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Ajuga reptans L. - syn.Ajuga repens Host. - Lamiaceae
common bugle, blue bugle, bugleweed, Kriechender Günsel, Gurgelkraut
Perennial herb, up to 30cm high, native to Eurasia; leaves elliptic-ovate, purplish-green; flowers usually blue or violet-blue, rarely white, upper lip very short and scarcely discernible, lower lip 3-lobed.
The dried aerial parts, collected at flowering time (Herba Bugulae, Herba Consolidae mediae), is used in folk medicine as astringent to treat inflammations of mouth and larynx, and bile diseases; externally for wounds.
[Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Springer 2010]
The plant contains C28/C29 phytoecdysteroids with the major compounds 29-norsengosterone, 29-norcyasterone as C28, and cyasterone and ajugalactone as C29.
[Composition and location of phytoecdysteroids in Ajuga reptans in vivo and in vitro cultures., Tomás, J., Camps, F., Claveria, E., Coll, J., Melé, E., Messeguer, J., Phytochemistry, Vol.31(5), 1992, 1585-1591]
The phenylpropanoid glycosides verbascoside and teupolioside from A.reptans accelerated wound healing and have remarkable anti-inflammatory action.
[Anti-inflammatory constituents from different plant species., Bodîrlău, R., Spiridon, I., Teacă, C.A., Anghel, N., Ichim, M., Colceru, S., Armatu, A., Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol.8(4), 2009, 785-792]
Curtis, William, Flora Londinensis, vol.2, t.43 (1777-1778)
http://plantgenera.org/species.php?id_species=35373