The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Leonurus

a genus of plants of the family Labiatae. The plants are perennial or biennial herbs with four-angled stems. The leaves are usually three-parted, five-parted, or lobed. The flowers are in dense false whorls, forming spicate inflorescences at the tip of the stem and its branches. The calyx has prickly teeth.

There are about 15 species of Leonurus, distributed in the temperate belt of Eurasia. The USSR has 13 species, including the valuable medicinal plants L. quinquelobatus and L. cardiaca. The former grows throughout almost the entire European USSR, in the Caucasus, and in Western Siberia. L. cardiaca, which is commonly known as motherwort, is found mainly in the western USSR. Both species contain essential oils, tannins, bitter substances, and alkaloids. An infusion or tincture can be used as a sedative. Plants of the genus Leonurus are nectar bearers.

REFERENCE

Atlas lekarstvennykh rastenii SSSR. Moscow, 1962.

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The aim of the present study was to investigate the analgesic activities of aerial part of Leonurus cardiaca using three analgesic tests in mice.

The study of analgesic effects of Leonurus cardiaca L. in mice by formalin, tail flick and hot plate tests

Plant species that contained no yeast were removed from list: Hemerocallis fulva, Melilotus alba, Silene noctiflora, Silene vulgaris, Trifolium repens, Vitia cracca, Viola striata Total sample Aureobasidium Candida Plant species N pullulans [dagger] bombi Silene latifolia (F) 366 107 5 Silene latifolia (M) 340 101 6 Asclepias syriaca 3 1 Barbarea vulgaris 3 2 Campsis radicans 1 Coronilla varia 16 8 1 Dianthus armeria 5 Impatiens eapensis 6 3 Iris versicolor 1 1 Lathyrus latifolius 7 3 Leonurus cardiaca 9 2 Lonicera japonica 19 9 1 Lonicera tatarica 1 1 Medicago sativa 2 Melilotus officinalis 2 1 Nepeta cataria 29 9 1 Prunella vulgaris 2 1 Saponana officinalis 17 5 2 Satureja vulgaris 9 Trifolium pratense 18 5 Vicia villosa 2 1 Tota1 sample 858 259 17 Sphaeriothyrium sp.

Nectar inhabiting yeasts in Virginian populations of Silene latifolia (Caryophyllaceae) and coflowering species

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The shrub we planted to attract birds is called Lion's Tail (Leonotis leonurus) which, in isiZulu, goes by the appropriate name of utshwala bezinyoni, which translated means 'the beer of the birds'.

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Proprioseiopsis -- 2 dominigos Typhlodromalus -- 1 aripo Labiatae Leonurus sibiricus Brevipalpus -- 1 phoenicis Loganiaceae Buddleja Agistemus -- 1 brasiliensis floridanus Cunaxoides sp.

Mites fluctuation population on peach tree (Prunus persica (L.) Batsch) and in associated plants/Flutuacao populacional de acaros na cultura do pessegueiro (Prunus persica (L.) Batsch) e em plantas associadas

(O) 1.76 [+ or -] 0.13 * Leonurus turkestanicusV.Krecr et Kupr (O) 1.88 [+ or -] 0.09 * Arctium tomentisum Mill (R) 1.76 [+ or -] 0.18 * Ziziphora pedicillate Parii et Vved (R) 1.74 [+ or -] 0.12 * Solidago dahurica Kitag (F) 1.7 [+ or -] 0.14 * Hierasiun procerum Fr (O) 1.56 [+ or -] 0.06 * Solonum nigra h.

Influence of some vegetable extracts from Uzbekistan's flora on blood lipid spectrum of under experimental endogenous and ethanol hyperlipidemia

Good examples of medicinal plants introduced to gardens are motherwort Leonurus cardiaca, common comfrey Symphytum officinale, and absintium Artemisia absinthium.

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Comparative study of the essential oil composition and antimicrobial activity of Leonotis leonurus and L-ocymifolia in the Eastern Cape.

Chemical Composition and In Vitro Antibacterial Activity of the Essential Oil of Cedrus atlantica

John's wort, Leonurus, hawthorn berries, rose hips, hop cones, linden flowers, leaves of Ginkgo biloba, the root of Siberian ginseng and other plants.

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