The Morning glory is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Convolvulaceae family. The plant is an extremely long grass that grows up to 3 meters, with the proviso that next to it will be a reliable support in the form of a tree, a fence or something else. The stalk of the plant is curly or creeping. The leaves of the grass are elongated, triangular or ovate. From May to September, the grass continues its flowering. The flowers of the plant are rather large, single, on long pedicels, mostly white, but due to colored veins, pinkish, with a red tinge, flowers. The new fence prevails in places with a favorable, moist soil saturated with nutrients. Distributed in places such as forests, thickets, bushes and naturally, according to the name, along fences and hedges. In pharmacology as well as in folk medicine, the herb povoy is used - Convolvuli sepium herba. In the same people, the plant was nicknamed the convolvulus fence or devil`s gut. When preparing medicinal raw material, the new cut at the base itself, cut into pieces, about 20 cm long, divided into separate bundles, in which they are dried in a cool shade.
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