Yellow jel-echelon: the use of a medicinal plant

Yellow jelly (yellow flower, fierce, icteric spreader, icterus) - a two-year herbaceous plant up to 50 cm in height, with strongly branched stems tapering into petiole, fine-toothed elongated leaves. Fruits - long, tetrahedral, thin pods, gray from pubescence, and seeds - ellipsoidal, yellowish-brown. The plant blooms in May-June, and the ripening of the seeds falls on June-July. This plant is poisonous.

You can meet him in the middle belt of Europe, the Southern Altai, Central Asia, the foothills of the Caucasus, Siberia, the Carpathians, Crimea, Ukraine. The plant is weed, grows in vegetable gardens, arable land, along fields and roads, on stony placers of open-cast mines and ravines, in the steppes. It can be cultivated experimentally in Ukraine, in Siberia, the Central European part of the CIS, and in the North Caucasus.

Procurement for medicinal purposes

For medical purposes, folk healers collect the aboveground part of the plant (grass), less often its seeds. Collect the grass of the jaundice during flowering, cutting off the aerial part without the bare lower stem. After that, the grass immediately laid out for drying in the attic, in the fresh air or in the dryer at 40-60 degrees. Do not allow raw materials to get wet. Finished raw materials are stored for no more than 2 years.

Chemical composition

All parts of the jaundice gray contain cardiac glycosides (cardboard): in seeds and flowers they are from 2 to 6%, in leaves - about 1.5, in roots - 0.2, and in stems - about 0.7%. The main glycosides in the plant are erizimin and erizimoid, which improve the work of the heart. By the nature of the action and speed, erysimine is close to strophanthin, but it acts a little softer and has less toxicity.

Also, icteric gray has free acids (oleic, palmitic, erucic), fatty oil, bitter, organic acids (malic, tartaric and citric) and trace elements.

Yellow jel-echelon: application of herbs

First and foremost, icteric is a very powerful cardiac glycoside, therefore it is often used for chronic and acute heart failure and vascular system, as well as for circulatory disorders and in general for maintaining normal heart function. It is not for nothing that the juice of the herb of icteric is found in the heart drug "Cardiolenum". The icteric helps to expand the peripheral vessels, creating conditions for the effective activity of the heart, it also strengthens the force of the contractions of the heart and lengthens the pause between these contractions (i.e., improves the rhythm of work), helps purge blood vessels. Preparations based on icteric can be used in the treatment and prevention of violations of venous or arterial pressure, rheumatoid lesions of joints and organs, with angina pectoris, diabetes mellitus and cardiosclerosis. As a result, pain in the heart disappears, pressure decreases, edema decreases. The diuretic and soothing properties of this plant are also handy for heart diseases.

Also has the ability to provoke the jaundice gray weight loss. After all, it is known that if with bitter food or tea enter the bitter-containing plants (and the jaundice belongs to them), then sugar in the blood decreases significantly, and with it the level of obesity also decreases.

Due to the expectorant properties of jaundice gray is effective in bronchitis and throat diseases, for which take infusion inside. This infusion is also used in hypertension, arrhythmia, kidney failure, pulmonary tuberculosis, headaches, insomnia as a mild hypnotic, with neuroses and dyspnea - as a sedative, with acute or chronic heart failure or with dropsy of cardiac origin.

In the form of tincture, the herb of icteric is used for ischemic heart disease, bronchial asthma, angina pectoris.

Decoctions of leaves or seeds of plants are used externally as a compress or a lotion for purulent tumors or breast cancer.

In rheumatism, varicose veins, thrombophlebitis or degeneration of the lower extremities, the icteric gray is used in the form of rubbing and compresses.

A powder of grass of this medicinal plant stimulates the activity of the pancreas in cases of decreasing its functions.

Infusions of seeds will help with diarrhea and helminthiases.

Recipes with jelapon

1. For the present, take two cayenne. Spoons of crushed dry icteric (herb) for 200 g of boiling water, cover, stand for two hours, take three times a day on the table. Spoon.

2. When dropsy: pour 100 grams of vodka table. A spoonful of herbs, insist 20 days. Admission three times a day for 10 cap. Not longer than 2 weeks.

3. For emergency help with heart pains prepare a more concentrated tincture: the dry ground grass is covered in a container and poured with vodka to a level on the finger higher than the grass. Take no more than 3 times a day for 20 caps., Not more than 3 days. Such tincture to use is better only at acute necessity.

4. To treat arrhythmia, angina, hypertension, atherosclerosis: 70 g of dry icteric (grass) are poured with 0.5 liters of vodka. 15 days insist, periodically shaking. Take daily 3 times, dripping in a full glass with raw filtered water for 15-20 caps., Before meals. The course is 3 months, the break is a month, if necessary, repeat.

5. In case of heart failure with circulatory disorders, hypertension, angina pectoris, rheumatic malformations and other heart diseases: chayn. L. Herbs are insisted in 600 ml of boiling water for 2 hours, filtered. Take three times a day on the table. L.

6. Tincture tincture: 20 g of crushed propolis is mixed with 30 g of dry, fine jaundice, 500 grams of vodka and half-lemon (whole, pitted) are added. Withstand 14 days. Tincture rubs limbs before going to bed. You can also apply compresses for 1.5 hours.

Contraindications

Yellow jelapone is a poisonous plant. Therefore, its use should be under medical supervision and after consulting a doctor, be sure to observe the exact dosages!

Contraindicated in jelquard during pregnancy, lactation, severe organic cardiac changes, acute myocarditis, endocarditis, severe cardiosclerosis.