Four-petaled cranberry is a well-known evergreen, stalked, small semi-shrub of the cranberry family, up to 80 cm long, with small, lanceolate, shiny, short-petiolate leaves, green above and silvery below. Flowers are dark pink. Fruit - spherical dark-red juicy glossy spherical berry.In domestic folk medicine cranberry morses and syrup are used in avitaminosis and various inflammatory diseases accompanied by high fever, help reduce fever, quench thirst. Cranberries with honey are also used for colds, rheumatism, sore throat.Coriander seed (kishnets) - annual herbaceous plant from the umbrella family, height 30-70 cm. The stem is round, hollow, bare, branched at the top. Leaves are regular. Root leaves are long-petioled, three-divided; lower stem leaves are short-petioled; upper leaves are sessile, pinnately divided. The essential oil of coriander seed has choleretic, analgesic, antiseptic, antihemorrhoidal, expectorant and appetite-enhancing properties. The use of coriander increases granulation and secretion of glands of the digestive tract.

Scepterocarpus is a biennial herbaceous plant of the cinnamon family, up to 1.5 m high. It is distributed in the European part of the USSR, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. It grows in open places, mainly on sandy soil, on stony places, forest edges, pine forests, near roads and housing. The corollas collected at the beginning of blossoming are used. The smell of cowpea scepterovidny has aromatic, honey, the taste is sweet.Application of cowpea (flowers) in the form of infusion is used as an expectorant, emollient and enveloping agent for coughs, upper respiratory tract diseases.Flowering, oblique tops of cowpea collected in the early flowering period, we use as an analgesic, anti-spastic agent for hypertension, atherosclerosis and inflammation of respiratory organs.

Stony bark is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Rosaceae with erect, fruit-bearing stem, 15-30 cm high, with long creeping shoots. It is distributed in the European part of the former USSR, except for the southern regions, as well as in Siberia and the Caucasus. It grows in forests and between shrubs.In folk medicine, boneset boneset is used as a remedy for scurvy and hemorrhoids, decoction of branches and berries are used for blenorrhea. Nettle bilious - a perennial herbaceous plant from the nettle family, up to 1.5 m high. Stem tupochetyrehgranny, straight, like the leaves, covered with stinging hairs, leaves are subdivided, petiolate, heart-shaped, large-oblong along the edge. A decoction of nettle lowers blood sugar. Infusion and liquid extract of nettle dicot increase blood clotting, increase the percentage of hemoglobin and the number of red blood cells, have vasoconstrictive and pronounced tonic smooth muscle uterus action.

Antibiotics (from Greek anti - against, bios - life) are organic substances formed and secreted by microbes, animals and plants, which have the ability to inhibit the growth and reproduction or kill certain types of microorganisms. The action of antibiotics is reduced to disruption of metabolism in the microbial cell, resulting in the suspension of growth and reproduction of microorganisms or their death.Antibiotics (some of them) are used in medicine (penicillin, streptomycin, biomycin, levomycetin and a number of others). In most cases, phytoncides are not one substance, but a complex of organic compounds. The chemical composition of phytoncides is not established.Phytoncides are natural toxic chemicals produced by plants for self-defense, protecting living tissues from reproduction of microbes in them.

Bloodroot is a perennial herbaceous plant from the family of Rosaceae, with a thick horizontal rhizome and long, thin coarse roots. Used rhizomes with roots up to 20 cm long, collected during the wilting period of plants - in September. The odor of medicinal bloodwort is weak, the taste is astringent.Properties of bloodwort are used for the manufacture of medicines.The use of bloodwort is recommended for various kinds of somatic diseases. Rhizomes with roots have astringent, styptic, anti-inflammatory, bactericidal and antiestocidal action.In Chinese folk medicine decoction of leaves is used as an astringent, analgesic and styptic, in hemorrhoidal, uterine, intestinal, pulmonary bleeding, bloody vomiting, with polymenorrhea.

