Useful and curative properties of violet tricolor

( pansies, ivan-da-marya)

One-two-year herbaceous plant up to 30 cm high. The root is thin, branched. Stem is thin, trihedral, hollow, branching. Leaves alternate, short-petioled or sessile, all with feathery stipules, lower - round-cordate, upper - elliptical. The flower is three-colored( the petals are dark blue or purple at the top, yellow at the bottom, and sometimes white on the sides).On this basis, it is easy to distinguish it from a violet violet, the petals of which are violet. However, the main difference between the violet tri-color from the violet fragrant - in the absence of her violet smell. Fruit is a single-cavity, ovate capsule opening with three valves. Blooms from April to autumn.

Violet tri-color often grows with violet fragrant in forests, between shrubs, in glades and fringes.

On fields, deposits, roadsides, on wastelands there is a close view - a violet field, which differs from tricolor with smaller flowers, white upper, bright yellow middle and lower petals.

Medicinal raw material is a herb without roots of these species under the general name of violet trichromatic collected during flowering( no later than June).Drying is normal, but fast.

The herb contains mucus, tartaric acid salt, salicylic acid, vitamin C, etc.

Violet preparations have an expectorant, emollient, diaphoretic and diuretic action. In scientific medicine, the tri-colored violet is used as an expectorant

for bronchitis, laryngitis, as mucous and enveloping - with gastritis, diuretic - with stagnant phenomena( in the form of infusion 1:10).From the grass, a neo-galenic trivioline preparation is prepared, which is used in drops during coughing.

In folk medicine, the tri-colored violet is used for rickets, rheumatism, scrofula, gout, colds, coughs, as a diaphoretic, expectorant, externally - for skin tuberculosis in children, for chiruses, for bleeding, diathesis, children's eczema, skin diseases, etc.

In the decoction of the grass, children are bathed, they are given water for diatheses, children's eczema, skin tuberculosis in children, from chiruses, for colds, women's diseases, bleeding, they bathe children with rickets, make lotions with eczema, scrotala;with a toothache, rinse your mouth with a decoction;they drink a decoction from chest pain, with stuttering. In addition to the tri-colored violets, the violet field grass is used for the same purposes.

Application of

Decoction: 20 g per 200 ml;Take 1 / 2-1 glass 2-3 times a day( expectorant) or 1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day.

Tincture: 30%;20-30 drops 3 times a day. Powder( for children), sometimes with sugar;give 0.2-0.5 g 2-4 times a day.

Infusion: 20 g per 1 cup boiling water;half a glass or 1 glass 3 times a day.

Abuse of large doses causes irritation of the intestine!

Tea from the grass is drunk with rheumatism, scrofula, rickets, lung diseases, gout, rheumatism and articular rheumatism, atherosclerosis, nervous attacks, metabolic disorders.