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Sand immortelle is distributed in the steppes of the middle and southern part of the European part of the USSR, in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Western Siberia. Grows sand immortelle on sandy soils, less often on open stony places, is found in dry pine forests.
The flower baskets are used, cut from the rest of the stem no longer than 1-2 cm, collected at the beginning of inflorescence blossoming. Sandy immortelle has a faint, fragrant odor and the taste is bitter-spicy.
Chemical composition and properties of immortelle
The properties of immortelle are known to many phytotherapists and are widely used in folk and traditional medicine. Flowers contain flavonoids in the form of glycosides and free aglycones, vitamin C, carotene, essential oil, organic acids, sterols, phenolic dyes, bitter and tannins, resins, fatty oils.
Properties of immortelle include tannins, vitamin K, and essential oil.
Effects and treatment with immortelle
Sand immortelle has the property to increase bile secretion, liquefy bile, reduces the concentration of bile acids and bilirubin content in bile, it changes the ratio of cholesterol/bile acids to increase cholates, increases the tone of the gallbladder, stimulates the secretory function of the stomach and pancreas, increases diuresis. Treatment with immortelle is quite widely used due to the fact that it is low-toxic and has cumulative properties.
Treatment with immortelle is often recommended in the form of an infusion. Clinical testing of infusion and aqueous extract of immortelle flowers, made by the Central Research Institute of Pharmacy, revealed that they have choleretic effect, change the chemical composition of bile, regulate the activity of the gastrointestinal tract and increase diuresis.
Healing properties of immortelle (inflorescence) in modern medicine are used in cholecystitis, hepatitis, cholangitis, as a choleretic. Patients have decreased nausea, a feeling of pain in the liver region, flatulence, vomiting stops, subicteric coloration of the sclerae and skin disappears, the size of the liver decreases.
Immortelle is used in the form of infusion, decoction, extract, flamin is included in choleretic collections. Flamin, an amorphous powder of yellow color and bitter taste, also alters the composition of bile and regulates the gastrointestinal tract. Immortelle treatment is recommended for the treatment of hepatocholecystitis, cholecystitis and cholangitis.
The antibiotic "arenarin" was obtained from the plant.
Inflorescences are an official medicinal raw material in the USSR, included in the State Pharmacopoeia of the USSR (1968).
Treatment with immortelle (flower baskets) in Bulgaria is recommended for cholecystitis, gallstones, inflammation of the kidneys and bladder with dysuria. Used in the form of infusion: 3-5 g of crushed flowers and 500 ml of cold water insist for 8 hours - this is the daily dose.
In the GDR used immortelle flowers in the form of decoction, infusion, extract for liver and bladder diseases, to increase appetite and stomach upset (bitterness) (Dorfler, Roselt, 1964).
In Poland, the healing properties of immortelle are also well known.
Sandy immortelle, namely its flowers - an ancient remedy of folk medicine, used for diseases of the liver, gastrointestinal tract and kidneys. Their choleretic action was established by experimental studies carried out by M. К. Petrova et al. in the laboratory of I. П. Pavlova. Studies have confirmed their choleretic action; they have also been found to increase gastric and pancreatic secretion.
Flower baskets immortelle sandy used by us as a regulating bile formation and biliary secretion, stimulating the secretory function of the stomach and pancreas, increasing diuresis and sedative. It is used in hypertension, atherosclerosis and diseases of the liver and biliary tract..
