Walnut Leaf (Gretskiy Orekh)
Juglans regia
About Walnut Leaf (Gretskiy Orekh)
Walnut Leaf (Gretskiy Orekh) (Juglans regia) is a herb used in the Russian & Siberian Folk Medicine tradition to help with Diabetes, Skin Health, Parasites, and Thyroid. The leaves are the part traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Juglans regia, the Persian walnut, English walnut, or especially in Great Britain, common walnut, is an Old World walnut tree species native to the region stretching from the Balkans eastward to the Himalayas and southwest China. The largest forests are in Kyrgyzstan, where trees occur in extensive, nearly pure walnut forests at 1,000–2,000 m (3000 to 7000 ft) altitude—notably at Arslanbob in Jalal-Abad Province. It is widely cultivated across Europe.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist