The White Flower of Betony Plants

The fever or the herb betony (Stachys officinalis synonym: Betonica officinalis) is a plant of the mint family (Lamiaceae). The species is on the Dutch and Belgian Red list of plants as very rare and greatly reduced.

The plant is 30-90 cm high and blooms from June to August with reddish purple, sometimes white flowers. The flowers form a dense schijnaar. Most leaves are in a root rose. The lower leaves have long petioles and the upper leaves have a short petiole. The leaves have reticulate venation. The angular stem is unbranched and has short hair.

The betony occurs in grassland and woodland on slopes not too dry, silty and calcareous soil. The plant is also cultivated as ornamental plants.

In Greek and Roman antiquity was betony as much vomit and stop bleeding apply. Pedanius Dioscorides already described the effect on the nervous system and Antonia Musa described in the Herba Vettonica 47 ailments, which betony as a medicinal herb could be used. In the Middle Ages, the plant used in incantations. Today in the plant occurring substances used in respiratory diseases, diarrhea and cystitis.



Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betonie

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