sanguisorba Root Burnet

LATIN NAME: Sanguisorba officinalis

COMMON NAME: Burnet

The burnet raises its small, dark-red, rounded flower heads above the pinnate leaves, and the whole plant stands in the neat, leafy clumps. The upright, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial carries the pinnate leaves with the paired, oval, toothed leaflets and the small, dark-red or purplish, rounded flower heads on the upright stalks through the summer, one of the fine, quiet sights of the border, drawing the bees, to be followed by the small, brown seed heads. The young leaves have a very long record as the fine, cucumber-flavoured greens of the old salad bowls, and the plant is a fine, historic presence of the border. It is a plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The burnet is a historic subject of the plant science, and the rounded heads keep showing up in the work on the border perennials. The way the small, dark-red or purplish, rounded flower heads form on the upright stalks above the pinnate leaves has been studied steadily, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the border perennials, the cucumber-flavoured leaves and the members of the rose family. The toothed leaflets and the neat habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the burnet is a regular subject of the work on the rounded heads of the cool world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The burnet is a fine, quiet plant of the border and the study collection. The small, dark-red or purplish, rounded flower heads on the upright stalks open through the summer, one of the fine, quiet sights of the border, drawing the bees, and the young leaves have a very long record as the fine, cucumber-flavoured greens of the old salad bowls, the fresh leaves coming to the salads, the cheeses and the cool drinks of the old tables, to be followed by the small, brown seed heads. It is one of the fine choices for the border, the herb bed and the study collection, and it has been written up in the culinary and the botanical papers for the cucumber-flavoured leaves and the very long history. It is a fine, quiet plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, well-drained garden.

Give the young plants the deep, moist bed, and the rounded heads will rise through the summer.

To grow the burnet from seed, sow the small, brown seeds across the surface of the deep pot of fine, sandy soil, keep the pot in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings appear within a couple of weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun and the deep, moist, well-drained ground, the rounded heads will rise through the summer.

Sanguisorba Root

Properties: The herb is bitter and sour in flavour, slightly cold in nature, and acts on the liver, stomach and large intestine channels. Being slightly cold for clearing heat and sour for astringency, it is mainly used for cooling blood to stop bleeding by astringency. Being bitter and cold for sinking and lowering, and mainly acting on the lower jiao, the herb is indicated for many kinds of bleeding due to blood-heat, and particularly more often used to treat hemorrhoidal bleeding and hemafecia.