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Lobelia (cardinal flower, etc.)
Lobelia cardinalis
Campanulaceae (morning glory family) Subfamily Lobeliaceae
(Lobelia)
With its towers, tubular purple flowers waving in the breeze, as the flash of a male cardinal flight, the cardinal flower is a name appropriate. The hummingbirds and swallowtail butterflies often visit these flowers bright, showy flowers of our native lobelia. Lobelia is the name of a doctor Flanders and herbalist, Mathieu Lobel (1538-1616). The cardinalis in Latin means "principal", was the first extended to describe the main dignitaries of the Catholic Church, then the red color that the Cardinals are. By applying the same word for a bird of bright red and flower was only a step.
Indian Red is another common name for this amazing perennial that can reach three meters in height. These plants with beautiful foliage dark green towers of real flowers, they are happy in moist soil, especially around the ponds and marshes, but is well adapted to normal species garden. Lobelia is growing in the wild of New Brunswick south to Florida and eastern Texas, and west of California.
The genus Lobelia contains about 375 species native to warm temperate and tropical zones. Most are native perennial and annual, widely cultivated, with distinctive flowers attractive the butterflies and hummingbirds seeking nectar. Several species of medicinal plants recorded today, and the Indians, probably the most used around the lobelia range for healing.
Traditional uses:
Cherokee and Iroquois Indian teas with strong root lobelia to treat syphilis, typhoid fever, and stomach problems. Many tribal people also use tea leaves of this plant medicine as a nerve tonic and to treat cramps. The leaves and flowers are dried for use in smoking mixtures of drugs stimulate the heart. The herb has also been widely included in the love of drugs and love potions " used by many different tribes. The intense red was held sacred and symbolic heart and love.
Indians smoked the dried leaves of India For snuff, L. inflata, to treat asthma, bronchitis and sore throat and strengthen the actions of other herbs. This finely hairy native flowers white flowers Annual arrows pale blue that can reach six to eight inches tall and mature into small capsules swollen after the summer. Self-seeding, there is widespread in the fields and forests of eastern Nova Scotia is open to Saskatchewan and southern Georgia, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Great Lobelia, Cardinal Flower or blue, L. siphilitica, Related is another herb long used by Indians for medicinal purposes. Centuries ago, they made a decoction of the roots of plants (strong tea) to treat syphilis, while the tea leaves used to treat colds, headaches and stomach aches. The leaves poultice on wounds and used as bandages and smoking for the treatment of airway conditions. The slim, attractive, perennial herbs, which can first five feet high, highlights the blue-lilac flowers_tightly clustered along the arrow of flowering. It encourages banks and open prairie from Maine to North Carolina and westward into Mississippi, Arkansas and Minnesota.
As with other parents lobelia, leaves, stems and flowers of pale spike lobelia, L. spicata, have been dried and smoked for treatment and communication problems breathing. Indians also used in all the medicinal plants for washing skin to treat wounds and sores, and was drunk as an emetic. This perennial flowers pale blue with white to nearly four meters high in the fields and meadows throughout the region New Brunswick to Minnesota and southern Georgia. Lobelias "pale blue flowers is supposed to have magical properties, like the ability to conjure ghosts.
Modern uses:
Contemporary herbalists continue lobelia in applications using more traditional Native Americans. The tops of snuff from India, L. inflata, the primary medicinal herb, used in tinctures, tablets, and teas. Da various substances like nicotine, which has led to the use lobelia herbalists to help patients quit smoking. Lobeline, one of the fourteen alkaloids present in L. inflata, enters commercial snuff lozenges, chewing gum and patches. Lobelia is also evaluated as a treatment for airways, bronchial asthma and especially chronic bronchitis. Relax your muscles smaller tubes opening the bronchial airways and stimulate breathing. Combined with cayenne pepper, lobelia has been used as a massage on the chest and sinuses.
Warning:
Lobelias are toxic and can act as a strong emetic. Do not use self-medication.
Growth needs and propagation:
Lobelia thrives in rich, moist soil and part to full sun. Prefers neutral and slightly acid soil should be mulched in winter, especially in northern regions. Other Lobelia species tolerates mixed soils
and dry conditions, and they like full sun. They are very durable and robust. All, including lobelia, are perennial plants that bloom from San Juan in early fall when they set seed. Sow small seeds in the soil rich in humus and covered with a thin layer of mulch. They have to spend the winter air free for maximum strength. Carefully remove the cover in the spring. Plants flower seeds are usually in the second year.
Easy stratification and the spread of strains of root division is also possible, it is best in early spring. Set the roots about a foot outside the new buds right at the soil surface. Keep the soil moist. layers of the rod is easier to achieve in the summer.
Carefully bend the stem until more it touches the ground. Game, to cover part of the upper stem half inch off the ground and keep this moist. The new buds are formed and the stem can be cut between new shoots in the fall.
Partners:
Great companion plants include blue flag and the pen and elderberry bushes. Angelica and Heal also go well with the lobelia in the garden.
A person suffering from sleeping in Lobelia know the cause of their suffering. Put under your pillow at night and dream of their condition during the night to know what is wrong with you. Only bad do and the next morning, he will know what drug use. – Jemima Gibson, herbalist Cayuga, Six Nations Reserve, Canada, 1914
Lobelia has been used by many to combat their bronchitis and asthma. Lobelia is an expectorant which relaxes the respiratory tract. Used as an antispasmodic, Lobelia cardinalis serves as an effective respiratory stimulant.
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