Useful properties and application of the root and tincture of Potentilla white
Botanical characteristics of Potentilla
White bloodroot is a very rare plant that is found only in the wild. In Russia, its habitat is extremely limited. In height, the plant does not exceed 30 cm. Each leaf of the white cinquefoil rests on a fairly long petiole. This grass grows in open places where there is a lot of sun. It blooms with delicate white flowers, creating a magnificent coverlet. The creeping root can reach 1 m in length. This plant is unique in the content of a large number of various trace elements. Potentilla white is able to normalize the metabolism in the human body, as well as even out the hormonal balance.
Creeping shoots reach 80 cm in length. The pinnate leaves of this herb have a green tint above, and below they are white due to silky pubescence. Potentilla has beautiful flowers that can be white, yellow or red, depending on the variety, arranged singly on a long thin pedicel that emerges from the leaf axils located at the top of the stem. Single yellow flowers are placed on long stalks and have 5 petals. The fruit of the white cinquefoil is presented in the form of nuts. This herb blooms all summer, from May to August.
Potentilla fruit – several dark olive nuts, most often they are smooth, but sometimes with wrinkles. Potentilla flowering begins in late spring – early summer. But it will take 3 weeks for the fruit to ripen after flowering begins. Potentilla is often found in the Urals, Western Siberia and the Caucasus. For this plant, fresh and moist soils, sandy loamy lands in forests are best suited. This grass grows in clearings, edges in forests, pastures, on the banks of swamps, streams and clearings.
Potentilla is a rather whimsical plant. The main condition for caring for Potentilla is regular watering of the soil. In the spring, cinquefoil needs mineral fertilizer. In summer, the soil on which Potentilla grows needs to be loosened and weeded. Potentilla is a plant that calmly tolerates cold, so in winter it does not need shelter.
Useful properties of Potentilla
Potentilla white is an excellent diuretic, it does not irritate the kidneys. In addition, it is often used as an anesthetic. This plant is a source of tannins, the main of which is catechin, which improves digestion, which is why it is called the “friend of the stomach.” Potentilla is used as an astringent, anti-inflammatory and bactericidal agent. This plant owes its anti-inflammatory action to those tannins that, by creating a biological film, protect tissues from any influences (chemical, mechanical or bacterial) that cause inflammation.
Potentilla has the ability to reduce capillary permeability and constrict blood vessels. It is used for coughs and colds, as it has an expectorant. In addition, this plant is used for the preparation of drugs that have a diuretic effect.
The use of cinquefoil
In modern pharmacology and folk medicine, goose cinquefoil is used in the treatment of diseases such as gastritis, pancreatitis, ulcers and urolithiasis. Along with this, she copes well with colic and diarrhea. A decoction of cinquefoil is excellent for convulsions and asthma attacks, and also significantly relieves pain in women during menstruation. It should be noted that goose cinquefoil is also used as an external agent.
For medicinal purposes, the rhizome, leaves and aerial parts of the plant are used. Potentilla decoction is used for cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis. Tincture with the addition of olive oil is used in the presence of cracks in the skin.
A decoction of the rhizomes of the plant helps to cope with diarrhea, and it is also used for stomatitis, gingivitis and sore throat. Tincture and decoction help with dysentery and internal bleeding.
Potentilla is used not only inside, but it is also used externally. For example, cinquefoil is used externally as a remedy for the treatment of sore throats, ulcers, burns, stomatitis and periodontal disease. Potentilla infusion helps in the treatment of diseases of the kidneys and lungs. An ointment is also prepared from cinquefoil, which is used for panaritiums, wounds and cracks on the lips. Powder is also made from cinquefoil, which is used as a powder on burns, weeping wounds, and with external bleeding. Potentilla helps to get rid of bad breath.
Potentilla is part of many fees that are used in the treatment of the bladder, kidneys, gout and mycosis.
A decoction of rhizomes of Potentilla. To prepare it, take 1 tablespoon of the rhizomes of the plant, pour a glass of boiling water and put on low heat for 15 minutes. After cooling the broth, it must be filtered. Take a ready-made broth 3, and you can 4 times a day, 1 tablespoon. The decoction should be consumed an hour and a half before meals. You can make lotions from this decoction for hemorrhoids.
