Betulae folium

Used parts: leaves, bark, sap.

Pharmacy name: birch - Betulae folium (formerly: Folia Betulae), birch tar - Betulae pix (formerly: Fix Betulina), birch juice - Betulae liquor (formerly: Liquor Betulae).

Botanical description. For a description of birches (their birthplace - Europe), I saved, giving here only the differences between them. Beryoza droop, or papillose, the major birch fluffy and tend to prefer dry places. Its branches hang downwards and at a young age littered with papillose glandule forming resin. The leaves also larger. A downy birch, on the contrary, the young twigs pubescence, and it grows in damp woods and swamps. In both types of medicine used.

Collecting and harvesting. Young leaves are collected in May-June, and dried in the open air. Birch juice extract, when he rises up, in early spring, cut the bark and collecting the juice flowing into a collection tin. Another method is to proburavlivanii hole in the trunk of a depth of 1 to 5 cm, which once inserted tube or make grooves, and the juice flowing by him in limbo compilations. From each hole juice flowing approximately 10 days, with one day natekaet from 1 to 5 liters, depending on the weather and temperature. Degot produced by the so-called dry distillation of the bark of the tree. Birch bark is a vital raw material for tar, remove it from the old trunks and boughs, and then dried.

The active substances. As active substances include flavonoids in the leaves, they complement many other substances (essential oil, bitter, tannin, saponins, vitamin C, etc.). Birch sap contains invertny sugar, organic acids, proteins and growth substances. Birch bark is rich betulin (birch kamforoy) contains fitosterin, tannin, bitter, volatile oil, resin and other organic matter. In the tar found phenols (guayakol, cresol, etc.).

Curative effect and application. Birch leaf tea - the best tool for removing water from the body. It does not irritate the kidneys, but also enhances formation of urine. Therefore, it is used for rinsing the urinary tract, with bacterial inflammatory diseases associated with spastic phenomena, and generally prescribed in the kidney as professionals - doctors, urologists, and general practitioners. NHS Germany recommends birch leaves to enhance the provision of urine with urolithiasis and other diseases, which have a water retention in the body (edema). Usually this happens when heart disease and kidney failure. Has a large number of tea of birch leaves selection of salts (especially mochekisloy salt) - in this respect different opinions among researchers. However, the view prevails that the treatment of birch leaf tea reduces the levels of uric acid in the body.

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Birch tea leaves: 2 teaspoons of riding birch leaves pour 1 / 4 L boiling water and insist 10 minutes. Need to drink the tea warm. The correct dose - three cups a day. After the disappearance of edema reception of tea, you can stop.

In addition, the leaves of birch are used in many metabolic disorders, the prevention of spring-autumn rates against rheumatism and gout. From the birch tar prepare ointments and friction, which, however, used mainly in veterinary medicine. They help with the deprived and other skin diseases. It is very rare oil used for rheumatism. Birch sap is known as a lotion for hair. It is believed that it prevents hair loss and the formation of dandruff. (In Russian scientific and traditional medicine have the greatest use of birch buds. They are trained medication sudorific, gastric and diuretic actions. - Notes. Ed.)

The use of traditional medicine. In Germanic and Slavic folk beliefs birch has a special role. This is now resemble birch twigs to Trinity Day. It is clear that traditional medicine is not only widely used birch, but also to exaggerate its importance. Therefore, its recommendations, we must treat with some caution: for example, the birch sap is used in gastric colic, oil - from abscesses, from cracking and cornification of skin (ointment), and tea from leaves and bark recommend when the sugar disease. Board take note of a spring salad of young birch leaves. Along with the dandelion, zheruhoy and other plants, it makes the menu a healthy diversity.

Adverse effects. If overdose of tea from leaves, no side effects were not found. However, ingestion of birch undiluted juice is not recommended when using tar as possible skin irritation.

Parnassiae palustris herba

Parnassiae palustris herba

Popular names: odnolist, student rosette, marsh serdtselist, liver white flower.

Used parts: the elevated portion of blossoming plants.

Pharmacy name: grass belozora swamp - Parnassiae palustris herba (formerly: Herba Parnassiae palustris).

