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Useful properties and use of butterbur
Botanical characteristics of the white ungulate
Butterbur is a herbaceous perennial plant that has a horizontal thick rhizome. The root is located in the upper layer of soil or on the surface of the soil. Large basal leaves have a rounded shape with unevenly serrated edges. The height of reddish flower stalks can reach 60 cm. Bulky large leaves are seated on the stems. After flowering, they form interesting rosettes.
Dirty purple flowers have a strong aroma. Graceful flower baskets are represented by tassels. The fruit is expressed by an achene with a tuft. Butterbur flowers in April and early May, bears fruit in mid-May. This plant prefers to settle along the banks of rivers, in ravines and near ponds. Butterbur grows in the central and southern regions of Russia.
Useful properties of butterbur
Tannins, triterpene saponins, essential oil, alkaloids, resinous substances, flavonoids, inulin, petazol, mucus, tannins, a large amount of manganese and organic acids were found in the rhizomes of this plant.
Butterbur leaves boast the same chemical composition. The inflorescences contain twice as much flavonoids as the roots. This plant has a unique diaphoretic, antispasmodic, expectorant, hypotensive, anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant and antihelminthic properties. In addition, its analgesic and wound-healing effect should also be noted.
The use of butterbur
For wound healing, it is recommended to apply crushed fresh leaves of this plant to them. Along with this, butterbur is an effective remedy for reducing and eliminating edematous areas on the body. To do this, you need to use a healing infusion. To prepare it, you need 2 tsp. raw materials and one glass of boiling water. The mixture should be insisted for at least one hour, after which it is taken 50 grams 4 times a day.
The use of butterbur leaves in other preparations can cure anacid gastritis and bladder diseases. For rheumatic and gouty pains, dressings from the brewed leaves of this plant are prescribed.
butterbur roots. To prepare a decoction, take 2 tsp. dry roots and fill them with a glass of hot water. Then the mixture should be boiled for 15 minutes, after which it should be infused for one hour. It is necessary to take a decoction during acute respiratory infections and for peptic ulcers, 30 ml up to five times a day.
Butterbur officinalis
Such a herbaceous plant from the Compositae family grows up to two meters in height, creating very dense thickets. It begins flowering in April, delighting with small red flowers that are collected in baskets. Large lower leaves of butterbur can reach 30 cm in length. They are used for medicinal purposes.
Leaves should be harvested in August, when rusty spots appear. A decoction of the leaves is used for colds, coughs, inflammations, bruises and wounds, as well as ulcers and boils. Such a diaphoretic, expectorant and analgesic is also prescribed for the destruction of helminthic parasites.
Butterbur hybrid
Butterbur hybrid is a common plant that is often found at the bottom of ravines and on the banks of rivers. A strong flower-bearing stem is decorated with a thick cover of leaves of a greenish-beetroot hue. A fairly dense inflorescence after a certain period of time is drawn into an interesting long brush. Butterbur hybrid is distinguished by dark pink flowers and rounded leaves with a heart-shaped shape.
Butterbur wide
Butterbur broad is a perennial that has a branched rhizome. The maximum height of the thickets of this plant can reach one and a half meters. Dense spike-shaped inflorescences appear in early spring, after the snow melts. In late spring, powerful large leaves develop on rather long petioles. It should be noted that they die off in autumn at the first frost.
Butterbur is widely distributed in Sakhalin and the Kuriles, as well as in Japan. This plant prefers valley floodplain forests, mountain depressions. Often butterbur settles along the banks of rivers and small streams. From the flowers of this unique plant, you can prepare an excellent remedy for improving digestion.
Japanese Butterbur
The delightful Japanese Butterbur is a chic ornamental plant that can grow up to 45 cm in height. This butterbur is often used as a groundcover that suppresses weed growth. This herb has pale yellow flowers that are collected in flawless globular inflorescences. They appear at the end of April, that is, a few months earlier than large plate-shaped leaves.
Butterbur false
Butterbur is a perennial plant with a long creeping rhizome. The fluffy stem grows up to 20 cm in height. It is covered with lanceolate scaly leaves. Numerous baskets are expressed in a pointed inflorescence. When fruiting, they are larger. Cylindrical achenes about 2 mm in size have a slightly ribbed shape. The bats of the false butterbur are silvery.
The distribution area of this plant is represented by Siberia, Europe, Central Asia. False butterbur prefers to settle on the sandy shores of lakes and rivers, often forming continuous dense thickets.
Butterbur cold
Butterbur cold is a perennial plant with basal triangular leaves and a long creeping root. The fluffy stem of the cold butterbur reaches a height of 40 cm, with fruits it can grow up to 70 cm. The basket of this species of butterbur reaches a length of 13 mm, while its width is 5 mm.
The presented plant can be found in Northern Eurasia. Cold butterbur chooses sedge and peat bogs, stream banks, moss tundras and forest hollows.
Contraindications white ungulate
Such a poisonous plant should be used with undoubted caution, observing the exact dosage. In addition, butterbur is contraindicated during pregnancy at any time.