Beautiful, delicate lanceolate leaves of blue cyanosis attract attention even in early spring, climbing bushes high above the rare greenery of the dry meadow or wet meadow, in forest glades, along river banks and on forest fires. The plant quickly releases upwards numerous erect hollow stems, at the ends of which, by the beginning of summer, paniculate inflorescences, colored with various shades of blue, from blue to bluish-purple, will unfold. Blue color is nobly highlighted with bright yellow stamens.
Blue Cyanosis - a favorite honey of taiga bees. Amateurs-flower growers plant cyanosis in their flower gardens, where it easily perishes, surprising year after year with a magnificent azure bloom in June-July. The obedient, accommodating cyanosis has long been cultivated successfully. This plant is also called blue for its blue flowers. In some places, blue is called blue or azure blue. Traditional healers blue cyanosis is called St. John's wort, a valerian officinalis, an odoleno-grass, a two-strong, and also a grandfather's beard. Indeed, the rhizome is like a rhizome, in which most of the medicinal power was stored blue blue. And this force is triterpene saponins, substances that like hormones and vitamins are able to perform certain biological functions in the body and thereby influence its condition. In addition to saponins, in the root and rhizome of the cyanosis there are other useful substances - resins, essential oils, organic acids.
Traditional medicine has long used the sedative and irritating effect of saponins, which contains up to 30% in the stage of the formation of peduncles blue blue. The use of infusion and decoction of rhizomes, in some cases of dry extract of cyanosis, renders slight irritation on the mucous membranes of the human body, which, in turn, causes an increase in the secretion of all glands. This has a beneficial effect on the bronchi - sputum quickly liquefies, it is easier to expectorate. With pulmonary tuberculosis, blue cyanosis successfully replaces imported North American Senegu, while hemoptysis diminishes or disappears, which confirms the properties of the cyanosis to enhance blood coagulability.
It is not without reason that the sinus of the Greek valerian is called - its sedative (soothing) properties are more effective than valerians in nervous and mental diseases, including epilepsy and persistent insomnia. In the treatment of peptic ulcer diseases (with high acidity) and duodenal ulcer, a decoction of two herbs proved to be a good wound healing and analgesic agent: cyanosis and cotton swine.
You can prepare the raw material of a medicinal plant if the plant is known for its appearance. Rhizomes are not deep beneath the soil cover. They are digging before flowering at the end of May or in August and September, cutting off the stem and shaking the soil off the rhizomes, rinsing in cold water and drying in drafts in the shade. For urgent treatment, phytoaptecs are more often used, where blue blue is ready for use in packages, you can buy it also by placing an order in an online pharmacy.
You can use blue blue for treatment only on the advice of a doctor, as for some diseases, preparations of cyanosis are contraindicated. An overdose of infusion or decoction can cause vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness. You need to properly prepare the broth and infusion of herbs: for 1 glass of water not more than 6 g (2 tablespoons chopped rhizomes). At treatment also it is necessary to observe a strict dosage of reception of broth or the infusion - it accept after meal on 1 item. L. 3 times a day. Store the broth or infusion in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days.
Take good care of blue cyanosis, so that this amazing plant is not included in the Red Book. When harvesting, leave weak plants on the edges of the thickets and about 20% of adult developed plants without damage.