Medical Fumitory – Fumaria officinalis

Description of medical fumitory:

Fumaria officinalis L. fumaria fumaria fumaria (Old or other familiar names: bile-grass, groundsel, strawberry) Fumarial officinalis, also known as ‘fumarial’ or ‘fumarial officinalis’, or ‘fumarial officinalis’ – Fumariaceae 10-30 cm tall, annual plant. The whole plant is bluish-amber-green. Inflorescences in clusters. Pileus three times as large as the calyx, pale purple, the inner petals greyish-feathery. The fruit is broader rather than longer, the apex truncate, almost pear-shaped.

Occurrence:

Especially in central and southern Europe. In our country, it grows both in cultivated soil and fallow.

Part of the soil to be collected:

Leafy, flowery above ground part, which herba furnariae it is known commercially as. Its leaves are double-petioled. The leaves are narrowly symmetrical.

Active substances:

Fumaric, fumaric acid and potassium salts.

Harvesting and drying:

A bluish-amber-green plant flowering between May and June, the flowering, leafy stems should be collected. Drying should only be done in a ventilated attic.

Processing and sale:

It is an ingredient of some medicinal preparations and is also tinctura, extractum and syrupus fumariae-it is used in some medicinal products and also in the preparation of t. Source: Dr. Ferenc Darvas and Dr Gyula Magyary-Kossa,Domestic herbs, their production, marketing, effects and medicinal uses