Common ormennig

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Common ormennig
Common ormennig (Agrimonia eupatoria)

Common ormennig ( Agrimonia eupatoria )

Systematics
Family : Rose family (Rosaceae)
Subfamily : Rosoideae
Tribe : Sanguisorbeae
Sub tribus : Agrimoniinae
Genre : Ormennige ( Agrimonia )
Type : Common ormennig
Scientific name
Agrimonia eupatoria
L.

The Common agrimony ( Agrimonia eupatoria ), also Common Agrimony , arable weed , field flower and Agrimony called, is a plant species in the subfamily of Rosoideae within the family of the rose family (Rosaceae). It is widespread in Eurasia .

description

Stem with indument and pinnate leaves
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Young fruits
Ripe Velcro fruits

Vegetative characteristics

The common ormennig grows as a deciduous, perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of usually 15 to 150, rarely up to 180 centimeters. It has rhizomes deeply rooted in the ground from which the stems arise. Both the stem axis and the leaves are hairy ( indument ). The upper part of the stem is covered with both short and long outer hairs.

The alternately arranged leaves are unpaired, typically interrupted pinnate . At the base, the leaves are close together like a rosette. The distance from one another increases towards the top. The sessile leaflets are arranged alternately to form larger and smaller elliptical-rhombic pairs of leaflets, with their size increasing towards the end of the leaf. The relatively large leaflet is petiolate. On the underside they are gray-green in color, usually densely gray-tomentose. There are few sedentary glandular hairs hidden in the felt. The leaf margin shows six to twelve roughly blunt pairs of teeth. The leaves halfway up the stem are 10 to 30 centimeters long and have 5 to 9, rarely up to 13 larger and 6 to 10 smaller leaflets.

Generative characteristics

The flowering period extends from June to September. The short-stalked flowers are arranged in an elongated, racemose inflorescence .

The flower has a bowl-shaped, arched flower cup, the upper edge of which is covered with several rows of soft, hook-shaped curved bristles. The length of the bristles varies between 1 and 4 millimeters. The hermaphrodite flower is radially symmetrical and five-fold. There is no outer chalice. The flowering is initiated by 5 sepals. To these are 5 yellow, rounded petals in gaps. The petals and the five to 20 stamens arise from the edge of the flower cup. The two free carpels are - typical for the middle-sized ovary - sunk into the flower cup, but not grown together with it.

The obscured common nut fruits are deeply and closely grooved almost to the bottom. The upper spines are hooked, the lowest upright to just sticking out.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28 with a basic chromosome number of 7. It is therefore a tetraploid plant.

ecology

The Kleiner Odermennig is a hemicryptophyte .

From an ecological point of view, it has simply designed disc flowers, which attract hoverflies , flies and western honey bees for pollination with their abundant supply of pollen .

The Velcro fruits get stuck on the fur of passing animals and are spread over a large distance , since they are mainly cattle , sheep , fallow deer and wild boar due to the size of the plant . This spreading strategy is known as epichory .

Occurrence

The Kleine Odermennig is widespread in Europe and northern Asia with the exception of the Arctic zone ., It is hardy in Central Europe . It likes to grow on sunny meadows and forest edges from the plains to the middle mountain ranges, up to altitudes of around 1600 meters. In the Allgäu Alps, it rises in the Tyrolean part on the ascent from Elbigenalp to Bernhardseck up to an altitude of 1200 meters. The common ormennig does not tolerate acidic soils and only little shade.

In Central Europe it is a character species of the Klee-Odermennig- Saum ( Trifolio-Agrimonietum ), which belongs to the association of the mesophilic herb edges ( Trifolion medii ). This is named after the association's characteristic medium clover ( Trifolium medium ). Other typical types are oregano , common vertebrate , bear pods , narrow-leaved medicinal valerian and sickle clover . The border occurs mainly in the low mountain ranges on limestone soils. The Kleine Odermennig has other occurrences in societies of the associations Mesobromion , Cirsio-Brachypodion as well as in the order Prunetalia (hedges and bushes).

Systematics

The first publication of Agrimonia eupatoria was made in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum , 1, p 448. synonyms for Agrimonia eupatoria L. are Agrimonia bracteosa E.Mey. and Agrimonia nepalensis D.Don .

The genus name Agrimonia is from the Greek -derived Latinized name for Field residents. The specific epithet eupatoria probably goes back to the king of Ponthus Mithridates Eupator .

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use

Use as a medicinal plant

The effective ingredients are contained in the flowering shoot tips and in the leaves. The important ingredients are tannins of the catechin type and corilagin (gallotannin), bitter substances , essential oils , flavonoids (especially quercetin and apigenin ), triterpenes , plant acids and silicas . The sprouts ( Agrimoniae herba) collected and dried during flowering serve as a drug .

Due to its tannin content, the drug has a mild astringent and anti-inflammatory effect. Internally, the plant is used for the therapy of diarrheal diseases, for the treatment of inflammation in the mouth and throat, as well as for stomach, intestinal and gallbladder diseases in general. Externally, compresses are used for inflammation of the skin. The plant is also popularly used to treat bed-wetting, kidney and bladder infections and diabetes, without the effectiveness of these applications being scientifically proven. Homeopathic preparations are used for bronchitis.

The Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products (HMPC) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published a monograph on scotweed. It confirms traditional indications for various preparations, for example mild diarrhea, inflammation in the mouth and throat and on the skin as well as superficial wounds.

