Krasavka

Useful properties and applications of belladonna ordinary

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Useful properties of belladonna

In all parts of this herb contains the tropane alkaloids – hyoscyamine and scopolamine are esters, derivatives of two amino alcohols, namely tropina and Skomina. After her discharge from the main alkaloid known as hyoscyamine, it becomes optically inactive atropine.

In addition, the leaves of the plant are detected flavonoids, coumarins, glycosides methylacrolein, fissile sugar and christraping acid. This acid is able to give blue fluorescence in alcoholic solution with addition of even one drop of ammonia, which easily reveals the presence of belladonna in preparations.

In medicinal purposes are used leaves, grass, roots and sometimes stems of plants. The leaves are harvested by hand to three or four times over the summer and dried in well-ventilated areas. The lower leaves are plucked at the beginning of flowering to the branching stems, with branches grown is harvested in late flowering. And finally, the plant is harvested at the beginning of seed formation, at a height of 10 cm from the ground.

The grass is cut into pieces and then dried. When grinding leaves to powder mass veins not thrown away because of the alkaloids they accumulate more than in the pulp sheet. Usually the whole sheet without a remainder is processed into powder. In the fall, after the last mowing, dig out the roots. They are washed, cut into pieces lengthwise and dried.

The application of belladonna

The use of plants for medicinal purposes due to the pharmacological properties of high alkaloid atropine. Preparations of belladonna is effective as a painkiller and an antispasmodic. Folk medicine recommends it in chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, in some forms of pancreatitis. They are used in kidney stones and gallstones, intestinal colic and other diseases, accompanied by spasms of smooth muscles of the intestine.

Sometimes these drugs are prescribed for bradycardia and angina, when sweating and hypersecretion of the lacrimal glands.

Tincture of belladonna

A tincture prepared from the leaves of 40% alcohol. In appearance it is a transparent liquid of reddish-brown or greenish color with a bitter taste and a peculiar odor. Tincture is part of Zelenin drops, effectively acting on the body with neuroses of the heart, and other combined dosage forms. Infusion taken oral(inside), its dosage depends on the age and weight of the patient. The drug is administered at the rate of 1 drop per 8-10 kg body weight. It is very good for stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers, as well as in biliary and renal colic and hemorrhoids.

Deadly during pregnancy

Sometimes preparations of belladonna, may be administered to pregnant women. They are effective for painful sensations throughout the body, especially in the internal organs, uterus, and pelvis. Decoctions and infusions of plants are able to remove the threat of miscarriage or bleeding. However, the use of these drugs during pregnancy requires strict compliance with all precautions and supervision.

Extract of belladonna

Extract is a thick, dark brown mass with a peculiar odor. It contains alkaloids in the amount of 1.5 %, reduces the secretion of lachrymal, sweat, digestive and bronchial glands, has a bronchodilator effect, mostly in small bronchioles. The drug causes mydriasis and raises intraocular pressure, helps to reduce the cholinergic effects of vagus nerve on the heart, relaxes smooth muscle of the intestine, bile and urinary tract.

The extract produced by the method of repercolation (extraction of nutrients) leaves 28% ethanol-water mixture.

The root of belladonna

The root of the plant is cylindrical in shape and light gray color. It contains coumarins, sterols, flavonoids. The prepared raw material is used for the treatment of many diseases as an antispasmodic and painkiller, the drugs he prescribed for Parkinson's disease in the form of wine infusion or tablets.

Decoction: 30 g of crushed roots must be mixed with 100 g of activated carbon and to dissolve the composition in 500 ml of dry white wine. Composition boil on low heat for 10 minutes, then strain and take 1 teaspoon three times daily on an empty stomach. Treatment continued for three consecutive days.

Krasavka common

It is a perennial plant, reaching a height of 1.5–2 meters, has a long root, from which grows a lot of lines, silnoroslyh shoots. The leaves in the upper part are opposite, in pairs. Brownish-purple flowers grow between the leaves on long stalks. Berries glossy black, large. Flowering plant from June to August.This species grows in Europe and Asia Minor, it prefers calcareous soils rich in calcium.

The plant is deadly poisonous in all its parts, contains the poison. Nowadays, traditional medicine refuses to use this dangerous plant. However, extracts and extracts of belladonna – for both internal and external use – sometimes used for pain of different etiologies. In the old days of the plants did poisons and love potions.

Contraindications to the use of belladonna

In cases of poisoning by belladonna are the first signs of a scratchy sore throat, shortness of breath, dry mouth, thirst, headache and dizziness. Later they start hallucinating with bouts of violent insanity, 3-15 hours death occurs. Specific signs of plant poisoning – dilated pupils. At the first symptoms of poisoning should immediately provide first aid to the patient by gastric lavage, and call a doctor.

Do not use drugs from this plant in organic changes of cardiovascular system, with tachycardia and arrhythmia. Absolutely contraindicated their use in glaucoma, pregnancy and during breast-feeding.