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celandine (Chelidonium majus L.)


Family:
Papaveraceae (poppy family)
Species: Chelidonium majus L.


dt Name:
celandine

Status:
home in NRW

celandine is toxic. It contains a total of ten alkaloids. The most important are chelerythrine, chelidonine, sparteine, Chelidoxanthin and sanguinarine. Ingestion of the plant causes severe irritation of the gastro-intestinal tract. Accordingly, the symptoms manifest themselves in burning, pain, vomiting, bloody diarrhea and circulatory disorders. In severe poisoning cases, it can come to death in the collapse. Wikipedia



magical plant Chelidonium majus Celandine
Afelkraut, eye cabbage, orange lily, witches milk, itch weed, yellow weed, Maikraut, Rotlaufgras, swallow-wort, devil's weed, warts
This ancient herb - very toxic! - Medicinal plant witches milk is probably because it was useful in folk medicine for expelling the warts.
you should also have been part of the witches' albums.


The celandine loves the proximity of houses and likes to grow inconspicuously on walls. There it is held by most of weeds. makes

Only his yellow juice it to a particular phenomenon, but comes only with the collapse of the stem to the fore.

From time immemorial it is a popular herbal remedy for severe liver and bile.

As a relative of the opium poppy have the alkaloids of celandine also soothing and antispasmodic effect.


The celandine is a relative of the opium poppy, the notice also quite different.
preferred it grows on walls near human habitation. It is about 40-50 cm high.

The round stems branched several times, until he ends up in little yellow flowers. The soft light green leaves are slightly hairy and have the shape of oak leaves.

What is special about the flowers that they have only four petals. Because they can be distinguished from many other yellow floret. The celandine flowers from April to September and is always new flowers.

develop from the flowers are elongated pods containing small black seeds.

The clearest feature to detect the celandine is the yellow juice, which escapes as soon as you abrricht the stem or a leaf. healing herbs