Kakalia

Useful properties and applications of kamalii

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Botanical characteristics of kakalia spear

Kakalia is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Asteraceae, with a straight stem and a horizontally growing rhizome. Its height is from 50 to 150 cm Lower leaves shirokolistvennye, with three lobes and scalloped edges, the upper rhomboid. Flowers whitish cream-colored, tubular, bisexual, form on the top of the stem paniculate inflorescence. Pedicels 8-10 wrapped in small leaves. Seeds winged.

The plant is widely distributed in the North and East of the European part of Russia, the far East and Siberia. Prefers river banks, bushes, small, and sparse coniferous forest, forest clearings and edges, high-grass subalpine meadows. Kakalia refers to Caucasians. In the flowering period – July-August – it attracts a lot of bees and wasps.

Useful properties of kamalii

Kakalia has a wide range of medicinal properties which has found wide application in folk medicine. For medicinal purposes harvested leaves (July-August), and rhizomes with roots (September-October). For the treatment can be used as dried and fresh raw materials.

The plant contains large amount of carotene, ascorbic acid, tannins pyrocatechol group. In the stems of many alkaloids, including histatin, similar in structure to platifillina and microelements necessary for vital functions of human organism: iron, copper, molybdenum, vanadium, manganese, boron, titanium, magnesium. In roots and rhizomes was found calcium salt of tartaric acid.

The use of kakali

As shown by pharmacological studies, kakalia provides a wound healing effect, especially effective when infected purulent wounds and ulcers. This is attributed to the high content in the plant carotene and ascorbic acid. Infusions and decoctions of herbs are a good laxative and antispasmodic remedy they prescribed for arthritis, laryngitis, bronchitis, urinary retention and infectious diseases.

In Tibetan medicine the plant is used as hemostatic and wound healing remedy, in the Mongol – when disorders of liver function. The leaves are harvested during the flowering period. With festering wounds, boils, ulcers and blistersespecially effective is the use of fresh leaves. The grass cacalia hastate and administered in catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, headphones rhinitis, ulcerative colitis, gastric and duodenal ulcers.

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The grass used in the form of decoctions, infusions and tinctures, fresh and complex collections of herbs.

Infusion: for a Cup of boiling water put 1 tablespoon of crushed dried leaves and infuse for one hour. Filter and take 50-70 ml 3-4 times a day. The tool recommended for gastric and duodenal ulcers, urinary retention, bronchitis.

A decoction of the roots: in a glass of water put 1 teaspoon of the crushed roots and boil on low heat for about 5-6 minutes. Insist 2 hours, filtered and adjusted the resulting broth to the original volume. Take medicine 100 ml 1-2 times daily as a laxative.

Tincture: fresh crushed leaves pour cacalia 96-degree alcohol in a ratio of 4:1 and insist 10 days in a dark place. Tincture preserves the medicinal properties for one or two years. It is used externally in the form of compresses when panaritiums, bruises, ulcers, boils.

The collection of herbs: mix 1 tablespoon of rhubarb root, flax seed, herbs Senna, cacalia, toadflax. For cooking, use 2 tablespoons of the prepared collection, which poured a liter of boiling water. The composition is boiled on a steam bath for 30 minutes. Dosage: 1 Cup of decoction is taken 3-4 times a day. The tool is a good laxative.

Contraindications to the use of kakali

In the study of herbs have found no contraindications to its use, except for individual intolerance of drugs. It is advised not to give her children up to two years.