Author:
Ulrich Welte
Book:
Journal
Type:
Picture
Chapter:
2022.02.07
A remedy of Asparagaceae
Synonym: Polgonatum officinale.
English: Fragrant Solomon's seal, Fragrant whiteroot; True Solomon's seal.
Clades: Asparagales, Liliales.
Essence
The man jumps off just before the wedding.
Idea: Constantly busy, bustling; chatty; trivial. The devil is in the details; incidental things constantly distract; others ask for favours; work becomes inefficient; meditation difficult.
Clinical: Age spots, moles, corns; lichen ruber genitalis; vaginitis. Cough, tuberculosis (TCM). Diabetes. Portal congestion with haemorrhoids; muscle fibre tears with haemorrhage; haematomas; bleeding into the skin. Grey hair, hair loss. Dislocated joints. Ejaculatio praecox; induratio penis plastica?
Signature
After the annual death of the plant, a concave scar remains on the horizontally growing rootstock from which the plant grew and which looks like a stamped seal until the next year when the new plant grows out of another node of the root (one node per year). According to this signature, the plant was already used in ancient times for the external treatment of age spots on the face or for corns, and for wounds in order to achieve as scar-free wound healing as possible. Later it was also used to treat haematomas, menstrual cramps and tuberculous coughs. In more recent times it has been almost forgotten, even the HAB does not mention the plant. The fact that it is not an ordinary seal, but the seal of Solomon, points to ancient sorcery. The "springwort" was said to magically open locked doors, they burst open and even springs were said to emerge from crevices. The blue-grey berries are the most poisonous part of the plant and taste disgustingly sweet, while the roots have also been used to bake bread. The plant likes to grow in partial shade, in bushes and on stony soils.
The stem initially grows straight upwards, then is bent over and - in contrast to Polygonatum multiflorum, whose stem is cylindrically round - sharp-edged, almost double-edged in the upper part. Furthermore, only the officinal whiteroot is fragrant, which is lacking in the many-flowered, non-official, but much more common variety. The flowers of Polygonatum odorartum usually hang in twos, of Polygonatum multiflorum in multiples on several stems.
Odorata single- or double-flowered stems, stems angular. P-multi multi-flowered stems, cylindrical stems.
Both varieties lower blood sugar. The antidiabetic effects have been quite well studied, and six steroid saponins have been found in the root of both polygonates, to which the sugar-lowering effect is attributed (see Hager's Handbook vol.6). In clinical trials, Langecker found as early as 1930 that extracts of both Polygonatum officinale and Polygonatum multiflorum greatly reduced experimentally induced alimentary hyperglycaemia and shortened its duration, after the same had been reported shortly before from Japan and China. Around 1980, the aglycaemic phytosteroids diosgenin, neo- and prazerigenin, pennogenin, smilagenin and yamogenin were found in both roots. These are practically only found in monocots, e.g. in Dioscorea, Smilax and yam, and are thus a feature of this important cardinal distinction in the plant kingdom. The only exceptions among the dicotyledons are Digitalis and Trigonella. Steroidal saponins have soap-like and sometimes haemolytic properties, which can also be seen in the clinical use of Solomon's seal (for haemorrhages, haematomas). The haemolytic active substances are mainly found in the roots.
Differential diagnosis
In comparison Polygonatum multiflorum (Qjure): 633.64.15 Constantly busy, bustling; chatty; trivial.
The devil is in the details; incidental things constantly distract; others ask for favours; work becomes inefficient; meditation difficult.
Clinical: Apoplexy; neuralgia; cough; tuberculosis; portal congestion; haemorrhoids; dislocated joints; muscle (fibre) tears, haematomas; grey hair, hair loss.
DD strep-m: Both chatty, easily distracted, hysterical, relationship problems with religious scruples.
Literature
https://www.wikiwand.com/de/Echtes_Salomonssiegel.