Lumbago meadow

The lumbago meadow is a herbaceous perennial plant which has a powerful vertical rhizome. The lumbago up to foliage expansion blossoms. There is a set of national names of a plant among which – a spreading pasqueflower, a sheep grass, a strelny grass, a bough, dream book, урчуй, a lumbago pine-forest, the little rogue, a samsonchik. Radical leaves at a grass are lowered, dissect on three segments which, in turn, are divided into 2 sites, each of which "bears" still the pointed gear segments (in number of the 2-4th).

During blossoming peduncules of a lumbago meadow are covered with soft dense hairs. The spreading pasqueflower has "cover" formed by three leaves which grew together at the basis – it annulate, divided into linear, very pilar segments. Flowers – shirokokolokolchaty. On a lumbago "sit" 6 ovoid pointed, blue-violet pilar leaflets having length of 3-4 cm. A stamen at a lumbago meadow yellow, they are a little shorter than leaflets. Fruits of a spreading pasqueflower have length of 3-5 cm and very pilar column.

The blooming period is the share of the second half of spring (the end of April – May). The grass is widespread in the European part of Russia, in Belarus and Ukraine. Most often grows on edges of the woods, dry slopes, open sandy hills and in pineries.

Use of a lumbago meadow

With the medical purpose only leaves which are prepared in a blooming period of a lumbago meadow can be used.

The plant contains a steroid sitosterol, тритерпеноид beta Arminum, a gamma lactone ранункулин, holidonovy acid and derivatives gamma пирона. Roots of a plant place in themselves saponins. A land part of a lumbago is rich with organic acids, a gamma lactone, essential oil, anemonin. Stalks store in themselves traces of alkaloids which are also in plant leaves. By the way, leaves are still rich with vitamin C. And here in plant flowers during the researches anthocyans (delphidin and glycosides of a perargopilin) and traces of alkaloids were found.

Traditional medicine uses a lumbago meadow as good sleeping pill and a calmative. The plant possesses the bactericidal, fungicidal, coughing-up, antiinflammatory and bactericidal action. Infusion of a grass has broad use at joint rheumatism, whooping cough, female diseases, bronchial asthma and bronchitis.

Elevated part of a lumbago meadow is used in homeopathy for treatment of nervous diseases, an amenorrhea, measles, gastritis, an inflammation of an Eustachian tube, disturbance of a menstrual cycle, and also at conjunctivitis, disbolism, diseases of urinary tract and kidneys.

Broth from elevated parts of a plant in Northeast China is used as an expectorant, and water extract from a spreading pasqueflower is applied in Belarus at fungal infections of skin and bandaging of wounds.

To prepare infusion of a lumbago meadow, it is necessary to fill in with a glass of cold water 10 g of small crushed plant, to leave this mix for days, and after that to filter it. It is applied exclusively outwardly to treatment of skin diseases. In small doses infusion is recommended by traditional medicine of Belarus for treatment of cough and female diseases. In the same country rub with plant tincture on vodka skin at rheumatism. A fresh grass of a lumbago meadow soar in the furnace and receive special juice which further it is possible to treat burns.

The Bulgarian traditional medicine recommends to use drugs on the basis of a lumbago meadow at neuralgia, diseases of female generative organs, bronchitis, whooping cough and migraine, rheumatism and gout. In Bulgaria the spreading pasqueflower is also considered sudorific and diuretic.

Very often the plant is applied in the form of cold infusion which can be prepared if to fill in with a glass of the boiled water cooled to room temperature, 2 h l. the crushed grass then to insist within a day and to filter. It is necessary to accept infusion small drinks.

Contraindications to use of a lumbago meadow

As the lumbago meadow is very noxious plant, at internal use of a plant it is necessary to be very careful.

Lumbago drugs at gastritis, nephrite and other gastrointestinal diseases are categorically contraindicated. By the way, in many Russian regions there was earlier a belief in which it was specified that this plant was damned by the Virgin.