Common bluegrass (Echium vulgare L.)
Chicken blindness, markoway, ukr.: rum"yanka, rannik, sinets. The plant is poisonous.
Common bruise is a biennial from the borage family with a height of 30-100 cm. The entire plant is covered with bristly hairs. Flowers first pink then turning blue. Common bruise blooms in June through September. Grows ubiquitously on dry and rocky slopes, trash sites, along roadsides, and in steppe. It's a good mellifer.
Common Bluefoot
The herb bilberry is used for medicinal purpose, which contains the alkaloid cynoglossine and others, choline, saponins, tannins, vitamin C, carotene, tocopherol.
It has expectorant, anti-cough, anticonvulsant, styptic, soothing, wound-healing effect. It is used in folk medicine for epilepsy, whooping cough, bronchitis, laryngitis, cough, colic, inoperable cancer, alcohol tincture - for colds, as a wound-healing agent, and bruise roots - as a styptic.
Methods of application:
1. Infusion of 1 tsp. spoonfuls of bruise herb in 250 ml of boiling water - 15 ml 4 times a day for bronchitis, whooping cough, neuroses as a blood purgative.
2. 5% decoction of bruise herb - 15 ml 4 times a day before meals as No. 1 (E. Ю. Chasse).
3. 10% tincture of 40% alcohol - external for sciatica.
Externally, juice, decoction of bruise herb and steamed herb is used in the form of compresses for wounds, ulcers, skin diseases, as well as for joint pain, sprained tendons.
Bare licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra L.)
Sweet root, liquorice, ukr.: licorice gola, licorice.
Bare licorice is a perennial from the legume family with a height of 50-80 cm, with a deep root system. Leaves are unpaired, sticky and dense. The flowers are whitish-purple, moth-like. Bare licorice blooms in June through July.
Bare Licorice
Naked licorice is found in the Azov region less frequently in other areas on sandy, clay slopes. The plant is protected, a sanctuary has been created. Should be introduced into culture, but seeds germinate poorly. Sowing should be done under winter or in a greenhouse. In the Donetsk Botanical Garden breed vegetatively.
The roots are used in medicine and in more than 20 industries and agriculture. Licorice roots contain many valuable biologically active substances: saponin glycyrrhizin (23%), which is 50 times sweeter than sugar, 27 flavonoids (liquiritin, etc.).), steroids, pectins, lipids, sugars, essential oil, resins, bitters, mucilage, vitamin C and other substances. Therefore, licorice preparations have a versatile effect on the body. They were previously thought to have only expectorant, enveloping, emollient, emollient, diuretic, analgesic, juice, antibacterial and mild laxative effects.
In recent years, licorice has been found to have more versatile biological activity. The substances close in structure to the hormones of the adrenal cortex have been isolated from it, which have an effect similar to that of deoxycorticosterone - anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, anti-allergic, anti-sclerotic, antispasmodic, antibiotic, antibiotic, antitumor, biostimulant, antitumor, antidote, wound healing, as well as regulating water-salt metabolism, reducing the acidity of gastric juice and stimulating the synthesis of endogenous adrenal hormones.
Experimental data from N. И. Solomchenko and data from the Institute of Biophysics (Gd. Moscow) showed that concentrated alcohol tincture of raw licorice root and other preparations reduce capillary fragility, increase the number of leukocytes, erythrocytes and platelets in the blood and have a radioprotective effect.
Ancient medical authorities Hippocrates, Galen, Dioscorides called it "Scythian root", as early as the first century. н. э. licorice was widely used to treat the sick.
The value of licorice may be judged by this fact. When scientists analyzed 237 plants used in Oriental medicine on a computer, licorice was in first place, and the famous zhen-shen in third place.
It is used in medicine for inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, allergic rhinitis, pharyngitis, whooping cough, bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchial asthma, hyperacid gastritis, peptic ulcer disease accompanied by constipation, colitis, food and other intoxications, Addison's disease, atherosclerosis, diathesis, allergic dermatitis and eczema, toxicosis of pregnancy, menopause and inflammation of the female genital organs (trichomonad colpitis).
