Alchemilla Alpina Tea
The herb is alterative antirheumatic astringent diuretic emmenagogue febrifuge sedative styptic tonic and vulnerary.
Alchemilla alpina tea. This plant the alpine ladies mantle has been shown to be more effective in its actions. Alchemilla alpina is a perennial plant with a woody rhizome up to 8 inches 20 cm tall. The leaves and flowering stems are best harvested as the plant comes into flower and can then be dried for later use.
It is hardy to zone uk 5 and is not frost tender. Alchemilla alpina commonly known as alpine lady s mantle is an arctic montane herbaceous perennial plant native to europe and southern greenland. Some believe that alchemilla alpina has a stronger medicinal effect but this has not be proven.
Alpine lady s mantle is an herb. The plant used as a herbal tea or for medicinal usage such as gynaecological disorders is alchemilla xanthochlora or in middle europe the so called common lady s mantle alchemilla vulgaris. People take alpine lady s mantle for fluid retention spasms heart conditions and various female complaints.
The herb is gathered during the summer months when it is in bloom and then dried for later use in tinctures and extracts. Smaller and more refined than the usual form of lady s mantle this species is best suited to the rock garden or for edging. Alpine lady s mantle alchemilla alpina can be used in the same way for the same health concerns as alchemilla vulgaris.
Elle n est pas très exigeante en termes d humidité du sol 1. Alchemilla alpina est héliophile. Short sprays of chartreuse yellow flowers appear in early summer.
Also attractive in tubs or mixed containers. Plants form a low mound of hairy divided leaves with a distinctive silvery margin. Elle préfère les sols pauvres en bases et en éléments nutritifs dont le ph est acide.
Physical characteristics alchemilla alpina is a perennial growing to 0 2 m 0ft 8in by 0 2 m 0ft 8in at a medium rate. The weak stems are silkily hairy and grow from a basal rosette and the leaves are palmate with about seven lanceolate leaflets with toothed tips smooth above and densely hairy underneath. Alchemilla alpina se développe dans les pelouses rases les pelouses pâturées sur silice alpages et les forêts jeunes ouvertes ou pâturées mélézins cembraies pineraies 1.
It is used to make medicine.