Circassion lomonosaurus
.Kirkazone lomonosoides is an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Kirkazone family, with a creeping rhizome. Kirkazone lomonosoides has a stem erect, simple, glabrous, slightly sinuous, 30-40 cm high. Leaves are ordinary, petiolate, ovate or rounded, entire-edged. Flowers are yellow, sitting in bunches in the axils of leaves. The fruit is a pear-shaped hanging boll with finely wrinkled seeds. Lomonosovid Kirkasson lomonosovidnyi blooms in May-June (Fig. 31).
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Lomonosovid Kirkazone is distributed in the southern regions of the European part of the USSR, in the Caucasus. Grows in flood meadows, among shrubs, in forests, ravines, along riverbanks, sometimes in gardens and vegetable gardens.
Rhizomes, leaves and fruits are used. The odor is sharp, strong, and the taste is bitter. Kirkasonium lomonosum is asthenia venomous.
Chemical composition
.The rhizomes contain the alkaloids aristolochine and magnoflorin, essential oil, aristolochic acid, tannins, bitter substances, resins, and saponins. Aristolochin, aristolochic acid, essential oil, an unstudied glycoside, saponins, organic acids, and carotene have been found in the leaves.
Action and application
.Aqueous, alcoholic and etheric extracts from leaves and rhizomes have antiestocidal and antimicrobial action. Aristolochin is low toxic, increases the strength of heart contractions, dilates peripheral blood vessels, slightly excites respiration, has diuretic and choleretic effect, reduces the tone and strength of uterine contractions. In patients in the first stage of hypertension reduces blood pressure.
In the scientific medicine of the former USSR lomonosovidnya kirkazone is not used.
Bulgarian medicine uses the root and the above-ground part of the plant. Root in the form of decoction in small doses is used as a diuretic, diaphoretic in fever and atony of the intestines (in the form of tincture). In the form of decoction as an external remedy for boils and other skin diseases in the form of rubbing, washing.
In domestic folk medicine, aqueous infusion, decoction and tincture of leaves and rhizomes are used for dropsy, pulmonary tuberculosis, cough, gout and scurvy, as well as for the treatment of wounds, ulcers and skin diseases. The powder infused with wine has an emollient effect. In folk medicine, the circaison is attributed to diuretic, diaphoretic, phlegm-thinning, and menstruation-inducing effects.
The above-ground part of lomonosovidnogo kirkazone is used by us in malaria, influenza and anemia.
Meadow clover
.Meadow clover is a perennial herbaceous plant of the legume family, up to 20-50 cm tall. The main stem is shortened, and flowering stems with sessile triple leaves emerge from the axils of the root long-petiolate leaves. Leaflets of lower leaves are ovate, finely toothed, upper leaves oblong, almost entire-edged. The bracts are conjoined at the base. Flowers irregular, pink or red in head-like inflorescences; at the base of the latter are two convergent leaves. The fruit is a bean, usually single-seeded, ovoid. Meadow clover blooms from May to September. Nektaronos (Fig. 32).
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Meadow clover is distributed in the southeastern and southwestern zone of the former USSR.
Meadow clover grows in moist fields, meadows and forests.
Inflorescences are used - the heads together with the apical leaves, collected during flowering. There is no odor, the taste is sweet, astringent.
Chemical composition
.Glycosides trifolin and isotrifolin, essential oil, ascorbic acid, carotene, B vitamins, alkaloids, resinous substances, fatty oil, isoflavones, bioquinone A are found in the flowers. In the leaves.- ascorbic acid (up to 26.3 mg%), pigments. The herb contains tyrosine, coumarinic and salicylic acids, sitosterols, vitamins E, C, carotene (C. Д. Zolotnitskaya, 1958).
The effects and uses of clover
In the scientific medicine of the former USSR, the use of clover has not been recorded.
In domestic folk medicine, the use of clover, namely its flowers in the form of decoction used as an expectorant, diuretic and antiseptic, in anemia, nutritional deficiency, lung disease, malignant tumors and externally for burns and boils, in the form of poultices. In bronchial asthma in the form of decoction.
Abu Ali Ibn-Sina used the juice of fresh herb as a wound-healing agent for scrofula, decoction of the herb as a diuretic for kidney disease. In Central Asia, the use of clover in decoction is recommended as an astringent for weak digestion, malaria, colds. An antifungal substance trifolizin has been isolated from the roots.
The dried, crushed flower heads are eaten and used to season soups. Young stems and leaves in fresh form are consumed as a salad, in boiled - as spinach.
Red clover is harvested from spring to fall, harvested in dried, sour and pickled form.
The use of clover (oblique tops collected during flowering) is recommended by phytotherapists in atherosclerosis with normal blood pressure, accompanied by headaches and tinnitus. The method of preparation is as follows: 40 g of the plant insist in 500 ml of 40 ° alcohol for 10 days, strain and take 20 ml before dinner or before bedtime.
The course of treatment is 3 months with a break of 10 days. It can be repeated after 6 months..
