Lingonberries
.Lingonberry is a perennial evergreen semi-shrub in the lingonberry family, 10-30 cm tall, with a creeping rhizome and erect branching stems. Leaves are ordinary, small, leathery, elliptic, shiny, somewhat wrapped along the margin, with blackish point glands underneath. Flowers are white bell-shaped, with a pink tinge, collected in drooping brushes. The berries are bright red. It's a good mellifer. Lingonberry blooms in May-June, berries ripen in late August (Fig. 10).
Lingonberries are distributed in the European part of the USSR, the Urals, the Far East, Siberia, and the Caucasus. Lingonberries grow in sparse coniferous and deciduous forests, among shrubs, sometimes along the edges of peat bogs.
Cranberry leaves are used, collected in early spring, after the melting of snow, berries are collected in August - September. Dried leaves have no odor, their taste is bitter, astringent.
Chemical composition
.The use of cowberries in medicine is due to the useful substances contained in it. The leaves contain: glycoside arbutin (up to 9%), cinnamic, tartaric, ursolic, gallic and ellagic acids, hydroquinone derivatives (5-7%), flavonol (0.5-0.6%), ericinol, ascorbic acid, tannins.
Ascorbic acid (8-17 mg%), malic, citric, benzoic, oxalic, acetic and other acids; sugars, tannins, glycosides, arbutin and vaccinin, traces of carotene are found in berries. The glycoside arbutin glycoside is broken down in the body into sugar and hydroquinone, which has bactericidal properties.
The effects and uses of chasteberry
The use of chasteberry is recommended as an infusion. This leaf medicine has diuretic and astringent properties. The ripe berries have anti-rotting and vitamin properties, the juice has sedative properties.
The use of cowberries in the form of infusion is prescribed as a diuretic for kidney stone disease, rheumatism, gout and as an astringent gastric remedy. The leaves are part of diuretic collections and can replace bearberry, but there is less arbutin and tannins in lingonberries. Lingonberry juice is used in mild forms of hypertension, putrid diarrhea and as an appetite-increasing remedy.
The use of cowberry in the GDR (decoction and infusion of leaves) is recommended mainly for bladder diseases. Also doctors noted that the glycoside arbutin glycoside excretes hydroquinone in alkaline urine, in acidic urine does not show such an effect. In addition, both decoction and tincture are used for diarrhea.
In Austria, the leaves and fruits are used for bladder diseases and for avitaminosis A and C. Austrian researchers also note that the glycoside arbutin, breaking down in the body, has a disinfectant effect. Used in the form of infusion: 5 g of leaves poured 250 g of cold water and insist for 10 hours, then strain.
The use of lingonberries in Poland has also found its medical niche. The leaves are used as an anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, diuretic and vitamin remedy.
In domestic folk medicine, cowberry leaves are widely used in kidney stone disease, rheumatism, gout, diarrhea, gastritis with low acidity, urinary incontinence in children. Fresh and dried berries, cooked with sugar and soaked - a good anti-diarrheal, anti-tsingotic, diuretic, is also used to treat rheumatism and gout.
We use chasteberry leaves and fruits as diuretic, anti-inflammatory remedy for kidney diseases, renal pelvis, bladder and kidney stone disease. Due to their benzoic acid content, berries can be stored for a long time, they can be soaked, pickled without adding sugar. Lingonberry leaves are used to make "lingonberry tea". The use of cowberries is used not only in medicine. Lingonberry jam and juice can be a good garnish for meat dishes and roast game.
Budra ivy
.Boudra ivy is a perennial herbaceous plant from the sponge family. The stem is recumbent, branched, 15-60 cm long, with ascending flower-bearing branches. Leaves are petiolate, kidney-shaped or heart-shaped. Flowers are blue or light purple, mostly 6 in a whorl. Budra Ivy blooms in May-June. Nektaronos (Fig. 11).
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Ivy-leaved buddleia is distributed in the European part of the USSR. Grows in fields, between shrubs, in lowlands.
The above-ground part is used during the flowering period. The flavor of the dried plant is bitter, burning.
Chemical composition and properties of buddleia
The properties of buddleia are known to many pharmacologists and phytotherapists. Essential oil (0.03- 0.06%) is found in the herb, which contains aldehydes, tannins, bitter substances, choline, saponins, and resin. 78.9 mg% ascorbic acid was found in the leaves. However, the properties of buddleia are poorly understood.
Action and application
.It was not used in the USSR in scientific medicine. The properties of buddleia are official in German and French medicine (Norré, 1958).
In Bulgaria the properties of buddleia are used for respiratory diseases - inflammation of the lungs, bronchitis and others.As an appetite enhancer, in the treatment of kidney disease, liver disease and gallbladder disease. In the form of decoction: 3 g of finely chopped herb to 250 ml of boiling water - a daily dose. Externally in the form of compresses for boils and purulent wounds. In Bulgarian folk medicine - for pain in the stomach and intestines, gout, malaria, as a mild remedy for respiratory diseases, as a diuretic and analgesic for kidney stone disease and as a remedy that promotes the separation of sand.
In domestic folk medicine infusion of the herb is used as an appetite-increasing, digestive, stimulating the general metabolism, anti-inflammatory, styptic and expectorant. The properties of buddleia are used in diseases of the respiratory organs, gastrointestinal tract, scurvy, as well as kidney, bladder and skin diseases.
In Belarus take in the form of decoction for throat diseases, goiter, hearing loss, catarrh of the upper respiratory tract. Externally in the form of a compress of steamed herb on the neck area.
The plant is poisonous. It is prescribed only under the supervision of a physician.
We use the above-ground part of buddleia ivy as a diuretic, analgesic and promoting the separation of sand in kidney stone disease..
