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Rue smelly

Useful properties, application and cultivation Rue


The Botanical characteristics of the Rue smelly

The smelly, Columbine is a perennial plant of the family Ranunculaceae. It is characterized by an unpleasant odor, is covered with small glandular hairs of the stem, the lower part of which is purple. Plant height ranges from 20 to 60 cm Leaves are alternate, broad, triangular in shape, on short petioles, pinnate, with small oval leaves. Short rhizome – horizontal, with a large number of thin adventitious roots.

Bloom, Columbine starts from June-July. The flowers are small, purple in colour, collected in inflorescence – spreading panicle. The fruit of the Columbine formed in the form of a glandular-pubescent, nut with a small spout. Maturation occurs in July-August. Rue smelly grows on dry and rocky mountain slopes, forest edges, steppes, on the banks of the rivers among the pebbles. Habitat – the Caucasus, the Urals, the far East, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, Kazakhstan. Also the plant is found in mountain valleys of Central Asia and Altai.


Rue vodosbrosy

Rue vodosbrosy – a low perennial, forming small bushes with large, broad, triangular shaped leaves of blue-green color. Small white flowers clustered in a panicle. Flowering plants (may-June) is accompanied by a delicate, pleasant aroma, so this plant love to visit the bees. The fruits are pear-shaped, winged at the edges. The seeds have an elongated shape (leaflet). Vodosbrosy Columbine likes moist soil and grows well in the shade.

Populated by this species in the floodplain forests and meadows in the Central parts of Kamchatka, it grows in the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova. For therapeutic purposes ispolzuetsa grass and roots. The plant is poisonous, it contains magnoflorine, berberine, Tammin, Tamminen. Rich herb and kaempferol, Katarina, cyanogenic compounds, phenol carbonic acids, coumarins.

In the fruit revealed a fatty oil and fatty acids such as Aquilegia, Ranunculaceae, linoleic. Infusions of herbs to eliminate uterine bleeding, used in jaundice, epilepsy, malaria, dermatitis and rheumatism. Remedies prepared with the roots of Columbine odobravanja used for edema, in the case of accumulation of free fluid in the peritoneal cavity and in women's diseases.

Decoction of the plant can be prepared in the following way: 1 teaspoon grass pour 1 Cup boiling water, to insist 1 hour. Drink the strained decoction is recommended 0.5 cups 2 times a day.


Rue simple

The simple Rue is a herbaceous plant with erect stem height of 60-120 cm Leaves twice peristerona, appressed to the stem. Flowers purple, small, clustered in elongated inflorescences. Rhizome is creeping. The plant is widespread in Ukraine, Belarus, Central Asia, European Russia, far East, Western and Eastern Siberia. In folk medicine, with the medical purpose apply stems, leaves, flowers, which are harvested in the flowering period.

A medicinal plant is rich in alkaloids, calixin, hernandezi, animalisation, magnoflorine. Also in the aerial parts of the plant revealed beta-eletriptan, fleximeter, telectron, talisman, calsenilin, triterpene saponins, vitamin C, tannins, coumarins, flavonoids, carotenoids and many other substances, owing to which the treatment is amenable to many complex diseases.

Discovered in the fruit of fatty oil, containing almost the entire set of higher fatty acids. Decoctions and infusions of the plant have healing power, they are effectively used for centuries for edema, ascites, gynecological diseases. Means based on the Columbine have disinfecting properties, they are the perfect medicine for a gargle in sore throat, for washing wounds and rapid healing.

A decoction prepared from 30 g of dry powdered herb and 300 ml of water, the composition should simmer 6-7 minutes. Once the broth configure themselves for 1 hour, it must strain and drink 0.5 cups 3 times a day.


Rue small

Perennial herb Rue is small, height is not more than 60 cm, has a horizontal, jointed, brown rhizome, straight, quadrangular, in the upper portion of straight stem and opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate leaves with three longitudinal veins. Single flowers on long stalks appear in June, flowering plants continues to fall. Fruit ovate – polyspermous box, which ripen in July, small reticulate-wrinkled seeds.

A small Columbine growing in places with high humidity, spreading meadows and river banks. Regions of habitat plants: Caucasus, Western Siberia, the European part of Russia and Kazakhstan. The roots of the small Rue in large quantities of steroids and alkaloids in the leaves, stems and flowers are saponins and alkaloidsvitamin C, aliphatic hydrocarbons, tannins.

Due to the fact that the plant has antibacterial and antitumor activity, decoctions and infusions is recommended for acute and chronic infections, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, inflammation of the gall bladder and liver, with diarrhea, gangrene, colds and nervous disorders. In the treatment of certain diseases, tonic, diuretic, wound healing and laxative properties of this medicinal plant will be useful.

The infusion of herbs used in hypertensive manifestations and abnormal heart rhythm: 6 g raw pour 1 Cup boiling water, stand 10 minutes in a water bath, after an hour of infusion strain and add boiled water to initial volume. It should not take 5-7 days 1-2 tablespoons 3 times a day during meals.

The yellow Columbine

The yellow Columbine attains a height of 60-100 cm, and has a long creeping rhizome is yellowish, the taste is sweet-bitter, slightly astringent. The stem is furrowed, there are vaginal leaves pinnate, with trilobe leaves. Greenish-cream, small and fragrant flowers with lots of stamens collected in inflorescence-panicle. Habitats of plants are in the European part of Russia, Central Asia, Western and Eastern Siberia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus. This ornamental plant is medical. Stems, leaves, flowers contain useful substances – alkaloids, flavonoids, vitamin C.

