Description.
Medicinal peony is a perennial plant from the family of buttercup. Due to elongated thickened root tubers, the solid stems of the peony grow to a height of about one meter. Peony leaves are complex and separate. Large beautiful flowers have a complex structure and reach in diameter up to twelve centimeters. The lower part of the flower consists of five free leathery sepals. The corolla contains up to twelve petals. Flowers look terry at the expense of stamens, most of which are converted into petals of the corolla.
It is best to divide the peonies by dividing the subordinate roots of the tuber. The resulting processes are planted one at a time in a meter from each other. You can breed pions with seeds. But the bushes grown in this way will bloom only after three years.
Preparation of medicinal raw materials.
Petals of the medicinal pion must be collected only when full bloom. It is advisable just before shedding. It is important to preserve their color, so they must be dried immediately. Keep the dried petals in a dark, dry place. The roots of the drug peony, as a rule, are dried at any time of the year. Usually it is done simultaneously with the drying of the petals. The roots are excavated from the ground, thoroughly cleaned and washed. After this, the roots of the peony are cut into small pieces and dried in the shade, under a canopy, or in a well-ventilated room. In some cases, the seeds of the drug peony are harvested.
Composition, medicinal properties, application.
Medicinal peony has anticonvulsant and anti-inflammatory properties.
The plant includes tannic and alkaloid substances, due to which the medicinal peony serves as a hemostatic and cholagogue agent.
In folk medicine, the medicinal peony is used for cramps, spasms, epilepsy and gout, and it is a very effective sedative and painkiller.
For the treatment of diabetes, gastric diseases, hepatitis, nephritis, oncology, hypertension, gynecological diseases and to prevent hemorrhage of the retina of the eye, use curative pion roots.
The root pion tincture has a sedative effect. Powder from the roots of the drug pion is used to prepare an ointment for healing in bone fractures.
For the treatment of many diseases, decoction of the medicinal pion is used:
- when the menstrual cycle is disturbed, to increase the excretion of breast milk;
- with excessive excitability of the vegetative system and rapid heart rate;
- with gastritis, ulcers, spastic colitis and stomach cancer;
- to improve appetite;
- for the treatment of epilepsy, seizures accompanied by seizures;
- with gout, convulsions of the digestive tract and with insufficient allocation of urine;
- for treatment of acute respiratory infections, pneumonia, bronchitis and tuberculosis.
Recipe for broth broth.
Prepare a decoction at home is very simple. To do this, one liter of water should be poured into twenty grams of dried ground peony roots, bring to a boil. Blend the mixture and sue. Decoction to drink at least three times a day for half a glass. To get an effective result, the decoction is taken within a month. After three weeks, the course of taking the decoction should be repeated.
Possible side effects when exceeding the dose of reception, such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, dizziness and general weakness of the body.