Latin name: Viola tricolorGenus: VioletsPopulations: Field Pansy, Wild Pansy, Trinity Flower
Plant description
Well known is the pansy, an annual plant, about 20 cm high, lancet-like leaves, toothed. One distinguishes garden pansies and wild pansies. The flowers are always similar in shape, the colors are very different.
They can be solid yellow, blue or purple, but also mixed colors. The flowers of the wild forms are considerably smaller. Flowering time: May to August.
Occurrence: In Central Europe on fields, meadows and pastures. The herb and the root. Usually the herb is collected, harvested at flowering time and gently dried in bunches. The root has the highest saponin content and therefore it is recommended to harvest the entire herb with the root, clean the root and then gently dry it.
Ingredients
Saponins, mucilage, flavonoids, salicylic acid compounds. Also tanning agents, bitter substances.
Curative effects and application
Has an anti-inflammatory effect, especially on children’s skin diseases such as milk crust or eczema. Even with persistent acne improvement has been observed. In cases of insufficient mucus secretion in connection with catarrhs of the upper airways, the pansy has an expectorant effect.
Preparation
Pansy tea: add 2 teaspoons of sliced drug with a large cup of cold water and heat to boil, boil briefly and strain. Drink 3 cups daily. This decoction can also be used to soak gauze compresses or cloths as a support for skin diseases.
To prevent colds, pansies can be mixed in equal parts with lime blossoms and drunk regularly. Pour a large cup of boiling water over 2 teaspoons of this mixture, let it steep for 5 minutes, strain and sweeten with honey. Pansies can also be a component of so-called “blood purification teas”.
Preferably used for skin diseases. For this purpose, mix 10g pansies, 10g dandelion root with herb, 10g rotten tree bark, 5g elderflower and 5g fennel fruit. From this mixture you prepare a tea from which you drink 2 to 3 times a cup a day for a long time.
Pour a large cup of hot water over 2 teaspoons of this mixture, let it steep for 10 minutes and strain. Viola tricolor is obtained from the fresh, flowering plant. It is used for eczema (preferably on the face and ears), milk crust, pustular rash with crust formation.
But also for complaints in the urinary tract (urine smells like cat urine). Patients who need viola tricolor are sad and morose. Most common application from mother tincture to D3.
