Trifoliate succession (bidens tripartita). Useful properties of succession. The use of succession for the treatment of diseases and the use of the plant in modern folk medicine

Threespread (from Lat. bis - twice, dens- tooth - two-toothed, tripartita - three-divided leaves) is an annual herbaceous plant from the family of Complexaceae, with a straight cylindrical, branched, dark green stem, 30-100 cm high. Leaves are suprotic, with short winged petioles, deeply triseptate. Flowers are yellow, in flat baskets, tubular, sitting singly at the ends of the stems. Flower baskets are medium-sized, brown-yellow, erect. Seeds mostly with two spicules, set with downward-facing clinging bristles. Triradelnaya succession blooms from July to September. Nektaronos (Fig. 85).


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Widespread throughout the former USSR, excluding the Far North. It grows in damp places, near ponds and rivers, in swamps, ditches and in damp meadows. Entering the culture.

It is used oblique tops and leaves of succession, collected in the phase of budding and at the beginning of flowering at a height of up to 15 cm from the soil surface. The dried plant has a faint odor, the taste is astringent, slightly burning, bitter.

Chemical composition

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Traces of essential oil, tannins and bitter substances, ascorbic acid, carotene, flavonoids, pygmites, and manganese, which can pass into aqueous extracts, are found in the herb. The plant has antibacterial activity.

Action and application

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The herb succession has diuretic and diaphoretic action, improves digestion and apparently normalizes disturbed metabolism in the body. Experimental studies have established that with parenteral administration of tincture of succession has a sedative effect, reduces blood pressure and slightly increases the amplitude of heart contractions.

Used internally infusion of succession as a diuretic and diaphoretic, as a bitter to improve digestion, with scrofula and exudative diathesis. The herb of succession is used in children's practice for the preparation of medicinal baths, in various diatheses accompanied by urticarial rash, scrofula, milk scab and seborrhea of the head.

In China, the leaves of succession are used for dysentery and eczema, in Tibetan medicine - for joint disease.

In domestic folk medicine is used herb succession as an antisolvulent remedy, with exudative diathesis, rickets, gout, as a diuretic and diaphoretic (in the form of an aqueous infusion or decoction). It is included in the composition of averina tea (herb of succession and herb of ivan-da-marya 4 parts of each and 1 part of sweet-bitter nightshade). Decoction of the herb is prescribed externally in the form of baths or for washing in children's practice in diathesis and scabies.

Crushed fresh herb is applied to snake bite wounds.

The herb of succession three-divided, collected in the budding period, according to our observations, has a pronounced anti-inflammatory, regulating the general metabolism and diuretic property..