Section 5

Wood strawberry is a well-known perennial herbaceous plant from the family of Rosaceae, 5-20 cm high. Useful properties of strawberry tannins and flavonoids determine the use of leaves and berries for diarrhea, inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, night sweats; externally for hemorrhoids, wet wounds, in the form of compresses (D. Yordanov, 1963). Infusion of strawberry leaves in the experiment with intravenous injection slightly reduces blood pressure, slows the rhythm and increases the amplitude of heart contractions.Goldenseal umbrella (the name of the plant from the ancient Greek. "centaur" - Centaur Chiron, according to legend, - a connoisseur of herbs, who treated wounds with the juice of this herb) - a two-year or annual herbaceous plant of the gentian family with a root rosette of obovate leaves. Preparations of goldenseal have an appetite stimulating effect, increase intestinal peristalsis. Experimentally established that genzianin has anthelmintic properties. The use of goldenseal is recommended as a bitter to improve digestion.

Zorya medicinalis (lovage) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the umbrella family. The root is massive, spindle-shaped, yellow-brown outside, white inside. When cut fresh, it yields a yellowish resinous juice. The root, seeds and the above-ground part are used. The smell of medicinal zorya has a specific, pungent, reminiscent of celery, the taste is sharp, brackish-bitter.In domestic folk medicine, medicinal zorya is widely used for kidney disease, dropsy, hysteria, nervous diseases, palpitations, bronchitis, difficult childbirth, female diseases, stomach diseases, as an anthelmintic and diaphoretic. Properties of lobistock are able to fight infectious diseases.Used root zori in heart disease, kidney disease, dropsy, stomach diseases, as an expectorant for lung diseases, flatulence, fever, externally to strengthen the hair: grated leaves applied to the head with headache, etc. Used in the form of tea, decoction, tincture and powder.

Medicinal hyssop is a perennial herbaceous plant or semi-shrub from the spongy family. It is used for its flowering trimmed shoots, collected at the beginning of flowering. Dried hyssop medicinal has a sharp odor, taste - bitter.Appointed hyssop treatment for poor digestion in the form of decoction, as well as rheumatism, chest pain, bronchial asthma, catarrh of the upper respiratory tract. Externally - for washing the eyes and gargling the throat. Decoction of herbs together with wine berries are boiled and used by the teaspoon for cough, chest pain. In Bulgarian folk medicine decoction of the herb is used for chronic dyspepsia, anemia, as an anthelmintic, bronchitis. Externally as a compress for conjunctivitis.

Calendula medicinalis (marigolds) is an annual herbaceous herbaceous plant from the family of complex flowers, up to 40-60 cm in height. The inflorescence baskets and the herb without the lower parts of the stem, collected during flowering, are used. The properties of calendula include various medicinal ingredients that help cure many ailments. The inflorescences contain essential oil, bitter substances, phytoncides, saponins, mucilages, large amounts of carotene and other carotenoids, lycopene, flavonoids, organic acids, and traces of alkaloids. According to Bulgarian scientists, the flower baskets of calendula contain enzymes - organic substances that take a specific part in chemical reactions occurring in the body (organic catalysts).Treatment with calendula, namely its inflorescences brings anti-inflammatory and disinfectant effect. Experimental studies have established that calendula preparations have a calming effect on the central nervous system, reduce reflex excitability, cause animals with intravenous administration of a decrease in blood pressure, increased heart activity.

Common Kalina is a branching shrub of the honeysuckle family, up to 4 m high. Leaves are suprotic, three to five-lobed, slightly wrinkled, coarsely toothed. Flowers are white five-petaled, collected in shield-shaped semi-umbrellas. The fruit is an oval bright-red, bitter berry with one flat, smooth seed. Nectaronos.Treatment with calamus is recommended for the recovery of the whole body. Contained in the bark viburnin increases the tone of the uterus and has some vasoconstrictive action, analgesic, antiseptic and hemostatic properties. Kalina fruit increases heart contractions and increase diuresis.Used treatment with Kalina (plant bark) in the form of alcoholic extract and decoction to stop uterine bleeding, especially in menopause, pregnancy and menstrual disorders. Decoction - externally for nosebleeds.

