Dipsakos (Dipsacus) (Dipsacus) is the name of a genus of flowering plants of the Family Dipsacaceae.
The species of this genus are known as teasel.
The genus includes about 15 types of tall herbaceous perennial plants arrive 1-2,5 meters high, native to Europe, of Asia and North Africa.
Wild dipsakos (Dipsacus sylvestris – teasel) is a weed native to Europe. The leaves of this plant are arranged in such a way that keep the water (s French volume say Venus washing machine and the bars of the birds).
Dipsakos native found in Thessaly.
Healing properties of Dipsacus
The water collected in the basins of leaves, considered to have great laxative properties and is recommended for washing the eye. This water is recommended as treatment for warts and freckles. A tea produced by the radical of teasel, used as a diuretic and as a tonic that increases appetite. Tea about 30-50 grams in one liter of water dipsakoy.
The teasel is not used much today for its medicinal properties. Traditionally been used for skin treatments and as a tonic for the stomach. In homeopathy , use a tincture of fresh, flowered plant, for the treatment of skin diseases, anal fistulas, and tuberculosis. Because of the addition of the bitterness, the plant is diaphoretic appetizer.
Syrup from dipsakoy juice and sugar believed that apart from skin diseases and has beneficial properties in the blood.
Historical data on the Dipsacus
The name of the plant comes from the word "thirst", why could from ‘ it to quench the weary traveler. Dioscorides called it "Baths of Aphrodite", because girls who drink the water from the leaves of dipsakou beautify.
The dipsakos in Dioskouridi:
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The neragkatha today also grown as ornamental plants in gardens while their heads are used in dried flower arrangement and is very popular in dried flower arrangements.
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