Wild medicinal plants of Donbass. Asparagus medicinal, Steelhead arable.

Medicinal asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.)

Hare's eyes, goat's beard, ukr.: hare's chill.

Medicinal asparagus is a perennial in the asparagus family, 30-150 cm tall. Stems are numerous, strongly branched, glabrous. Flowers are bell-shaped, small, greenish-yellow. It blooms in June through July. The fruit is a globular red berry. Medicinal asparagus grows everywhere on floodplain meadows, grassy places, among shrubs, less often on sands. Cultivated as a vegetable and for decorative purposes (it is better to sow under winter).

Used rhizomes with roots of asparagus, which contain: asparagine, steroidal saponins, essential oil, carotene, carbohydrates, coumarin, in the shoots, in addition - vitamins Bi, Bg, C and nicotinic acid, in the berries - carbohydrates, xanthine, physalin and traces of alkaloids. The young shoots are high in nicotinic acid.

Decoction of asparagus rhizome has a strong diuretic, as well as hypotensive, tonic, sedative, antipyretic, lactogenic, antispastic, choleretic, anti-inflammatory, blood purifying, laxative effect, and also increases heartbeat and slows its rhythm, dilates peripheral blood vessels and relieves fatigue. Medicinal asparagus helps to eliminate chloride, phosphate and urea from the body.

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Medicinal Asparagus

Е. А. Ladynina and others recommend asparagus in diseases of the kidneys, bladder, prostate gland, cardiac and renal edema, atherosclerosis. Medicinal asparagus is used in folk medicine, in addition, for heart weakness, heart pain, palpitations, dropsy, hypertension, convulsions, epilepsy, liver disease, spleen, jaundice, cirrhosis of the liver, scrofulosis, rheumatism, gout, adenoma of the prostate gland, diabetes, kidney stones, bladder stones, allergies, acne, eczema, and decoction (infusion) of fruits - for impotence and hemorrhoids.

Л. Я. Sklyarevsky recommends asparagus juice with sugar in a ratio of 1:2 - 2-4 tsp. spoonfuls several times a day. Н. Г. Kovaleva used in acute and chronic nephritis with sufficient renal function, pyelitis and cystitis collection of asparagus roots and leaves of wild strawberries - 3 parts, grass Bouvitsa and root sorrel curly (or horse) - 1 part, nettle leaves and plantain - 2 parts, horsetail grass - 5 parts. For massive edema, you should add 1/2 part parsley herb; 1-2 tbsp. spoonfuls of collection brew 1-3 cups of boiling water, stew for 30 minutes (do not boil) - take during the day for 10 minutes before meals, the course of treatment 4-8 months.

Н. И. Solomchenko repeatedly used this collection in patients with chronic nephritis with nephrotic component and observed good results. In one patient, treated unsuccessfully for 3 months with conventional means, after taking this collection for 1 month disappeared large swellings and she lived for more than 10 years.

Methods of application:

1. 10% decoction of roots with asparagus rhizome or the whole plant - 1/2 cup 3 times a day as a diuretic, choleretic.

2. Infusion of 1 tbsp. spoonfuls of raw material in 1 cup of boiling water - daily dose in kidney disease, neuroses, atherosclerosis, hypertension.

3. 2 Art. spoonfuls of root or stems of asparagus insist 4 h in 400 ml of boiling water - 100 ml 4 times a day before meals as No. 1 (D. Pa-mukov).

4. 3 ч. spoonfuls of asparagus rhizome, young shoots and herbs to insist 2 h in 250 ml of boiling water - 15 ml after 2 h as anti-inflammatory (I. Д. Jurkiewicz).

5. 5 berries of asparagus insist 6-8 hours in 250 ml of boiling water (in the oven) - 15 ml 3-4 times a day for impotence (F. И. Mom dibs).

Ploughed stalwort (Ononis hircina Jacq.); field steelhead (O. arvensis L.)

Ukr.: vovchug polovii.

Plowed steelhead is a perennial from the legume family with a height of 30-80 cm. Stems branched, straight, red-brown, with or without prickles. Leaves are trifoliate, slightly sticky. The flowers are pink or whitish moth-like. The fruits are short cracking beans, making it difficult to collect the seeds. It blooms from June through August.

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Stalk plowed

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Plowed steelwort grows everywhere on floodplain and dry meadows, along the banks of water bodies. Grows well in culture, best sown under winter.

Common use of stalnick root, containing glycosides ononin and others, alcohol onocerin, flavonoids, essential oil, resins, mucilages, mineral salts, tannins and other substances.

Steelhead is used in medicine for hemorrhoids, rectal fissures and chronic constipation, uterine bleeding, especially at menopause. In folk medicine also used in inflammation and kidney stones and bladder, prostatitis, gout, arthrosis, rheumatism, various edema, dropsy, headaches, epilepsy, bleeding, infertility and other diseases, externally baths - in chronic dermatoses: eczema, acne, rashes, scrofula, furunculosis (in addition to internal use).

Methods of application:

1. Decoction of 30 g of stalnick root in 1 liter of water, evaporated to 0.5 liters - 50-100 g 3 times a day before meals for 2-4 weeks for hemorrhoids and for external use. The decoction spoils quickly and can be stored for one day.

2. Decoction of 20-30 g of stalnick root and 100 g of leaves in 3 glasses of water - 15-30 ml 5-8 times a day as a diuretic.

3. 1 Art. spoonful of stalnick root boiled for 15 minutes in 0.5 liters of water, insist until cooled - 100 g 4 times a day before meals for epilepsy.

4. Decoction of 15 g of stalnick root in 250 ml of boiling water, boil for 5 minutes - 1 /3 cup 3 times a day for gynecological diseases.

5. Tincture of stalnick root 20% in 40% alcohol - 5 ml 3 times a day with water before meals 2-3 weeks for hemorrhoids and other diseases.

6. Decoction of 50-100 g of stalnick root in 750 g of wine - 5-15 ml 3 times a day for dropsy.

7. Root powder - 0.3-0.5 g (1-2 g) 4 times a day with water before meals as a diuretic (V. Petkov).

8. Collection of roots of stalnick - 4 parts, wheatgrass - 7 parts, nettle dicot - 1 part, flowers of black elderberry - 3 parts and horsetail herb - 5 parts; 3 tbsp. spoonfuls of the mixture boiled for 15 minutes in 800 ml of water - 250 ml 3 times a day for phosphate and carbonate kidney stones.

9. 1 Art. a spoonful of a collection of equally taken stalnick root, Adonis herb and birch buds insist in 250 ml of boiling water - drink in sips during the day; or 1 tbsp. spoonful of a mixture of stalnick root - 1 part, birch buds - 2 parts and rose hips - 2 parts, insist 6 hours, boiled for 15 minutes in 0.5 liters of water and drink during the day with dropsy.

10. 3 Art. spoonfuls of a mixture of roots of stalnick, soapberry, grass nightshade sweet-bitter and willow bark (equal parts) boiled for 10 minutes in 0.5 liters of boiling water, drink for rheumatism, gout, arthritis and arthritis (collections № 8, 9, 10 V. В. Karhuta).

11. Decoction of 1 tbsp. spoonfuls of a mixture of stalnick roots, licorice, fennel fruit and juniper in 0.5 liters of water - 0.5 cup 4 times a day for disorders of uric acid metabolism.

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