Plants are designed to give people not only shade, food, aesthetic pleasure, but also are a natural pharmacy that cures many diseases, giving joy and health for many years.
Rhodiola rosea is one of such miraculous plants, around which many legends were created in antiquity.
Referred to as the "golden root", Rhodiola rosea is simply shrouded in secrets and beliefs. For example, in Altai it was believed that the person who finds her will become lucky and healthy. The Chinese rulers equipped him with numerous expeditions, and smugglers, as a very great value, secretly transported this plant across the border.
The places where Rhodiola rosea grows were carefully concealed in Altai, while the methods of its use were inherited, and sometimes they went to the grave together with the owner of the mystery.
Specially equipped expeditions, which went to the forest for a golden root, returned empty-handed. Botanists did not know what Rhodiola rosea looks like, and calmly passed by. And found it in 1961 in a deep Altai taiga place, at an altitude of almost 3000 meters, Professor G. Krylov.
And since then, research has begun on the properties of this healing plant. It turned out that the golden root is just a storehouse of trace elements and nutrients. Rhodiola root contains essential oils and tannins, phosphorus, iron, manganese, magnesium, antimony, ascorbic and nicotinic acids, and tartar and leaves contain tartaric and malic acids in its ground part.
For medicinal raw materials, the root of this plant is used, from which it smells of pink oil. Apparently, that's why he was called that.
Rhizomes are harvested from the beginning of the flowering season of the plant until the final ripening of its fruits. Healing roots need to be dried in the shade, without exposure to sunlight and after that they can be stored for up to two years.
Rhodiola rosea is very actively struggling with the weakening of the human body, tones it, drives away fatigue, relieves nervous tension. But his most wonderful property is to increase the mental and overall physical performance of a person.
Altaians, who have long been aware of the wonderful properties of the golden root, use it in the form of tea just to be healthy.
Today, in all pharmacies, liquid extract of golden root is prepared, which is prepared on a 40% alcohol infusion, from a ratio of one to ten, which must be taken in twenty drops in three doses per day.
Medical scientific research of the miraculous properties of Rhodiola was carried out on people who are engaged in hard work that requires high mental stress. The results exceeded all expectations: people taking the extract did not feel drowsiness, did not suffer from headaches and irritability, they had much less difficulties in learning and at work. Under the influence of Rhodiola rosea extract in humans, memory and attention increased. And tincture of Rhodiola helps hypotensive patients to normalize blood pressure.
However, one should not abuse the excessive intake of this plant, because an overdose of infusion and extract on the second day will not only not help, but even harm the general well-being, causing insomnia, irritability and discomfort. Do not drink the golden root in hypertensive crisis.
Golden root or Rhodiola rosea in another way is a decorative edible plant. Herbal compotes, jelly, herbal teas of various recipes are prepared from its roots, and young leaves are very tasty in salads and soups.
This root can be harvested for the winter and used when there is a noticeable shortage of trace elements and the energy charge is reduced.