Botanical description. From prikornevoy sockets tselnokraynih cordate leaves with a long stem grows ribbed pryamostoyachy stalk, which bears only steblerbemlyuschy list. Its top is adorned pure white single flowers. On the petals catch the eye quite transparent veins. Remarkably, and the inside of a flower: 5 white fimbriated appendages - modified tychinok. Blossoms from July to August. Appears in the swampy meadows, in the wet ditch and swamp.

Collecting and harvesting. Collects the grass at the time of flowering. It is easy and fast to dry in air. The active substances are still insufficiently studied. Along with tanning must be other active substances, which can not be explained by some of the actions of this plant.

Curative effect and application. Undoubtedly, this healing plant studied is very small. In this regard, great care is needed in dealing with them. Therefore vosprimite set out here as information, rather than as a guide to the application. With belozora, apparently, can alleviate palpitations, nervous anxiety, the state of excitation and fears. Sometimes, shall read and hear that in the treatment of belozorom less severe epileptic seizures occur. This information, however, insufficient to purposefully apply belozor marsh, but they are quite sufficient to turn his attention.

The use of traditional medicine. Belozoru have popularly known as "white liver flower" because it is what they are talking about more than the old herbalist, opens closed liver. So, this healing plant used against various diseases of liver, bile ducts and disruption of the digestive tract. However, especially large belozor popularity in folk medicine is not.

Adverse effects. Because of the plant known to have very little need for caution.

Belladonnae folium

Belladonnae folium

Fatal poisonous!

Paslenovye - Solanaceae.

Popular names: mad cherry, wild berry, cherry sleeping, devil fruit, drunk bush.

Used parts: leaves, sometimes all the grass roots.

Pharmacy name: belladonna leaves - Belladonnae folium (formerly: Folia Belladonnae), the root of belladonna - Belladonae radix (formerly: Radix Belladonnae).

Botanical description. Perennial with a very long main root from which grow annually many direct, bluntly GRAND heavily branching shoots, reaching 1.5 m in height. The leaves are arranged in the upper part of the escape of pairs (one large and one small) suprotivno. Between the leaves on long pedicel sit solitary flowers drooped, brownish-purple outside, but inside - dirty-yellow with purple-red nervate. The ripe fruit - juicy glossy black berries the size of cherries. Blossoms from June to August. Grows in Europe and Asia Minor on the edge of light, and prefers limestone soils that are rich in calcium. Belladonna - deadly ratsbane! Fans should not collect it, or to apply! In all parts of plants contain poisons! Children are especially dangerous her shiny blue-black berries, which should not be there because only a few berries can be a fatal dose for a child. What Drozdy starlings and other birds eat "wild cherries" does not mean that it is not poisonous to humans.

Active substances: atropine, giostsiamin, speed polamin and the other close to the alkaloids.

Curative effect and application. It is strongly cautioned against self-application of belladonna. Nevertheless, one could argue that this is a very important medicinal plants, which in the hands of doctors, mostly in the form of finished products are truly irreplaceable. Drugs belladonna (or tincture extracts) are used to treat gastrointestinal diseases associated with convulsive pain. These physicians to prescribe drugs as in bronchial asthma and other neuralgia, in the treatment of eye diseases use pure atropine.

The use of homeopathy. Homeopathic medicine Belladonna is prepared from a fresh plant. The product is used mainly in the degree of factory D1-D6 in the spasm of cavernous bodies with asthma, gastric ulcer and colic. When recurrent cardiac pain, neuralgia and different especially in gout also appoint belladonna.

The use of traditional medicine. In our time in traditional medicine refuse to use such a dangerous medicinal plant, but earlier extracts and extract belladonna with wine and juices have been both inside and outside as a means of pain of different origin. Truly amazing that we almost know nothing of the ancient sources on the application of belladonna in medicine, although it is clear that its poisonous properties were known. Details of the medicinal plants described only the authors of medieval herbalists. U-Tabernemontanusa Baugina we find in Travnik (Basel, 1731) that the grass is cut and attached belladonna heals all sores and tumors, inflamed stomach and liver, Assuage with fever. Although there were more and more - ignominious - the application of belladonna. It prepared the ointment, which was used during the trials of witches. When rubbing the existing material falling into the blood, causing hallucinations, and victims of torture say that they are required. From belladonna did also poisons and potions privorotnye.

