Useful and medicinal properties of the white
Perennial herbaceous plant with a height of 40-80 cm with an unpleasant strong odor. The stem is erect. Leaves are regular, complex, odd-pinned. The flowers are numerous, large, white or pink with purple veins, collected in a long apical brush. Blooms in May-July. The fruit is a five-cavity boll with black
with brilliant seeds, ripening in July-August. The root is powerful, lignified.
Distributed in the European part of Russia. It grows on sunny rocky slopes, in light bushes, groves and oak forests, mainly on calcareous soil.
Medicinal raw materials are roots, which are excavated by withering the plants and dried at a temperature not higher than 30 ° C, as well as leaves and flowers.
Preparations from the root in the form of infusion or tincture are used for gastritis with low acidity, jaundice caused by inflammation of the biliary tract, acute and chronic cystitis, urolithiasis and stones in the bladder, hysteria, melancholy, epilepsy, asthenic conditions, fatigue,insomnia( in combination with valerian, melissa or motherwort) and as a means of toning the whole body, drink infusion with fever of various origins.
Application
Outwardly: tincture of leaves and flowers is used for rubbing with radiculitis and rheumatism. The water extract of the plant is used to treat various skin diseases( scabies, eczema, hair loss) and varicose veins.
Infusion: 6 grams of root per 1 cup of boiling water, drunk for 1 day with sips, or 1 tablespoon of the root insist 1-2 hours and drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day.
Tincture 10%: 40-50 drops 3 times a day before meals.
It should be remembered that the touch of fresh flowers and leaves of the ash tree to open parts of the body causes severe burns and inflammation of the skin( dermatitis).The results of the lesion are visible after 10-15 hours. The lesions resemble thermal or chemical burns. To avoid burns, open parts of the body after collecting the ash tree should be washed with water in the next 10-20 minutes. Burns and pains are slow, after 3-6 months.
Work with the grass of the young woman with gloves. Flowers do not sniff!