Useful and medicinal properties of valerian medicinal( maun, earthen incense)
Perennial herbaceous plant, reaching a height of 1.5 m. Rhizome short, vertical, with numerous roots of brown or yellow-brown color. Stem straight, furrowed, hollow inside. Leaves opposite, pinnately dissected, with 7-11 pairs of leaves, lower petiolate, upper sessile. The flowers are small, white-pink, irregular, collected in a corymb-like panicle. Fruit with flying. Blooms from June to September.
occurs in the south-eastern regions of Russia.
Medicinal raw materials are roots with a rhizome of a biennial plant collected in autumn or early spring, 2-4 cm in length, 1-3 cm in thickness. The rhizomes are collected with roots when the stems wither and become brown( the second half of August, September).Shelf life is about 1 year.
The dried roots have a characteristic strong smell, the taste is spicy, sweetish-bitter. Stored raw materials in a dry, well ventilated room. It should be protected from frost, since after freezing it loses quality, and from cats, which attract the smell of valerian, and they can spoil the plant.
Roots and rhizomes contain an essential oil, the main part of which is Bornil-isova- lerynate( valerian-borneol ether), etc. ethers, including glycoside, valeride, and tannins, sugars, formic, acetic, apple and othersacid.
Valerian is one of the most popular medicines. Valerian preparations have a regulating effect on the nervous system, the neuromuscular apparatus of the heart, promote the expansion of coronary vessels, have an antispasmodic effect, normalize blood circulation, strengthen the motor function of the intestine somewhat and suppress fermentation processes in it.
Valerian is prescribed as a sedative for nervous excitement, insomnia, neuroses of the cardiovascular system, spastic conditions of the gastrointestinal tract.
Valerian is applied in the form of infusion from the root or rhizome( 1:30), tinctures( alcohol and ether) and extracts. Roots and rhizomes are included in various charges( carminative, choleretic and all-calming action).
Recommend to give valerian and in the form of tea: 8-South of the ground root should be brewed in the evening with steep boiling water. In order not to evaporate the essential oils, we must close the glass with a saucer so that the bottom is dipped into the infusion( to achieve tightness).The contents of the glass should be drunk the next day.
Valerian has a beneficial therapeutic effect in the treatment of diseases with increased function of the thyroid gland: patients suffer from a painful feeling of palpitation and increased nervous excitability.
It is established that valerian preparations intensify inhibition in the cerebral cortex, reduce reflex excitability, relax the spasms of smooth muscles.
Valerian preparations are also indicated for epilepsy, asthma, coronary insufficiency with pain syndromes, migraines, spastic constipation. It is used in the form of infusions, broths, extracts and powders in hysteria, heart pains, heart defects, chorea, epilepsy, nervous overwork. The infusion of the root is shown after the long-term illnesses that have been transferred as an appetite and restorative. For children, with
boils in the abdomen, vomiting and convulsions( 2-3 drops of tincture) in the form of enemas. In epilepsy, children are bathed every other day in broth.
Traditional medicine also uses roots with rhizomes in the form of infusions, decoctions, vodka infusions and powders in hypochondria, hysteria, headaches( migraine) and convulsive pains, pains in the heart( with its vice), epilepsy( falling sickness), withsevere experiences, diarrhea, nervous shock, fright, insomnia, flushing of blood to the head, especially in women in menopause.5 g of pounded root pour 250 ml of boiling water, grind for at least 2 hours and take 100 ml in the morning and evening before going to bed( the last dose is recommended to take in a warm form with honey).With tachycardia, it is good to brew it together with the flowers of the lily of the valley in equal parts. Take with interruptions.
When frightened, older children should be given 7-10 drops of tincture 3 times a day, and with epilepsy they should be bathed every other day in Valerian root broth( one handful of root per liter of water).
In addition, as a carminative valerian helps to improve digestion, regulates the functional activity of the stomach;apply it against worms. Root and rhizome valerian, cooked in the form of a powder, well act as a soothing and health-improving remedy for scarlet fever, pneumonia. Roots of valerian fresh usually do not apply.
Application of
Infusion on water: 1 teaspoon( or 1 incomplete spoonful) of ground root into a glass of cold water, insist for 6-8 hours. Take 1 tbsp.spoon, children give 1 teaspoon 3 times a day with neuroses.
Decoction( from hysteria): 1 full tsp for a glass of boiling water;to use 1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day. This broth in combination with the broth of rue is sweetened with honey( to taste) for greater efficiency, drink 1 tbsp.spoon every 2 hours.
Tincture on vodka: finely chopped root is covered with a fifth of the bottle with vodka. They put them in a warm place for a week. Drain the liquid and squeeze the root, allow to settle and then filter through the linen or four folded gauze. Take 15 to 30 drops 3 times a day with cardioneurosis.
Like tea: 1 teaspoon per cup, take 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day( carminative).
1 tbsp.spoon for 2 cups of boiling water, insist for 30 minutes, strain. Take 1/2 cup 2 times a day( choleretic).
1 tbsp.spoon to brew in a glass of boiling water.1/3 cup 3 times a day( sedative).In Belarus, the root has long been used in cancer.