Common chokecherry (Origanum vulgare L.)
Ukr.: maternity zwichajna.
Common oregano is an herbaceous perennial from the family of guboflorum with a strong pleasant odor. Stem is straight, tetrahedral, branched at the top, reddish, 30-60 cm high. Flowers are small, purplish-pink, collected in a shield-like panicle inflorescence (Fig. 14). It blooms from July through September. Common oregano - grows everywhere in glades and forest edges, in bushes and on slopes. The leafy tops of the herb with flowers containing essential oil (consisting of thymol, etc.) are used.), flavonoids, vitamin C, phytoncides, tannins.
Common oregano is used in medicine for respiratory and upper respiratory tract diseases, hypo- and anacid gastritis, cholecystitis and biliary dyskinesia, enterocolitis accompanied by constipation and flatulence, menstrual disorders and other gynecological diseases.
Especially popular is oregano common in folk medicine. It is also used for colds, pulmonary tuberculosis, spastic cough, bronchial asthma, whooping cough, hoarseness of voice, spasms and atony of stomach and intestinal muscles, nausea, vomiting, hiccups, peptic ulcer, hepatitis, jaundice, hemorrhoids, constipation, pyelonephritis, etc. д. For headaches and insomnia wash the head in an infusion of the herb and make poultices of oregano herb. Oregano powder is sniffed for runny nose and fainting. Infusion of 20-30 g of herbs in 2-3 liters of boiling water used for sphincters for pain, itching and chronic colpitis. In hoarseness of the voice used infusion of oregano herb on milk.
Duschitsa - externally used in the form of rinses, washes, dry and wet compresses and aromatic baths for diseases of the skin and mucous membranes, diathesis, scrofula and rickets in children, to strengthen hair. Alcohol or oil tincture of oregano herb - for toothache, radiculoneuritis. Poultices of oregano herb are used for joint diseases, paralysis and neuralgia. Fresh chopped or dry soaked leaves are applied to boils.
Common chokecherry
At home, oregano is used to combat moths, leaves are used in food as a spice, added to regular tea in a ratio of 1 : 2, in kvass, pickles and compotes. In many places it is consumed in place of tea.
Methods of application:
1. 3-10% infusion of oregano herb - 0.5-1 cup several times a day in warm form before meals for neuroses, bronchitis, whooping cough.
2. 20% tincture of oregano herb in 40% alcohol - 1/2-1 tsp. spoon 3 times a day for gastritis, bronchitis, as well as externally.
3. 20% tincture of fresh oregano herb on vegetable oil - 2-3 tsp. spoonfuls 3 times a day before meals for stomach ulcers.
4. Infusion of 2 tbsp. spoonfuls of oregano herb in 1.5 cups of boiling water - daily dose; treatment course 3 years - in epilepsy (N. Г. Kovaleva) .
5. For aromatic baths 100-200 g of oregano herb brewed in 2-3 liters of water.
6. Oak bark - 60 g, oregano herb - 40 g, althea leaves - 20 g or althea root - 10 g; 5 tbsp. spoonfuls of the mixture brewed in 500 ml of boiling water, insist - for spritzing in the morning and evening.
Contraindicated in pregnancy.
Schleicher's Melon (Fumaria Schleichen Soy - Willem)
Smoke, liver grass, ukr.: rutka likarska. The plant is poisonous, prescribed by a doctor.
Schleicher's Melon is an annual weed of the poppy family. Stems are grayish-green, succulent, branched from the base, 15-40 cm high. Leaves are pinnately compound. Flowers are small, purple, gathered in clusters. It blooms in May through August. The herb has a very bitter taste. It grows everywhere in fields, vegetable gardens, orchards, and weedy places.
The herb is used for medicinal purposes. The chemical composition is poorly understood. The herb contains: alkaloids, fumaric acid, mucilage, vitamins C and K, bitters and resins.
Prof. S. А. Tomilin pointed out that the physiological effects of smokewort depend on the dosage and duration of use. At moderate therapeutic doses, the drugs have a tonic effect for the first ten days and then a relaxing effect thereafter. This indicates the ability of the active substances of melonberry to cumulate (accumulate in the body).
Schleicher's broom
At the Perm Pharmaceutical Institute, a new drug protopin was obtained from the herb melonberry, which is well studied experimentally and recommended for clinical trial as an antiarrhythmic agent, significantly superior in efficacy to novocainamide and quinidine.
Melon Schleicher - used only in folk medicine for gastritis with low acidity, peptic ulcer, spastic colitis, chronic constipation, hemorrhoids, flatulence, intestinal atony, liver and gallbladder diseases, biliary stone disease, hepatic colic, jaundice, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pulmonary tuberculosis, etc. д. In inflammation of the gums and stomatitis used as a gargle of 30-50 drops of juice in 1/2 cup of warm water. Fresh juice lubricate the skin and make lotions, local baths of decoction of dry herb melon or concentrated infusion, or ointment - with skin rashes, acne, scrofula, scabies, scabies, eczema, allergies, wounds, sweating and other diseases.
