Aire is distributed almost throughout the European part of the USSR, in the Caucasus, Siberia, and Central Asia. It grows along the banks of rivers, streams, water basins with muddy soil and in wetlands. Sometimes forms thickets.
Rhizomes (iris root) are used, dug in the fall or early winter when the water level is lowered. The smell is aromatic and the taste is spicy and bitter.
Chemical composition
.The medicinal properties of ayre are due to the fact that it contains a large percentage of useful substances. The rhizome contains essential oil (up to 4.8%) of complex composition: eugenol (up to 6%), azorine aldehyde (odor carrier), tricyclic alcohol, alkaloid calamine, calamenol, palmitic acid and others. In addition to essential oil, the rhizome contains bitter glycoside akorin, ascorbic acid up to 150 mg, tannins, gum, starch. Essential oil, tannins are found in the leaves.
The therapeutic properties of the aira allow you to use this plant in medicine.
The effects and medicinal uses of ayrene
The use of ayre in medicine is quite wide. Acorin increases excitability to gustatory irritation and enhances reflex secretion of gastric juice. Decoction of rhizome increases the secretion of hydrochloric acid, especially in patients with decreased secretion of gastric contents.
An extract from the plant has been found to cause analgesia and lower blood pressure. In the experiment, an aqueous preparation of the plant has a negative inotropic effect on the isolated frog heart. The alcoholic extract shows fungistatic activity; in addition, it has a sedative effect. The medicinal use of ayre is more commonly used as an aromatic bitter to increase appetite and improve digestion, and as a tonic when the central nervous system is depressed. Recently, the use of ayrah in medicine has been used to treat peptic ulcer disease. Aira rhizome powder is part of the drug "Vicalin" for the treatment of peptic ulcer disease of the stomach and duodenum.
In Tibetan medicine, the rhizome is used as a tonic and anthelmintic, and is included in plasters for the treatment of certain bone lesions. The medicinal properties of aira in Chinese medicine are also used as a tonic, energizing, antidiarrheal agent and for flatulence; it is also prescribed for rheumatism. The tincture, according to Chinese doctors, improves eyesight and hearing. Rhizome together with leaves is used as an antipyretic, externally in the form of hot baths. The use of aira in medicine is widely practiced in Poland as an expectorant, anti-inflammatory agent; for stomach diseases, coughing fits. Externally for hair loss.
The medicinal properties of the aira made its rhizome an official raw material in the USSR and several other countries of the world (Klan, 1948).
The use of ayre in medicine in Bulgaria, namely its rhizome, as one of the best stomachic, bitter remedies, helps to excite the appetite, improve digestion. St. aire has an anesthetic effect on mucous membranes. Rhizome is recommended to take with achilia of the stomach, pain in the gastrointestinal tract, with increased secretion, as well as diarrhea: 3-4 g of crushed rhizome brew 250 ml of boiling water, let cool, take half an hour before eating warm. The daily dose is 500 ml.
In Bulgarian folk medicine rhizome is used for anemia, gallbladder disease, kidney disease, menstrual disorders. The essential oil is used for hysteria, stomach cramps, etc.
In France, the root of ayre is less used than in the GDR, FRG and Switzerland, where it is widely used as an excitant, gastrointestinal tonic, anti-inflammatory and aromatic. St. aire is used in the form of infusion, decoction (8-10 g to 1 liter of water. Take 150 g before meals).
St. John's wort can be infused in wine: 8 g per 1 liter of wine and used as an antiemetic 20 g before the gag reflex.
The medicinal properties of aira in Russian folk medicine were used to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, as an analgesic, expectorant, disinfectant, as well as for scurvy (mouthwash with alcoholic tincture), gout, scrofula, rickets and others. In heartburn, rhizome is used in the form of powder orally. Externally, it is sprinkled on wounds and festering ulcers. In various female diseases is used in the form of sitting baths. In deep antiquity, the rhizome was chewed in cholera epidemics, typhus and influenza. In alveolar pyorrhea it is recommended to chew the powder or gargle with decoction (powder 0,2-0,3 g 3 times a day).
Tincture is prepared as follows: 20 g rhizome and 100 g of alcohol insist 8 days in a warm place. Take 20 drops 3 times a day before meals.
We use the root of the airah as an aromatic, analgesic, tonic of the central nervous system and increasing the secretion of gastric contents. Apply in gastritis with low acidity in addition to the collection number 1. It is also included in collection #8 for the treatment of trichomonad colpitis.
Rhizome as a spice is used in liquor production, in the fish industry: in cooking it is used instead of bay leaf. The essential oil is used in the preparation of cosmetic products.
We have observed the effect of an infusion of aira root mixed with oak bark in equal parts in alveolar pyorrhea and bad breath.
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