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Vinca minor

Useful properties and applications of Vinca flowers Vinca


Botanical characteristics Vinca

Vinca small is an evergreen, small size shrub with branched, prostrate and erect stems. Stems, hugging the ground, take root, forming a dense carpet. Shiny, leathery leaves are 3-5 cm in length, evergreen. Single flowers of the original form have a diameter of 2-3 cm Flowering plants from April to September. Periwinkle has a superficial root system.

Belarus, Moldova, Caucasus, Carpathian, Transcarpathian, Khmelnytsky and Vinnytsia region – the main areas of workpieces barvinkiv. Collect them in may and June. The plant must be cut with a sickle or a knife. The raw material is dried under a canopy. Storage use canvas or paper bags. The retention period without losing medicinal qualities – two years.


Growing barvinkiv

Growing barvinkiv does not cause much trouble, they are very simple and unpretentious. Flowering groundcover plant easily takes root from any node of the stem quickly grows outwards, forming a bright cushion of lush greenery. Periwinkle is an ornamental and medicinal plant. In nature it grows in hornbeam, oak-hornbeam, oak forests, among the thickets of shrubs.

For its cultivation are perfect Sunny areas, it is propagated using vegetative shoots. Cut part of the stem stuck in the soil, quickly take root.

The most convenient and effective method of reproduction barvinkiv by a nucleus: if they are slightly covered with earth, the roots quickly grow into the soil. The plant is perfectly tolerant of heat and cold, resistant to pests and diseases.

Useful properties of barvinkiv

Useful properties of barvinkiv known for a long time. The plant is used in magic, giving it protective properties. The plant contains alkaloids, with the property that prevents cell division, such as vincamine has, vinkapan, vincenoir, devinkan, reserpine, miniwin. In the pharmacology of these substances is artificially synthesized and is getting effective immunosuppressants and anticancer drugs.

Useful in the treatment of certain diseases are ursolic acid, phenolic compounds, anthocyanins, tsiklitoly, steroids, rubber, flavonoids.

Flowers barvinkiv

Barvinky attracted by the charming flowers that consist of five petals, often blue or purple color, also pink and white. The flowers presentflavonoid glycoside robinin, consisting of kaempferol and sugars (rabinowiz and ramnose). The use of infusion with the flowers barvinkiv helps with sexual weakness.


Pink periwinkle

Pink periwinkle can be seen on the balconies and in the gardens. Heat-loving plant imported from the island of Java. It is undemanding to soil moisture in the spring it is planted in the soil of the flower bed, autumn transplanted into a pot and all winter you can admire its blooms. Grow Vinca can and from seed. Seeding should start in January and February. Seeds are sown in containers with a mixture of earth, humus and sand, placed in a plastic bag and put them in a dark place until germination.

Proper care will help us to grow bright and useful plant. The leaves of Vinca is used for the production of the anticancer drug – rozevin. The periwinkle contains more than 60 alkaloids. They help the body fight cancer, inhibit the growth of cells, inhibiting mitosis in metaphase.

The use of barvinkiv

The use of barvinkiv indicated for diarrhea, bleeding, tuberculosis, scurvy. The Vinca drugs are applied topically for wounds, itching of the skin. The plant is effective as a sedative, reduce headaches and dizziness, improves the heart and increases the elasticity of capillaries. Inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, barvinky do not affect healthy.

Substance vinblastine is useful when Hodgkin's disease and gematosarkoma, in cancer of stomach, lung, rectum, ovary. Wonderful stuff, vincristine is indispensable for leukemia, malignant tumors of the sympathetic nervous system, breast cancer.


The infusion of periwinkle

The infusion of periwinkle helps stop blood at various bleeding (uterine and intestinal), is used as an astringent and antimicrobial agent.

Medical infusion made of one tablespoon of crushed leaves of the plant and 1 Cup of boiling water in a water bath for 15 minutes, drink 3 times a day for 1/3 Cup.

Tincture barvinkiv

Wonderful drug, one of the few, it is used to treat cancer patients, with the exception of chemotherapy for blood cancer, sarcoma, blastoma, and tumors. Effectively tincture treated fibroids, polyps in the uterus, endometriosis, prostatitis, and BPH, female infertility.

Tincture is prepared is quite simple: you need 2 tbsp of dried plants pour 250 ml of 70% alcohol. At room temperature the mixture is infusedin a dark place, and then filtered and taken 3 times a day an hour before meals. Regimen of infusions: 1st and 2nd week – 5 drops per 50 ml of water, followed by a week break. Then the 3rd and 4th weeks – 10 drops per 50 ml of water, after a break of 7 days. The course of treatment is 8 weeks. It is recommended to repeat it after 3 months.


The broth barvinkiv

Gargle with a decoction of the herb Vinca stops pain in the throat and soothes toothache. Periwinkle in the form of decoctions are used against acute deficiency of ascorbic acid in the human body. Perfectly amenable to treatment broth emphysema, dysentery, diarrhea. Stop uterine and intestinal bleeding, treats infertility, impotence and various skin diseases.

When manifestations of hypertension drink broth three times a day for 1/3 Cup. It is cooked in a water bath: one tablespoon of crushed leaves pour a glass of boiling water and boil for 20 minutes, then cooled and filtered.


Contraindications to the use of barvinkiv

The plant is poisonous, it must be remembered. Overdose leads to inhibition of cardiac activity. Make all funds is prepared on the basis of this medicinal herb, only after consulting a doctor.