Organic Moldavian Dragonhead Seeds (Dracocephalum moldavica)

An annual herb with a thin taproot and an erect tetrahedral branched stem 40-60 cm high. The leaves are short-petiolate, opposite, oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, dentate along the edge. Flowers with a pale purple or white corolla, collected in a racemose inflorescence.

Fruits are triangular oblong dark brown nuts. The Moldavian snakehead is not demanding on heat. Seeds germinate at a temperature of 5-7°C. Seedlings and adult plants tolerate prolonged cooling. Photophilous, in shaded areas reduces the yield of green mass and seeds. Can be grown on all soils except very acidic and waterlogged. Gives good yields on fertile chernozem, sandy loam and light loamy, moderately moist soils.

Responsive to fertilizers. Sowing can be done before winter and early spring. The seeding depth is 2-3 cm. Sown in an ordinary, two-row or wide-row method. The width of the row spacing with the row method is 20 cm, with the wide-row method - 60. With the two-row method of sowing, the width between the lines is 18-25 cm, between the belts - 40 cm.On 1 m2, 0.8-1 g (8-10 kg / ha) of seeds is required with two-row sowing and 0.5-0.6 (5-6 kg / ha) with wide-row sowing. Seedlings appear on the 10-15th day. The snakehead usually blooms in mid-July, less often in late June or early August, and blooms until the end of September.

In medicine, it is used as a sedative, analgesic, wound healing and anticonvulsant. Stimulates appetite, enhances the activity of the digestive system. The herb infusion is used for heart palpitations, neuralgia, migraines, headaches, aches for colds; externally - for rinsing with toothache. Freshly crushed leaves accelerate the healing of festering wounds. For rheumatism or bruises, compresses from snakehead grass are applied to the sore spot.