Alderberry (brittlebush) is a shrub, less often a tree, 1.5-3 m high, of the family Cruschinae, with regular branches and almost black bark with white lenticels. Alderberry is distributed in the middle zone of the European part of the USSR, in the Urals, the Caucasus, in the middle and southern regions of Western Siberia. It grows in mixed forests, among shrubs, in the floodplains of rivers and streams, along forest edges, on the banks of bogs and ditches.The bark is used from young trunks and thick branches 0.5 cm thick, collected in early spring (March - April) during the sap movement before the appearance of leaves. For use it becomes suitable only after storage for at least one year or after an hour of heating at a temperature of 100 °.Anthraglycosides grits when introduced into the body under the influence of digestive enzymes are destroyed with the release of active substances (emodin and chrysophanic acid), contribute to increased peristalsis of the large intestine, do not irritate the mucous membrane of the rest of the intestine. Therefore, cherry bark is a mildly effective laxative.

Common corn is a well-known annual cultivated herbaceous plant from the cereal family, up to 3 m high and more, native to South America. It is established that the liquid extract and infusion of corn stigmas increase bile secretion, reduce its viscosity, specific gravity and bilirubin content, accelerate blood coagulation, effective in hypothrombinemia (A. D. Turova, 1967) and increase the number of platelets, increase diuresis. Lavender spike - a perennial evergreen, grayish from pubescence semi-shrub from the family of sponges, up to 60 cm in height and more, with numerous shoots. Lavender essential oil has antiseptic properties. The use of lavender is recommended for the treatment of shallow wounds and abrasions.Lavender inflorescences, collected at the beginning of flowering, we use as an aromatic, antispasmodic and diuretic agent for diseases of the kidneys, bladder and renal pelvis, as well as for therapeutic baths and spritzing.

Laminaria saccharifolia (seaweed) - a large seaweed from the family Laminariaceae, has a long ribbon-shaped smooth layer in the form of soft mucous greenish-brown plate, reaches 1 - 13 m long. Due to the significant content of iodine and vitamins is used for the treatment and prevention of atherosclerosis and goiter in the form of powder.Laminaria sugary recommended by us in atherosclerosis, atonic constipation and thyrotoxicosis.Lily of May (from Greek. konvalaris - valley, laryon - lily, Mayalis - blooming in May, i.e. "lily of the valleys, blooming in May") - a well-known perennial herbaceous plant of the lily family with white bell-shaped flowers, gathered in a lopsided brush, with a strong pleasant aroma. Convallatoxin is active on the heart, convallarin has a laxative effect. The use of lily of the valley has cumulative properties, which are manifested to a weak degree.Various preparations of lily of the valley (tinctures, extracts, tablets, ampoule preparations, etc.) are widely used in medicine, and indications of their use are available in the relevant literature.

Lapchatka erectifolia (Kalgan) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Rosaceae with a woody, cylindrical, horizontal, short, red-brown rhizome with numerous thin roots. The properties of erect lapchatka help to fight many ailments. The plant is used for the preparation of many medicines. Astringent, styptic and bactericidal properties of lapchatka (rhizomes) are used in medicine for various inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (enteritis, enterocolitis, dyspepsia), as a styptic for gastric, intestinal, uterine bleeding. Externally, the use of burdock is recommended for inflammatory processes in the oral cavity in the form of lubricants and gargles, burns, wet eczema and other skin diseases.

Sown flax is an annual herbaceous plant of the flax family. There are two main cultivated forms: long-stemmed flax with a thin stem 60-120 cm high and 30-50 cm high, strongly branched from the base, giving a large yield of seeds, but of little use for fiber. Long-straw flax is low branched at the top and is bred mainly for fiber.Seed flax is not known in the wild. It is widely cultivated in the northern and middle belt of the European part of the former USSR and Siberia.The therapeutic activity of flax seeds is due to the presence of mucilage and glycoside linamarin. Properties of flax, namely linamarin is biologically very active and has an effect on various systems and organs: it regulates secretory and motor functions of the intestine, large doses cause general restlessness and salivation. The mucilaginous substances have an enveloping anti-inflammatory and mild laxative effect and are used internally in inflammatory processes of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract; in colitis in enemas; in addition, in inflammatory processes of the bladder and kidneys.

