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Properties and applications of the Dyer dyeing, yellow, Spanish


The Botanical characteristics of the Dyer dyeing

The gorse is a low shrub of the legume family. Erect or creeping stems reach a length of 30-150 cm and each of them covered with appressed hairs. The lanceolate leaves have short petioles and yellow flowers clustered at the tips of stems in dense brush. The flowering period of the plant from June to July, the fruits ripen in August-September. The fruit is a bare flat beans up to three cm, with seeds elliptical form, painted in dark brown color.

Gorse grows in the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, Western Siberia and Central Asia, preferring sandy or calcareous soils on hillsides, dry forests and pine forests. Plant photophilous and drought-resistant, difficult to tolerate waterlogging and severe frosts.


The beneficial properties of gorse

The healing properties of gorse has long been known in folk medicine for therapeutic purposes, collect flowers, roots and grass plants. The aboveground part is usually harvested during the flowering period of gorse, the roots are dug in autumn. Drying is done outside under the shady eaves or in the premises with free access of air. Term storage fee – 1 year. For drying you can use a special dryer with an optimal temperature of 45-50 °C.

Genista tinctoria is used as a hemostatic, choleretic, tonic, vasodilator and antibacterial agents. Part of the plant are alkaloids, essential oil, glycosides, tannins, flavonoids, organic acids. The flowers contain pigments – luteolin and genistein.


The use of gorse

Aboveground part of the plant in the form of decoctions and infusions used in the treatment of hepatitis, cystitis, allergic dermatitis, with rheumatism, rickets, abrasions. Help decoctions and infusions of for edema renal and cardiac origin, thyroid disease, fractures, calcification, ringworm, and certain sexually transmitted diseases. In Ukraine flowers and grass broom is used in the treatment of bronchial asthma. In the US the flowers and seeds are used in the complex treatment of malignant tumors.

Infusions of the aerial parts of genistahave antibacterial and vasoconstrictor action, they can be used for rinsing the mouth and throat. Fresh leaves and fruits help to get rid of warts and corns. Decoctions of the root of the broom used in folk medicine in the treatment of malaria, cardiac weakness, jaundice, diseases of the thyroid gland. Root gorse is well established as a means for removing chloride from the body, he helps at the salt diathesis and constipation.

The infusion is prepared at the rate of 1 tablespoon herb to 2 cups of boiling water. To insist means you need at least two hours, after straining it should be taken 1 tablespoon 3 times a day. It is necessary to observe the exact dosage!

A decoction prepared from 15 g of crushed herbs and flowers of the gorse on 500 mg of boiled water. You should boil the composition on a steam bath to 1/3 volume, then cool and strain through 2-3 layers of cheesecloth. Dosage – 2 tablespoons a day, every two hours to achieve the desired effect. A decoction is used as a choleretic, diuretic and laxative.


The flowers of gorse

The gorse is becoming increasingly popular in ornamental horticulture, while the garden forms differ from wild counterparts shrub height, the direction of growth of stems and the presence of Terry flowers. This drought tolerant plant is used in landscaping singly and in groups, it is often planted on rocky areas and slopes, in rock gardens and borders.

Gorse is notable for the fact that his flowers once received persistent yellow dye, used for coloring woolen and linen fabrics. Special value paint had in the production of carpets, it was used for dyeing of carpet yarns. Hence the plant's name is "Dyer dyeing". Shoots of gorse is a good material for floral arrangements, although it belongs to the group of plants of low significance.

Gorse yellow

This low thornless shrub grows to a height of 1 meter. He has a thin, slightly branched stems, covered with oblong leaves (length up to 2.5 cm). The flowers are yellow, odorless, collected in terminal racemes. Duration of flowering is 40-60 days, the fruits ripen in early autumn. The fruit is oblong and laterally compressed Bob, up to three, see Genista yellow loves full sun and infertile calcareous soils. Grows in pine forests, steppes, clearings and meadows. Propagated plant cuttings and seeds.

Gorse everywhereused in folk medicine as a therapeutic plant. Decoctions and infusions of it have choleretic, tonic, antibacterial, sedative and hemostatic properties. With the help of extracts of gorse treat thyroid disease, uterine bleeding, malaria, rheumatism, ringworm, boils, liver disease and urinary tract, arthritis, gout.

From the roots make diuretics to relieve edema of cardiac and renal origin. Decoctions of the root help in the deposition of salts in the joints. Using fresh leaves and flowers dry and remove warts and corns.


Spanish gorse, Spanish broom

The birthplace of this species of gorse and rocky slopes of the mountains in Spain and France, from whence he was imported to Russia. It is a perennial shrub with straight and barbed at the base of the stems, the height of which can reach two to three meters. Small leaves with a length of about 1 cm fit snugly to rounded stems. In the flowering period of bright yellow large flowers (more than 1 cm) form the apical inflorescence. Spanish gorse, Spanish broom grows well and blooms on any drained soils in a Sunny position.

On the medical effect of this is similar to the Dyer dyeing, so, too, is used in homeopathy and folk medicine. Decoctions, infusions and salves from it is effective in the treatment of thyroid, salt deposits, bone fractures, rheumatism, gout. The components of the broom are part of a candle from hemorrhoids. It is used in bronchial asthma, ringworm, abrasions, arthritis.

Skin diseases (abscesses, scrofula, herpes), infusion of the herb can be applied topically in the form of local baths and protyani. Gorse helps with warts, dry callosities. Preparations of the herb is also used as an antibacterial, diuretic, cholagogue and tonic.


The prickly gorse

This spiny shrub is used to populate rocky and sandy soils and as a hedge. It grows well in Sunny or lightly shaded areas. The gorse yellow flowers and prickly at the base of the branches, its height reaches 60 see Nearly every branch ends with a raceme of flowers up to 5–7cm. the Fruits ripen in early October, until the frost continues to grow shoots.

Gorse is prickly in its chemical composition and effects on the human body similar to the Dyer dyeing, so it is also used in folk medicine. For medicinal purposes collect grass, flowers, leaves and roots of plants.Decoctions and infusions of the prickly gorse are used as krovoochishchajushchee, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, choleretic and diuretic.


Contraindications to the use of gorse

Dyer dyeing refers to poisonous plants, so the medication should strictly follow the dosage. He categorically contraindicated for patients with high blood pressure, pregnant women, patients with coronary heart disease and people with severe liver disease. In the wrong dosage, you may experience the following signs of gorse poisoning: headache, nausea, dizziness, vomiting.