Useful and medicinal properties of rhodiola rosea( golden root)
Perennial herbaceous plant with a thickened bronze, inside a lemon-yellow rhizome, with the smell of rose oil and a bitter-astringent taste. Stems are straight, unbranched, up to 70 cm( sometimes up to 1 m) in height under favorable conditions and up to 10 cm in the depressed. The leaves are light green, tender, fleshy, oval-ovoid, often with jagged edges. Flowers small, same-sex, dicotyledons, corolla four-lobed, golden-yellow, blushing when ripe, collected in the corymbose inflorescence on the tips of the stems. Blooms in June and first half of July.
grows most often in moist meadows, along stony banks of mountain rivers and in tundra.
Medicinal raw materials are the roots of flowering plants in the second half of July and the first half of August.
Rhizome cleaned from the ground, dried in the shade, and then in dryers at a temperature of 50-60 ° C, pre-cut into pieces.
The raw material contains tannins, essential oils, organic acids( gallic, oxalic, succinic and malic), sugars, lactins, sterols and flavone compounds. Tarozol and glycoside - rhodiolozide were isolated from the root.
In folk medicine vodka tincture rhizomes( 1:10) have been used for over 400 years with diseases of the stomach, malaria, nervous diseases, impotence, loss of strength, fatigue and as a restorative and tonic.
Pharmacological and pharmacological studies of rhizomes showed that the plant has a pronounced psychostimulating, adaptogenic effect. Extract from roots and rhizomes( 1: 1) on 40 ° alcohol has not only a stimulating and adaptogenic effect( similarly with preparations of ginseng and eleutherococcus), but also lowers arterial pressure.
Golden root is shown in functional diseases of the nervous system - asthenic conditions, insomnia, increased irritability, various neuroses, hypotension, nervous and physical exhaustion, with increased mental work. In such cases take 10-20 days 30 minutes before meals 5-10 drops of extract 1-2 times a day. The dose of daily intake can not be increased: the drug has a high biological activity. External extract is used as a highly effective wound healing agent for lubrication with pyorrhea, small cuts and rinsing with angina( diluted in water).
In the experiments, good results were obtained in the treatment of the extract of sexual disorders in men and amenorrhea. In these cases, 10-15 drops of extract were prescribed for 3 months.
The golden root is contraindicated in case of severe symptoms of nervous diseases and exhaustion of cortical cells.
Application of
The extract is prepared at 40 ° alcohol in a ratio of raw material to extractor 1: 1.10 drops per reception 2-3 times a day.