Latin name: Pimpinella Major
Genus: Umbelliferous plant
Plant description: The plant can grow to over 1 m high. The stem is glabrous, hollow and furrowed. Flowers often white to pink, arranged in 5-12 ray umbels.
Also the small meadow button (much smaller and daintier) is often erroneously called Bibernelle. Flowering time: July to August. Origin: In our region often on meadows, on sunny slopes and banks.
Medicinally used plant parts
The root. Bibernelle must always be identified carefully because other poisonous umbellifers look very similar to it. Harvest in spring or autumn. The roots are cleaned, cut in half and strung on strings to dry, then dried in the oven after a week.
Ingredients
Essential oil, tanning agents, saponins, coumarins.
Healing effects and use of Bibernelle
Catarrh of the upper airways, bronchitis, sore throat. It has a mild sputum-promoting effect, but is not strong enough on its own and is usually combined with other drugs.
Preparation of Bibernelle
Bibernelle tea: A heaped teaspoon of finely chopped drug is poured over 1⁄4 l of cold water, heated slowly to boiling, boiled for one minute and then strained. To stimulate sputum, drink 1 cup sweetened with honey 3 times a day. For gargling with sore throats use this unsweetened decoction.
Combination with other medicinal plants
Tea mixture of: Bibernelle root 20,0 g / chamomile blossoms 20,0 g / bloodroot 20,0 g mixed and prepared as described above, can be used as gargle. Pimpinella alba is prepared from the fresh root and is used for nosebleeds, headaches, ringing in the ears, bronchitis and gastro-intestinal disorders. Mostly D1 to D6.
Side effect
None are known in the usual dosage.