Adverse effects. Symptoms of belladonna poisoning - dry mouth, sore throat scratched with difficulties swallowing, feeling of thirst, vomiting, dizziness and headache. Then there are hallucinations with violent attacks of insanity, followed by 3-15 hours after death occurs. A very characteristic feature - the surge in pupils, which increased very soon after poison belladonna. When the first signs of poisoning should immediately provide first aid.

Hyoscyami folium

Hyoscyami folium

It is very poisonous! Protected.

Paslenovye - Solanaceae.

Used parts: leaves, grass, fewer weeds.

Pharmacy name: leaves beleny - Hyoscyami folium (formerly: Folia Hyoscyami), grass beleny - Hyoscyami heiba (formerly: Heiba Hyoscyami), seeds beleny - Hyoscyami semen (formerly: Semen Hyoscyami).

Botanical description. The plant is 30-60 cm in height. Stem covered with soft hairs, shaggy and sticky. Leaves dirty-green, ovoid or elongated-ovoid, with roughly carved teeth, narrow in the lower stalk, upper half stebleobemlyuschie. Dirty-yellow flowers practically sitting on the stem. Flower with kolokolchikovidnoy cup, with a dense network of nerveless on the petals. Blossoms from June to October. Found in gardens and vacant. Closely related deadly nightshade and henbane stupefy. All three plants are very poisonous, so the layman should be as small as possible to deal with bleached or its products. In contrast to the deadly nightshade, berries which often render children bleached poisoning are rare, because all of the plant looks unappetizing and odurmanivayusche smell. The picture resembles a narcotic poisoning effect, which is deadly nightshade. First aid if poisoning is the same.

Active substance: giosdiamin, skopolamin and related alkaloids.

Curative effect and application. Purpose of the drugs is not generally beleny: too much raw material varies in content of existing substances. This time, the collection of less impact on the differences in the quality of raw materials, rather than place of gathering (of the land and air). However, the need for preparations of beleny all there is. They help relieve stomach cramps and ulcers, senile tremor, and reduce state anxiety. In addition, a tool for preparing beleny embrocation - oil, which is successfully used by many doctors, with strong pain.

The use of homeopathy. Of the whole fresh flowering plant manufactures homeopathic tool Hyoscyamus, initial infusion of which are in the development of D1 and D1, with a dry cough, sometimes breeding D4 and D6 in the excitation, convulsions, white fever, insomnia and diarrhea. The use of traditional medicine is very much reduced because of poisonous drugs beleny. However, its fatty oil is still used in rheumatic pains. His methods are different. Recipes I am, of course, do not give, so as not to encourage people to self-management of poisonous plants.

Adverse effects. Overdosing causes vomiting, dizziness, convulsions and can lead to death.

Colchici semen

Colchici semen

Fatal poisonous!

Bezvremennikovye - Colchicaceae (formerly: lily - Liliaceae).

Popular names: poisonous flower, poison crocus, autumn, flower, dog bows, lousy flower, spidery flower, devil's bread, meadow saffron.

Used parts: seeds and klubnelukovitsa.

Pharmacy name: seed bezvremennika - Colchici semen (formerly: Semen Colchici), tuber bezvremennika - Colchici bulbus (formerly: Bulbus Colchici). Botanical Description: Flowers bezvremennika look like flowers of blue and saffron. By strengthening the soil deeply cordate bulb, bezvremennik fall in September, is developing its tsvetonosy that bezlistnymi come to the surface soil. A flower consists of a long tube voronkokdnoy formed six concretion leaves simple perianth. Anthers and pistil column were from corolla tube. Ovary is a flower in the soil where the fruit matures from s.emenami that the next spring to be put forward on the surface, surrounded by leaves. Blossoms in September. Appears in the wet meadows (in the south of Germany more than in the north).

The active substances. The main active agent - a very poisonous alkaloid colchicine, which is likely to be found in klubnelukovitse until maturation of seeds. In the mature seed is found in relatively constant numbers - 0,3-0,5%. In bezvremennike are still about 20 different alkaloids.

