This listing is for 30+ seeds "Bidens pilosa, Череда, Acetillo, Medicinal Plant, Beggar Ticks, Dadayem" that you see in the photos. It is medicinal plant.
"Bidens pilosa normally behaves as an annual weed but at least one form, B. pilosa var. radiata, may behave as a perennial. One isolated plant can produce over 30,000 seeds, which are generally highly viable. Seeds germinate on the soil surface or in shallow soil (to a depth of 1 cm)."
"How to grow Bidens
Bidens is an annual. It grows easily from seed. If you do decide to plant it, be sure that it isn’t considered noxious in your area, first. Plant the seed 4 cm deep in moist soil in early spring. You can broadcast it or sow it in rows. Keep moist until it emerges. Its lacy leaves are attractive. It is used as a potherb in much of the world. And if you are using it for food, harvest the leaves when young, as a spring tonic food. It gets more astringent as it ages. But don’t make it a major part of your diet. The high silica content can lead to problems.
If you are growing it medicinally, remove the flowers as they appear to extend the harvest window, retard seed maturation, and encourage leaf production. You will be able to get several harvests of leaves before Fall, depending on your climate. Older leaves are more astringent and drying than young leaves. In my tincture I used a combination of both older and young leaves.
Bidens pilosa, also called Bidens leucantha, is the main species used for medicinal studies, but there are a number of other varieties in the Bidens genus that historical use and early studies suggest can also be used. The entire plant is medicinally active, including the roots. A lot of scientific studies have been done on the constituents of Bidens pilosa, identifying around 100 different plant chemicals so far. The most promising are the flavonoids, and the poly-acetylene compounds, having the broadest anti-microbial activity."
In Ukraine, these plant used for bath, which helps with all kinds of skin problem such as, psoriasis, bactericides/bacteriosis... etc
They are organically grown in my Chicago yard; they have never been sprayed with any chemicals of any sort. They are not certified organic by any company and have never been tested by a lab.
It grows the best by lakes, rivers, etc. There are a lot of information on internet how it is used in different countries.
I added some info here. I hope you can use it for whatever you need it.
"The Best Kept Secret
In 1929, Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin. It began to be readily available with WWII. At that time new antibiotics were being discovered daily. However, Dr. Fleming noted as early as 1929 that numerous bacteria were already resistant to Penicillin. At that time 14 percent of staph bacteria were resistant to penicillin. By 1995, with decades of wide spread use of antibiotics, 95% of staph were resistant to penicillin. In 1960, when resistant staph had become the most common hospital acquired infection, physicians started using methicillin to combat resistant strains. In just a year, MRSA (methicillin resistant staph) emerged. 70 years from the introduction to antibiotics, some staph bacteria have become resistant to all known pharmaceutical antibiotics. Bacteria seem to be winning the “war on disease.”
Herbs are different than pharmaceuticals. Bacteria can develop immunity to pharmaceuticals because they represent only one, or a few, compounds. Natural herbs on the other hand, are made up of hundreds of complex compounds that bacteria can’t develop immunity to. Bidens is a natural antibiotic that will successfully treat antibiotic resistant bacteria. It out performs penicillin, tetracycline, methicillin, and other antibiotics for both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
"Commonly known as spanish needle or beggar's ticks, Bidens pilosa is a common crop weed and wasteland plant widespread on every continent except Antarctica. Easily recognizable by the sharp, aggravating seed pods that embed themselves into hair and clothing, Bidens pilosa is used in both traditional Chinese medicine and Western herbalism as well as in folk medical traditions around the world. Each of these traditions employs the herb for a number of different applications, including the treatment for common colds, influenza, bacterial infections, inflammatory conditions, hepatitis and urinary tract infection. Although the subject of substantial phytochemical research, the use of Bidens pilosa for the prevention or treatment of any disease has not been evaluated by the United States Food and Drug Administration as of 2011.
While Western herbalists generally see the herb in terms of its detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, antipathogenic and urogenital tonifying properties, traditional Chinese medical doctors understand the herb in different terms. Bidens pilosa is considered to be useful in clearing superficial heat, dispersing stagnation, invigorating the blood, removing damp wind, clearing damp heat from the lower triple burner, and purging elemental fire from the body. These conditions correlate to specific medical conditions, but they do not neatly conform the Western ideas of health and illness. "
Other vernacular names
CHINESE: Zhan ren cao, Xie qian cao, Dui cha cao, Dou zha cao, Jin kai zhan pan
FIJIAN: Batimadramadra, matakaro, matua kamate, mbatikalawau, mbatimandramandra
FRENCH: Bident hérissé, herbe d'aiguille, somet.
