Gray jaundice (yellowflower, ferocious, jaundice, jaundice) is a biennial herb up to 50 cm in height, with highly branched stems narrowed into a petiole, with serrated, toothed leaves. Fruits are long, tetrahedral, thin pods, gray from pubescence, and seeds are ellipsoidal, tan. The plant blooms in May-June, and seed ripening occurs in June-July. This plant is poisonous.
You can meet him in the middle zone of Europe, in the Southern Altai, in Central Asia, the foothills of the Caucasus, in Siberia, the Carpathians, Crimea, Ukraine. Weedy plant, grows in gardens, arable lands, along fields and roads, on stony placers of quarries and ravines, in the steppes. It can be cultivated experimentally in Ukraine, Siberia, the Central European part of the CIS, and the North Caucasus.
Harvesting for medicinal purposes
For medical purposes, traditional healers collect the aboveground part of the plant (grass), less often - its seeds. Gathering grass of the yellowness during flowering, cutting off the aerial part without a bare lower stem. After that, the grass is immediately laid out for drying in the attic, in the fresh air or in the dryer at 40-60 degrees. Do not let the raw material get wet. Finished raw materials are stored for no more than 2 years.
Chemical composition
All parts of gray yellowness contain cardiac glycosides (cardenolites): in seeds and flowers from 2 to 6%, in leaves - about 1.5, in roots - 0.2, and in stems - about 0.7 percent. The main glycosides in the plant are erisimine and erisimoid, which improve heart function. By the nature of the action and speed, erisimine is close to strophanthin, but it acts slightly softer and has less toxicity.
Also, yellowness gray has free acids (oleic, palmitic, erucic), fatty oil, bitterness, organic acids (malic, tartaric and citric) and trace elements.
Jaundice gray: the use of medicinal herbs
First of all, jaundice is a very powerful cardiac glycoside, therefore it is often used in case of chronic and acute heart and vascular insufficiency, as well as in violation of blood circulation functions and in general to maintain normal heart function. It is not for nothing that the juice of the grass of the jaundice is present in the composition of the cardiac preparation Cardiovalen. Jaundice helps to expand the peripheral vessels, creating conditions for the effective activity of the heart, it also strengthens the force of contractions of the heart and lengthens the pause between these contractions (i.e. improves the rhythm of work), helps to cleanse blood vessels. Jaundice-based preparations can be used in the treatment and prevention of venous or arterial pressure disorders, rheumatoid lesions of joints and organs, with angina pectoris, diabetes mellitus and cardiosclerosis. As a result, pain in the heart disappears, blood pressure decreases, swelling decreases. The diuretic and soothing properties of this plant are also helpful in heart disease.
Also has the ability to provoke icteric gray weight loss. After all, it is known that if bitter-containing plants enter the duodenum with food or tea (and jaundice belongs to them), then blood sugar is significantly reduced, and at the same time, the degree of obesity decreases.
Due to expectorant properties, yellowness gray is effective for bronchitis and throat diseases, for which they take the infusion inside. The same infusion is also used for hypertension, arrhythmia, renal failure, pulmonary tuberculosis, headaches, insomnia as a sleeping pill, for neurosis and shortness of breath - as a sedative, for acute or chronic heart failure, or for dropsy of cardiac origin.
In the form of tincture, the herb of the jaundice is used for ischemic heart disease, bronchial asthma, angina pectoris.
Decoctions from the leaves or seeds of the plant are externally used as a compress or lotion for purulent tumors or breast cancer.
With rheumatism, varicose veins, thrombophlebitis or dystrophy of the lower extremities, gray jaundice is used in the form of grindings and compresses.
And the herb powder of this medicinal plant stimulates the activity of the pancreas in cases of a decrease in its functions.
Infusions from seeds will help with diarrhea and helminthiases.
Jaundice Recipes
1. For infusion, take two tea. tablespoons of crushed dry jaundice (herbs) per 200 g of boiling water, covering, stand for two hours, take three times a day on the table. spoon.
2. With dropsy: pour 100 g of vodka on the table. spoon of grass, 20 days insist. Reception three times a day for 10 cap. no longer than 2 weeks.
3. For emergency assistance with heart pains, a more concentrated tincture is prepared: dry crushed grass is poured into a container and poured with vodka to a finger level higher than the grass. Take no more than 3 times / day for 20 cap., Not more than 3 days. It is better to use such tincture only in case of urgent need.
4. For the treatment of arrhythmias, angina pectoris, hypertension, atherosclerosis: pour 70 g of dry jaundice (herbs) with 0.5 liters of vodka. 15 days insist, occasionally shaking. Take 3 times daily, dripping in a full glass with raw filtered water 15-20 drops., Before meals. Course - 3 months., Break - a month, if necessary, repeat.
5. In case of heart failure with circulatory disorders, hypertension, angina pectoris, rheumatic diseases and other heart diseases: tea. l herbs insist in 600 ml of boiling water for 2 hours, filter. Take orally three times a day on the table. l
6. Tincture for grinding: 20 g of crushed propolis is mixed with 30 g of dry chopped yellowness, 500 g of vodka and half a lemon (whole, seedless) are added. Withstand 14 days. Tincture rub the limbs before bedtime. You can also apply compresses for 1.5 hours.
Contraindications
Gray jaundice is a poisonous plant. Therefore, its use should be under medical supervision and after consulting a doctor, be sure to observe the exact dosages!
Jaundice is contraindicated in pregnancy, lactation, sudden organic heart changes, acute myocarditis, endocarditis, severe cardiosclerosis.