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Annual herb, up to 50cm tall, native to the Mediterranean, | Annual herb, up to 50cm tall, native to the Mediterranean, | ||
- | The whole herb (Cnici benedicti herba) is used mainly as bitter tonic and stomachic to treat dyspepsia and loss of appetite. "... the biological activity is ascribed to the bitter substances - sesquiterpene lactones of the germacran type. The main constituent is cnicin, with smaller quantities of artemisiifolin ans solonitenolide. The bitterness is partly due to trachelogenin and arctigenin, lignan lactones... Extracts are traditionally used in Europe in herbal liquers." | + | The whole herb (Cnici benedicti herba) is used mainly as bitter tonic and stomachic to treat dyspepsia and loss of appetite. " ...the biological activity is ascribed to the bitter substances - sesquiterpene lactones of the germacran type. The main constituent is cnicin, with smaller quantities of artemisiifolin ans solonitenolide. The bitterness is partly due to trachelogenin and arctigenin, lignan lactones... Extracts are traditionally used in Europe in herbal liquers." |
[Medicinal Plants of the World. Ben-Erik Van Wyk and Michael Wink, Pretoria 2004, 87] | [Medicinal Plants of the World. Ben-Erik Van Wyk and Michael Wink, Pretoria 2004, 87] | ||