PDR for Herbal Medicines

HERBAL MONOGRAPHS TRITICUM /771

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Trifolium pratense

See Red Clover

Trigonella foenum-graecum

See Fenugreek

Trillium erectum

See Beth Root

Triticum

Agropyron repens

DESCRIPTION

Medicinal Parts: The medicinal part is the rhizome collected

in spring or autumn.

Flower and Fruit: Five to 7 flowered spikelets in groups of

20 form a 10 cm-long ear. The ears are usually short, upright

and usually dense green and inconspicuous grass with 5

veined, lanceolate, sharply keeled glume. The spike stem is

glabrous. The glume is 8 to 11 mm long, acuminate or

awned. The anthers are 5 to 6 mm. The fruit is 6 to 7 mm

long, flat to the front with 1 groove.

Leaves, Stem and Root: Triticum is a 0.2 to 1.5 m perennial

plant with a hardy creeping rhizome. The rhizome has long

white runners, is segmented and hollow. The leaves are thin,

flat, grass-green or gray-green. The upper surface is rough

and often covered in solitary, long hairs.

Characteristics: The spikelets have their broad side turned

toward the wave-like curved main axis. The plant is

odorless; the taste sweetish.

Habitat: Indigenous to the temperate regions of the Northern

Hemisphere. Introduced to Greenland, South America,

Australia and New Zealand.

Production: Triticum rhizome consists of the rhizome, roots

and short stems of Agropyron repens, harvested in spring

before the blade develops, as well as its preparations. The

rhizomes are collected after the fields are harrowed. They are

cleaned, washed and dried at approximately 35° C.

Not to be Confused With: The rhizomes of Cynodon

dactylon, Poaceae and Carex species (a frequent occurrence).

Other Names: Couch Grass Quitch Grass, Witch Grass,

Twitch-Grass, Scotch Quelch, Dog-Grass, Quickgrass,

Cutch, Durfa Grass, Quack Grass, Elytrigia repens

ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY

COMPOUNDS

Mucilages

Triticin (polyfructosan)

Sugar alcohols

Soluble silicic acid

Volatile oil: including carvacrol and carvone-containing P-

hydroxyalkyl cinnamic acid alkyl ester

EFFECTS

The essential oil has an antimicrobial effect.