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Useful properties and use of jaundice herb
Botanical characteristics of gray jaundice
Yellow jel-echelon – a biennial herbaceous plant belonging to the cruciferous family. The grass in the first year gives a basal rosette of oblong leaves. The second year of life of the jaundice is marked by the appearance of several stems with branches, the height of the plant during this period reaches 30–80 cm. Regular, linear-oblong leaves grow on the branches. The flowers bloom from May to June, they are small, yellow, collected in an inflorescence – a brush. Seeds are located in the fruit – a pod, its length is 4-7 centimeters.
Gray jaundice is a resident of the wild, he chooses the forest-steppe and steppe of the European part of Russia, he can be found in the Crimea, in the north of the Caucasus, in Central Asia. This plant is specially grown in Ukraine and the Krasnodar Territory. You can harvest gray jaundice during flowering.
Useful properties of jaundice
In all parts of the plant, cardiac glycosides (eryzimin, eryzimoside) have been found to have a calming effect. Jaundice seeds contain fatty oil, which contains oleic, erucic, palmitic, linoleic and linolenic acids.
The herb has anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, wound-healing characteristics. It is called a heart herb, hypotensive, diuretic and expectorant properties of the plant are noted.
The use of jaundice
Jaundice gray is used to normalize the work of the cardiovascular system. Grass improves the function of the neuromuscular apparatus of the heart, affects the restoration of the normal state of internal organs. Means based on jaundice are distinguished by high biological activity, effective action in inflammatory and traumatic processes on the skin and organs.
With lesions of the skin, the use of herbs improves cell nutrition, softens dry skin. Under the action of glucosides, edema decreases due to diuretic properties. The best result from the action of gray jaundice is observed with circulatory disorders.
Decoctions and tinctures of jaundice are useful for heart defects, and atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis can also be treated with these drugs. Also, after the use of drugs based on jaundice, there is an improvement in the functional state of the cardiovascular system, the rate of blood circulation and the state of the vascular myocardium are normalized.
A decoction of jaundice: you should take 2 teaspoons of raw materials and 1 cup of boiling water, leave for half an hour, take 1 teaspoon three times a day.
Infusion of jaundice: it will require 0,5 teaspoon of gray jaundice and 1 cup of boiling water. It is necessary to insist the remedy for 2 hours, take after straining 1 tablespoon 3 times a day, store in the cold. The course without a break is 2 months. Effective infusion for liver failure.
Recipe for kvass with jaundice: take 50 grams of dry jaundice herb, 1 teaspoon of sour cream, 1 glass of sugar, 3 liters of cooled boiled water. Mix all the ingredients and leave to ferment for two weeks at room temperature. All this time the mixture must be stirred. You need to take half a glass of kvass half an hour before meals three times a day. Taking half a glass of liquid from the container, add the same amount of boiled water and one teaspoon of sugar.
Additionally, the well-known academician B.V. Bolotov recommends taking 0,1 g of dry jaundice herb powder to stimulate the pancreas. The insulin produced will provide the heart with nutrients in case of arrhythmia, renal or cardiac dropsy, heart attack and angina pectoris.
Jaundice left-shaped
It is known that the left-shaped jaundice accumulates the maximum amount of glycosides during active flowering, so this time is suitable for collecting medicinal raw materials. The unique properties of the plant have been used for a long time. If you urgently need help with heart problems, then an infusion or decoction of seeds and leaves is a lifesaver. After taking these natural drugs, the pulse evens out, the heart rhythm normalizes. Useful zheltushnik left-shaped for patients with diabetes mellitus. The plant contributes to the sufficient production of insulin. Recommended external use of products based on this type of jaundice for the treatment of breast cancer in women or purulent tumors.
Tincture of left jaundice: 30 g of grass, 20 g of propolis, zest of 1 lemon must be poured with 500 ml of 40-degree alcohol and insisted for 2 weeks. Every day before going to bed, you should lightly rub your legs with varicose veins, you can make compresses, applying a bandage for 1,5 hours.
Contraindications to the use of jaundice
We must not forget that jaundice is a poisonous plant. It can cause a negative effect on the heart with severe atherosclerosis, cardiosclerosis, endocarditis. Contraindications are: acute myocarditis, an increase in the left ventricle and changes in the vessels of the retina of the fundus.