Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1816-9775 (Print)
ISSN 2541-8971 (Online)


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Ecological and hygienic studies of the aerial part of wormwood of the bitter synanthropic flora of Central Russia

Central Russia is traditionally the most important area of crop production and agriculture. The purpose of this study was the ecological and hygienic study of the accumulation of heavy metals and arsenic, as well as biologically active substances in the aboveground part of bitter wormwood (Artemisia absinthium L.), harvested in urbocenoses of Central Russia.

Accumulation of Heavy Metals and Arsenic by Medicinal Plant Raw Material of Bitter Hollow

The Voronezh region is traditionally the most important area of crop production and farming. The purpose of the study was to study the contamination by heavy metals of medicinal vegetable raw materials of the Voronezh region using the example of grass of the bitter emery collected in urban and agro-ecological systems, which experience various anthropogenic effects. The accumulations of heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel, copper, zinc, cobalt, chromium) and arsenic were studied, in 51 samples of pooch grass bitter.