Hibiscus (on image) is Hibiscus, Rose Of Sharon Bush (Hibiscus syriacus) - widely cultivated as ornamental plant. Hibiscus which you buy in drug stores is made from tropical Hibiscus sabdariffa flowers. But this specie is also edible and has its medicine uses.
Medicinal Uses
According to [Pfaf.org](https://pfaf.org/user/plant.aspx?latinname=Hibiscus+syriacus], Hibiscus, Rose Of Sharon Bush (Hibiscus syriacus) is good for 'The leaves are diuretic, expectorant and stomachic. A decoction of the flowers is diuretic, ophthalmic and stomachic. It is also used in the treatment of itch and other skin diseases, dizziness and bloody stools accompanied by much gas. The bark contains several medically active constituents, including mucilage, carotenoids, sesquiterpenes and anthocyanidins. A decoction of the root bark is antiphlogistic, demulcent, emollient, febrifuge, haemostatic and vermifuge. It is used in the treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, abdominal pain, leucorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea and dermaphytosis.'
This photo is taken in city Prijedor, in Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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