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Useful and medicinal properties of Eleutherococcus spiny

  • Useful and medicinal properties of Eleutherococcus spiny

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    Shrub to 2( sometimes up to 4-5 m in height) with a light gray bark and light brown shoots, densely seated with thin, brittle, downwardly bent spines. Leaves of 5 leaflets with a wedge-shaped base, reverse oval or elliptical, with cusp, nude or

    filiform hairs, below in veins with reddish hairs, bilobate along margin;the middle leaf is larger than the others. Flowers in umbels on long pedicels, dioecious, corolla yellowish or pale violet, early on, stamens 5, pestle 1, with five stigmas. Fruits are globular black berries with five bones, blooms in July-August, fruits ripen in September.

    Distributed in the Far East and Sakhalin. Common element of the undergrowth, occurs in mixed and coniferous forests, occasionally in oak forests. Forms thickets or groups.

    Medicinal raw materials are leaves and roots. Leaves are collected during flowering, roots - in autumn or early spring.

    The root of the eleutherococcus contains glycosides, derivatives of steroids, coumarins and flavonoids, alkaloids, essential oil( 0.8%).In the parenchyma of the cortex there are starchy grains and a mass of friends of calcium oxalate, there are gums( up to 18%), fatty oils.

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    Eleutherococcus drugs stimulate physical and mental performance, increase the body's resistance to various kinds of harmful factors and diseases, normalize blood pressure, lower elevated blood sugar. Improving the general condition, eleutherococcus makes the body more resistant to colds and other diseases, improves sleep, increases appetite, activates and balances the excitatory-inhibitory processes in the central nervous system, reduces the toxicity of antibodies( cyclophosphamide, thiotephe, sarcolysine).

    Indications for the appointment are fatigue, neurasthenia, psychasthenia, nervous system depletion accompanied by a decrease in ability to work, irritability, insomnia, vegetoneurosis, angiospasm, arrhythmia and hypotension of a functional nature, initial forms of atherosclerosis, hypertension, mild form of

    diabetes mellitus( in the elderly,in combination with bukor-banom), acute and chronic radiation sickness( in combination with other means).

    Application

    Liquid extract from the roots 30%: 20-40 drops 2-3 times a day before meals( with vegetoneurosises).The course of treatment is 30 days. If necessary, the drug can be used for a longer time, because it is low-toxic and does not accumulate in the body. Repeated courses are conducted after 10-15 days.

    Tincture on vodka: 100 g of roots per 1 liter of vodka, insist 7 days and take on a dessert spoon 2-3 times a day for a month.