Use as a dye plant

With the subterranean parts of the plant or the whole plant of the common Odermennig a yellow color is achieved on wool pre-stained with alum . The lightfastness and washfastness of this shade on wool and cotton are said to be mediocre. The later the plant is harvested in autumn, the darker the yellow color obtained.

The main group of dyes are the flavonoids and the main dyes are quercetin , catechin tannin and ellagen tannin .

More common names

The German name Odermennig (via Middle High German or menie or Middle Dutch or Menighe and Old High German avermonia / avarmonia ) is a distortion from Latin agrimonia from Greek argemōnion . In addition to the distorted form, the derivation agrimony is also documented.

Some common names are: liver clover, burdock, nipple root, sheep's burdock, gastric herb, royal herb, herb of life, stone herb, church tower, spleen flower. The common name “church tower” owes its popular parlance to its long plant stem. The terms Leberklee or Milzblüh are used in the southern German-speaking area and reflect the healing uses there for liver , gall bladder or spleen .

Other names are or were, some of them only regional: Acher Blum , Acherkrut , Achermeng , Achermennig , arable Blum ( Silesia , Middle High German ), Ackerkrut (Silesia, Middle High German), Ackermeng (Silesia, Middle High German), Ackermennig (Silesia, Middle High German), Ackermüntz , Acker root , Adermeng (medium high German), wire amount (medium high German), Adermenig (medium high German), Adermeyng (medium high German), Adermonie , Adexen , Agermenig , Aggermenig , Agraminien , Agramlini , Agramoi (medium high German), Agramüni (medium high German), Agremomen , Amündenkraut ( Rendsburgerstrasse pharmacy ) Argemündli ( Bern ), Beer herb (Silesia), Borwort ( middle Low German ), Borwurz (medium high German), Brachfan (medium high German), fallow flag (medium high German), Brachkrut (middle Low German), Brochkrut (middle Low German), Rupturewort (Silesia), fracture root , Bruck root , Brustkrut (Rendsburg pharmacy), Chaldamändle ( Swabia ), Denicléta (Middle High German), Eisenkra ut , Grensig (Middle High German), Grent (Middle High German), Greyn (Middle High German), Hagamundiskraut , Hagenmöndli (Bern), Haldenmändle (Swabia), Heil aller Welt (Silesia), Hulpe , Kaisertee ( Eifel ), Klettenkraut (Silesia), Liver Burdock ( Prussia ), liver herb , Menig , Oddermünich ( Transylvania ), Odermenig , Odermeny , Odermynge , Otermännig (Bern), Verwort (middle Low German) and foreword (middle Low German).

History as a medicinal plant

  • Antiquity. The plant names listed in the herbal books of antiquity, late antiquity and the Middle Ages can only be assigned very uncertainly to the plant species known to us. A medicinal plant with the name eupatorion (later mostly interpreted as Common Odermennig, less often as Ordinary Water Dost) was listed in the works of Dioscurides , Pliny and Galen . Dioscurides attributed the following effects to him: “His leaves, ground with old pork fat, applied to ulcers that are difficult to heal, lead to healing; Seeds and herbs washed down with wine help intestinal and liver patients and those bitten by snakes. " Pliny wrote similarly about the eupatorium :" The roots are useless. The seed, when drunk in wine, is a unique remedy for dysentery. " Galen classified the plant in the sap theory :" The herb eupatorium has thinning, incisive, wiping properties when it is exposed to a distinct heat. "
  • Late antiquity. A medicinal plant with the name agrimonia (later interpreted as Common Odermennig) was used in the herbal book Pseudo-Apuleius, written in the 4th century, against eye complaints, against stomach pain, for poorly healing wounds, for dislocations, after snake bites, for piercing with iron and wood, Recommended for removing warts, spleen pain and things that need to be cut open.
  • Arab Middle Ages. The doctors of the Arab Middle Ages quoted the statements of Dioscurides, Pliny and Galen about the eupatorium and they judged it as "warm in the first degree and dry in the second degree" according to the doctrine of the humours .
  • Latin Middle Ages. In the Latin Middle Ages the common Odermennig is mentioned as agrimonia in the following works: in the didactic poem Liber de cultura hortorum by the Reichenau monk Walahfrid Strabo , in the Physica attributed to Hildegard von Bingen , in the galangal spice tract , in the Herbarius Moguntinus , in the Garden of Health , in the Hortus sanitatis and in the small distilling book of Hieronymus Brunschwig . The Mainz herb book incunabula Herbarius Moguntinus , Gart der Gesundheit and Hortus sanitatis contain an agrimonia chapter as well as a eupatorium chapter. Hieronymus Brunschwig has adopted another healing application for the common Odermennig from southern German manuscripts of the 15th century: "Is gůt for the hůſten."
  • 16th Century. In the 16th century, the fathers of botany freed it from its close association with medicine and made it an independent science. They interpreted the agrimonia of the ancients as common ormennig and the eupatorium of the ancients as ordinary water dost .
  • 17th to 20th century. To this day, the common Odermennig is recommended, albeit rarely, for the treatment of "liver and spleen diseases", against diarrhea and as a "astringent" gargle. In 1986, a (positive) monograph by Commission E of the former Federal Health Office was published in the Federal Gazette on Odermennigkraut.

Historical illustrations

literature

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  • Little ormennig. In: FloraWeb.de.
  • Petro Andrea Matthioli: Kreutterbuch des highly learned and well-known. 1590.

Web links

Commons : Gemeiner Odermennig ( Agrimonia eupatoria )  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

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