Useful and medicinal properties of icteric
Yellowish grayish - a biennial herbaceous plant up to 80 cm tall. Root rod, small. Stems erect, weak. Leaves are linear with small teeth or entire, short-petioled. Flowers are yellow in rare hands. Fruits - pods 4-10 mm long, thin, tetrahedral, a column shorter than the width of the pod. The whole plant is gray from the strong pubescence of the hairs pressed. Blossoms in May-August.
It grows absent-mindedly over the steppes, stony slopes, among shrubs, in pine forests, along the chalky mountains of the Volga region, the Caucasus.
Along with the jaundice grayish, the grass can be used Marshall's Yellowhorse and icteric lion-oocyte;Both species are found more frequently in the forest-steppe regions by bushes, fringes( first), grassy slopes, river valleys and littered places( the second) in the Volgograd, Orel, Tula, Tambov regions, and the Chuvash Autonomous Republic.
Medicinal raw material is grass, preferably only its upper part, without coarse lower stems, collected during budding and flowering. The grass is dried in the shade, in attics under an iron roof or in dryers at a temperature of about 50 degrees. Shelf life of raw materials is 6 months.
In the grass of the icteric, cardiac glycosides are found, which are similar in effect to strophanthin.
Use jelaponifer preparations as an emergency aid in the disorder of the cardiovascular system. Preparations of icterus contribute to the normalization of the functions of the neuromuscular apparatus of the heart, hemodynamics. Preparations of icteric in the body are not cumulated, but due to great biological activity, caution is required. They are kept under lock and key( list A) in the dark place.
Juice made from fresh herb of icteric is a part of the widely used drug for cardiac diseases - cardiovalen.
In folk medicine it is used as a decoction and tincture as a diuretic, expectorant, with lung disease, dropsy and as a sedative in heart diseases.
Application
Decoction: 2 tsp boiling water;use 1 teaspoon three times a day.
Tincture or extract( i.e., condensed broth) 20%: 10 drops 3 times a day - with sudden organic changes in the heart and vessels, acute myocarditis, endocarditis, severe atherosclerosis.