Plant Information
Common Name: DIANTHUS - FRINGED PINK
Scientific Name: Dianthus superbus 'Fringed Pink'
Scientific Name: Dianthus superbus 'Fringed Pink'
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R82.00
Description
- Perennial
- Dianthus superbus is native to China.
- The leaves are green to greyish green, and the flowers are sweetly scented, with five deeply cut, pink to lavender fringed petals from early to late summer.
- Their fragrance is a cross between baby powder and strawberry milkshake.
- It needs ordinary to dry soil in full sun and partial shade is preferred in hot climates
Culinary Uses
- The leaves are edible when young and can be eaten when boiled.
- The flowers contain sweet nectar, and the foliage can be eaten or boiled to make a drink.
Parts Used
- The whole plant.
Medicinal Uses. It is said that
- The fringed pink, called Qu Mai in Chinese herbalism, has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for over 2,000 years.
- The whole plant is a bitter tonic herb that stimulates the digestive, the urinary system and the bowels, emmenagogue, ophthalmic and tonic.
- It lowers blood pressure, reduces fever and controls bacterial infections.
- The plant is an abortifacient and contraceptive - it is ranked 9th in a list of 250 potential antifertility Chinese plants.
- Fringed Pink is said to promote hair growth.
- Externally, it is applied to skin inflammations and swelling.
- The leaves are used in the treatment of haemorrhoids, lumbricoides worms and venereal sores.
- The flowers are astringent, diuretic, haemostatic, resolvent and vulnerary.
- Research has shown that the flowers are the most markedly diuretic part of the plant - taken internally in the treatment of acute urinary tract infections (especially cystitis), urinary stones, constipation, and failure to menstruate.
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