Cassia acuminata (senna acuminata) is a semi-shrub of the legume family, up to 1 m high. Leaves are paired, alternate, with 4-5 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets of Cassia acuminata are lanceolate, pointed, entire-edged, acuminate at the top, slightly unequal at the base. Flowers are yellow, calyx of five sepals. Inflorescences are axillary brushes. Fruits are broad beans, slightly curved, flattened. Cassia acuminata blooms from the end of June to fall.Leaves of paired leaflets (Alexandrian leaf) are used, less often fruits (Alexandrian pods). The odor of cassia acute leaflets is faint; the taste of 10% of the infusion is bitter.The main active ingredient is anthraglycosides. Due to this ingredient, the properties of cassia have a laxative effect. Anthraglycosides under the influence of digestive enzymes and bacterial processes are broken down into sugars and aglucones, the latter slightly irritate the receptors of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, not increasing secretion, but increasing motor activity. Their action affects mainly the large intestine. In therapeutic doses of cassia in prolonged use does not have a toxic effect on the body, acts mildly and painlessly.

Kirkazone lomonosovii is an herbaceous perennial plant of the Kirkazone family, with a creeping rhizome. Kirkazone lomonosovidny has a stem erect, simple, bare, slightly twisted, 30-40 cm high. Aqueous, alcoholic and ether extracts from the leaves and rhizomes have antiestocidal and antimicrobial action. Aristolochin low toxicity, increases the strength of heart contractions, dilates peripheral blood vessels, slightly excites respiration, has a diuretic and choleretic effect, reduces the tone and strength of uterine contractions. In patients in the first stage of hypertension reduces blood pressure.Meadow clover - a perennial herbaceous plant from the legume family, up to 20-50 cm high. The main stem is shortened, from the axils of the root long-petioled leaves come flowering stems with sessile triple leaves. 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.

Four-petaled cranberry is a well-known evergreen, stalked, small semi-shrub of the cranberry family, up to 80 cm long, with small, lanceolate, shiny, short-petiolate leaves, green above and silvery below. Flowers are dark pink. Fruit - spherical dark-red juicy glossy spherical berry.In domestic folk medicine cranberry morses and syrup are used in avitaminosis and various inflammatory diseases accompanied by high fever, help reduce fever, quench thirst. Cranberries with honey are also used for colds, rheumatism, sore throat.Coriander seed (kishnets) - annual herbaceous plant from the umbrella family, height 30-70 cm. The stem is round, hollow, bare, branched at the top. Leaves are regular. Root leaves are long-petioled, three-divided; lower stem leaves are short-petioled; upper leaves are sessile, pinnately divided. The essential oil of coriander seed has choleretic, analgesic, antiseptic, antihemorrhoidal, expectorant and appetite-enhancing properties. The use of coriander increases granulation and secretion of glands of the digestive tract.

Scepterocarpus is a biennial herbaceous plant of the cinnamon family, up to 1.5 m high. It is distributed in the European part of the USSR, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. It grows in open places, mainly on sandy soil, on stony places, forest edges, pine forests, near roads and housing. The corollas collected at the beginning of blossoming are used. The smell of cowpea scepterovidny has aromatic, honey, the taste is sweet.Application of cowpea (flowers) in the form of infusion is used as an expectorant, emollient and enveloping agent for coughs, upper respiratory tract diseases.Flowering, oblique tops of cowpea collected in the early flowering period, we use as an analgesic, anti-spastic agent for hypertension, atherosclerosis and inflammation of respiratory organs.

Stony bark is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Rosaceae with erect, fruit-bearing stem, 15-30 cm high, with long creeping shoots. It is distributed in the European part of the former USSR, except for the southern regions, as well as in Siberia and the Caucasus. It grows in forests and between shrubs.In folk medicine, boneset boneset is used as a remedy for scurvy and hemorrhoids, decoction of branches and berries are used for blenorrhea. Nettle bilious - a perennial herbaceous plant from the nettle family, up to 1.5 m high. Stem tupochetyrehgranny, straight, like the leaves, covered with stinging hairs, leaves are subdivided, petiolate, heart-shaped, large-oblong along the edge. A decoction of nettle lowers blood sugar. Infusion and liquid extract of nettle dicot increase blood clotting, increase the percentage of hemoglobin and the number of red blood cells, have vasoconstrictive and pronounced tonic smooth muscle uterus action.