Sanguisorba officinalis L. Rosaceae Cultivar 'Tanna'. Great Burnet, Burnet Bloodwort, Pimpinella. Perennial herb. Sanguisorba is from the Latin 'to absorb blood', officinalis to indicate its long time medicinal use.

Oakeley, Dr. Henry F. (2013). Wellcome Library notes. Link

Sanguisorba officinalis L. Rosaceae. Great Burnet, Burnet Bloodwort, Pimpinella. Perennial herb. Sanguisorba is from the Latin 'to absorb blood', officinalis to indicate its long time medicinal use. Distribution: W Europe, Orient, N America. Culpeper makes no mention of it in his Physical Directory (1650), but in his English Physitian (1652) he writes at length, praising its virtues (prepared in a glass of claret) in treating diseases of the heart, driving away melancholy, treating discharges, bleeding, ulcers and preventing the plague. Parkinson (1640) calling it 'Pimpinella sive [or] Sangisorba, Burnet' concurs. Modern Chinese herbal medicine uses this in compounds for the topical treatment of third degree burns. Lyte (1578) also refers to its ability to staunch bleeding, adding that drunk with water 'in which [hot] Iron had often been quenched' works well (see Potentilla thurberi). Lyte also reports that 'some have written that its blood staunching effects are performed if 'the herbe alone being but onely holden in a mans hande ...'.

Oakeley, Dr. Henry F. (2013). Wellcome Library notes. Link

Asia-Temperate, Caucasus

Asia-Temperate, China

Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia, Japan

Asia-Temperate, Middle Asia, Kazakhstan

Asia-Temperate, Middle Asia, Kyrgyzstan

Asia-Temperate, Russian Far East

Asia-Temperate, Siberia

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Iran

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Turkey

Europe, Eastern Europe

Europe, Middle Europe

Europe, Northern Europe

Europe, Southeastern Europe

Europe, Southwestern Europe

Northern America