Potentilla is a genus of plants with about five hundred species. Potentilla are herbaceous, woody, annual and perennial.
In nature, this plant grows like weeds. But she has many decorative species that serve as decoration for flower beds.
Among them a special place is occupied by a perennial plant - Kapchatka shrub.
Mottled Shrub
This plant is also referred to as a five-leaf, because of the particular shape of the leaf. In Siberia, in Kamchatka and Kuriles, tea is brewed from dried flowers and leaves, so the cinquefoil shrub has another name - Kuril tea. The leaves of the shrub are covered with silky hairs and appear slightly silvered.
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Kuril tea is propagated by seeds and vegetatively - by dividing a bush or by cuttings. Seeds are sown without prior preparation in the greenhouse. But it is possible to land them in the ground only for the 3-4th year of development. A simpler and faster way is grafting.
Pyatistochnik - unpretentious plant and care for it when growing is not difficult. An open and sunny enough place is chosen for landing.
Potentilla tolerates winter well, only in severe frosts the tips of the shoots freeze slightly. In the spring they are cut off. This does not affect the number of flowers, as they bloom on new shoots.
Most varieties of quatrefoil do not require regular pruning. The natural shape of the shrub is compact and neat. Only for rejuvenation cut clumsy and old branches every few years.
If desired, various geometric shapes can be formed from Potentilla shrubs, as well as used as a hedge. Although this decorative element is not very high, it will have a dense growth and a beautiful view all summer.
The leaves and flowers of Kuril tea contain a large amount of ascorbic acid, carotene, organic acids and other useful substances.
Flowering one-year tops of the shoots are used as medicinal raw materials. A decoction of crushed shoots is used in the treatment of intestinal infections, metabolic disorders, dysbiosis in children and other diseases.
For medicinal purposes, also used are herbaceous species of the genus Potentilla, white silverweed and silverweed goose.
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This herb has popular names: roadway, spruce branches, goose foot, soft grass. Potentilla goose grows along the banks of rivers, in forest meadows and near housing and roads. Its leaves are pinnate, serrate. From above have green color, from below - white. The goose foot blooms from mid-May to September. The flowers are yellow, with a cup and subaccias.
The plant is rich in tannins, iron, potassium, vitamin C. It contains essential oil, organic acids and other physiologically active components.
In folk medicine, it is used as a wound healing, diuretic, hemostatic agent.
Potentilla goose infusion is used to regulate metabolic processes in diabetes, obesity and goiter.
Herbs are used to prepare healing ointments for treating wounds, fissures, and some skin diseases. Potentilla goose is also used to prepare therapeutic baths for obesity.
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In the wild, the plant is quite rare. If it is planted in sunny open areas of the flower garden, a lot of white flowers appear after the snow melts and they only fade away in late autumn. Tea from the leaves of the plant is very useful because it contains a large amount of organic selenium.
Herbalists have long been engaged in the study of the healing qualities of Potentilla white. The therapeutic properties of this species have not been fully studied, but its positive effect in the treatment of such diseases as diffuse goiter, autoimmune thyroiditis, hypo- and hyperthyroidism has been proven.
On the basis of the dry extract of the roots of this plant in Russia, an effective drug "endonorm" has been created for the prevention and treatment of diseases of the thyroid gland.
The rhizome of the plant contains a large number of microelements: iron, silver, copper, iodine, etc. With the use of cinquefoil, the hormonal balance is normalized, the metabolic processes in the body are optimized.