Curative effect and application. But first a warning: bezvremennik autumn - fatally ratsbane and in no case is suitable for self!. In contrast, in the hands of doctors, he is an extremely valuable tool in acute gout attacks. Dosage determines the doctor, he should seek treatment and to decide whether to use colchicine or a net infusion of the plant. Since the dosage is usually very high, even under medical supervision there are adverse reactions (eg diarrhea on the second day), which also require treatment.

The use of homeopathy. Even though homeopathic means Colchicum is also used against gout and articular rheumatism, the area of application - mainly inflammatory processes in the stomach and intestines. It is used in neuralgia, schekochuschem cough, blood circulation disorders. When gout using the original settings or for the D1-D4, with the complaints of the heart provide breeding predominantly D1-D6, which also designate and inflammation in the stomach and intestines.

Adverse effects. Since colchicine has bezvremennik autumn in all its parts (even the flowers), with shearing his children, who often took the flowers in the mouth may occur dangerous poison. And because the lesion becomes visible only after several hours, when the poison has already proniknet in blood, first aid should be provided as soon as possible. Symptoms of poisoning: severe vomiting, which is not terminated after the release of the stomach with bile and gastrointestinal mucus. Much thirst, accompanied by nausea, diarrhea with cramps and very bad smell. Pulse at first slowed and then accelerated to 150 beats per minute or more, almost did not feel. The color of the person becomes pale, lips sineyut, the tip of the nose is also blue. The skin is covered with sticky mucus, cramps begin. Finally, there are signs of paralysis. It should be as soon as possible to the hospital, because only there can be provided real help.

Pimpinellae Radix

Pimpinellae Radix

Used part: root.

Pharmacy name: root bedrentsa-Pimpinellae Radix (formerly: Radix Pimpinellae).

Botanical description. Bedrenets large offshore reaches meter height. Stem hollow, furrowed, and only at the bottom of the oblistvenny. Peristorassechennye leaves, the flowers are collected in 5-12-beam umbrellas without wrappers. The flowers are white, often pink. Bedrenets saxifrage fine and less. Middle and lower leaves to cut it thinner. Both types of flowers in June-August. Usually at meadows, along the canal, on the sunny slope, vacant, on the banks of reservoirs.

Collecting and harvesting. When the collection must be extremely careful, because bedrenets easily confused with poisonous umbrella! The roots of harvest or in spring (March-April) or autumn (September-October). Dug, freed from the earth, cut in strips, string on a thread, for the display of podvyaliva for 8 days and quickly dosushivayut in the oven.

Active substances: volatile oil, tannin, saponins, poliatsetileny, coumarin.

Curative effect and application. Science and medicine now uses this plant is mainly in the form of galenicals medicines (tinctures and broth), compared with bronchitis and asthma. In folk medicine it on stoychivo also recommend against throat inflammation. Tea poloschut throat or drink it for a cough. To gargle more often used alcohol in the rack, diluted 30 drops in a glass of water.

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Bedrentsa tea: 1 teaspoon of herbs to top pour 1 / 4 liters of cold water and slowly bring to ki singing to pokipet 1 minute and strain. In bronchitis and asthma drink 3 times daily for a cup of tea with honey. To gargle throat tea no sugar. Applying at gastro-intestinal diseases is hardly worthy of attention.

My special advice. If a chronic inflammation of the throat, you want to use bedrentsom, it is better to mix it with two other herbs:
Bedrenets 20,0
The flowers are daisies 20,0
Cinquefoil pryamostoyachaya 10,0
Brew, as described above.

The use of homeopathy. Pimpinella alba Homeopathic remedies prepared from fresh roots of both species. Appoints with nasal bleeding, headaches, if the noise in the ears, as well as gastrointestinal disorders and bronchitis at the doses of the D1 to D6.

The use of traditional medicine. The ancient Greeks and Romans did not know this plant as it was not met. Bedrenets first described in 1588 YA.T. Tabernemontanus, giving detailed recommendations for its use. In folk medicine it is usually used when coughing, hoarseness, digestive disorders, with urolithiasis, asthma, gout, dropsy, with menstrual irregularities, heartburn and neurotic heart. Sebastian Knaypp recommended bedrenets with rheumatism and inflammations of the kidneys. Side effects when to adhere to a therapeutic dosage, you can not fear.

