Official name: Glabrouse ruptur-wort (herniary)

Latin name: Herniaria glabra L.

Description: The smooth rupturewort is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant of the Caryophyllaceae family. The stem is herbaceous or woody at the base, usually with numerous prostrate branches up to 20-30 cm long. The leaves are relatively small, obovate, lanceolate or elliptic, slightly pointed at the tip. The flowers are yellow-green, small, almost sessile, collected in 5-10 lateral inflorescences located along the stem and its branches. The fruit is an ovoid glabrous nut. The seeds are small, dark to black, smooth and shiny. Blooms in April – August. In Bulgaria, it is found in sandy and grassy places at an altitude of up to 1500m.

Part of the herb used: Only the above-ground non-woody parts of the rhizome together with the flowers and leaves ( Herba Herniariae) are collected.

Harvest time: The stalks are harvested during flowering from April to August. They are dried in the shade or in a dryer at a temperature of up to 50 degrees. After drying, the drug acquires a pleasant coumarin smell.

Chemical composition/Content and properties: The Smooth rupturewort has a stinging, pain-relieving, antispasmodic effect. These medicinal effects of the herb are due to the mineral substances, flavonoids, coumarin, glucosides, saponins, tannins and essential oil that it contains.

Medicinal action and application: Taking the herb relaxes the spasms of the smooth muscles of the digestive tract. This facilitates the expulsion of sand and small stones from the kidneys and bladder and makes the medicinal plant applicable in kidney and gallstone disease, in colic of the biliary and urinary tracts, as well as gastrointestinal colic. Externally, the Smooth Rupturewort is used for application with paws for skin rashes, wounds, lichen, for compresses for insect bites. Applied in large doses, the plant is poisonous.

Possibilities to offer at the customer’s request:

“Vesselino” LTD offers its customers the herb in the following varieties:

• Stalks (Herba Herniariae) – dried whole, crushed, cut to a certain size at the customer’s request, ground into powder/flour