The "grandmother's" medicinal infusions and decoctions gradually return to our life, we often trust unjustly forgotten recipes of folk medicine.
Today its medical properties are recognized by science and used in medicines and in "home" recipes.
For therapeutic purposes, flowers, roots and grass are used.
- Short description
- Botanical species
- Useful properties
- Application for treatment
- Home prescriptions
- Contraindications for use
Short description
It is now folk, and once herbal medicines were the only cure for all ailments.
This fully applies to the gentian, which has been used in medicine since ancient times.
A herbaceous or semishrubby gentian plant belongs to the family of gentian plants.
Depending on the species grows from 10 cm to 1.5 meters. It has:
- blue,
- purple,
- yellow or white solitary flowers,
- one-piece leaves and short erect stems.
Rhizome - thick, with filiform roots. The flowering time is spring, summer or autumn, it depends on the species. Some of them are used exclusively as ornamental plants.
Distribution area of gentian - Northern hemisphere with moderate climate. Places of growth:
- alpine and subalpine meadows,
- solar slopes,
- forest edges,
- sand plains.
Gentian is considered a vanishing plant.
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Botanical species
We will not describe the numerous species of this plant, we will dwell on some that have medicinal properties and decorative qualities.
Without stems.
Used as an ornamental plant for decorating rock gardens and floral arrangements.
A short, grown-up species, grows no more than 10 cm. Large flowers of bright blue color are its main ornament. The flowering period is May.
Pulmonary.
Perennial plant up to 65 cm high with a short cylindrical root, narrow leaves and blue flowers. The flowering period is August.
Distributed in Siberia, the Caucasus and Western Europe. Used as an ornamental plant and has medicinal properties. Useful substances are contained in the stem and leaves.
Used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as a remedy against parasites, increases muscle tone and reduces bleeding during menstruation.
Three-flowered.
High perennial - up to 80 cm, sessile five-membered flowers of dark blue color. The flowering period is August-September.
The territory of growth - Eastern Siberia, Sakhalin, Japan, China, Korea. The medicinal properties are the root, to a lesser extent - the herbaceous parts of the plant.
The decoction of the gentian flower of trifolium stimulates appetite, normalizes the digestive system, flowers are used as a remedy for neurasthenia and overfatigue.
Leaves are used to treat poorly healing wounds.
Daurskaya.
Grows in the Altai, southeast of Kazakhstan, north-western part of China. In folk medicine, the root of the plant is used as an anti-inflammatory and antipyretic agent.
In addition, it is used to treat rheumatism, has a diuretic, choleretic, hemostatic property. Relieves spasms and increases potency.
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Seven-part.
Another kind of decorative gentian. Due to the low growth and large dark blue flowers collected in the inflorescence, the plant is widely used in landscape design for the design of stony, garden compositions and curbs.
Grows in the Crimea, the Caucasus, the mountainous regions of Iran and Asia Minor. The flowering period is June-July.
As a therapeutic, the plant is used to normalize the work of the gastrointestinal tract and as an antibacterial drug.
Cross-shaped.
Grassy perennial grows throughout Russia, with the exception of the northern regions. It is rare and is very popular among herbalists.
The flowering period is July-August, in culture it does not divorce.
The main medical effect is restorative, anti-inflammatory( good for the kidneys and organs of the genitourinary system).
Gentian yellow.
This is a species used both for scientific and folk medicine. High-height - up to 120 cm - the plant has a strong, thick root, which is the main storehouse of nutrients in the plant.
In Russia it does not grow, except for one district - the mountains of the Tlaratin district in Dagestan.
Distributed throughout Europe, except Poland and the Baltic States. The flowering period is June-August.
This kind of gentian is known to healers since the times of Ancient Rome and Egypt. This is its properties, first described by the German medieval doctor Hieronymus Bock.
Gentian yellow used even to fight the plague - it was, almost the only means in the fight against black death.
