In folk medicine used for prolonged cough, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, scrofulosis, diseases of the heart, kidney, bladder, joints, rheumatism, gout, palpitations, cramps, inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, colds, edema, depressed mood, cancer of the uterus and other organs, skin cancer, as well as for the prevention of tumor metastases after surgery. Externally - in the form of fresh juice, lotions, washes, compresses, baths from the infusion (decoction) - in purulent wounds, ulcers, scrofula, boils, boils, scabies, cutaneous lupus erythematosus, head parsha, lichen planus, hemorrhoids and allergic skin diseases. From the infusion of tatarnik flowers put lotions for eye diseases. In the decoction of the root of the tartar make baths for eczema. From young sprouts shoots, roots and leaves of tartar can be prepared soups, borscht, soup purees, seasonings.

Medunica medicinalis (lungwort) (from Latin pulmo - lungs) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the borage family. It is distributed in the west of the European part of the former USSR, in Siberia and the Caucasus. It grows in mixed and birch forests, forest edges and forest meadows. The use of medunica is recommended for various ailments. Medunica medicinal has anti-inflammatory and astringent properties due to the presence of tannins, softening properties due to the presence of mucilaginous substances, diuretic (due to silicon oxide), as well as styptic and wound-healing properties. The trace elements contained in it, and primarily manganese, affect the processes of hematopoiesis. Manganese also stimulates growth, activates vitamin Bi and regulates the activity of some glands of internal secretion.

There are 9 species of yarrow in Donbas, including pannonian yarrow (A. pannonica Schule) and small-flowered yarrow (A. micrantha Willd). Yarrow pannonian grows everywhere in many areas, and the second - in the Seversky Donets valley. The leaves of Pannonian yarrow are dark green and smaller than those of common yarrow. N. A. Kaloshina found that these two species are promising for biologically active flavonoids and should be harvested.

Violet field violet has expectorant, anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, anti-inflammatory, tonic, diuretic, emollient, diaphoretic, blood purifying, disinfectant action, and also promotes uterine contraction in the postpartum period and normalizes metabolism.

Common juniper is an evergreen coniferous shrub or tree, 3 to 12 m tall, from the cypress family. Common juniper blooms in May, fruits ripen in the second year in the fall (October - November).Used mature, black fruits (berries). The flavor is sweet and spicy. The smell of juniper common has a peculiar, aromatic.Essential oil, which is included in the properties of juniper, in the digestive tract, irritating the mucous membranes, causing increased peristalsis, with increased secretion of bronchial glands, liquefies sputum, which contributes to its better separation. Essential oil is excreted mainly through the kidneys, moderately irritating them, increases diuresis. In large doses, essential oil causes irritation of the kidneys and reduces the secretion of bronchial glands. In addition, it acts antimicrobially.

It is used in folk medicine for inflammation of the respiratory tract (cough) and gastrointestinal tract (diarrhea), as well as colds, lymphoma, headache, peptic ulcer and female diseases, externally leaves are applied to lichen, make poultices for boils, joint pain and other diseases, some of the powder of leaves make ointment, in the ratio of 1 part raw material to 1 part fat, which rubbed from colds.

Common hop is used in folk medicine, in addition, for insomnia, nervous fatigue and exhaustion, hysteria, palpitations, dropsy, jaundice, worms, pediatric anemia, kidney, liver and gallbladder diseases, biliary stone disease, cystalgia, prostatitis, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, painful menstruation, nocturnal pollutions and excessive sexual excitability, headache, constipation, cardiac weakness, neuralgia, radiculitis, furunculosis, general metabolic disorders, general weakness, hop roots - for jaundice and migraine.

Common muzzleberry is a perennial herbaceous plant from the family of Complexaceae, up to 80 cm tall. Echinopsin is relatively low toxic, in small doses it has excitatory effect on animals, in large doses it causes convulsions with subsequent general depression; it has antagonistic effect to medinal; it inhibits cholinesterase, facilitates conduction of excitation in neuromuscular synapses and has therapeutic effect in experimental paralysis caused by nerve injury.Peppermint is a perennial bushy, herbaceous plant from the family of guboflorum, bred in England in the XVII century by hybridization of wild species. Menthol, contained in the leaves of mint, has local analgesic, antispasmodic and antiseptic properties, causes reflex dilation of coronary vessels. The use of mint inside recommended for angina pectoris, pain in the stomach and intestines. Externally - for neuralgic pain, toothache, as an antiseptic and analgesic for inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract, bronchitis and bronchiectasis.

