The maçka yellow

Useful properties and applications of maçka

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Botanical characteristics of maçka yellow

Maciek yellow is a biennial plant, the height of which does not exceed 50 cm. This herb of the poppy family has a direct rounded stem. In the first year of growth forms a rosette of large, densely pubescent leaves. Single bright yellow flowers are quite large, reaching a diameter of 3 see the numerous Black seeds cat small. This plant is common in the Caucasus and in the Crimea. This herb chooses gravelly slopes, sandy sea coast, and the valleys with gravel soil. Maciek yellow blooms all summer, starting in mid-may.

Useful properties of maçka yellow

Yellow Maciek contains a large number of alkaloids. Medicinal raw material is the herb itself, which should be harvested in early flowering. The cat has a powerful antitussive, hypotensive, analgesic and adrenoliticheskoe effect. It is indicated for serious diseases of the lungs and upper respiratory tract. In addition, the plant was effective in bronchial asthma. It should also be noted that the powder of the seed is to be taken internally in small doses at various inflammations.

The use of maçka yellow

In medicine, different preparations of yellow cat are used for acute and chronic ailments of the respiratory tract and also asthmatic conditions in. For pneumonia prescribe a treatment of seed powder of the plant in very small doses. It should be taken with a small amount of water. Due to the expectorant properties it is possible for a short time to get rid of cough.

Contraindications to the use of maçka yellow

Modern drugs yellow maçka well tolerated by many people, but in some cases, there are nausea and dizziness. When low blood pressure, as well as with myocardial infarction the use of herbs are contraindicated.