Vatochnik - general description
An ovary is a perennial herb with lanceolate, oblong-ovate, opposite leaves. The flowers of the plant are white, orange, pink or red. Belongs to the fawn family. The plant can reach a height of about 100 centimeters. Flowering occurs in summer or autumn, gives bristly fruits. The plant is a very good honey plant, so there are always a lot of bees and butterflies near it.
Vatochnik - types and places of growth
The plant is grown in open ground. The plant feels best in an open area, some species may even die from a lack of sun. The plant is very common in the tropics, subtropics, in Africa and America. The territory along the road, wasteland, forest belt and weedy places - it is here that you can often find a quack.
In total, the genus of an ovochnik has about 80 species. The most common are:
- Syriac quiver, or, as it is also called by the people, Aesculapius grass. This is a type of fleece with dense, oblong leaves is a herbaceous plant. It blooms from July to August. On the ripened seeds are white silky hairs.
- Tuberose ovary is a plant about 50 - 70 cm high. It has bright orange flowers.
- Foam meat-red is a perennial plant about 1 - 1.2 m high with branched, leafy stems and red or pink-purple pleasantly smelling flowers. It blooms from July to August.
Vatochnik - healing properties
Since ancient times, the quilted coat has been very widely used as a medicinal plant and as a technical culture. The wooper very effectively copes with non-healing purulent wounds, ulcers, they treat the places of bites of various insects.
The plant is also very well established in phytocosmetics. Here it is used as an anti-aging agent, because it contains a huge amount of amino acids.
Extracts prepared from the osseous are very effective in combating a variety of skin diseases, including eczema, lichen, psoriasis.
The most important advantage of the quacker can be called the fact that it helps to treat various forms of cardiovascular failure. It also treats shortness of breath, arrhythmia, tachycardia. All this is due to the content of strophanthin-like cardiac glycosides in it.
Vatochnik - dosage forms
In medicine, inflorescences, roots and seeds are used, as well as milky juice. To do this, the plant is harvested from June to July, and the seeds are harvested as soon as they ripen. From the obtained raw materials, tinctures, decoctions, and powders are prepared.
Vatochnik - recipes
To prepare a decoction from the scoop, 10 g of roots are crushed, filled with water and insisted for 15 minutes. The tincture is prepared in this way: 10 g of crushed dry rhizomes of the ointment are poured into 100 ml of alcohol, insisted for 14 days. Accepted for the treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Powder from a cotton swab is used as a diuretic and diaphoretic. To do this, grind a few grams of the plant and use inside 0.1 g several times a day.
Very effective for the treatment of arrhythmias, cardiovascular diseases is phytosborne, which includes a cotton wool and also mild plants such as aromatic ruta, spring nomad, yellow jaundice, mountain arnica and gooseberry.
Vatochnik - contraindications
Take the plant very carefully, because it is poisonous. You can not consume more than twenty drops of tincture per day. Plant tissues are also filled with poisonous milky juice, which can cause skin irritation.
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