Medicinal dandelion is a well-known perennial herbaceous plant from the family of Complexaceae. It is used for its roots, which are dug up in the fall when the leaves are wilting and in the spring before flowering, and for its above-ground parts, which are harvested in the early flowering period. Dandelion medicinal in dried form has no odor, taste bitter with a sense of mucilage.Above-ground part of the dandelion, collected during budding, and roots are used by us as a means of increasing bile secretion, reducing blood cholesterol, improving its composition. We recommend it for liver diseases and atherosclerosis.Dandelion medicinal has nutritional properties. Roasted roots are used as a surrogate for coffee, young leaves, as mentioned above - for salads. The roots are used to prepare pills.In Russian folk medicine dandelion is given great importance, since ancient times it has been considered a "life elixir". The use of dandelion recommended as improving digestion, bile flow, soothing remedy, useful in jaundice, insomnia and other diseases.

Sand sedge (sageh - originally the ancient Romans called this word a thorny shrub, and then this name was transferred to sand sedge, arenaria - from Latin - (living on sand) - a perennial herbaceous plant of the sedge family with a long (up to 10 m long and 3 mm thick), cord-like, creeping rhizome. In the old days, doctors prescribed this plant for syphilis. In the past, rhizomes of sand sedge were harvested in Russia in large quantities to replace the valuable root of the South American plant sarsaparilla, used for syphilis, gout, rheumatism and skin diseases.Parmelia (lichen) - a perennial plant from the family Parmeliaceae, is a symbiosis of two organisms, one of which belongs to the group of fungi, the other - to green algae. Parmelia steppe has long been used by the Ural Cossacks as a "cut" herb - one of the fast-acting hemostatic and bactericidal agents for treating wounds. During the war years, G. Sviridov, a doctor at the military hospital in Uralsk, used a paste with parmelia powder to treat the wounded and obtained very successful results.

Black nightshade (tardigrade) is an annual plant of the nightshade family. Black nightshade is used in medical recipes only when ripe. Green fruits are harmful to health.The properties of nightshade are used to make medicines that can cure ailments.The herb is official in England, France, Portugal, Turkey, Venezuela and other countries. It is also used in Chinese medicine. In Indian medicine, the use of nightshade was prescribed for fever, diarrhea and eye diseases. Juice from the plant is used for chronic liver diseases, tuberculosis, dysentery and hemorrhoids, and tincture of leaves is used as a diuretic and laxative (Chopra etall., 1956). In the folk medicine of Uzbekistan, fresh leaves are used as a wound-healing agent and for headaches. Juice of fresh leaves is administered to the nose for nasal wounds, chronic runny nose and earache; ripe fruits are recommended for sore throat and diphtheria in children.

Shepherd's purse is an annual herbaceous plant of the cruciferous family with a straight round or branched stem 20 to 40 cm high. The above-ground part of the plant with root leaves is used, which is harvested during flowering. Dried shepherd's purse has a faint odor, the taste is bitter with a feeling of mucilage.The herb shepherd's purse has styptic properties and causes contraction of the uterine muscles. According to recent data, aqueous and alcoholic extracts have hypotensive effect. Leaves of fresh shepherd's purse plant are consumed as food, they are used in salads, soups; the seeds can replace mustard.

Elderberry (wild mountain ash) is a perennial herbaceous plant from the family of complex flowers, 80-120 cm high. Used flower baskets of fiddlehead, collected at the beginning of flowering without pedicels. The smell of dried flowers when rubbed camphor, taste spicy, bitter.In experimental hepatitis common sawfly increases secretion and reduces the content of mucus in the bile. Along with this tonifies the musculature of the gastrointestinal tract and increases its secretion. Judging by experiments on animals, infusion of the inflorescences of pyzhma increases the amplitude of heart contractions, slows heart rate, increases blood pressure, increases bile secretion. Essential oil has a pronounced anthelmintic and antimicrobial effect, but is very toxic.Common sawdust (oblong tops with inflorescences) we use in small doses as an anti-inflammatory, increasing bile secretion, anthelmintic, as well as in gastritis with low acidity, diseases of the liver, gallbladder and bile ducts.

