Useful and medicinal properties of the primrose medicinal, spring

( primula)

Perennial herbaceous plant with a fleshy brown short rhizome and subordinate subordinate roots. Leaves collected in a radical rosette, ovoid, crenate, wrinkled, narrowed into a winged petiole. Flowers are fragrant, large, regular, on fairly long pedicels, collected at the end of the flower arrows in an umbrella with several bracts of the

kami. Calyx is not falling, tubular, with five prongs. Corolla is sagging, regular, funnel-shaped, with a five-sectioned bend. Stamens 5, pestle 1, with the upper ovary. The fruit is a multi-seeded capsule surrounded by the remaining calyx. Seeds are small. Blossoms in April-May.

Distributed in the south of the forest and forest-steppe zones of the European part of Russia, it also penetrates the steppe zone. In the South-East it is replaced by primordial large-bodied.

The medicinal raw materials in scientific medicine are flowers, or rather, their coronas, collected from fully blossoming flowers. In folk medicine, medicinal raw materials are rhizomes with roots and leaves. The people collect a plant with flowers during flowering, and rhizomes with roots - in autumn or early spring, until the leaves are completely decorated. Rhizome and roots are valuable in that they contain saponins, vitamins C, A and essential oil, and the leaves are especially rich in carotene and ascorbic acid( vitamins A and C), which are most often at the end of flowering, around mid-June. Drying the corolla flowers on the air in the shade, it's better in dryers, just dried roots. Leaves, dried at a very high temperature( 120-130 ° C), retain up to 94% of ascorbic acid. The raw materials are stored in closed jars.

In pharmacological terms, spring primrose is primarily valuable as an active expectorant, 5 times stronger than Senegia.

The value of it as an expectorant, replacing Senegu and Ipecacuanu, has long been recognized as scientific medicine, in addition, the primrose is low-toxic.

In medicine, primrose is used as a diaphoretic, antipyretic and antitussive remedy, and also as a good remedy for scurvy. Primrose preparations increase the separation of mucus with bronchial glands and urine release.

In folk medicine, simple decoctions of the primrose are always used for bronchitis, pneumonia,

heart pains, chest pains, coughing, consumption, with whooping cough, for diseases caused by lifting gravity.

With rheumatism, preparations from this plant are useful as an analgesic for joint pain, but as a diuretic for all kidney and bladder diseases. They are used for chronic constipation, as well as for headaches, in particular migraines.

When hypovitaminosis( with a lack of vitamins in the body), characterized by weakness, lethargy, lack of appetite, pallor and roughness of the skin, loosening of the gums, helps powder from the crushed leaves of the primrose. On children this infusion has an easy hypnotic effect.

Leaves in several countries are used as a salad. This is justified by the high content of vitamin C. The plant is not poisonous, so if there are no preparations in pharmacies from it, you can fearlessly prepare them yourself.

Application of

Decoction of roots: 20 g per 400 ml;half a glass 3-4 times per

day.

Decoction of leaves( store in a closed vessel): 5 g, or 1 teaspoon brew in half a glass of boiling water, after 20-30 minutes after infusion in a closed vessel to drink in two meals.

Infusion of flowers: 4 g per 200 ml;1/2 cup 3 times a day for paralysis, loss of strength, etc.

Infusion of the whole plant: 40-60 g per 1 liter of water - for all colds, chronic constipation, migraines, etc.