Polemonium coeruleum L.

Polemonium coeruleum L.
Polemonium coeruleum L.
Polemonium coeruleum L.

Polemonium coemleum L.
Family Polemoniaceae - Polemoniaceae
Sinyukha Lazorevaya - a herbaceous annual plant up to 120 cm tall. Rhizome her thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, short - no more than 5 cm, creeping, with fine fibrous roots; first bitter taste, then sweet, with a feeling of mucus. Stems mostly solitary, simple, erect, uniformly leafy.
The leaves are alternate, imparipinnate, with numerous oblong-ovate leaves, Bottom - at the outlet. Flowers blue, purple or blue, collected in the apical long or kistepodobnuyu panicle. Fruit-almost spherical capsule, which are easy to crack.
Flowers in June - July.
Grows in Polesie, the forest-steppe, except Pokuttia and Podolia, in the steppes in the north-east, forest clearings, on wet ground, on the banks of rivers, on the forested slopes of the mountains and among the bushes. Distributed in Belarus, is found in South-East European part of Russia, more often - in a northern forest zone. Divorce as a cultivated plant. Gather rhizomes with roots in the autumn, they were quickly washed and cut lengthwise. To dry in the sun and can be.
Apply as expectorant tool for acute and chronic bronchitis, pertussis , tuberculosis light, in particular, even with hemoptysis (action saponins), and as sedative for various nervous and mental diseases, calms the central nervous system and reduces its reflex excitability is 8-10 times stronger than valerian . This explains the useful effect of cyanosis in a mixture of dried flowers from the marsh in the treatment of peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum (the action of resins, organic acids, fatty and essential oils, and others not yet studied, substances which have an effect on the nervous system). Patients disappears symptom burden, diminished dispepsichnye phenomenon, the general condition improves, increased body weight.
Atherosclerosis triterpene saponins cyanosis reduce the amount of cholesterol in the blood.
Use . In 1 cup of water boil for 30 minutes 1 tablespoon minced root cyanosis and drink three times a day and 1 tablespoon broth in 2 hours after meals.
In the treatment of peptic ulcer in half an hour before a meal consume an additional share for 1 tablespoon of broth of dried flowers of marsh (1 tablespoon of herbs to 1 cup of boiling water). The course lasts 3 weeks. Instead of broth can be served liquor in alcohol - taking 25 g of crushed rhizomes with roots in 100 g of alcohol. Drink three times a day, 15 drops per teaspoon of water 2 hours after meals.