Blue cyanosis is a beautiful plant with bright blue or purple flowers collected in paniculate inflorescences at the top of the stems. This herb not only has an unusual attractive appearance, but is also able to get rid of many ailments.
Description of the plant
Blue cyanosis belongs to the cyanosis family. This is a perennial with a horizontal rhizome and thin adventitious roots. Stems hollow, solitary. The lower leaves are petiolate, and the upper ones are sessile, pinnate.
Blue cyanosis blooms with large blue or purple flowers. They are collected in inflorescences resembling a panicle. After flowering, boxes with spherical fruits are formed. They contain numerous seeds.
In the first year of growth, blue cyanosis grows root mass, so it does not bloom. Flowers bloom only from the second year of life. Flowering occurs at the beginning of summer and does not last long: the seeds ripen in August.
Where it grows
In the wild, the plant is found in European countries, in Asia, in Siberia, in the Caucasus, incentral zone of the Russian Federation, in Kazakhstan. This grass prefers to grow in wetlands, edges and clearings, along river banks and where there are sparse forests. Now the flower is grown in gardens as an ornamental crop.
The plant has long been used in Russia. They were treated for insomnia, rabies, mental illness, epilepsy. In the last century, official medicine paid attention to cyanosis. After studying the composition, saponins were found in the grass: the use of blue cyanosis instead of senega, which was imported from America, began to be considered. After a series of tests, scientists managed to find out that our cyanosis is superior in many respects to senegia. Now they even began to cultivate the plant for raw materials.
Composition of grass
The healing properties of cyanosis blue are determined by its chemical composition. This plant contains up to thirty percent of saponins, resinous substances, organic acids, essential oils, ash, macro- and microelements, including iron. The grass contains a lot of magnesium, potassium, calcium, sulfur and other elements.
Healing properties
The unique properties of blue cyanosis are valued because of the saponins that make up the plant: thanks to them, the plant has an expectorant property.
Infusions and decoctions of herbs can reduce physical activity, excitability. They are able to regulate motor function, excitability. Herbal remedies help stimulate the adrenal glands and also regulate lipid metabolism. Drugs accelerate clottingblood, inhibit the development of atherosclerosis.
Infusions and decoctions can be used as a good sedative for CNS disorders, for pathologies associated with impaired cholesterol metabolism.
Traditional medicine for diseases
Rhizome, blue cyanosis root, used as an expectorant, sedative, wound healing agent. Decoctions, infusions are made from it, which are taken in acute and chronic bronchitis, in acute respiratory diseases. The herb has proven itself in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Infusions from the plant are used for epilepsy, whooping cough, fever. Cyanosis helps with ulcers of the duodenum and stomach, with dysentery. Concentrated infusions are used externally as poultices for snake bites.
The vegetative part is excellent for dysentery, for nervous diseases, as a sedative, expectorant. The powder from the plant is used for the bites of rabid animals.
In gynecology, with leucorrhoea, women are advised to use cyanosis flowers.
Recipes for preparation and dosage
Before using the herb, it is necessary not only to find out the medicinal properties of blue cyanosis and contraindications, but also to consult a doctor.
To make an infusion, you need to take two tablespoons of the roots and pour them into a glass of water. It is better to immediately place the raw materials in an enamel bowl, in which the product is brought to a boil, boiled forfifteen minutes. Then the composition is allowed to cool, and then filtered. The resulting volume of infusion is adjusted to two hundred grams: topped up with cooled boiled water. Then the product is allowed to brew for at least an hour. It is taken on a spoon no more than five times a day as an expectorant. With an ulcer, the composition is taken in a spoon no more than three times a day.
Decoction is prepared from the grass. For him, you need five grams of the plant, pour a glass of water and boil for twenty minutes over low heat. Then the composition is filtered, taken in a spoon no more than five times a day after meals.
In folk medicine, powder from the root is used. To prepare medicine from it, you will need to take six grams of powder and pour a glass of boiling water. The remedy is infused for an hour. Taken in a tablespoon three times a day.
Fee with cyanosis
For the preparation of the medicine in all the recipes below, the herbs are taken in equal parts and mixed. Then a spoonful of the mixture is poured with two glasses of boiling water for three hours. Means are taken before meals on a spoon no more than four times a day.
- From bronchitis. For its treatment, cyanosis root, fennel, chicory, hoof leaves, sage, herbs of sweet clover, primrose, chandra, chamomile are taken. The remedy is accepted for thirty days.
- For the treatment of pneumonia, it is necessary to take cyanosis roots, fennel, rose hips, veronica, motherwort, sage, pine buds, plantain, clover flowers, hawthorn, calendula. Composition is accepted month.
- Used for peptic ulcercyanosis root, calamus, oregano, knotweed, flax seeds, rosehip, lemon balm - the remedy is taken for seven weeks.
- You can get rid of chronic duodenitis by taking a remedy prepared from cyanosis root, urban gravilate, herb lamb, yarrow, nettle, sweet clover, flax seeds, rose petals, hop fruits. Composition is accepted for five weeks.
- In case of hyperthyroidism, they take cyanosis root, celandine, St. John's wort, hawthorn, fireweed, mountain ash. The composition is accepted for eleven weeks.
- With menopause, the composition, which includes cyanosis root, rosemary shoots, cuff, strawberry leaves, sage, hawthorn, sweet clover, mint, lamb, calendula and chamomile, helps with menopause. Remedy is taken four months.
- From migraine: cyanosis root, flaxseed, verbena, oregano, calendula.
- The following remedy saves from depression: cyanosis root, sage, celandine, lemon balm, St. John's wort, tartar, linden, calendula, chamomile, hawthorn.
There are many other fees that help with a variety of pathologies, which include cyanosis.
This video presents the beneficial properties of the plant.
Overdose, contraindications
Relative contraindications for blue cyanosis include high blood pressure. To the absolute - a violation of blood clotting, increased thrombosis, intolerance to one of the components that make up the herb.
With uncontrolled use of the plant, side effects may occur in the form of vomiting, nausea, shortness of breath, headaches, diarrhea.
Cultivation of cyanosis
Many people who do not trust official medicine grow cyanosis and other medicinal herbs on their own plots.
The plant is easy to care for: it is worth planting once. Seeds are harvested after browning the box. Before sowing, the seeds are prepared: a month before planting, they are covered with wet sand and placed in the refrigerator for three weeks. This method is suitable for growing plants in the spring. In the fall, it is best to let the seeds go through a natural stratification: they are sown in beds, and in the spring, the plant sprouts. This is how seeds germinate in natural conditions.
Planting seeds is not deep - about two centimeters. They are covered with soil and watered.
Caring for the plant is simple: you need timely loosening, weeding, watering.
In the first year, cyanosis grows roots and does not give color. Such a plant is not suitable for treatment. In folk medicine, only adult specimens that have bloomed are used.
The vegetative part is harvested during flowering, cutting it at a level of twenty centimeters from the soil. If necessary, leave two or three branches with seeds.
Collection of the roots is carried out after the upper part dries. Dead leaves are cut off, the roots are washed with water.
Root preparations are dried in the sun, and the upper part is under a canopy. Ready raw materials are stored in a dark glass container for no more than a year.
The use of any folk remedy requires a mandatory consultation with the doctor, sincethey all have contraindications. Moreover, the treatment of cyanosis should be carried out only under the supervision of a physician. This herb is potent, and if the dosage is violated, there may be poisoning.
