CLIMATUS, FILBAHAR, KARABAG, PECHEK, ADIFAHAR
CLEMATIS VITALBA L
(Ranunculaceae-fam)
ATTENTION! Clematitol and Anemenol in this plant are poisonous.
LOCATIONS: It grows in forests, among bushes and everywhere up to 1500 m. sea level.
STRUCTURE: It is a perennial creeping and climbing plant with a woody stem up to 30 m. The leaves are hairy, lanceolate egg-shaped leaflets have long stems, and they cling to surrounding objects with these. The flowers are white, the flowers together form a broom-like flower cluster. It is slightly aromatic, the marginal flowers have 4 sections and many stamens. The fruit is red-brown, hairy, long-fibrous in the form of a bole.
KULLANILAN KISIMLAR:Yapraklar kullanılır.Çiçek açma zamanında (Mayıs-Haziran aylarında) toplanır.Gölgede veya 45 derceye kadar ısılı fırınlarda kurutulur.Rutubet payı %12’dir.Torba ve balya halinde paketlenir.Kuru ve havadar yerlerde muhafaza edilir.
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: Contains anemenol, clematitol, saponins, leontin, stigmasterin, unexamined glycoside, seryl alcohol, myricyl alcohol, mellic acid, sitosterin, trimethylamine, waxy substances etc.
IN WHICH DISEASES IS IT USED: It has antimicrobial, fungicidal, diuretic and diaphoretic effects. It is recommended to use in places such as water retention, heart swelling, eye inflammations, bladder venereal diseases, headache, bone tumors (tumors), increased appetite.
In folk medicine, it is recommended to use Karabağ leaves in places such as stomach ulcers, malaria, dilated vein ulcers. Externally, it is used as a bath for itching, boils and purulent wounds. The root of the plant also has the same effects.
In our folk medicine, the sub-bark tissues of the stem are also used. It is mixed with olive oil by pounding (8 hours) and applied to rheumatic areas and bone cysts (tumors). (If it remains in the applied area for too long, it may cause wounds on the skin, care should be taken.)
USAGE: 1 coffee spoon of the plant is boiled with 0.5 lt. of boiling water and left for 1 hour. Take a coffee cup 3 times a day before meals.