Plantain (from the Latin planta, the sole of the foot, which resembles the shape of the leaves) is a well-known perennial herbaceous plant from the plantain family, with a flower-bearing stem up to 20-30 cm high. Plantain leaves harvested during flowering, with a small remnant of petiole, are used. Odor is absent, the taste is bitter, slightly astringent.We use plantain plantain large for the treatment of gastritis, gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers, as a means of regulating the secretion of gastric contents, as well as in ulcerative colitis, enterocolitis, dysentery, kidney disease, hypertension and atherosclerosis.In domestic folk medicine plantain has long been used for cancerous tumors (in the form of wet compresses), and inside for lung and stomach cancer, for which a mixture of finely chopped fresh leaves with an equal amount of sugar insist in a warm place for 2 weeks. The resulting liquid is used 3-4 times a day for 1 tablespoon 20 minutes before meals.

The annual sunflower is a well-known annual cultivated plant from the complex flower family, with bright yellow flowers gathered in large baskets. It blooms in July-August, with fruits ripening in August-October. The marginal flowers of the annual sunflower are used by us as an anti-fever remedy for malaria, influenza and catarrh of the upper respiratory tract.Mugwort bitter - a perennial herbaceous herbaceous plant of silver color with a strong aromatic odor, from the family of complex flowers, height 50 - 125 cm. The stem is erect, branched at the top. Leaves are silky grayish-lobed, regular, petiolate, twice pinnately dissected. Above-ground flowering part of wormwood bitter, without coarse stems, we use as an aromatic bitterness, as regulating secretion and excitation of the secretory nerve centers of the stomach, as reducing flatulence, anti-inflammatory, stimulating bile secretion means. Wormwood herb for malaria, influenza, catarrh of the upper respiratory tract and other diseases.

Wormwood (artemys - healthy, fresh) is a perennial herbaceous plant from the family of complex flowers, 100-150 cm high. Wormwood herb has antipyretic, antiseptic and tonic properties.Wormwood is an old folk remedy. Abu Ali Ibn-Sina widely recommended the above-ground part of the plant for kidney stone disease, uterine erosions and as an abortifacient in the form of baths, decoction of the herb - for runny nose and headache (in the form of a medicinal bandage).Wormwood field (God's tree) - a perennial herbaceous plant from the family of complex flowers, up to 100 cm high. The stem is branched, raised, reddish. Mugwort is used in folk medicine as a wound-healing agent; decoction of flowering branches is used for uterine bleeding, inflammation of the bladder; infusion - for stomach aches, female diseases, toothache in the form of gargles.

Motherwort pentelopastny (motherwort mossy, motherwort hairy) - a perennial herbaceous plant from the family of guboflorum, height 50 - 150 cm. Used oblique flowering tops 30-40 cm long, collected during the flowering period, without thick stems. The smell of motherwort herb is weak, the taste is bitter.Experimentally established that motherwort plant is not toxic and its preparations have a calming effect on the central nervous system, slow heart rate, increase the strength of heart contractions and lower blood pressure, have hypotensive, sedative properties.Motherwort preparations are widely used as a means of regulating the functional state of the central nervous system.

Tangut rhubarb is a perennial herbaceous plant of the buckwheat family, with a short, multi-headed, dark brown rhizome with succulent, large roots. Roots with rhizomes of three to four years of age, dug in August - September, are used. Dried roots are brownish-yellow in color, with a pleasant peculiar smell. The taste of rhubarb herb is bitter, astringent.In Chinese medicine, rhubarb preparations have been known for more than 5000 years, they are used internally and as an external remedy. Internally - as a means of stimulating appetite and as a choleretic, in jaundice (small doses), in chronic constipation as a laxative (large doses), in intestinal atony and flatulence.

Common burdock is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Rosaceae. The above-ground part of the plant, harvested before fruiting, is used. The taste of common turnip has a bitter, astringent, tart, odor is weak, spicy.In domestic folk medicine used as a bitterness in diseases of the stomach and intestines, especially diarrhea, liver disease, jaundice, rheumatism, lung disease, bleeding, hemorrhoids, as an astringent and diuretic.Used herb turnip in the GDR almost exclusively in the form of tea for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, gall bladder, in the form of tincture or gargle - in diseases of the mouth. In wounds on the skin - in the form of a compress of decoction of the herb.

Crimean rose (French rose) is a well-known perennial shrub 60-100 cm high, from the family of Rosaceae, with very fragrant flowers. The petals of the flowers are used, collected in the early morning during flowering (when collected in the middle of the day, the content of essential oil decreases).In Russian folk medicine preparations of rose petals are among the mucous, slightly astringent means and are used for diarrhea, abdominal pain, lung disease, catarrh of the upper respiratory tract and inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract, jaundice and even cholera; with influenza, sore throat and various diseases of the oral cavity in the form of gargles and rinses, finely ground powder of rose petals sprinkled on ulcers and applied to places affected by rusty inflammation.