Purity big
Chefidonium majus.
Perennial herbaceous plant of the poppy family. Folk names: yellow-milk-nickname, warthog, chi-stoppot, schlocker, brisket, gladyshnik, gudgeon, hepatic, podtynnik, chistyak, light grass, etc.
Description: rhizome, many-domed, short, root stem, outside reddish-brown, inside yellow. Blooms from late May to September orange-yellow, usually numerous, small, regular, single flowers. They sit on long branchy, slightly pubescent stems up to 90 cm long, with beautiful - green on top, from below sizy - cut leaves. From the stems of plants, when they are torn off, there is a yellow trace on their hands. This is because of the abundant orange-yellow juice from the stems( hence the name "yellow-milker").The juice is found in all parts of the plant, it smells unpleasant, tastes bitter, burns and has toxic properties.
The fruit of the celandine is a multi-seeded box. Seeds are black, smooth, equipped with a large, fleshy, white, comb-like appendage.
Ingredients: a large number of alkaloids have been found in the juice, in particular chelidonin, which has a distinct analgesic and soothing effect and is similar in effect to the main alkaloids of maca morphine and papaverine. Another alkaloid of celandine homochelidonin gives the opposite excitatory effect and has a local anesthetic effect. The alkaloid protopin gives a calming effect and reduces the reactivity of the autonomic nervous system. In the herb celandine a lot of ascorbic acid, carotene, organic acids( chelidonovaya, apple, lemon, amber), resinous substances, traces of essential oil. The grass has phytoncidal properties and bactericidal action on a number of microbes, including a tubercle bacillus.
Cultivation: prefers light soils, light-loving, but can bear a small shadow. Purity is very unpretentious. Reproduction is carried out by seeds that can be harvested from wild species found in light forests, birch groves, along roads, fences and wastelands.
Collection: the aerial part is collected at the beginning of flowering( June-July), cut with a knife or sickle at a level of 5-10 cm from the surface of the earth, and dried in the shade with good ventilation. Rhizomes with roots are harvested early in the spring, at the beginning of the growth of the aerial part, or in the autumn - after its death( September-October).
Medicinal properties: herbs celandine have a multifaceted activity, the main properties of celandine are spasmolytic, choleretic and anti-inflammatory. It was revealed that the herb celandine retards the growth of malignant tumors, especially external ones. It is used for diseases of the liver and gall bladder, eczema, gout. Decoction of herbs and roots is drunk with rheumatism, hypertension and dysentery. Fresh grass is sometimes applied to the body with scabies. Long-healing ulcers are treated with powder from leaves or fresh crushed leaves are applied to them. Juice or ointment from fresh leaves is used for skin tuberculosis. In some regions of Siberia, celandine juice is used in place of iodine.
Application: for a long time in folk medicine, celandine was widely used for skin tuberculosis, gout and rheumatism. External it was used to treat warts and calluses, lichens, eczema, skin cancer, mainly in the form of fresh juice or ointment, prepared from plant grass, by threefold daily lubrication of affected areas. In the decoction of herbs celandine bathing children with various skin diseases. In the form of infusion or the main component in i collections, celandine and is currently used for diseases of the liver and gall bladder, with gout and some skin diseases. There is information about the use of decoction of celandine in the form of hot baths with psoriasis. With the same disease, good results were observed in patients with external application of a 50% extract of celandine mixed with pork fat, combined with simultaneous ingestion of 20% alcohol tincture of celandine. Purity in galenic forms for external use is contraindicated in persons suffering from epilepsy, bronchial asthma, angina pectoris, as well as in a number of neurological syndromes. Powder from dry grass plants can be used to control insects - pests of vegetable gardens, orchards and fields by pollination or fumigation.
Internal use of celandine requires great care and mandatory medical supervision.