Noble grapes - Vitis vinifera L.

GRAPES NOBLE Vitis vinifera L.
Family Vitaceae - Vitaceae .
Grapes noble - woody perennial vine, usually - curly bush 150 - 400 cm tall, with a mustache stem origin. The leaves are alternate, three to five-lobed, toothed with stipules. Flowers small, greenish-yellow, fragrant, have a rudimentary cup and the Five-grown corolla (in cap). The berries are juicy, green or dark red, ripe in August - September. There are many varieties of grapes.
Flowering vines in May and June.
Wild grapes found in southern Ukraine, in the Rostov region of Russia, in the Carpathians. You can grow as a cultivated plant in almost all the territory from the Crimea to Moscow, but the most common plant in the steppe and forest-steppe areas, in Transcarpathia, and particularly in the Crimea, Kuban and the Caucasus.
gather leaves in May - June, berries - in August - September.
Apply as a tool which enhances metabolism and increases the tone of the patient man. Berries (you can also pasteurized juice) consumed in the gastro-intestinal diseases, with the functional neuroses with acidity of gastric juice, with spastic and atonic constipation, hemorrhoids , as eccoprotic, diaphoretic , as a diuretic in jade and urolithiasis , with the liver.
Use with anemia and exhaustion of the nervous system, chronic bronchitis, with emphysema, to increase appetite and as a tonic remedy in the initial stage of pulmonary tuberculosis. Grapes improves blood circulation , lowers blood pressure. The chemical composition of grape juice like milk. High content of sugars, vitamins, salts and organic acids determines the therapeutic effect for different diseases. Begin treatment with a daily amount of 1 kg, which is divided into three portions: the first eaten in the morning on an empty stomach, the next - an hour before lunch and the third - in the evening. Gradually increase the daily quantity of grapes to 2 kg. Course of treatment is 4-6 weeks. At this time, not recommended to eat fatty meat and drink milk, beer, alcoholic drinks and mineral water.
Broth dried grapes with the addition of a small amount of onion juice drink as a remedy for cough and hoarseness. Grape leaves are rich in vitamin C, go to the food (salads, stuffed cabbage, etc.). Powder of dried leaf into use (2-4 g per day) as haemostatic , in particular in the uterine bleeding. The crushed leaves are applied to the purulent wounds and ulcers. Decoction or infusion of grape leaf rinse the throat with tonsillitis and turn them into a lotion for skin diseases. Contraindicated in the treatment of grapes diabetes , ulcers in the mouth and caries , as well as in chronic diarrhea, severe form of tuberculosis, and obesity. There is a special section of medicine for the treatment of grapes, which is called ampeloterapiya .
AMPELOTERAPIYA (from ampela ... and Greek. Therapeia - treatment), botryotherapy, the use of fresh grapes and grape juice for the treatment of various diseases, mostly chronic. He is one of the methods of diet therapy and is used by a doctor in combination with other treatments. On the dietetic and therapeutic properties of grapes wrote in antiquity Hippocrates and his disciple Asclepiades, Pliny, some Arab doctors (Celsus, Avrellon, Abu Bakr al-Razi), and in the Middle Ages - Riverius etc. botryotherapy used empirically (based on experiments).
In Russia questions ampeloterapii were first described in a paper by VN Dmitrieva Treatment of grapes in Yalta, on the southern coast of the Crimea "(1878). Scientific-theoretical basis of treatment of grapes, confirmed by the chemical and physiological studies were laid later, when the 20-ies. group of physicians has developed and implemented in their practice of sanatorium treatment on the southern coast of Crimea (Yalta).
Grapes contain glucose, fructose and other simple digestible sugars. These carbohydrates 1 kg of grapes (with sugar content 16-18%) provides 700-900 calories. In addition, the berries contain various organic acids (malic, tartaric, silicic, citric, succinic, gallic, formic, oxalic, salicylic, pectin), mineral and tannin, trace elements, vitamin C, vitamin B, provitamin A (carotene) , bioflavonoids, some enzymes (invertase, protease, pectinase, etc.), phytoncides. Skin berries contain dyes, wax (pruin) and others
Effects of grapes on the body due to their content of the whole complex of the above substances, but the main therapeutic effect is glucose, potassium salt (about 250 mg%) and water (an average of 70-80%). When ampeloterapii activated exchange processes, particularly water-salt, enhanced secretory ability of the kidneys, more rapidly eliminated from the body of toxic products of metabolism, increases motor function of the intestine, normal secretory function of the stomach, improves appetite. As a dietary product having high nutritional value, can be used in almost all grape varieties in a state of full maturity. The most famous among them still got the following dining varieties:
Pearls Saba, Irsha Oliver, Queen of vineyards, Cardinal. Early Magarach, Chasselas, Chavush, Muscat Hamburg, Senso, Karaburnu, Koarna Neagra, Moldova, etc. Very rich assortment of grapes for ampeloterapii in the Crimea, Stavropol, Kuban, and others, the southern regions. You can not use ampeloterapii hybrids obtained by crossing American and indigenous grape varieties (hybrids-direct producers) - Isabella, Russian Concord, Lydia and others
Applied botryotherapy resorts of the South Coast of Crimea and other Black Sea resorts of Ukraine, on the southern resorts of Russia. Application ampeloterapii recommended for diseases of the heart, bronchus , kidney , liver . Grapes appoint at the gastro-intestinal diseases, accom-ments, varying atonic and spastic constipation, with anemia, gout , chronic forms of pulmonary tuberculosis, with the exhaustion of the nervous system as a means of fortifying after a long debilitating disease.
When ampeloterapii necessary to limit the use of other fruits. You should also avoid consumption of raw vegetables, milk, fatty and salty foods, kvass, mineral waters, alcoholic beverages, because with joint use of increased unrest and disorder can occur in bowel function.
Number of grapes or grape juice, as well as the duration of treatment is assigned individually. Ampeloterapiya contraindicated in diabetes, obesity, ulcers, colitis, accompanied by diarrhea. Also in enteritis and enterocolitis, acute pleurisy, stomatitis, gingivitis, glossitis, acute stage of tuberculosis, etc.
As a concentrated dietary product with high nutritional value and pleasant taste, use dried grapes (raisins, currant and raisin), which contains up to 73% sugar and potassium salts. Pischelekarstvennoe value ampeloterapii are also leaves, young shoots, seeds and husks of grapes.

