Bidens tripartita L.
Three-lobe beggarticks "Cupidon"
An annual medicinal plant of the Asteraceae family, up to 100 cm high. The stem is straight, oppositely branching, the flowers are yellow. Blooms from June to September.
The plant is moisture-loving, grows well in areas with a temperate climate, on fairly fertile soils.
Leaves and leafy tops are used, collected in the budding phase and at the beginning of flowering at a height of up to 15 cm from the soil surface. The dried plant has a slight smell, astringent taste, slightly burning, bitter.
The herb succession has a diaphoretic effect, improves digestion and normalizes the disturbed metabolism in the body. It is used internally as a diuretic and diaphoretic, as bitterness to improve digestion, with scrofula and exudative diathesis. The herb is used in children's practice for the preparation of therapeutic baths, with various diathesis, accompanied by a rash, scrofula, milk scab and seborrhea of ​​the head. Sowing is carried out in early spring with stratified seeds or before winter: in October-November.

Eng.: Three-lobe beggarticks, three-part beggarticks, leafy-bracted beggarticks, trifid bur-marigold.