TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA FACTS

“For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.”

Rudolf Steiner

Family: Typhaceae

Latin name: Typha Angustifolia

Other common names: narrow-leaf cat tail, nail-rod, lesser reedmace, narrowleaf cattail, lesser bulbrush.

Typha (Typha Angustifolia) is an aquatic perennial marsh herb in the Typhaceae family that can grow up to 3 m in height. It grows throughout the Northern hemisphere mainly on brackish soil. The plant can be found near the ponds, ditches, swamps, lakes, slow-flowing rivers, etc. The sword-shaped leaves are narrow, flat and about 3’-6’ tall. Each vegetative shoot produces about 12-16 leaves. As the plant matures, there appear stalks with brown flowering heads at their top. These flower heads are sausage-shaped. The creeping roots are hard, rhizomatous and about 27” long. The plant blooms in June-August and the seeds ripen in August-September.

Parts used: pollen, roots, rhizomes.

Chemical composition

The pollen of typha flowers contains flavonoids (quercetin, kaempferol, isorhamnetin, naringenin, isorhamnetin-3-O-neohesperidoside); amino acids; macro - and microelements (titanium, aluminum, boron, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, iron, iodine, molybdenum, silicon, sulfur, selenium, zinc etc.); essential oil.

Typha angustifolia pollen is widely used in Chinese medicine and is considered an antisclerotic, diuretic and wound-healing remedy. Inflorescences have an antiseptic effect, stop bleeding, eliminate blood stagnation and dysuria.