HAWAIIAN: kī, kī nehe, kī pipili, nehe
INDONESIA: Ajeran, hareuga, jaringan, ketul
JAPANESE: Ko-sendangusa
MALAYSIAN: Kancing baju, pali-pali pasir, kerotan
MAORI: Kamika tuarongo, nīroa, piripiri, piripiri kerekere, piripiri nīroa
PUKAPUKAN: Pilipili
SPANISH: Acetillo, arponcito, bidente piloso, cacho de cabra, masquia, papunga chipaca, pega-pega.
TAHITIAN: Piripirti
THAILAND: Puen noksai, kee nok sai, yaa koncham khaao
TONGAN: fisi'uli
VIETNAM: D[ow]n bu[oos]t, t[uwr] t[oo] hoang.
WALLISIAN: Tae puaka
"Botany
Dadayem is an erect, branched, usually more or less hairy herb, 0.2 to 1.5 meters high. Leaves are 1- to 2-pinnatifid and 15 centimeters long or less, the upper ones being usually much smaller; segments ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 5 centimeters long and toothed. Flowering heads are about 8 millimeters long. Disc flowers are brown or yellowish and the ray ones yellow or nearly white. Inner involucral bracts have broad, scarious margins. Flowering head about 8 millimeters long. Fruits are achenes, black, long and slender, linear, 1 to 1.5 centimeters long and characterized by four projections at the apex.
Distribution
In waste places, chiefly at medium altitudes, ascending to 2,200 meters from Batanes and Babuyan Islands and Northern Luzon to Mindanao.
Constituents
- Plant contains iodine; the leaves, tannin and saponin; the flowers, suflur.
- Earlier studies have isolated sterols, terpenoids, phenylpropanoids, hydrocarbons.
- Flavonoids metabolites are subdivided into aurones, chalcones, flavanones, flavones, and flavonols. The terpenoid metabolites are divided into sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, sterols, triterpenes, tetraterpenes.
Properties
- Antibacterial, antidysenteric, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antimalarial, diuretic, hepato-protective, antipyretic, antifungal.
- Sweet tasting, mildly refrigerant.
Parts utilized
· Entire plant.
· Collect before flower opens, rinse, sun-dry, section into pieces or compress.
Uses
Nutrition
• In sub-Saharan Africa, fresh or dried tender shoots and young leaves are eaten as vegetable in times of scarcity.
• In Uganda, leaves are boiled in sour milk.
• Leaves are added to salads and stews.
• Young shoots used to make tea.
• In Mexico, leaves used as a substitute for tea.
Folkloric
· Used as preventive for influenza or cold, used for treatment of swelling pain at the throat, fever among infants, fear of cold weather.
· For sore eyes, pounded leaves are applied over the eyelids.
· Used for poisonous insects and snake bite.
· For enteritis, flatulence, diarrhea, appendicitis.
· For sprains, contusions, chronic ulcers.
· Used to stop wound bleeding.
· Leaves used for treatment of thrush and candida.
· For piles, chronic ulcers, various skin diseases.
· Dosage: use 30 to 60 gms of dried material or 90 to 150 gms fresh material in decoction. Fresh materials may be pounded and applied as poultice or boiled in water and applied as external wash.
· In Uganda, the sap from crushed leaves is used to speed up blood clotting in fresh wounds. Leaf decoction used for headaches. Plant sap is used for ear infections. Decoction of leaf powder for kidney ailments. Plant decoction used for flatulence.
· In Java, Malaya and Indo-China, the leaves are used for eye complaints.
· In Indo-China, dried flower buds and ground and mixed with alcohol, and used as mouthwash in toothache.
· In Java, heated leaves are applied to boils to facilitate ripening.
· In southern Africa, used for malaria.
· In Zimbabwe, used for stomach and mouth ulcers, diarrhea and hangovers.
· In Peru, leaves are balled up and applied to toothaches.
· In the Amazon, used for hepatitis, angina, sore throat.
· The Zulus use an enema of the powdered leaves in water for abdominal troubles. Also, flowers used as remedy for diarrhea.
· In Columbia, leaves used as sudorific.
· In the Congo, plant used as poison antidote and to facilitate child delivery.
· In Nigeria, the powder or seed ash is used as a local anesthetic for cuts.
· In Brazil, the plant is traditionally used for conditions related to cancer. Also, leaves are used as styptic to stop the flow of blood, and as vulnerary.
Note: This plant closely resembles Bidens tripartita which may be differentiated on the shape of the leaves, however the medicinal function of this plant is identical with Bidens pilosa and hence may be used as a substitute.
Others
• Spirits: Igorots mix the flowers with balls of boiled rice, then fermented to make crude spirits.
