Inula helenium or Elecampane root,Barutophor inulin fructosan and the application guide Scabwort.

Contents

• Basic Botanical and Description of Elecampane.
• Botanical Narrative of Elecampane.
• Elecampane:Description of Root.
• Phytochemicals and Constituents.
• Mechanism of inulin(fructosan):fatty acids.
• Remedy use of Elecampane root.
• Traditional history and uses of Elecampane root.
• Dosage:How much Elecampane root should I take?.
• Research Update:Elecampane root,Inula helenium.

Botanical Narrative of Elecampane.:

When in flower elecampane resembles the sunflower on a small scale. Like the sunflower, it is a member of the aster family (Asteraceae). It is a rough plant, growing from 3 to 6 feet in height, but producing during the first year only root leaves, which attain considerable size. In the following season the stout densely hairy stem develops, attaining a height of from 3 to 6 feet.

 The leaves are broadly oblong in form, toothed, the upper surface rough and the under side densely soft-hairy. The basal or root leaves are borne on long sterns, and are from 10 to 20 inches long and 4 to 8 inches wide, while the upper leaves are smaller and stemless or clasping.

 About July to September the terminal flowerheads are produced, either singly or a few together. As already stated, these flower heads look very much like small sunflowers, 2 to 4 inches broad, and consist of long, narrow, yellow rays, 3 toothed at the apex, and the disk also is yellow.

Reference:

• 1.Inula helenium or Elecampane root,Barutophor inulin fructosan and the application guide Scabwort.

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♣ last edit date:19th,Oct.2010.