Pustusoplader
Leonurus quinquelobatus Gilib (L. villosus Desf.)
Botanical characteristics. The family is labial. A perennial herbaceous plant with a tetrahedral stem up to 1-1.5 m in height. It has a vertical rhizome, gradually turning into a root root. Leaves palchato-five- and threefold, cross-resistant. The pinkish-violet flowers are located in the axils of the leaves on the top of the stem. Cups of flowers and fruits covered with spiny hairs. Blossoms in June-July, fruits ripen in August-September.
Spread. It grows mainly on wastelands, where there used to be housing, it occurs as a weed in gardens and orchards. It is widely distributed throughout the European territory of our country and in Western Siberia, except the Far North and deserts.
Used parts of the plant.
Blossoming flowering tops.
They found alkaloids, sugars, bitter, tannins, up to 0.06% essential oil, p-coumaric acid, ascorbic acid and carotene, flavonoids (quercetin, rutin, quinqueloside) and glycosides. The chemical composition of the motherwort has been studied completely.
Application.
Has a pronounced hypotensive effect, therefore it is successfully used in hypertensive disease of stages I-II. Motherwort also has a sedative effect on the central nervous system, increases the strength of heartbeats and slows the heart rate. Assign frostbite preparations in hysteria, neuroses, angina pectoris, cardiosclerosis, myocarditis, thyrotoxicosis.
Motherwort has a therapeutic effect with chorea, menopausal complaints, with painful and irregular menstruation.
As a general restorative, light anti-inflammatory and diuretic, it is used for diseases of the respiratory tract, tuberculosis, anemia and chlorosis, as well as cardiovascular insufficiency of I-II degree.
The leaves of the motherwort are prescribed for the treatment of glaucoma and as a diuretic.
"It is also used for gastrointestinal diseases, for chronic catarrhs of large intestines, for gastric spasms, etc. In many cases it was necessary to observe the cure of chronic intestinal patients after a three-week intake of motherwort" (MA Nosal, IM Nosal).
Preparation. 2-3 tablespoons of herbs to insist in 1.5-2.5 cups of boiling water (daily dose).
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