Badan leaf: flowerbed adornment plus a green pharmacy

Wildflower buds - A plant originating from the family of stone-fir-trees. It is a herbaceous evergreen perennial with a thick rhizome, reaching a length of several meters. Distributed in Yakutia, the Altai Mountains, Transbaikalia, Sayan Mountains, Kuznetsk Alatau, where it grows in cracks of rocks and rocky scree. Most abundantly it grows on stony watersheds, as well as in the upper reaches of rivers in the composition of coniferous forests mixed with birch or sparse forests. Together with blueberries, thick-leaved bean grows in the alpine meadows and in the mountain tundra.

The rhizome of badan is used for medical purposes. Preparations from it have astringent, blood-resting, antimicrobial, vasoconstrictive, anti-inflammatory action. They are used for uterine fibroids, hemorrhagic bleeding, heavy menstruation (with inflammatory processes of appendages), bleeding caused by abortion. Wildflower buds Apply and in dental practice with inflammation of the gums, as well as with dysentery, diseases of the urinary tract.

In folk Altai medicine, the plant was widely used in the middle of the XIX century in the treatment of tuberculosis, influenza, articular rheumatism, enlarged lymph nodes. In the mountainous Altai with thyrotoxicosis (an increase in the thyroid gland), tea is drunk, brewed from old brown leaves of badan. In Mongolian medicine, the plant is used for vomiting and nausea, and in Tibetan medicine for kidney disease, tuberculosis and ulceration. In Russia, in folk medicine, they are treated with an extract or decoction of badan. Leaves, roots and rhizomes of the fathead fatty have found their application in the field of cosmetics. From them prepare broths, extracts, tinctures, possessing tonic, anti-inflammatory and tannic properties.

Use the plant and to produce a dye from it. With an iron mordant, a neutral extract of badana paints cotton fabrics and wool in black, with chrome - the khaki color turns out.

Wildflower buds Harvested in early summer (June-July), pulling the plant out of the soil with hands. Peeled from the ground and additional roots, the plants are rinsed in running water, waxed, and then dried in dryers. Properly dried raw materials should not bend, but easily break.

Due to decorativeness, bananas are used in different types of flower beds: on rocky slides, in curbs, rabatkah and in rock gardens. It can be planted in separate groups or arrays on lawns, and also planting plantings of other perennial plants.

As an ornamental plant, another kind of badan is used - heartwood heartwood. It is a large, frost-resistant plant growing up to 60 cm in height, originating from Siberia. It blooms before the rest of the badans, thick pink or lilac-pink flowers, collected in racemose inflorescences. Brilliant large bright green leaves to winter acquire purple and bronze shades. In cold regions, winter leaves of the plant are under the snow.

Garden hybrid - bdan hybrid - a perennial plant growing to 50 cm, with round or oval shape large leathery leaves. Flowers (white, dark purple, lilac-raspberry or numerous shades of pink) are collected in inflorescences on long and strong peduncles. Flowering occurs in early spring. Decorative plants give the leaves that fall in autumn colors of crimson and purple. Badan is a shade-tolerant and winter-hardy plant. Prefers fertile, well drained loamy soils. Used in stony places, rabatkah and for single landings. Among dozens of species of hybrids, Sunningdale is more often grown - with red stems, intense pink flowers and wavy leaves; Baby Doll - with small leaves with a border of bronze color and purple-pink flowers; Bressingham White - it has pure white flowers; Silberticht - a low plant, white flowers which eventually acquire a pink tinge.