Excellent lechebniye for use in various diseases due to the presence of plant tannins, resins, coumarins. Roots are valuable raw materials because of the presence of alkaloids in them. Fat in the fruit oil are palmitic, stearic, arachidic, begenova and other fatty acids. The beneficial properties of plants to clean up the inflammation, reduce fever, kill bacteria. The use of drugs based on the Columbine promotes rapid healing of wounds, stops bleeding.


The Columbine Alpine

It is a small perennial plant height of 5-20 cm with a basal bipinnate leaves has leathery leaves. Flowers drooping, reddish-brown leaflets of the perianth, are gathered in a simple brush. Fruit oblong-ovoid, slightly curved. The plant can be seen in Central Asia, Western and Eastern Siberia, the far East, in Alpine tundra onthe slopes near the glaciers.

Medicinal herb contains alkaloids, flavonoids. the alkaloid hernandezi.Effective use of Rue Alpine in skin diseases, epilepsy, diarrhea, jaundice, some skin and eye diseases, tuberculosis of the lungs.


Rue monolitstroy

Monolitstroy Columbine – a perennial with glabrous, slightly grooved light green stems 5-40 cm Leaves concentrated at the base of the stem, covered with a waxy bloom. White small flowers are collected in dense corymbose paniculate inflorescences, are opposed to the flowers of other species of Columbine is its structure. The fruit is compact, sessile, ovate, thick. This species grows on steppe stony slopes, hills, distributed in river valleys in Mongolia, Central Asia, Japan, China, the Korean Peninsula, you can find him in Siberia, on Altai, in the far East.

In the aerial part and roots of Columbine are monolitavia flavonoids, alkaloids, choline. The herb is used in folk medicine for the treatment of female diseases, dropsy. Superb action prepared on the basis of this herb tools have on the body when the prostate, cancer of prostate, rectum and nervous diseases.

To prepare the tincture you need 2 tablespoons of crushed raw material to insist 5-7 days in a half liter of vodka and drink 15-20 drops 3 times a day before meals.


Rue Of Delavay

Rue of Delavia – the most luxurious of decorative vasileshnikova view, he grows up to 150 cm tall. Lower leaves twice or thrice pinnate. Flowers small, double, collected in large lilac or deep pink blossoms. The fruit of the plant – leaflet, seeds large, oblong. Delavee of the Columbine likes moisture, it is resistant to frost, overwinter under a light shelter. Homeland of the plant is China, planting of this species suitable grass and shrub borders, used Rue Delavay as solitary plants.


Flowers of Columbine

The flowers of Rue are used as a part of a group of flower arrangements for cutting when making bouquets. In folk medicine, the flowers of the Columbine are valued for they contain useful for the human body substances: alkaloids (malmin, talmidim), saponins, tannins, vitamin C, aliphatic hydrocarbons.

Medicinal infusions and decoctions of the flowers have antibacterial, diuretic, laxative effect. They are used for smallpox, measles, typhoid, malaria, syphilis. It is useful to take such medicines account for problems with the gall bladder and liver.


Growing Columbine

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When growing Columbine need in the fall to fertilize the soil with humus or peat, and in the spring, before planting flowers and during growth, water complex fertilizers. Facilitiy propagated by seeds, vegetative, cuttings or by dividing the Bush. Vasileshnikova seeds germinate quickly. You need to select the best sprouts, propilov bed.

In order to propagate the plant by cuttings, in spring cut the Bush several of the young shoots, planted them in boxes with substrate, then covered with foil and from time to time watered with water. When there are roots and the first young shoots, cuttings are transplanted to the garden bed where it is recommended to weed and loosen the earth, produce abundant watering. Proper cultivation of Columbine will allow you to obtain a beautiful and lush plant.


Properties of Rue

As a medicinal raw materials used leafy stems, buds and flowers of Columbine. The plant is rich in petidin, magnoflorine, Calvin, rutin, glucomannan, coumarins, triterpene glycosides, tannins, organic acids and resin. Drugs based on the Columbine have bactericidal and anti-inflammatory properties that have a calming effect.


The use of Rue

Rue stinking helpful with colitis, it is used for the prevention and treatment of peptic ulcer disease. The plant was effective in disorders of bladder function and inflammation of the kidneys. Due to hemostatic properties of the infusions of Columbine is recommended for the nasal and throat bleeding, diseases of the lungs, accompanied by blood discharge.

Drugs, Columbine stinking have a positive effect on the cardiovascular system, helps with nervous disorders, lowers blood pressure. It was revealed that the plant is useful in epilepsy and convulsions, the inhabitants of the southern regions are cured from malaria and fever. Diuretic properties of Rue helps get rid of edema in dropsy. External use of infusions of the herb in the form of compresses promotes rapid healing of ulcers on the skin, eliminates rash, pustular lesions, quickly heals wounds.

Grass Rue stinking prepared tincture in 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10. It is used as antihypertensives and angina pectoris. The active ingredient – alkaloid fucidin – reduces pressure. Drink the infusion should in the earlystages of the disease 2-3 times daily 15-20 drops.

A poultice from a decoction of the roots helps to reduce pain, relieve inflammation of the joints in arthrosis and arthritis of different origin. It is known that during any illness a person feels weakness, reduced immunity. To restore the lost strength with the help of Rue, decoctions and infusions which is a great tonic.


Contraindications to the use of Rue

Rue, like all poisonous weed, has a number of contraindications. If ingestion is necessary to strictly adhere to dosage, follow the doctor's recommendations. Self-treatment can be bad for health. Strictly prohibited reception of funds based on the Columbine under reduced pressure, atonic constipation , and bradycardia.