Ash semolina
National names: an ashen god-send, heavenly bread.
The chemist's name: the dried up juice (gum) from a trunk of an ash-tree semolina - Manna.
The botanical description. A tree of 8-10 m in height, with a smooth grey bark, leaves and yellow-white , collected in the dense, pull together whisks. Grow up to Sicily together with olives and chestnuts; it has got accustomed and in Crimea, on caucasus and in Australia. Operating substances: to 90 % , glucose, fructose and others of sugar, pitch, slime and unique .
Application. The god-send operates as soft laxative and consequently is used basically for these purposes in practice of treatment of children.
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National names: Ivanovs of a hand, an orchid.
Used parts: affiliated tubers.
The chemist's name: tubers - Salep tuber (earlier: Tubera Salep).
The botanical description. When it is a question of several kinds even one sort which are a medical product source the uniform description is difficult to give. Nevertheless I will try to characterise our local kinds . These are long-term grasses of average size which have in the earth a tuber - from roundish to and even . A naked stalk with juicy leaves. settle down on a top of stalks in upright inflorescences. They are sometimes supplied by the large painted covering leaves. Blossom from April till June depending on a kind. Meet on meadows, on slopes, in woods - depending on a kind.
Gathering and preparation. In Germany became so rare, that all its kinds are taken under protection. (In Russia it too a protected plant. - .) Before tubers collected during flowering. From two tubers took elastic affiliated, washed, cleared from places and put in water which then lead up to boiling. In 3-5 minutes decanted and quickly cooled cold water. The welded tubers dried in dryers at artificial heating (50-60°С). Now Germany receives ready tubers from Asia Minor, Greece, Iran, the former Yugoslavia and Romania.
Operating substances. The major operating substances of a tuber - slime for the sake of which this preparation is used; them there to 55 %. Starch, fiber, sugar, is a little fat and different mineral substances can be considered only as accompanying.
Curative action and application. A curative principle of all mucous medicines - softening of irritations by slime. Therefore tubers suit struggle against diarrheas and irritations of a stomach and an intestines, especially at small children. Besides, them use as the additive to the medicines, operating which substances or have bad taste, or cause irritation of mucous membranes.
slime: 2 crushed in environments-not small a tuber powder well mix in a large bottle with 2 pure spirit. Then add 20 ml of boiling water and strongly stir up - until will be any lumps. After that large bottle contents add boiling water till 200 Slime intends for the immediate use as long it does not remain. At a diarrhoeia give 3-5 times a day on 1 teaspoon, at irritations of a stomach enough 3-fold reception.
Application in national medicine. Tubers , it is especially elastic juicy affiliated tubers, in national medicine since times , and - authorities for authors of medieval herbalists - because of the form reminding , and according to the doctrine about signatures on which each thing notifies shape or colour for what it is intended, are considered as the means strengthening sexual feeling. Believe, that consumption of fresh tubers raises a potentiality. However it no more than good thoughts. Application slime at cough, oral cavity and throat inflammations, and also as external in the form of compresses for treatment of abscesses and swellings quite defensible.
Collateral actions. slime does not render any collateral action; not dangerously and consumption of fresh tubers. And elevated parts to use does not follow: it can lead to gastric frustration.
Descriptions of medicinal grasses are presented for the fact-finding purposes. Before application, necessarily! Remember, self-treatment can harm to your health!
National names: a rocky floret, small , a mouse ear.
Used parts: a blossoming elevated part.
The chemist's name: a grass - Hieracii pilosellae herba (earlier: Herba Hieracii pilosellae; in drugstores till now still there is earlier name: Herba Auriculae muris).
The botanical description. concerns extensive family and differs from other closely related kinds 10-12-см heights which bears a single inflorescence-basket. Regional have reddish strips from below. leaves in the radical socket from below thanks to the pressed hairs look whereas their light green top surface has longer hairs. Blossoms from May till October; flowering time strongly varies depending on district. Long to search for this bright yellow plant it is not necessary, it often meets on dry meadows, light sites of wood, on slopes and hills, along the edges of fields and on heathlands.
Gathering and preparation. Collect a blossoming grass together with the socket of leaves. Dry in a shade.
Operating substances: tannins, bitterness, and .
Curative action and application. Doctors any more do not register as have more the effective remedies containing tannins and bitterness. However to consider this herb effectless it is not necessary. It is means from inflammations in an oral cavity and a throat, and also from easy diarrheas, especially at children and old men.
Tea from : 2 teaspoons with grass top to fill in 1/4 l of boiling water, to allow to be insisted 10 minutes, to filter and if necessary to drink not sweetened 1 cup, and at long treatment to accept 2 times a day on a cup. This tea apply and to washing and throat rinsing.
Application in national medicine. This plant still admits national medicine and is diligently used. From indications in the foreground there are gastric and intestinal illnesses, liver diseases, painful and a dropsy. To it it is necessary to add and application of tea from for and washings of eyes on purpose to improve sight. It is said that the name occurs that hawks are obliged by the vigilance to this grass (it no more, than a legend).
Collateral actions at a correct dosage are unknown.
Descriptions of medicinal grasses are presented for the fact-finding purposes. Before application, necessarily! Remember, self-treatment can harm to your health!