Japanese Sophora, whose tincture has healing properties, is a tree that grows mainly in the state of the same name and China. It belongs to the legume family, reaches a height of 25 m, and its crown has a spherical wide shape. Japanese Sophora blooms, the tincture of which today has become widely used in medicine, in July-August, its fruits are juicy, reddish beans collected in pods (when ripe).
This plant owes its healing properties to the substances contained in it. For the preparation of medicinal preparations, mainly fruits and flowers are used. In particular, it contains Sophora japonica, the tincture of which accumulates beneficial properties, such substances as flavonoids, various alkaloids (matrine, pahikarpin, sofokarpin), quartzetin, kaempferol, vitamin C, organic acids. Particular attention should be paid to the routine, which has the properties of vitamin P and gives elasticity to blood vessels. Flowers are harvested when they are just beginning to bloom, beans - in dry weather after ripening. The finished raw materials are stored in paper multilayer bags. Before that, it is dried in specialcells or premises.
Japanese Sophora is the basis for various preparations, tincture is the most famous of them. In official therapy, the drug "Pahikarpin" is prepared from this plant, which is used for various diseases accompanied by spasms of peripheral vessels, to relieve a hypertensive crisis, and it is also used for myopathies.
In folk medicine, Japanese Sophora is used much more widely: its fruits, flowers and leaves are processed into various preparations. They are used for skin diseases, pulmonary bleeding, sleep disorders, high blood pressure, dysentery, inflammation, ulcers (duodenum, stomach). Japanese Sophora is used, which is easy to buy at any pharmacy today, to improve appetite.
In addition, it is used to treat hemorrhagic vasculitis. Sophora is used for angina pectoris, diabetes mellitus, rheumatism, sclerotic stratification of the walls of blood vessels, diseases of the liver and stomach. The fruits of the tree serve as raw materials for the manufacture of preparations, where one of the main elements is rutin. They help in the treatment of deep wounds and trophic ulcers. These drugs have a pronounced bactericidal effect. They can be used to treat festering wounds.
In folk medicine, liquid infusions on fruits are used externally for frostbite, burns, skin tuberculosis, psoriasis, lupus. Orally, they are used to stop internal bleeding, treat typhus, hemorrhoids, gum disease. Helpsinfusion for barley and runny nose. Essential and alcohol extracts from fruits can be used as an antimicrobial agent (E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus).
There are drugs based on Sophora and contraindications. They can not be used for pronounced diseases of the kidneys and liver, disorders of the cardiovascular system. They are not recommended for children under 14, pregnant women.
