10 Graines Chardon béni, Cnicaut béni, Centaurea benedicta

Blessed thistle, cnicaut blessed, Centaurea Benedicta | Graines reproductibles, Graines Non Traitées

Centaurea benedicta, the blessed thistle, cnicaut béni or cnicus béni2, is a species From Plants Annuals to Leaves Thorny, from Family of Asteracées, fairly common in dry terrain in the region Mediterranean Mediterranean. It should not be confused with the fetid panicaut (Eryngium Foetidum), also called blessed thistle in Martinique (Chadwon Béni in Martinican Creole), or Iron Grass (Zebafè) in Guadeloupe.

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It is an annual plant, up to 10 to 60 CM high, although in some countries - like Romania where it is cultivated for medical purposes, its size can reach 1 M. The floriferous stem is erected, branched, the branches being well removed from each other and covered with woolly hairs. The main root is hail.

The leaves, pale green and quite tough, are deeply divided. They are bordered by thorny teeth. They are above all remarkable by the network of white ribs , protruding on the underside.

The capitules of yellow flowers are surrounded by a developed involucre, including the bracts external, green, larger than the others, resemble the leaves. The interior bracts have a long spicy point. Only the central flowers are hermaphrodites, those in the exterior around only bear stamens.

The fruits, Akenes almost cylindrical measures approximately 1 CM, with a prominent Eleosome. They are glabrous and decorated with ten longitudinal furrows, with an Pappus of two raid hair lines, the short and the longer interior.

This species is mainly from the edges of the Mediterranean : Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Afghanistan, Balkans, Italy, Portugal, Spain.

In France, it is especially in Provence and in Languedoc-Roussillon.

She has naturalized herself in many countries, including in America. In the United States, it is considered an invasive plant.

The blessed thistle was known as the acorna or CNECOS5 in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Theophrastus, H.P. VI, 4.5 , 6; Pliny, Natural history6, 21, 94-95). Au XVI^e century, Mattiolli In Valent " wonderful & Excellent virtues " in Comments M. P. André Matthiolus ... Of the six books of Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbeen of the medicinal matter [archive] (1572). Doctors readily advised to put blessed thistle seeds in the paste7 or to take decoctions of the plant8. The apothecaries began in XVI^e century to distill medicinal plants in order to extract the pure part with therapeutic efficiency (according to the principles set out by Hieronymus brunschwig (LIBER OF ARTE DISILLANDI), 1500). In XVII^e century, the chemical apothecary Nicolas Lémery in extract of sweat water ; " It is used to bring out the small poison, for the plague, for malignant fevers "9, he will say. ]351A[ ) ]251A151A[ ( ]051A941A841A741A[ elcitrA : ]641A[ ecruoS . ]541A441A[ AS-YB-CC ecnecil al à simuos unetnoC ]341A[ . ]241A[ selanicidém sétéirporp ses ruop , ]141A041A931A831A[ ,einamuoR ne eévitluc tse ellE .serèclu sed te seialp sed tnemetiart el ruop ,enretxe eiov rap éyolpme siofertua tuf inéb nodrahc eL . ]731A[ fitisop marG seirétcab sed ertnocne'l à tuotrus ,senneirétcabitna sétéirporp sed edèssop enotcal etteC .enicinc al emmoc ,seuqinépretiuqses ]631A531A431A.

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