Water cassowary is a perennial of the cassowary family with a thick, worm-like, curved rhizome. Water cassowary has large, yellow flowers. It blooms in May - June. As flowering plants are cultivated in gardens and near houses other species of cassowaries: pale (L Pallida Lam.), Germanic (L germanica L.) and Florentine (I. florentina L.). It grows everywhere along the banks of rivers, ponds, on damp meadows, in shallow waters and in marshy places.

Kirkazone lomonosovidnyi is a perennial from the family Kirkazoneae, 30-70 cm tall. Leaves are heart-shaped, regular, with an unpleasant odor. Kirkazone lomonosovidny has yellow, tubular flowers with a swelling at the base, small, sit in bunches in the axils of the leaves. The fruit is a pear-shaped or round hanging shiny boll with flattened seeds. Blooms in May-June. yellow, tubular - grows everywhere as a weed along the banks of rivers, streams, bushes, ravines, in forests and vegetable gardens).

The leaves of hoofwort harvested during flowering and rhizomes and roots dug up in spring or September are used. Raw material is harvested annually. The chemical composition of the plant is not sufficiently studied. From the herb is isolated essential oil, which includes a poisonous substance azaron, volatilized when drying the herb, from the leaves - cardiac glycosides, from the rhizome - resins, mineral salts (silica, etc.), tannins, flavonoids, mucilage, allantoin, organic acids, alkaloid azarin.

Scepter's bromegrass - has expectorant, emollient, antispasmodic, astringent, anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant, styptic, diuretic, analgesic, antiseptic, vasodilator, sedative, enveloping, sugar-reducing, hypotensive, wound-healing, antifungal and insecticidal properties. In Bulgaria, cowpea is also considered an anti-ulcer agent - the drug verbascan is derived from it.

Nettle dicotyledonous has a very diverse and effective effect on the vital functions of the body. It has hemostatic and hematopoietic action (increases blood coagulation, narrows the lumen of blood vessels, increases hemoglobin, platelets in the blood, raises the level of prothrombin in excessive administration of anticoagulants), increases the tone of smooth muscle of the uterus and intestine, regulates metabolism and stimulates granulation and epithelialization of affected tissues (A. I. Schroeter).

Alcoholic tincture or decoction of rhizomes is used for rubbing in joint and muscle diseases, tincture is rubbed into the skin in chronic dry eczema and warts. Fresh rhizomes rub joints with their deformity. Fresh herb is used externally for scrofula, panaricia, boils, dermatitis and swelling. Aqueous infusion is washed from sunburn. Fresh juice or decoction reduces age spots and freckles on the face, but use the juice should be careful - you can cause skin burns.

May lily of the valley is a valuable heart remedy. It was first introduced from folk medicine into scientific medicine for epilepsy by Professor F. I. Inozemtsev of Moscow University. However, lily of the valley preparations became widely known as a cardiac remedy after a detailed experimental and clinical study by N. A. Bogoyavlensky in the clinic of the famous Russian therapist Prof. S. P. Botkin. Since then, they are used in medicine for diseases of the heart (malformations, cardiopathy, cardiosclerosis, myocardial dystrophy) and lungs (emphysema), complicated by acute and chronic cardiovascular insufficiency stage II and III and rhythm disorders (tachysystolic form of atrial fibrillation and paroxysmal tachycardia).

Linden flowers have long enjoyed a reputation as an effective diaphoretic. In addition, they have analgesic, juice, anticonvulsant, sedative, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, expectorant, diuretic, astringent, antispasmodic, secretolytic, bactericidal, choleretic effect. Used in medicine for colds, respiratory diseases, flu and for gargling for diseases of the mouth, pharynx and larynx.

Flaxseed is used in folk medicine for atony (weakness) of the intestines with flatulence and prolonged constipation, diseases of the stomach, intestines, liver (cholecystitis, jaundice), kidney - cystitis, kidney stones, heart disease, shortness of breath, dropsy, edema cardiac and renal, diarrhea, urinary incontinence, ascariasis, initial forms of prostate hypertrophy and anemia.

Dark medunica is a perennial plant of the borage family, 15-30 cm tall, the whole plant is rough (covered with stiff hairs). The root leaves are ovate-lanceolate, dark, elongated. Flowers are drooping, pink at the beginning of flowering, later blue-purple or blue. Medunica dark blooms in April - May. It is found in shady broad-leaved forests of northern areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.