Useful properties
The use of gentian - in the substances contained in the root and leaves - bitterness. The main ones are iridoids, which form plants and are used as protection against herbivores.
Namely, they give a bitter taste to parts of the plant. Another group of bioactive substances - glycosides, have a tonic effect.
In addition to iridoids, the root of the gentian contains bitterness:
- gentiopicrine and amarogenin,
- alkaloids,
- flavonoids and other substances.
A small amount of vitamin C is found in the leaves. Everyone has, on the whole, an anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and restorative effect on the human body.
The use of gentian as a medicinal raw material has led to the fact that in the wild nature, in Europe, it almost does not occur, but is grown on an industrial scale for the needs of the pharmaceutical industry.
The collection and processing of plants are not less than 3-4 years - it is to this age the plant accumulates the maximum amount of nutrients.
During harvesting, the rhizomes are washed in running cold water and dried for a short time.
The raw material loses useful substances from prolonged drying. It can be stored for no more than 5 years in a cool dry place.
Application for the treatment of
The medicinal plant is used in the official medicine in the preparation for the treatment of diseases:
- of the digestive organs - the stomach,
- of the liver( for chronic hepatitis),
- of the gallbladder,
- akhily,
- anorexia( as an appetite stimulant),
- meteorism,
- anemia.
Anti-inflammatory properties of the plant make it possible to use it in the treatment of arthritis, sprains and bruises, postoperative infiltrates.
Chinese scientists have proved the effectiveness of for the use of bioactive components of large-flowered gentian as part of the complex treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus.
In Japan, the bitterness contained in the plant is used in cosmetic preparations.
Gentian is added to the composition of herbal balms, including, it is a part of Bittner's balm.
In the food industry it is used in brewing, and the Austrians make vodka, which is infused on the roots of the gentian yellow - "Enerler".
In folk medicine it is used in the form of broths, infusions and powder.
Their action:
- choleretic;
- normalizing composition of gastric juice;
- boosting blood pressure;
- heart palpitations;
- strengthening the body after severe diseases( application of bear bile);
- antipyretic;
- restorative;
- is an antioxidant.
The dried herb gentian pastough and cross-leafed has long been used with:
- renal colic( first aid),
- cystitis,
- cough( about the medicinal properties of goose fat written here),
- tuberculosis,
- hysteria,
- to stimulate lactation.
In Tibet, folk healers used the gentian grass of the large-flowered to treat cancer.
The root of gentian roughening is used to improve memory, treatment of encephalitis, with paresis after a stroke.
Its infusions and broths treat:
- arthritis,
- angina,
- conjunctivitis,
- diarrhea.
Gentian is combined with other herbs:
- St. John's wort,
- chamomile,
- oak bark,
- shepherd's bag( useful properties are described in this article) and others.
Home Recipes
For the treatment of sweating of the feet .
Raw material - the root of the gentian yellow and the bark of oak in proportions of 1: 3.
5 spoons of the mixture are poured into 1 liter of boiling water.
Hot foot baths from this broth should be done daily, nanoch.
For rheumatic pain, gout and arthritis .
For 700 ml of water take 1 teaspoon of dry raw material.
Broth to boil on low heat, cook for 15 minutes, then infuse for 2 hours.
Strain and take before meals for 15 minutes for half a cup.
The tincture of the gentian is prepared as follows:
- 50 g of dry raw material is infused for a week with 500 ml of vodka.
Take it on 30 drops, diluted in 6 tablespoons of water.
It relieves:
- constipation,
- heartburn( folk remedies),
- raises appetite,
- helps cure malaria and tuberculosis.
Contraindications to use
Gentian reception is not recommended in the following cases:
-
pregnancy( due to increased uterus tone); - the period of breastfeeding;
- gastric ulcer, irritated mucosa;
- high blood pressure;
- for allergies.
Overdose is expressed:
- in headaches,
- redness on the facial skin,
- dizziness.
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