• Fodder for pigs.
• Seeds for chicken feed.
• Leaves used as stimulant.
• In Kenya, used for the extraction of natural dyes.
• In the Congo, roots are washed, dried and used as painting brush.
Studies
• Hepatoprotective: Study of water extract from B pilosa on Wistar rats showed phytotherapeutic activity in hepatic damage induced by chronic obstructive cholestasis by hepatoprotective effects on liver function, decrease of rate of necrosis and liver fibrosis.
• Studies of anticancer and antipyretic activity of Bidens pilosa whole plant: Extracts from B. pilosa were tested for anticancer and antipyretic activity. Extracts were showed a significant cytotoxic effect against Hela cells by in vitro method and showed a comparable antipyretic activity; a methanolic extract, the worst. (3)
• Anti-Tumor / Aerial Parts: Various extracts were evaluated for antiproliferative potential in vivo using Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cell line assay. The chloroform fraction showed the best antitumor activity. (10)
• Anti-Malarial Activity / Polyacetylene and Flavonoids: New evidences of antimalarial activity of Bidens pilosa roots extract correlated with polyacetylene and flavonoids: The results showed the in vivo activity of the ethanol extract depends on polyacetylene and flavonoids. (14)
• Anti-Malarial Activity: Study showed the presence of flavonoid compounds believed to be responsible for the antimalarial activity. Its proven activity against P falcifarum drug-resistant parasites in vitro and in rodent malaria in vivo, suggests it a good candidate for further testing as a phytotherapeutic agent.
• Immunomodulation / Centaurein and Centaureidin: Study yielded flavanoids – centaurein and centaureidin, which stimulated IFN-gamma expression. (4)
• Immunomodulation / T-Cell Differentiation: Study showed the butanol fraction of B pilosa has a dichotomous effect on helper T cell-mediated immune disorders, possibly through modulation of T cell differentiation.
• Anti-Herpes: Study showed the hot water extract of Bidens pilosa inhibited replication of the HSV. (5)
• Antiinflammatory / Antiallergic: Results of studies on suspension and boiling water extract of dried powder from the aerial parts of B pilosa L var radiata Scherff inhibited histamine release and production of IgE, suggesting it may be clinically useful in the prevention of type 1 allergic disease. (6)
• Anti-Diabetic: Results of study on water extract of B pilosa suggests it ameliorates type 2 diabetes in mice through regulation of insulin secretion and islet protection. (7)
• Anti-leukemic: Study of hot water extracts showed inhibition of leukemic cell lines and suggests it may be a useful medicinal plant for treating leukemia.
• Flavonoids / Hepatoprotective: Study in carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury in mice and rats showed the total flavonoids of Bidens pilosa had a protective and therapeutic effect on animal liver injury and could be associated with its antioxidant properties and inhibition of NF-kB activation.
• Oxytocic: Study to validate the claimed uses of Bidens pilosa and Luffa cylindrica inducing labor during childbirth showed the aqueous leafy extracts of Bp and Lc increased rat uterine motility suggesting oxytocic activity and validates their therapeutic herbal uses in childbirth.
• Mutagenic Potential: A study to evaluate the capacity of teas of B pilosa and Mikania glomerata to induce DNA damages and mutagenic effects showed dose-dependent and preparation-form effects and suggests caution in the phytotherapeutic use of the plants. (12)
• Vasodilating / Calcium Antagonist: Study showed the vasodilating properties of the neutral extract of B pilosa and indicate a potential as a calcium antagonist. (15)
• Cytopiloyne / T Helper Cell Modulator / Anti-Diabetes: Study yielded a novel bioactive polyacetylenic glucoside, cytopiloyne. Results showed it functions as a T cell modulator, an activity that may directly contribute to its ethnopharmacologic effect on preventing diabetes. (17)
• Anti-COX-2 / Anti-PGE2 / Anti-Inflammatory: In a study of interleukin-1ß induced inflammation in normal human dermal fibroblasts, B pilosa inhibited the phosphorylation of MAPKs, COX-2 expression and subsequently PGE2 production. (18)
• Anti-Herpes simplex: Study of Bp in tissue culture cells and a mouse model showed potent virucidal activity. Bp treatment increased the survival rate of HSV-infected mice and limited development of skin lesions. (23)
• Leucocyte Mobilization / Anti-Inflammatory Effect: Study evaluated aerial parts of Bidens pilosa on in vitro and in vivo leukocyte mobilization, using models of chemotaxis and pleurisy induction by carrageenan in rats. Results showed reduction of leukocyte mobilization in both assays suggesting a potential anti-inflammatory effect. (24) "
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