What is Viola tricolor?

Viola tricolor, also known as Heartsease or Love-Lies-Beeding, is an annual or short-term permanent wild flower from Europe and Asia. The plant was introduced to many areas of North America, where it is also known as Johnny-Jump-up. He is the predecessor of a cultivated pansy and sometimes called Wild Pansy.

A look, viola tricolor is a small creeping plant that reaches a height of about 6 inches (15,24 centimeters). It is appreciated for its small, three -point flowers that appear in shades of blue, purple, yellow and white. The flowers bloom in the spring and have known "faces" characteristic of all pansy flowers, with darker shades that usually occur on the upper petals. The weak, fragile stems of the plant tend to fall with age, resulting in a long, tangled matter.

Although the plant is known as the wild KMBO, viola tricolor is also widely grown in flower gardens around the world. In the wildMore often on lawns, pastures and wasteland and along the roads. In the garden, the plant will grow anywhere, from full sun to full shade, if equipped with cool, damp and acid soil. The seeds sown in early spring are produced by autumn flowers, while the seeds in the autumn will produce flowers the following spring. After discontinuation, viola tricolor , it slashes freely and requires low maintenance except for the occasional dead, or the removal of spent flowers to promote growth.

Viola tricolor is used in traditional herbalism as a treatment of asthma and epilepsy. It is considered an expectorant or substance that breaks thick mucus and helps to eliminate the material from the lung and bronchi. Because of this characteristic, the plant is effective in the treatment of respiratory problems such as black cough and bronchitis. In homeopathic medicine, the heart is used in the treatment of eczema, bee stings, worms, carpal tunnel syndrome, headache and with withPalnicek. In addition to its use as a herb drug, fine color flowers of the plant were also used to produce natural dyes.

Viola tricolor is one of the many different types of plants that contain cycling or small peptides that are supposed to be useful in cancer treatment. Specific cycling found in Heartsease, Vitri A, has cytotoxic properties. This means that it is toxic to cells and can be used to stop or destroy the rapidly dividing cancer cells in the human body. However, further scientific research is required to prove the value of the plant in the field of cancer treatment.