Inula helenium or Elecampane root,Barutophor inulin fructosan and the application guide Scabwort.

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Basic Botanical and Description of Elecampane.

Elecampane Root Extract INCI Name Inula Helenium Extract CAS 84012-20-4 EINECS ELINCS No 281-666-1 photo picture image Scientific Name: Inula helenium
 Common Name: Elecampane
 Order: Compositae
 Botanical Source: Inula helenium L. or Inula racemosa Hook.f.
 Plant Part:dried roots and rhizome. "The root of Inula Helenium, Linne"(U. S. P.) (Corvisartia Helenium, Merat).

 Other Common Names:Scabwort,Chin Ch'Ien Chu, Chin Ch'Ien Hua, Elecampagne, Elecampane, Elecampane Inula, Elf Dock, Enula, Griekse Alant, Helenio, Helenium, Horseheal, Hsuan Fu Hua, Induzotu, Mu Xiang, O-Oguruma, Scabwort, Velvet Dock, Wild Sunflower;Inula, inul, horseheal, elf-dock, elfwort, horse-elder, scabwort, yellow starwort, velvet dock, wild sunflower
 Plant Type: Perennial
 Synonyms and Common names: Helenium grandiflorum (Gilib.), Aster officinalis (All.), Aster helenium (L.), Alant, Elfwort, Elf Dock, Velvet dock, Scabwort, Yellow starwort, wild sunflower, Elecampagne, Horseheal, Horse elder
 German = Alant, French = Inule, Italian = Enula elemie
 Where To Plant: Full Sun to Partly Shady
 Notes: Dried root preparation quiets coughing, helps digestion, and the stomach

 Habitat:Native also in Asia,This perennial herb has been naturalized from Europe, and is found along the roadsides and in fields and damp pastures from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, westward to Missouri and Minnesota.

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last edit date:18th,June.2009.