Spring Adonis: description, where the plant grows and properties, use
Spring adonis is a medicinal crop that is often used in medicine. Based on the extract of this plant, tinctures and tablets are made that help to cope with heart pathologies, improve the condition of kidney diseases and vegetative vascular dystonia. The medicinal properties of the herb are associated with a high content of biologically active components.
Description of the plant
Spring Adonis is a perennial plant that has a thick short stem and a dark brown rhizome. This culture is characterized by simple or branched stems.They may be direct or deviated. Plant height is 20-50 centimeters.
This culture is characterized by strongly dissected leaves. During the flowering period, large spiral flowers of a bright yellow color appear on the bushes. They are at the ends of the shoots and reach 40-80 millimeters in diameter.
After flowering is completed, elongated-spherical fruits appear on the bushes. Their structure includes 30-40 nuts. Flowering culture begins at the time of the appearance of leaves - April-May. Fruit ripening occurs in June-July.
Growth area
This culture is widespread in the steppes and forest-steppes of the European part of Russia. It also grows in Western Siberia. Adonis spring mainly grows in forb steppes, in calcareous soil, on dry slopes and on the edges of pine forests. At the same time, due to the plowing of the steppes, the distribution of Adonis greatly decreased.
Legend of the flower
The flower got its name in honor of the beloved Aphrodite. One day, Princess Mirra angered the goddess of love. As punishment, she turned the girl into a tree. However, at the birth of a child from a crack in the trunk, Aphrodite decided to kidnap him. She delivered the baby to the kingdom of Persephone, asking him to hide it from prying eyes. Soon, a beautiful baby won the heart of his wife Aida.
Persephone did not want to return Adonis to Aphrodite. The goddess got angry and turned to Zeus to help resolve this dispute. He ordered Adonis to live for six months with Persephone and Aphrodite. When the boy grew up, he turned into a handsome young man and became the lover of Aphrodite. Ares couldn't take it. He ambushed Adonis while hunting in the mountains and killed him by turning into a boar.
Aphrodite wept bitterly for her lover. As a result, from the drops of his blood, the girl raised an anemone. On the day of mourning, she ordered the tender plant to bloom. It was this herb that people called Adonis.
Healing properties
For a long time, people have known the healing properties of the plant. They are described in herbal books of the sixteenth century. Folk healers used the herb to treat heart, fever, and dropsy. Adonis includes many valuable substances that have a beneficial effect on the state of the human body. Through the use of this plant, you can get the following results:
- Calm the nervous system, get rid of excitement in various neuroses.
- Improve the functioning of the body in various types of psychosis and cope with convulsions.
- Normalize the functions of the heart and blood vessels. The plant helps to even out the heart rhythm, strengthen the contractions of the organ, and activate blood flow. Adonis also helps to cope with the symptoms of chronic insufficiency, shortness of breath and other pathologies of the cardiovascular system.
- Improve rheumatic pain in joints, ligaments and muscle tissues.
- Strengthen the body's defenses against bacterial infections. Adonis helps with pneumonia, scarlet fever, tonsillitis.
- Improve dry persistent cough.
- Cope with infectious urological pathologies.
- Improve kidney and bladder stones.
Chemical composition
Adonis contains 0.83% cardiac glycosides. The maximum amount of such components is present in green fruits and foliage. Also above-ground fragments of the plant include adonitoxin, K-strophanthin, cymarin.
In addition, the grass contains flavonoids and phytosterol. It contains dimethoxyquinone, ascorbic acid, choline, coumarins. The plant also includes alcohol adonite, carotene, organic acids. The maximum content of biologically active components is observed during flowering and fruiting.Glycosides accumulate in the root system by the end of the growing season.
Indications for use
Preparations made from spring adonis are prescribed for such pathologies:
- heart failure, which is accompanied by circulatory disorders;
- heart neuroses;
- ischemia;
- epilepsy;
- exhaustion of the nervous system;
- vegetovascular dystonia;
- lung diseases;
- exacerbation of cystitis;
- parkinsonism.
Contraindications
Tissue culture includes toxic cardiac glycosides. However, due to the low cumulative effect, they do not accumulate in the body and, if the dosage is observed, do not pose a threat to the human body. If you violate the recommendations for the use of the substance or individual intolerance, there is a risk of the following symptoms:
- nausea;
- pain in the digestive organs;
- vomit;
- suppression of the nervous system;
- excited.
The main contraindications to the use of spring adonis include the following:
- arterial hypertension;
- gastritis;
- peptic ulcer;
- enterocolitis;
- atherosclerosis;
- angina pectoris.
Use in traditional medicine
Before using Adonis spring, you need to consult a doctor, because the plant has poisonous properties. The following remedies are used in folk medicine:
- Adonis tea is used for heart diseases and infections. To prepare it, you need to take 2 tablespoons of grass per 800 milliliters of water. You need to take the composition every hour for 1 spoon.
- In case of formation of stones in the bladder and kidneys, it is necessary to take an infusion of 2 tablespoons of crushed Adonis herb and 4 glasses of warm boiled water. This mixture should be infused in a warm place overnight. The composition is recommended to take 1 tablespoon every hour.
- To cope with cramps, it is recommended to take 1 tablespoon of dried adonis and pour 300 milliliters of boiling water. Leave the composition to infuse for 2 hours. Take the remedy 1 spoon 3 times a day.
- When a strong cough appears, mix 1 small spoonful of dried adonis with 100 milliliters of boiling water. After 2 hours, the product will be ready for use. It should be taken 1 spoon before each meal.
- In case of myositis, mix 7 grams of grass with 250 milliliters of boiling water. After an hour, you can drink the composition in the amount of 1 tablespoon. The course of treatment lasts 1 month. After that, it is required to interrupt the therapy for 10 days and continue the therapy again.
Collecting raw materials
For medicinal purposes, it is better to use steppe forms of culture. At the same time, it is recommended to collect raw materials from powerful bushes, cutting off the upper part of the plant. It is worth leaving 10-15 centimeters from the bushes. By the end of flowering, adonis loses its biological activity. The collected raw materials are recommended to be dried in the attic or in a special dryer at a temperature of + 50-60 degrees.
Spring Adonis is a valuable medicinal plant that contains many useful components. That is why the culture is used in official and traditional medicine.
