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Bot.: Centaurea cyanus
Healing power:
- for stomach and - intestine trouble - as diuretic remedy - for blood cleansing - for liver How to use:
You only use the flowers, but picked is the whole plant above ground for drying. Because then the flowers conserve the blue colour. Description of the plant:
Cornflower grows annual, reaches a height up to 40 cm and gets from June to Septembre blue flowers.
Cornflower belongs to the family of the composite flowers and wants a sunny location.
Sometimes you find Cornflower at the edge of cornfields. Propagation:
Sow cornflower from March to June directly in your garden. Sow the seeds with a depth of 0,50 cm in a row distance of 30x20 cm.
Germination follows after 14 days at temperatures about 15 to 18 °C. Ingredients:
Bitter constituents, tanning agents, mucous, wax.