Berberidis fructus

Berberidis fructus

Slaboyadovit.

Barbarisovye - Berberidaceae.

Used parts: fruits, leaves, bark of the roots.

Pharmacy name: barberry fruits - Berberidis fructus (formerly: Fructus Berberidis), leaves barberry - Berberidis folium (formerly: Folia Berberidis), barberry root bark - Berberidis radicis cortex (previously: Cortex BerberidisRadicis).

Botanical description. Barberry came to us from Africa through Spain. Chaparral about 4 m in height. Young branches reddish-brown, later dirty-gray. Leaves, partially modified in the triple thorns, located beams. The bottom of the leaf is often hit by rust fungi for which barberries an intermediate host. Of the sinuses of leaves develop kistevidnye pendent inflorescences of yellow flowers, of which after fertilization develops brilliant red elongated fruit. On scrapping the stalk or in the cutting of roots shows that they are painted in yellow. Blossoms in May-iyune.Vstrechaetsya in hedges, in light forests, on the sunny slopes of hills and mountains.

Collecting and harvesting. In August-September dospevayut fruit, and they can collect. Usually one makes the juice, but sometimes leave to dry. The leaves should be collected in June and immediately dried in the air. Bark from the roots collected in autumn. November (October) - the best time to do so. Excavated roots cut, removed from their bark, string it on the threads, and rapidly dried in air.

The active substances. The fruits contain vitamin C, organic acids, they are rich in minerals and trace elements. Alkaloids in the ripe fruit does not, so they can not poison. But the leaves and especially the root bark are poisonous, because they contain many alkaloids such as berberine, oksiberberin, berbamin, yatorrizin and others. In addition, there are tanning agents, resins and wax.

Curative effect and application. This is a little medicinal raw material used in medicine, although, given its composition, one should expect more. Only sometimes prescribe tea from leaves and bark of the roots in the stagnant phenomena in the liver or bile with little education, in the absence of appetite, as well as constipation, if it is caused by a small allocation of bile. Barberry attribute and regulating effect on the heart. But I feel that all herbs containing alkaloids, can be taken only on the advice of a doctor. So it applies to the barberry. Because it is very easy with the wrong diagnosis or wrong dosage of more harm than good. It is clear that in rheumatism try anything that might bring relief, because the medicine has not yet been able to treat this disease. Try and barberries, but success can be attributed to different causes. This is the opinion and the Public Health Service Germany: if there is no reliable means of assessing validity, then it can not be recommended for use. But the medicine from the ripe fruit of barberry worthy recommendations. Juice or jelly from barberry - perfect refreshing addition to the breakfast, it improves appetite in children with reduced appetite. Who does not like the taste too tart cherries can mix them with sweet pears. This will improve the taste of fresh pears and soften acid barberry. Barberry juice boiled with sugar, it means that reduce nausea in pregnancy.

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Barbarisovoe jelly: 500 g of ripe berries barberry cook lightly in a little water, wipe through a sieve and cook with an equal quantity of sugar. The resulting jelly is well kept and very well to add to the other, especially the sweet jelly.

The use of homeopathy. From the dried bark of the roots of preparing the original tincture Berberis (also known as Berberis vulgarus unlike Berberis aquifolium from U.S. Representative barbarisovyh). Sake used in breeding from D1 to D6, with biliary colic, cholecystitis, jaundice, hemorrhoids, kidney diseases, accompanied by cramps and bleeding, as well as in the articular rheumatism. Take courses or, if necessary, 1-2 times of 3-10 drops. In homeopathic practice barberries longer used for chronic cases.

The use of traditional medicine. All that is mentioned in the "curative effects and applications", mainly just refers to traditional medicine. Typically used tea leaves (rarely from the bark of the roots). Effects of the same.

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Tea of barberry: 1-2 teaspoons of raw material (leaves or bark of the roots), pour 1 / 4 liter of boiling water 5 minutes and strain. 1-2 cups a day - quite sufficient dosage.

Adverse effects. The fruits are free of alkaloids and therefore safe, but raw sometimes poorly transported. Alkaloidsoderzhaschie leaves and root bark can not be used without consulting a doctor. If overdose may experience loss of consciousness, vomiting, diarrhea, nasal bleeding and kidney!