Meadow clover (Trifolium pratense L.)
Red clover, ukr.: konyushina luchna.
Meadow clover is a perennial plant from the legume family. Meadow clover has flowers that are small, pink or red. Inflorescences are loose globular heads. Meadow clover blooms in June through September. It grows everywhere in meadows, fields, along edges, road edges. Cultivated as a forage. Creeping clover also grows here (T. repens L.), which has a similar chemical composition and uses.
For medicinal purposes use inflorescences and grass of clover, which contain carotene, vitamins C, E, B, essential oil, glycosides, flavones, organic acids, tannins and others. An antifungal substance trifolizin has been isolated from clover roots.
H. Г. Kovaleva recommends alcoholic tincture of oblique tops with clover flowers in atherosclerosis with normal blood pressure, accompanied by headaches and tinnitus.
In folk medicine, meadow clover is used for colds, chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, cough, bronchial asthma, kidney and bladder diseases, liver, jaundice, etc. д. In a bag of gauze stuffed with grass, dipped in boiling water and hot applied to the sore spot as a poultice for boils, scrofula, blisters, burns, neuralgia, joint pain and furunculosis.
In a decoction of clover grass make baths for joint pain and bathe children with cramps. The juice of the fresh plant is injected into the eye in case of eyesore, as well as rinse the eyes in case of allergies.
Methods of application:
1. 3 Art. spoonfuls of clover grass insist 6-8 hours in a thermos in 0.5 liters of boiling water - vyshivayut in 3 receptions for 20-40 minutes before meals as an expectorant, styptic, astringent, diuretic and antiseptic (E. А. Ladynina et al.).
2. 10% decoction of clover grass (boiled for 5 minutes) - 1/3-1/2 cup 3-4 times a day for anemia, whooping cough, bronchitis.
3. 40 g of herbs insist in 0.5 liters of 40% alcohol for 10 days - 20 ml before dinner or before bedtime for atherosclerosis (N. Г. Kovalev).
European crabapple (Asarum europaeum L.)
Vomit root, ukr.: kopitniak, pidkopitnik, earthy frankincense. The plant is poisonous, prescribed by a doctor.
European hoofhorn is a perennial from the Circazonaceae family, 5-10 cm tall, with a creeping stem and rhizome. Leaves are shiny, rounded, hoof-like. European hoofhorn blooms in April - May (Fig. 24). It grows in shady deciduous forests of northern areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The leaves of hoofwort, collected during flowering, and rhizomes with roots, dug up in spring or September, are used. Raw materials are harvested annually. The chemical composition of the plant has not been studied sufficiently. 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, mucilages, allantoin, organic acids, azarin alkaloid.
Included in the collection of M. Н. Zdrenko. Tincture of fresh leaves was part of the preparation akofit, used in the past for acute sciatica, lumbago and neuralgia.
Cotyledon europaea
Е. А. Ladynina prescribes it for bronchitis, hypocidal gastritis, hepato-cholecystitis and pyelonephritis. Б. X. Akhmetova recommends hoofwort in CLL (chronic nonspecific pneumonia, pulmonary emphysema, bronchiectasis, bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis) complicated by pulmonary and pulmonary-cardiac insufficiency (cit. By W. И. Zavrazhnova). The author defended his doctoral dissertation on this topic in 1969 in Kazan.
According to the observations of S. А. Tomilin, the use of hoof hoof is most effective in peptic ulcer disease, liver and gallbladder diseases, as well as chronic skin diseases, especially eczema of neurogenic origin (in a mixture with hawthorn, echinacea, etc.).). М. Polakowska recommends hoofwort as an adjuvant for peptic ulcer disease.
Especially widely used hoofwort in folk medicine. It is used in colds, pulmonary tuberculosis, throat catarrh, heart disease, angina pectoris, jaundice, edema, dropsy, cirrhosis of the liver, etc. д.
М. А. Nosal for the treatment of alcoholism recommends 1 tbsp. A spoonful of decoction of 5 g of root to 200 ml of water discreetly pour into a glass of vodka and give to the patient. It causes vomiting and aversion to alcohol.
In Bulgaria for weaning from chronic alcoholism recommended as an effective remedy collection of 1 tsp. spoonfuls of hoof leaves and 2 tsp. spoonfuls of green peel of walnut fruit, 1 tsp. spoonful of the mixture is poured 1 cup of wine and taken; this recipe is for 4 liters of wine (V. Petkov). In Germany as a vomiting remedy recommended infusion of 5 g of raw rhizome of hoof in 250 ml of boiling water, take tablespoons until the effect.
Unfortunately, chronic alcoholics are also difficult to treat with conventional medical means, as they do not consider themselves sick and do not follow the regimen during and after treatment. There are several disciplined patients who have been cured by the infusion of barantz herb and other means and no longer use alcohol. But these people have great willpower and wanted treatment themselves.
М. А. Nosal recommends hoof in the form of infusion of 3-5 g of dry plant in 1 cup of liquid, it is better to take it with milk - in gastritis, liver disease and as a diuretic.
