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bee collecting pollen on Echium vulgare, a blue flowering plant known as Echium vulgare or blue weed, #227610515
Description
a field plant today recognized as a weed, formerly in the treatment of epilepsy, as well as in folk medicine as an analgesic and viper bite remedy. In pharmacy, herb (Herba Echii) is used, which is rich in pyrrolizidine alkaloids: echiin, echimidine, homo-echimidine , acetylechimidine, consolidin, cinoglosin, consolin and echiuvulgarin.