Ancyclus officinalis

In the literature, the plant is found under many Russian names: Pharmaceutical Salivon, Medicinal Anacyclus ^[3] , Pyrethrum Anticyclus, Compressed Anticyclus, Medicinal ^[4] , German chamomile ^[3] , German chamomile ^[4] , Spanish chamomile. A number of Russian names are derived from the scientific names included in the synonymy of the species, some others arose in connection with the medicinal use of the plant and the nature of the action of preparations made from it.

Synonymy of the form:

A plant up to 40 cm tall with a straight or rising stalk, slightly hairy, branched, almost bare at the base.

Leaves are slightly pubescent, elongated, double-pinnate, two-tripartite, linear and linearly-awl-shaped, pointed, lobes diverging, up to 10 mm long ^[5] .

Single baskets with a diameter of about 1 cm, sitting on long and thick short-haired pedicels, are placed on the tops of branches and stems. The receptacle is convex, with webbed, short-pointed bracts. Marginal flowers with elliptical tongues about 10 mm long, white above, reddish below; inner flowers are tubular bisexual lemon yellow. Achenes are flat obovate triangular up to 3 mm long and about 2 mm wide, in the marginal achenes have wide wings with wide triangular ears on top, in the inner achenes, the wings are vanishingly narrow without ears. Flowering occurs in July and August.

It grows naturally in the Mediterranean . It has long been cultivated in Germany. In Russia, it spread as a cultivated plant, where in places it was wild.

The plant is known as a medicinal plant. It was cultivated in Germany for the sake of Radix Pyrethrii root containing essential oils , inulin , pyrethrin alkaloids and pellitorin. ^[3] The root is harvested in the fall after the completion of the growing season. ^{[4] The} infusion of ground roots was used in folk medicine for toothache as a painkiller, for diseases of the tongue, as a salivary drug, and as an external irritant. ^[3]

• Anacyclus // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Afanasyev K. S. Rod 1515. Anacyclus - Anacyclus // Flora of the USSR : 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1961. - T. 26 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin , E.G. Bobrov . - S. 68-69. - 938 p. - 2400 copies.
• Kyosev P. A. Medicinal plants: the most comprehensive reference . - M .: Eksmo , 2011 .-- S. 78 .-- 994 p. - (Traditional medicine from A to Z). - ISBN 978-5-699-46789-1 .

• ' Anacyclus officinarum ) : information on the taxon in the Plantarium project (identifier of plants and illustrated atlas of species).