Lovage - dried root - 1000g (1kg)
Product characteristics
Contents: dried root
Country of origin: Poland
Classification: Levisticum officinale
Weight: 1000g (1kg)
Description
LOVAGE - dried root - 1000g (1kg)
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Plant description A species of perennial belonging to the Apiaceae family, the only representative of the genus Levisticum. It comes from Afghanistan and Iran, and he has also spread here and there outside his home area. It is grown in many regions of the world, sometimes (rarely) wild. |
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Properties - herbal raw material: lovage root - whole or shredded, dried rhizome and root - contains volatile oil (terpene, esters, acetic acid, valeric acid), starch in large quantities, sugars, resins, coumarin, organic acids, phthalides (derivatives of phthalic acid - butylphthalides), coumarin and furancarmarin (including bergapten and psolaren), polyphenolic acids (including caffeic and chlorogenic acids), phytosterols - lovage root decoction is used for urinary tract infections and renal failure - in folk medicine, lovage preparations have been used for menstrual pain and as a diuretic, carminative and expectorant - formerly used in diseases of the urinary tract and diseases involving the reduction of urinary excretion, in catarrh of the upper respiratory tract as an expectorant, as a drug stimulating menstrual bleeding, as well as increasing sexual excitability |
