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Bouquila medicinalis is distributed in the European part of the USSR, the Caucasus and the Urals. Grows in dry meadows, upland areas, between shrubs and in forests.
The herb with inflorescences collected at the beginning of flowering is used.
Chemical composition and properties of beechberry
The properties of Bouquila are used in medicine with great caution. Bitter and tannins, stachydrin, betocinicin, choline (Norre, 1958), and alkaloids have been found in the herb of Bouquila. Bouquila medicinalis is chemically poorly understood.
The effects and treatment of buccinia
In the USSR in scientific medicine, the medicinal Bouquiza medicinalis was not used.
In France, the properties of Bouquila are known and used in treatment. The herb Bouquila is the official raw material (Klan, 1948).
In Bulgaria in folk medicine, treatment with buquitsa is used for gastrointestinal diseases, hyperacidity, diarrhea, bronchitis, asthma, whooping cough, inflammation of the kidneys and bladder, as a strengthening agent for nervous exhaustion, dizziness, headaches, epilepsy, rheumatism, gout, jaundice, neoplasms, etc. It is used in the form of infusion: 5 -6 g of crushed leaves and roots or only roots insist on 500 ml of boiling water - a daily dose.
In the GDR used treatment with Buquitsa for irritability and fatigue, gout, heartburn, as a mucus-dissolving agent for lung diseases, bronchial asthma, in the form of tea with sugar, as a contributing to the separation of sputum and cough suppressant. With dropsy and jaundice, the juice of buvitsa, mixed with honey water, it is recommended to take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day. Bouquetia medicinalis is also used in the form of an extract for rubbing (F. A. Bassler, 1957).
In domestic folk medicine, the properties of buquitsa were used for various ailments. Treatment Bukvitsa recommended as a decoction of the herb in catarrh of the respiratory tract, sciatica, liver disease, stomach, as a blood pressure lowering, calming, metabolism-boosting remedy. Decoction of roots is drunk in nervous diseases. The rhizome was used as a laxative and vomiting agent. А. В. Suvorov in "The Science of Victory" recommended: "...to a strong stomach buvitsa in warm water or the root of horse sorrel." The leaves are replacing tea in some places.
Above-ground part of Bouquitsa we use as a hypotensive, reducing the excitability of the central nervous system, improving metabolism, with hypertension, atherosclerosis and kidney disease.
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