Echium amoenum

Short description: Species of flowering plant

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Echium amoenum plant

Echium amoenum

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Boraginales
Family:  | Boraginaceae
Genus:  | Echium
Species:  |

E. amoenum

Binomial name
Echium amoenum

Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

Echium amoenum (In Persian: گل گاوزبان) is one of the important medicinal herbs in Iranian traditional medicine.[1] It is a biennial or perennial herb indigenous to the narrow zone of northern part of Iran, Caucasus and Russia , where it grows at an altitude ranging from 60 to 2,200 m (200 to 7,220 ft). E. amoenum has been advocated for a variety of effects such as demulcent, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, especially for the common cold, and as an anxiolytic and sedative.[2][3]

## See also

* Medicinal herbs
* Iranian traditional medicine

## References

1. ↑ Motahhari, Khadijeh; Pirani, Atefeh; Moazzeni, Hamid; Joharchi, Mohammad Reza; Bussmann, Rainer W. (December 2022). "High–Demand Medicinal Plants of Herbal Markets in Mashhad, Iran". Economic Botany 76 (4): 414–433. doi:10.1007/s12231-022-09557-4.
2. ↑ Patocka, Jiri; Navratilova, Zdenka (2019-08-02). "Bioactivity of Echium Amoenum: A Mini Review". Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research 20 (2): 14915–14917. https://biomedres.us/fulltexts/BJSTR.MS.ID.003429.php. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
3. ↑ Abed, A.; Vaseghi, G.; Jafari, E.; Fattahian, Ehsan; Babhadiashar, Nima; Abed, M. (2014). "Echium Amoenum Fisch. Et Mey: A Review on its Pharmacological and Medicinal Properties" (in en). Asian Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Researches 4 (1): 21–23. ISSN 2322-4789.

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