Useful and medicinal properties of Sophora fat fetal

Perennial herbaceous plant 30-60 cm high, a family of legumes. Stems usually branched from the base, abundantly leafy with odd-pinnate leaves. The root system is powerful, deep-lying. The flowers are white, with a yellowish hue, collected in narrow strip-prominent apical brushes. Fruits - brown beans, nerasskryvayuschiesya, short, with a small waist in the middle of the constriction, the seeds are brown, with a rounded hem, 5-6 mm long and 4-5 mm wide. Blossoms in April-May, fructifies in June-July.

Grows on loess and sandy soils along deserts and foothills of Central Asia, is a dangerous weed in wheat crops.

Medicinal raw materials are grass before flowering. In the grass contains 3% alkaloid pahikarpina;seeds contain sophocarpine and matrices. With an industrial purpose, the grass is harvested before flowering, flowering and blooming, from which pachycarpine is obtained.

Pakhikarpin is used for spasms of peripheral vessels, in particular for endarteritis, including sclerotic forms. Assign inside 0.05-0.1 g 2-3 times a day for 3-6 weeks. The course of treatment if necessary, you can repeat after 2-3 months. With favorable results of treatment, the limbs warm up, the skin becomes pink, the pain stops or decreases, blood circulation in the diseased limb improves, and gait is facilitated. Improvement can be long - for a year or more. Deterioration can occur after nervous shocks or with exacerbations of concomitant diseases.

Positive results of treatment with pachycarpine are also observed in myopathies: in patients the forces and volume of movements increase, tendon reflexes appear. The therapeutic effect is usually observed 10-12 days after the start of treatment. With myopathies, pachycarpine is administered orally 0.1 g 2-3 times a day for 40-50 days. If necessary, the course of treatment is repeated after 1 -3 months.

When pahikarpin is used, side effects can occur in the form of pain in the heart.

Pahikarpin is not recommended for liver, kidney, fever, heart problems, angina pectoris, pregnancy.