Heartsease, heart's ease, heart's delight, tickle-my-fancy - Viola tricolor (Violaceae)
Names: tickle-my-fancy, Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me,come-and-cuddle-me, three faces in a hood, love-in-idleness, johnny jump up, wild pansy
description
Annual or biennial plant grows up to 40 cm long , ovate leaves lengthwise or lanceolate , often with one side serrated , 5 - allotment cup , crown composed of five petals , top - purple , side - yellowish, lower - the yellow spot and spur ; stamens 5 , column 1 ; fruit - bag . Common plant , growing in meadows, on fallow fields , and roadsides , on the hills . It flowers from April to October. Similar healing field shows violet - Viola arvensis , very similar to the tricolor .
Raw
Healing is a green - Herb Violae . You can collect herbs with roots - Violae Herba cum Radice .
Herb is collected at the beginning of or during flowering and dried at 40 ° C.
In pharmacies and herbal shops you can buy herbs in bulk tricolor violet (pack of 50 g). Heartsease is covered by our FP I, II , III , IV and V. Bags Express have little therapeutic value .
The chemical composition
Viola tricolor herb contains saponins , flavonoids ( rutoside , violutozyd - 10% , quercetin ) , anthocyanins ( violaninę , delphinidin 3- glucoside , 3 - glucoside peonidyny ) , carotenoids (beta- carotene, wiolaxantynę , zeaxantynę ) a lot of mucus , sugars , various salts mineral quarter of ascorbic acid, methyl salicylate , essential oil , tannins and alkaloids .
Operation and use
The aqueous extract of violet tricolor is a diuretic , expectorant , diaphoretic , cholagogue , detoxication , anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic , regulates bowel movement , metabolism , seals and strengthens blood vessels, thereby acting exudation , shows synergism with vitamin . C.
Indications: dysuria , oliguria , and glomerular inflammation of the renal pelvis and ureters , and bladder cancer , urolithiasis , bile secretion disorders , ulcers , digestive disorders , gallstones , constipation, gastrointestinal inflammation , obesity, all the infectious diseases and rashes, colds, infections of the respiratory tract , cough , hypertension, rheumatism , fever , conjunctivitis, retina and choroid ( compresses on the eyes and at the same time drinking liquor ) , allergic disease , poisoning .
Infusion: 2 tablespoons herb pour 2 cups boiling water , let stand for 20 minutes . , Strain. Drink 3-4 times dz , 150 ml ; babies weighing 3-4 kg -8.5 ml , 5-6 kg - 10.7 ml , 7-8 kg - 15 ml , 9-10 kg - 19 ml, 2 -4 times the plot , children weighing 15-20 kg - 42 ml , 25-30 ml - 53 ml , 35-40 kg - 75 ml , 45-50 kg - 107 ml , 2-4 times the plot
With the use of an infusion taken orally advise wit . C or Rutinoscorbin .
Dried violet can brew in milk and sweetened with honey. The cosmetic and medicinal purposes ( inflammation, dryness , blemishes , acnes , psoriasis, etc.), skin flush infusion 3-4 times the plot and also drink the following mixture :
Rp . Mixture of VAT on skin diseases
- Herb violet tr . - 1 tablespoon
- Burdock root - 1 tablespoon
- Horsetail herb - 1 tbsp
- Nettle Herb - 1 tbsp
- Couch grass rhizome - 1 tbsp
- Dandelion root or herb - 1 tbsp
Mix. 2 tablespoons of mixture pour 400 ml of boiling water , leave for 20 minutes and strain. Drink 4-6 times a plot of 200 ml, children weighing 4-5 kg - 8.5 ml , 10-15 kg - 28.5 ml , 20-25 kg - 57 ml , 30-35 ml - 85.7 ml , 40-45 kg - 114 ml , 50-55 kg - 142 ml , 3-4 times the plot
Indications (except for skin diseases) : constipation , disorders of metabolism, digestion and excretion of bile , infectious disease , oliguria , urolithiasis and cholelithiasis , atherosclerosis, arthritis, swelling , weakness .
