Sangui-sorba officinalis - Sangui-sorba officinalis. Family Rosaceae.
The ecology of the medicinal bloodroot plant is ambiguous. It grows on wet flooded and dry meadows in forest and forest-steppe zones, but it does well in sparse coniferous forests, in lowland marshy meadows and valley bogs, on the banks of water bodies, in waterlogged hollows, on saline meadows, in river floodplains. The habitat of the medicinal bloodwort is Holarctic.
Bloodwort is a perennial herbaceous plant with a tall stem (up to 1-1.5 m) and compound syzygotic-green leaves. The root leaves of the medicinal bloodroot are large on petioles, while the stem leaves are small and sessile. In July, black-purple or pinkish small flowers, collected in small oval heads, appear on the tops of the stems of the medicinal bloodroot (Fig. 12). The flowering of medicinal bloodwort lasts until September. Rhizome of the medicinal bloodroot, massive and woody, up to 12 cm long, surrounded by sparse large roots. The main medicinal raw material of bloodroot is roots and rhizomes, but medicinal also leaves and flowers.
The medicinal bloodroot has been studied quite extensively. It has a lot of useful substances: starch (up to 30%), organic and phenolcarboxylic acids, tannins, essential oils, flavonoids, anthocyanin, saponins, triterpenoids, steroids, vitamin C (up to 0.36 %), carotene.
For a long time people have known the medicinal properties of medicinal bloodwort. Back in the olden days, without knowing its chemical composition, it was believed to be able to cure tumors. It was said that the medicinal plant bloodroot "more than all potions kancerova ulcers heals". Even the Latin generic name of the medicinal bloodroot, which consists of two words, contains its medicinal meaning: sanguis - "blood" and sorbere - "to absorb". The greatest effect as a styptic and anti-inflammatory agent was noted in gastric bleeding. Used the plant bloodwort medicinal and to treat gastrointestinal diseases, and as a bactericidal agent. Decoctions of the roots of the medicinal bloodwort and inflorescences were used for sore throats, headaches. Tibetan medicine recommended it for treating dysentery, burns, and oral mucous membranes. Used plant bloodwort medicinal and for baths for hemorrhoids, and externally - for compresses and washing bleeding and purulent wounds.
Used bloodwort medicinal and in scientific medicine: as an antibacterial agent (for the treatment of stomatitis, laryngitis, gingivitis), as a styptic for pulmonary and other bleeding, as an astringent for gastrointestinal diseases. On the basis of the liquid extract of the plant of the medicinal bloodwort plant, yeast tablets sorbex are prepared, used for gastrointestinal diseases. Famous and popular
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bloodwort medicinal and in veterinary medicine, especially as an antihelminthic for horses, in gastrointestinal diseases, as enhancing the motor functions of the stomach, in giardiasis.
Young rhizomes of medicinal bloodroot are edible when boiled; fresh leaves, which have the smell of cucumbers, are used for salads, and dried - for dressing soups and for teas. You can use bloodroot medicinal and to obtain dyes (black, gray, red), which are used for dyeing fabrics. The tannin qualities of the medicinal bloodroot plant are also known.
There are other useful types of it. In the Transbaikalia it is bloodwort maloflorovaya, used in the treatment of burns; in the Far East - bloodwort thin-leaved; it is considered close to the medicinal bloodwort, but also edible. For example, the Yakuts eat rhizome of bloodroot with thin-leaved bloodroot frozen or boiled in milk. In the north, in the tundras and forest tundras of the European and Asian parts of the USSR, in the mountain-forest and alpine belt is found bloodwort multibranch. Its habitats include bogs and marshy meadows, river and lake shores, grassy birch forests and mossy pine forests. It is smaller (15-80 cm), and the inflorescences of bloodroot multibroot are dense heads with blood-red or purple flowers. Its rhizome is also rich in tannins and is used in folk medicine as an astringent and styptic, and in veterinary medicine - as an anthelmintic and treating gastrointestinal diseases..