A decoction of herbs can be used to wash various wounds on the skin, rinse the mouth and throat with ulcerative stomatitis and tonsillitis, and you can also lubricate chapped lips for quick healing.
Potentilla tea for mouthwash. It is necessary to take 2 teaspoons of Potentilla rhizomes and pour 300 ml of boiling water over them, then leave them on fire for 10 minutes. Apply the medicine several times a day as a means for rinsing or irrigating the oral cavity.
Potentilla root
Potentilla goose roots are mainly used for sore throats. For this, the rhizomes are poured with boiling water and infused until completely cooled. Then 2 tablespoons of the decoction is taken before meals.
Infusion of cinquefoil
You can insist this herb on boiling water and milk. To do this, you need to pour 1 tablespoon of chopped Potentilla with 1 cup of boiling water or 1 cup of hot goat milk and boil for 5-7 minutes, then let it brew for a couple of hours, and then strain. You should take this tincture at least three times a day before meals, 1/3 cup. Such a diuretic will ease the course of nephritis and urolithiasis, also helps with bronchitis and relieves weakness in the legs.
Potentilla seeds
In various gynecological diseases, goose cinquefoil seeds are no less effective than pharmacological preparations. To prepare a decoction, pour 1 teaspoon of seeds with 1 glass of water, then bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes, then cool and strain. Assign such a decoction 2 times a day for half a cup.
Potentilla flowers
In folk medicine, for cramps, spasms of the calves of the legs, as well as for women’s ailments, medicinal tea from the flowers of this herb is used.
Types of Potentilla
Spine-bearer erect – This is a special perennial plant with a tuberous rhizome. It can reach a height of 20 cm. The erect stems have many leaves, which are slightly hairy on both sides. The diameter of the flowers is no more than 1 cm. The erect cinquefoil blooms for two months – in June and July. It is widespread in Russia, and in Ukraine, and in Moldova, and in Belarus.
As a rule, the plant settles in light forests, swamps and pastures. In folk medicine, not only rhizomes are used, but also stems, flowers and leaves. Potentilla erectus is an excellent hemostatic and anti-inflammatory agent.
Perennial cinquefoil silvery – this is a herbaceous plant that is common in the Caucasus, Siberia and some CIS countries. The height of the stems is on average within half a meter. The long root of silver cinquefoil is spindle-shaped. The plant has a strong erect stem with five-parted leaves. The fruit is presented in the form of wrinkled nuts.
Light yellow flowers are collected in a loose panicle. This grass blooms all summer until the end of September. Preparations containing silver cinquefoil have a hemostatic, astringent, anthelmintic and anti-inflammatory effect.
Upright shoulder blade (kalgan) – This is one of the varieties of this perennial herbaceous plant with erect stems. Basal leaves are divided into several segments. The fruit is a smooth multi-nutlet of a dark olive hue. Potentilla-galangal blooms from May to August, and the fruits ripen 20 days after the end of flowering. This type of grass is common in the Urals and the Caucasus, and is also found in Western Siberia. Kalgan is incredibly effective in treating dysentery.
Yellow cinquefoil is a perennial herb with palmately divided leaves and attractive yellow flowers. Such a plant is photophilous and winter-hardy. It prefers to grow in partial shade. The complex fruit consists of seeds. The time of flowering of Potentilla yellow is from the end of April to the middle of May.
Potentilla red – This is an unusual hybrid variety of a rhizomatous herbaceous plant. This herb has trigeminal peppery leaves and delicate dark purple corollas. This spectacular species of plant with double flowers blooms all summer until early September. This is a whimsical plant and chooses fertile soils. Potentilla red can be found in central Russia. The roots of this herb are used in folk medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent.
Potentilla Nepalese – a beautiful perennial plant, often grows up to 50-60 cm in height. This grass has a huge number of peduncles and pleases with flowering all the summer months. Potentilla Nepalese chooses sunny areas for growth, but it can also grow well in partial shade. The plant tolerates short winter cold quite calmly. A decoction of such a herb has a hemostatic and slight antimicrobial effect.
Potentilla Volga considered an almost extinct species. This plant could be found in the Saratov region of Russia on the chalk slopes. Currently, this species is practically not found in the wild.
Contraindications to the use of cinquefoil
Potentilla is strictly contraindicated in hypotensive patients due to its side effect of lowering blood pressure.