not remembered, and only in old Trawniki could be found mention of it, and then only in combination with other herbs. Reminded of it at the beginning of this century, when the intensive search for natural tanning materials, and found that the rhizomes Cinquefoil contain more tannins than oak, and only less than "ink Nuts Turkish galls-import raw material drawn from abroad. Also detected flavonoids, triterpene saponins, resinous substances, gum, wax, starch, essential oil.
Fresh rhizome has a pleasant, mild aroma zanahom disappearing on drying. Decoction of rhizomes Cinquefoil is used as an astringent for various inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Included in the binder fees. Applied topically in cosmetics and dermatology. Used as a binder in the form of decoction, and as a lotion for treatment of oily seborrhea dermatitis of the face and, as with burns, weeping eczema, and stomatitis and gingivitis, as a styptic. It is used in cosmetics and other countries.