Section 2

By fall, the straight lupus accumulates medicinal substances in its thick woody rhizomes, which resemble tubers. At the same time, in the fall or early spring rhizomes and harvested. But collect them carefully and not all in a row, otherwise the restoration of thickets will drag on for 7-8 years. The yield of rhizomes of Lomatium rectum varies greatly: in terms of dry mass it can be 3.5 and 500 g/m2. The dried rhizome is brown on the outside and dark red on the break, with a pleasant odor and a very tart taste.

The medicinal raw material of juniper cones and berries, and needles and wood are used in other directions. The fleshy cones of juniper contain essential oil, glucose, resin, wax, glycosides, organic acids (formic and acetic); in the bark - tannins; in the needles and cones - vitamin C (in the fruit - up to 0.056 %, and in the needles - up to 0.250 %). Essential oil of juniper has a strong local irritant effect. Ingestion of large doses of juniper cause first excitation of the nervous system, and then - inhibition. Dry distillation gives oil Oleum cadinum, used as a distraction agent. Juniper fruit has a pronounced diuretic and anti-inflammatory effect.

Field mint also has a calming effect on the central nervous system. Menthol, being a vasodilator, is included in drops for treating runny nose and in Validol. Field mint has a wound-healing and anti-inflammatory effect, so it is used for gargling the throat in sore throats. Field mint - an indispensable component of various medicinal teas: vetrogonogo, choleretic, diaphoretic. Chinese medicine recognized field mint as an eye herb and recommended for eye wash, and Russian peasants bathed in a mint decoction of children with scrofula and rickets.

The alder tree is also known as a medicinal plant (we are talking about two species at once, since their medicinal properties and actions on the body are similar, although not literally, but similar). Medicinal raw materials of alder are almost all parts: leaves, bark, inflorescences, roots. But the main raw material is "alder cones". These are woody copepods, collected in winter. Their yield, for example, in Belarus is from 10 to 500 kg / ha. A detailed study of the cones revealed flavonoids, tannins, coumarins, higher fatty acids, phenolcarboxylic acids; in the bark - essential oil, tannins and coloring substances, vitamin PP, triterpenoids; in the leaves - protein, fat, vitamin C, carotene, flavonoids, resins, tannins and bitter substances. Of course, the chemical composition of the two species of alder is somewhat different, but there is a lot in common.

Dewberry leaves contain antibiotic plumbagin, peptinizing enzyme drozeron, mineral salts, organic acids, coloring and tannins, anthocyanin pigment, vitamin C. Extracts from this herb are the basis of preparations of droserin and drosan, which are used to treat whooping cough, laryngitis, tracheobronchitis and bronchial asthma. The antispasmodic and antibacterial action of this drug explains its soothing effect in coughs. Used dewberry round-leaved and in the treatment of metabolic diseases, and even in homeopathy (with whooping cough, laryngitis, tuberculosis). Studies have shown that diaphoretic fungi and bacteria suppresses plumbagin, and tuberculosis bacteria, streptococci - naphthaquinone. It was found out that in small doses plumbagin excites, and in large doses - causes convulsions and even paralysis.

Swamp cinquefoil helps with rheumatism, some gastrointestinal and colds, as an antipyretic. And alcohol extracts of roots and rhizomes of cinquefoil help relieve painful conditions in inflammatory processes in the joints and salt deposition. Its effect is slow, so it requires prolonged treatment. Many note that relief comes, although not immediately. But whether it dissolves the salts in the body, it is unknown. Fresh herb cinquefoil is used externally; in this case, it acts as a wound-healing and anti-inflammatory agent. Decoction, made from a mixture of flowers, leaves, stems and rhizomes of cinquefoil, used for mouthwash for loosening gums and toothache, and crushed and brewed herb cinquefoil - as a compress for bruising

The rhizome, which is short and densely surrounded by roots, is considered to be the medicinal raw material of bluebells. But all other parts of the plant are also medicinal. It is very difficult to collect the raw material of bluebells in natural thickets, so it has long been introduced into culture. Especially significant are its plantations in Belarus. Collect raw material blue bluestem during the formation of flower-bearing stems.In the underground parts of blue bluestem found resins, organic acids, saponins (up to 30%). There are also fatty and essential oils, alkaloids, glycosides, tannins. Infusion, decoction and extract of the roots of blueberry used as an expectorant for bronchitis, catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, pulmonary tuberculosis.

The medicinal merits of sphagnum mosses are determined by their antiseptic properties and high hygroscopicity, which exceeds the absorption capacity of absorbent cotton several times. The antiseptic is probably the phenol-like substance sphagnol. In sphagnum mosses there is a lot of fiber, there are protein substances, mineral salts. Experimental studies have shown an indisputable bactericidal effect of extracts from sphagnum mosses on some pathogenic microbes (streptococci, staphylococci) and the microflora of purulent wounds.For at least 1000 years people have been familiar with sphagnum mosses: This began about 2000 years ago and continues to the present time. The role of sphagnum mosses in this process has been considerable, although not absolute. The living conditions for sphagnum mosses became even more suitable: there were more or less moistened places nearby.

So what is contained in the herb of succession three-divided? It has at least 10 flavonoids, coumarins, mucilages, bitters, tannins, vitamin C (up to 0.07%), carotene (up to 0.05%), a little essential oil. High bactericidal activity of succession tridentate is determined by polyphenols, which are part of the group of tannins, and manganese. It is known that manganese ions contribute to blood coagulation, affect the activity of the glands of internal secretion, are related to the processes of hematopoiesis. The main purpose of succession triradely - to treat scrofula or exudative diathesis. This was known for a long time. "The succession is used to treat scrofula not only ordinary people, but it is resorted to by many of the upper class, combining it often for greater effect with the herbs ivan-da-marya, mother and stepmother, burdock roots and sarsaparelnye ..." - as it is written in the "Self-teaching book of the rural healer" of 1866.

Belozor marsh belozor is not only beautiful, but has always been loved and popular as a medicinal plant. The roots of Belozor marsh bilozor contain alkaloids, the above-ground part contains tannins, bitter substances, alkaloids, saponins. Medicinal raw material of Belozor marsh is the entire plant, and it is collected during flowering. Bilozor marsh is known even in Tibetan medicine. Its rhizomes were used to treat cardiovascular, gastrointestinal diseases and as an antipyretic. And in Russian folk medicine Belozor swampy was used to treat not only people (as a reliever of heart palpitations and diuretic), but also animals. Already in the old Russian herbalists wrote about bilozor bog: "In pharmacies is not used, but the taste is bitter and the power of compressive and dilating.