Useful and medicinal properties of blue-eyed cyanosis
Perennial herbaceous plant up to 1 m high. Rhizome small, thick, with thin numerous roots. Stem is ribbed, hollow. Leaves alternate, lower petiolate, upper - sessile, odd-pinnate, bare. Flowers are collected in paniculate inflorescences, regular, blue or purple, with a spicate-shaped corolla, daisy-chinned. The fruit is a tricuspid, multisemantic capsule. Blossoms in July-August.
The blue-blue azure occurs in the southeast, in more northern areas, more often in the zone of deciduous forests. It grows on damp meadows, banks of rivers, fringes, bushes and forest glades, without forming continuous thickets.
Medicinal raw materials are rhizomes with roots and grass. Harvest rhizomes with roots of one- and two-year-olds in August-September, quickly washed and necessarily cut along and dried in dryers, or in the sun, or in attics. Grass is collected by people during flowering, but it is less valuable. Finished raw materials - thick, cut along the rhizome with roots of gray color, in the fracture yellowish-white. Shelf life 3 years.
Roots and rhizomes contain up to 20-30% saponins, essential and fatty oils, resins and unknown substances acting on the nervous system.
Cyanuja azure quite replaces Senegu and Ipecacuanu. Due to the presence of a large number of saponins, it is used as an expectorant, analgesic and soothing. The sedative effect of the cyanosis is 8-10 times stronger than that of valerian. It was also found to significantly increase the rate of blood clotting. The preparation of cyanosis in combination with grass swaths topany was introduced into practice for the treatment of peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum. The course of treatment is 3 weeks. Preparations of these plants are used as follows: 30 minutes before eating, ingest the marshmallow bog( South 200 ml) with 3 tbsp.spoon, 2 hours after eating - decoction from the roots of the cyanosis( 6 g per 200 ml) - 1 tbsp.spoon 3 times per
day. Swamp marsh is added to calm the nervous system.
In folk medicine, blue eyed blue is used for respiratory diseases, especially chronic, the root extract acts very effectively especially when taking the medication immediately before a coughing attack. These drugs act as an expectorant, an analgesic and sedative. They are especially useful in whooping cough and insomnia. The latter speaks about the special property of preparations from the root of the cyanosis to influence the central nervous system.
With these diseases in traditional medicine, blue ash is used in the form of broths, simple or condensed( instead of extract), from the root, and sometimes from the herb of the plant, or in a mixture of roots and grass in equal parts.
Application
Decoction: 3, 6 or 8 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day 2 hours after meals( for combined treatment of peptic ulcer, as an expectorant - 4-5 times a day) or 3-5 times a day.spoons a day.
25% extract: 15 drops 3 times a day( expectorant).
Homemade extract( ie, a decoction, thickened to half or up to a significant density), 1 teaspoonful 3 times a day.
Infusion: 3 g of roots and 8 g of herbs for 200 ml of boiling water, 1 tbsp.spoon 3-5 times a day. The extract is used for bronchial and pulmonary diseases( tuberculosis, acute, chronic bronchitis, lung abscess, bronchopneumonia and croupous pneumonia).