Achyranthes - Polygonum hydropiper L.

Achyranthes - Prchak Pepper (water pepper) Polygonum hydropiper L.
Family Polygonaceae - Polygonaceae .
Achyranthes - annual herb 30-70 cm tall. Stem cavity, knotted at the top of branching, reddish. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, often with black spots, entire, glabrous, with the basis of bells, the taste of bitter-ostropertsevye. Flowers small, collected in hanging brush, discontinuous gold, green, often pink top. Perianth with 4-5 glubokorazdelnymi particles, corn golden spots, which contains resinous substance.

Blossoms in July - August.
growing , with the exception of wormwood steppes, a very large area in wet areas, near rivers, lakes, ponds, ditches, in moist prileskah. Gather all the grass during flowering in late summer, cutting off her above the ground. Apply as hemostatic , pain tool, mainly in the uterine bleeding ( menoragii , dysmenorrhea , after miscarriage or childbirth) at hemorrhoids , but it is weaker in action than the horns.

use in the form of tea. They take 1 tablespoon of chopped herb Achyranthes to 1 cup of boiled water, 10 minutes. Drink 1-2 glasses a day, gulps. Tincture to alcohol (1:4) use 20 drops three times a day.
M. Nosal recommends decoction of the plant sit for fifteen minutes with the bath hemorrhoids. To do so, 2 liters of water are taking a full handful mountaineer pepper, boil for 15 minutes, and insist 20 minutes. Pour into bowl, add 2 cups very hot milk, in which 400 g chopped cooked white bread. Baths take on a daily basis in the course of the month. Used for manufacture of ointment in the treatment of hemorrhoidal pain and cones with itching in the anus (see Lenok ordinary).
When headaches are making a mustard plaster on his head instead of crushed fresh herb Polygonum pepper, which operates more than dried. Fresh plant juice smeared animal wounds, that they can not sit down flies; fresh leaves shifted svezheposolennoe meat that flies do not carry the eggs there.

City Geum - Geum urbanum L.
City Geum - Geum urbanum L.

Geum CITY Geum urbanum L.
Family Pink - Rosaceae
Geum City - a perennial herb 60 cm tall, with a many-headed rhizome, reddish, which taste and smell like cloves. The stem is hollow, branched, straight, rough-hairy. Leaves myagkovolosistye, Radical - velikoperistye, stem - sessile, trehrozdelnolopastevye. Flowers on long pedicels - single, Five-yellow. Seeds have hooks that cling to clothes.
blossoms in June-August.
growing mainly in the chernozem zone throughout its territory - in the bushes, forests, littered the ground, sometimes under the fences estates.
gather all the plant - during flowering, roots - in the autumn. Applied as anti and antiseptic means when mucous diarrhea , catarrh of the stomach and large intestines , with internal bleeding ; indisposition nervous nature; hemorrhoids ; in inflammation of the lungs, as expectorant tool and night sweats ; with vomiting ; swelling and pain in abdomen; with abnormal liver function .
Use as a tincture, broth and oil. On I take a glass of boiling water 1 teaspoon of herbs Geum and insist 10 minutes. Stronger roots are in the same dose, but they had to cook for 10 minutes. Drink 1-2 glasses a day, gulps. Sweet decoction roots Geum use for pain in women, to rinse the mouth and throat at angina , stomatitis and gingivitis and Bath children with rickets and scrofula . In gingivitis, amphodontosis - oil, infused for 14 days on the roots of Geum in the ratio of 2:1 (clove oil), smeared with bleeding gums.
Versatility of the predetermine therapeutic glycoside , gein , tannins (40%). bitterness, resins and essential oil, which has the smell of cloves (derived from geina - eugenola).
Geum is a relative of urban Sievers Mountain , or the mountain avens (Parageum montanum (L.) Hara). Grows in the Carpathian Mountains, on subalpiyskih and alpine meadows. From its roots to prepare a broth. 1 tablespoon crushed roots are boiled in enamel vessel in 1 cup water for 3-5 minutes. Consumed 100 ml three times a day. The therapeutic effect explains the rich content of tannins, flavonoids , etc. Drink at the gastro-intestinal diseases ( diarrhea , gastritis ) after three days of fasting, when peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenal ulcers, acute and chronic cholecystitis, cystitis and tsistopielitah, menooligorei, hemorrhoids. Externally, used for rinsing the mouth with paradontosis ( amphodontosis ), gingivitis , stomatitis , hemorrhoids (in the form of ointments and poultices for swollen nodes).
plant is not poisonous.