Б. Г. Volynsky and others indicate that the introduction of 5% solution of licorice root into the stomach increases the secretion of hydrochloric acid and total acidity. The authors also suggest licorice juice as a 2% ointment mixed with antibiotics for the treatment of eczema, lupus erythematosus, and psoriasis.
В. Petkov and other authors report that with prolonged use of licorice (especially the preparation of carbenoxolone) in some patients there was an increase in blood pressure, the appearance of edema and other complications. Н. И. Solomchenko has been using decoction and tincture of licorice root for 20 years and has not observed such side effects.
We studied the effectiveness of treatment of 50 patients with peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum with 3% decoction of licorice root, in 65% of them noted a good effect of treatment.
Physician Kunert in 1955. in patients with gastric ulcer noted a good treatment effect after daily administration of 40 ml of licorice juice for one month: ulcer scarring occurred (cit. By N. Г. Kovaleva).
H. И. Solomchenko instead of juice prepared a 50% alcohol tincture of raw root, which treated 56 patients with peptic ulcer disease (of which gastric ulcer disease in 6 patients), in 75% of them noted a good effect of treatment (clinical and radiologic remission). The majority of the 40 patients with chronic bronchitis H. И. Solomchenko noted a good expectorant effect after the appointment of 20% alcohol tincture of licorice root.
In folk medicine, in addition, licorice is used for rheumatism, arthritis, fever, dropsy, cancer, diabetes, kidney and urinary tract diseases, bladder stones, gastritis, impotence, and in Bulgaria - with difficulty urinating due to prostate adenoma. In whooping cough apply decoction of the root on milk, and with persistent cough and hoarseness chew dry or fresh licorice root.
In China, licorice is included in almost all medicines and is considered a remedy to preserve youth and beauty. Outside decoction of the root is used for mouthwash, lotions, baths - with eczema, itchy dermatoses. Licorice root powder is used as a sprinkle for diaper rash in children.
Methods of application:
1. Infusion of 2 tsp. spoonfuls of root in licorice 1.5 cups of boiling water - daily dose as an expectorant, diuretic, loosening.
2. Decoction of 15-30 g of licorice root in 0.25-0.5 liters of water - 15 ml 3- 4 times a day.
3. 2 ч. spoonfuls (12 g) of licorice root boiled for 10 minutes in 0.5 liters of water - a daily dose for peptic ulcer.
4. Licorice root powder - 0.3-1 g 3 times a day for peptic ulcer.
5. 100 g of raw or dried licorice root insist in 0.5 liters of 40% alcohol 7-14 days - 5-10 ml 3 times a day as an expectorant.
6. Concentrated tincture - 1100 g of raw licorice root, tuned thin shavings, insist 2 weeks in 2250 ml of 40% alcohol, strain, root squeezed in a hand juicer, the liquid to combine - 5-10 ml per 100 g of water 30 min before meals 2 months for peptic ulcer (N. И. Solomchenko).
7. Liquiriton 0.1 g - 1-2 tablets 3-4 times a day before meals for 4-5 weeks, after a 10-12 day break, the course of treatment is repeated for peptic ulcer disease.
8. Combination drug flacarbine - granules - 1/2 tsp. each. spoonfuls 3 times a day before meals, the course of treatment 3-4 weeks for peptic ulcer and duodenal ulcer.
9. Glycyram 0.05 g - 1-2 tablets 2-4 times a day for 30 minutes before meals for bronchial asthma, eczema and others.
10. Breast elixir - 20-40 drops 3 times a day as an expectorant.
11. Licorice root, rhizome of soapberry, anise fruit, herbs smoke and auran - 20 g each; 1 tbsp. spoon boil 20 minutes in 0.5 liters of water, 250 ml in the morning on an empty stomach in obesity.
Licorice is contraindicated in pregnancy and diarrhea..
