Plant popular for its scent, since ancient times appears to be one of the best options for natural environments such as scent drawers and closets for clothes to donate to a great perfume.
Habit: It 'a plant with a woody base, leafless brown from which grow numerous stems herbaceous, up to 70 cm high, square in section, gray-pubescent.
Leaves: The leaves are opposite, linear-lanceolate, gradually narrowed an acute apex.
Flowers: The infiorescienza is placed at the end of its stem in the top handful of leaves, sometimes you have entered infiorescienza side axil of the last leaves. Flowers sono riuniti in verticilli che nel loro insieme formano una specie di spiga.
Frutti: Il frutto è dato da quattro acheni allungati, di colore bruno e lucenti, posti alla base del calice persistente.
La droga: I fiori
Quando si raccoglie: Le infiorescienze si raccolgono all'inizio della fioritura, in giugno-luglio,recidendole alla base.
Come si conserva: Le infiorescienze si fanno seccare,in mazzi, all'ombra;uando i fiori sono ben secchi, si separano facendo passare l'infiorescienza fra le mani.Si conservano in recipienti al riparo dalla luce
Proprietà della droga:
Ownership: aromatic, purifying, antiseptic.
Active ingredients: Essential Oil (linaiolo, geraniol, linalyl acetate).
For external use: The lavender cleanse the skin (for oily and acne), promote the healing of wounds and injuries.
Lavender is also used to purify the breath and gargling with mouthwash.
Internal Use:
infusion (tea) 1 g in 100 ml of acqua.Una cup a cup a day
outdoor
Dyeing: 20g of alcohol in 100 ml of 30 ° (soak for 8 days) . Apply to skin with cotton swab.
Cultivation techniques:
easy to grow plant needs plenty of light and a basically well-drained soil as they do not tolerate too much stagnant water.
The plant needs pruning after flowering in autumn.
To play this plant is needed for propagation by cuttings of the cultivar grown.
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