Nuphar lutea. Lily family - Nymphaeacea.
The lake has its own heliocentrism, the lake has its own solar cult: the sun is revealed to it in the image of a goblet, and so it cherishes these likenesses. The clumps are blooming! Innumerable suns rose today from the primary bosom of the waters.
Ю. Lingas
The yellow goblet is an aquatic plant that inhabits shallow bodies of water, quiet backwaters of rivers, and sometimes lakes of aapa marshes. The yellow goblet is distributed almost everywhere, it is absent only in mountainous areas and in the Arctic.
The yellow goblet is a constant neighbor of the lily; incidentally, Nuphar also means "nymph" in Arabic. Their leaves are superficially similar, but there are also small differences: in the shape of their lobes and the character of veining. The flowers of the cumquat plant are yellow, small (4-6 cm), floating on the surface of the water. The rhizomes of yellow goblet are thick, long: up to 10 m (Fig. 14). Their yield (in terms of air-dry mass) varies from 1 to 10 kg/ha. In the rhizomes of yellow goblet found alkaloids, nufarin, tannins, starch, resins; there is a glycoside of cardiac action - nymphalin. All of its parts are high in vitamin C, but especially the leaves: up to 0.17 %. The rhizome of the yellow goblet is used to produce lutenurin, a drug used to treat trichomonadal diseases and as a contraceptive. Extracts of rhizome rhizome of yellow goblet are part of the collection, which treat bladder disease, anacid gastritis, gastric ulcer. There are indications that the plant is poisonous, so when collecting the medicinal raw material of the yellow cube should be careful.
Kubishka yellow has long been used in folk medicine. Decoctions of rhizomes and flowers of yellow couch was considered a good remedy for coughs. Infusion of leaves and stems was used for some kidney diseases, rhizome of the cube together with the stems - for rheumatism and gout. From buds prepared infusion, which treated kidney stone disease, tincture of flowers of yellow cube also drank for kidney stones. Yellow goblet was also used for sciatica or neuralgia, as an antipyretic
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and analgesic, and the seeds - as antipyretic and sedative. The insecticidal qualities of yellow goblet are also known, especially strong on cockroaches.
The yellow goblet is an edible plant; it is sometimes called underwater bread. After soaking, drying and grinding the rhizomes of the yellow goblet rhizomes, starch was obtained from them and added to bread. The content of starch in the rhizomes of yellow cubeberry prepared in this way is 18-19%, sucrose - 1.0-1.2, dextrose - 5-6%. In the seeds, the amount of starch reaches 45%. Toasted to brown and ground yellow goblet seeds were used as a surrogate for coffee. Yellow goblet also has fodder value: for game animals and waterfowl.
In addition to yellow goblet in the Far East there are two more species with similar medicinal and nutritional properties: small goblet and Japanese goblet..
