Pulmonary officinal

The officinal pulmonary ( Pulmonaria officinalis ) is a long-lived herbaceous plant of the family of the Boraginacées.

Description

It is a high hardy perennial from 15 to 50 cm, in small colonies.

The sheets are covered with hairs, green with white spots. Those of the base are lancéolées, pointed at the top and round at the base provided with a petiole, those of the stems alternate, are lengthened and sessile.

The stems are drawn up, oarswomen with hard hairs in their high part and carry at their top the groups of flowers.

Their Corolle is formed by 5 petals welded together which pass from reddish to purplished blue. The flowers give rise to 4 (Akène S rounded.

The rhizome produced, after the flowering of the tufts of sheets.

There are 13 other pulmonary in Europe including 5 in France, from which none has its mottled sheets of white. In any case, a confusion with another pulmonary or the consound would be without consequence because they have the same uses.

Culinary use

Believed, the young sheets are used in Salade.

Cooked with water or the vapor, they are eaten like Légume.

Medicinal properties

The pulmonary one by its Mucilage, its tannin and its Saponine S is emollient, expectorante, astringent.

It was used since antiquity to treat the diseases of the respiratory tracts.

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