Bloodroot is native to Central and Eastern Europe. The drug is imported mainly from Eastern European countries. In herbal medicine, people use the dried rhizomes (rhizomes, Tormentillae rhizoma) stripped of the roots.
Bloodroot: characteristics and peculiarities
Bloodroot is a perennial, up to 30 cm high, strongly branched perennial plant that forms prostrate shoots. The rhizome of the plant quickly turns blood red on fresh fractures or cuts, which is the origin of the name “bloodroot”.
The mostly 5-toothed leaves are palmately pinnate and weakly hairy. The plant also has small, solitary, yellow flowers, which, unlike other rosaceous plants, are 4-toothed (rarely more).
What does the remedy consist of?
The component of the cut drug are the dark brown to reddish brown, irregularly shaped and very hard rhizome pieces. Sometimes these are covered with blackish-brown cork, and sometimes you can see the whitish root scars.
Smell and taste of bloodroot
Tormentil rootstock emits a very faint but pleasant odor. The taste of the rhizome is strongly astringent (astringent).