Skullcap / Scullcap – Baikal (3.25″ pot)

Description

Baikal or Baical Skullcap  – also called Chinese Scullcap or Huang-qin – harder to grow than the American skullcap and used in a completely different way, medicinally. Needs very well-drained soil. I have good luck growing it in the same places where Lavender and Echinacea angustifolia thrive.Herbaceous perennial, native to the shores of Lake Baikal, Mongolia, Siberia, and the Chihli and Shantung provinces of China.

The purple flowers are thick and large and very striking. But it is the dried root that is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Traditional usage (TCM): antiallergic, diuretic, hypotensive, antibacterial, antiviral, tranquilizing and fever-reducing, commonly used for treatment of dysentery, hepatitis, staph.

Roots are harvested at 2 years old.