Useful and healing properties of white

Grassy perennial with typical repoated thickened or oblong, up to 3 kg, main fleshy, yellow( yellowish) root and lateral roots. Stem up to 4 m long, climbing with long, unbranched, curling antennae, granular, olive, at the base naked, above covered with short hard hairs. The leaves are regular, relatively large, 5.5-17 cm long, longer than their width, palchatolopastnye with almost triangular coarse toothed lobes, the middle lobe being longer, at the base with a deep semicircular groove, rough-hairy from short, light hard hairs,on petioles, which are shorter than leaf blades. Lower inflorescences - staminate, brushes on long peduncles bearing no more than 10 flowers, upper ones - pistillate, on short peduncles, in scutes. Flowers are small, yellowish-green, bell-chato-five-lobed. The fruit is black, globose, with a green flesh berry. Blossoms in June-July.

Grows in bushes, on stony slopes and among stony placers. Bred in gardens, parks, wild. It grows in the western and southern regions of the Caucasus.

Another type of transgression - the dyspnea transgression, occurs in the Caucasus and Central Asia - differs from the

first in that this plant is dioecious, the calyx of female flowers is half the length of the corolla, the stigma is pubescent, the fruits are red.

With the therapeutic purpose, the roots of both types of transgression are used, which are punctured before flowering of the plant, cleaned of the ground, washed with water and cut along along the part before drying. Dry in attics, in dryers. Use and fresh roots.

The plant is poisonous - a strict dosage!

The roots of both species contain glycosides of brionin and brionidine, as well as resinous substance and essential oil. Brionin has an irritating effect. There are cases of poisoning of animals by this plant on pasture.

The drug has a number of medicinal properties. This is a hemostatic, antirheumatic and analgesic. It is used as a tincture as an analgesic for gouty and rheumatic polyarthritis, intercostal neuralgia. Widely used in homeopathy.

In folk medicine, water decoction of the root is drunk with epilepsy, pleurisy, various bleeding, malaria and constipation( as a laxative - to consume in a large dose), with a throat disease.

Outwardly - with throat disease drink 1 teaspoon and rinse the throat;rinse the sick teeth;the rooted root is applied to chiri, abscesses;apply for inflammation of the inner ear;the decoction of the grass is covered with a sore throat. Fresh crushed root is used for neuralgia, joint tumors and as an analgesic, and also with a scab on the scalp( ointment from the root).When rubbing the skin with a fresh root, bubbles appear.

Application

Decoction: 20 g per 200 ml;1 teaspoonful 3 times a day. Tincture 25%: 10 drops 3 times a day. Ointment: 1 part of the juice from the root for 4 parts of butter( unsalted) oil or Vaseline. Or: 1 tsp per

foot is mixed with 100 g of sunflower oil - rub with articular rheumatism( carefully, so as not to spread large areas of the body).