Benefit by Centaury.

 Herb enjoying moisturizing and salted soils. Flowers, leafs having very bitter glycosides, alkaloid gentiacid , essential oil, vitamin C.

 An old herb, that mentioning in myths by old Greece and in works hard by Dioscoride, very appreciated on old centuries, Avicenna used as healing good remedy. Blooms on 2nd year of life since June-August, seeds are ready on august-September. Enjoying growing on raw meadows, forests, marshes shores, on a solonetic  soils. Remedies of this herb using for appetite increasing, improving digestion, hard stool, heartburn, meteorism, secretion failure of gall, achilia, a full absence in salted acid and ferments in stomach juice, apply externally water infusions in hard healing wounds.

A preparing an  over earth herb part, as on a blooming time, cutting stems with stem leafs and flowers of higher a root rosette, avoid take herb with root tearing, but prepared mass apply by thin layers on litters and dry on the opened air in dark, as on sunny weather on attics at good ventilated places, in drying on opened   air on rainy weather, a mass fast spoiling, leafs, stems are yellows, flowers are black decolourizes . 2 tbl.sp.  of dried, chopped herb , add in glass of the hot water in enamel dish, close a lid, and warm on water bath for 15 min, mixing, cool for 45 min, filter, press, in infusion add boiled water till a full glass. Use infusion as warm, on 1/2-1/3 glass for 2-3 times/day .

By Salo, candidate for pharmaceutical science.