Rhodiola rosea is a medicinal herb that has long been used in folk medicine. In different nations, it is customary to treat various diseases, from severe fatigue to impotence and tuberculosis.
The plant is also widely known among athletes. Let's consider its characteristic in more detail.
Description
Rhodiola rosea is a perennial herb. Due to its thick root of bronze color with a pearly sheen, the people began to call the plant “the golden root”. Rhizome can reach a weight of up to eight hundred grams. Rhodiola flowers of pink yellow-green color with yellow petals. The flowering time of the plant is the first half of summer, and fruit ripening occurs in August.
It grows in Siberia, Altai, the Urals and the Far East. Very fond of moisture Rhodiola rosea
Medicinal properties and contraindications
This is a very healthy plant. In folk medicine, for many centuries it has been used as a means of increasing mental ability and physical strength.
In medicine, plant rhizomes are used. Rhodiola liquid extract on alcohol is a good stimulant of the central nervous system. It is taken with severe fatigue, lack of efficiency, diseases of the nervous system.
Tibetan medicine found its use in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and cardiovascular system. In Mongolia, they treat skin diseases, tuberculosis, bone fractures and wounds.
In folk medicine, in addition to the root, which helps with gout, diabetes, impotence, and so on, the aerial part is also used. With trachoma, it is used in the form of a decoction and lotions.
In addition to the fact that Rhodiola rosea has healing properties, it also has contraindications. So, febrile conditions, too strong excitement, and hypertensive crisis can occur. If Rhodiola liquid extract caused the indicated ailments, its administration should be stopped immediately. But this is rare.
The drug is not recommended for pregnant and lactating women, as well as people suffering from insomnia and excessive irritability.
In addition, you should be careful in using the drug with other herbs, as there is a risk that the side effects of the latter will increase due to Rhodiola rosea.
"Rhodiola extract": instructions for use
A medicinal plant will be useful if the patient is sick with asthenia, neurasthenia, drug addiction, alcoholism, SARS and other diseases or suffers from excessive fatigue and overstrain, the extract can help.
It is taken half an hour before meals, five to ten drops up to three times a day. Treatment can last no more than three weeks. If the disease is associated with a mental disorder, then, starting with the specified dose, it is gradually brought to 30-40 drops. Treatment in this case may increase up to two months.
In addition to the extract, in the pharmacy you can find dry supplements. They make tea or just make a decoction. For tea, take 10 grams of the mixture and pour 200 ml of boiling water. After 4 hours, it is filtered and drunk in half a glass three times a day.
For a decoction, 20 grams of grass is brewed in a liter of water, boiled for 10 minutes. Then the contents are poured into a thermos and left to insist for another day. Take a decoction of a tablespoon 3 times a day.
Tinctures and solutions
In folk medicine, rhodiola is used to make tincture using the underground part of the plant. It’s easy to cook. Half a liter of 40% alcohol is added to 50 grams of raw material. Crescent insist in a warm, dry and dark place. Take it the same way as in the form of an extract, but in larger quantities, 20-30 drops.
The solution of the plant is prepared as follows: 10 grams of grass is filled with 200 ml of boiling water. 4 hours the solution should stand. After that, it is filtered and drunk half a glass three times a day.
How to collect raw materials
The main medicinal component is rhizomes. They are harvested when the flowering period ends in the plant. In order for the thickets to recover, the collection at this place is repeated only after 10-15 years. Young plants with only a couple of stems are not used for harvesting.
To improve athletic performance
In addition to therapeutic applications, “Rhodiola liquid extract” is widely used in sports as additives. There are no less benefits from it than various synthetic preparations give the athlete. The extract not only stimulates the nervous and immune systems, but also increases collagen synthesis.
The athlete "Rhodiola liquid extract" helps to cope with stress and physical fatigue.
During training, it often happens to carry an increased load, because of which there are emotional breakdowns. Also, before the competition you have to experience extreme stress. All this leads to overwork. Rhodiola rosea helps calm down, relax emotionally and physically.
The day after training, a fit appears, the movements are often constrained by pain. Plant extract penetrates directly into the muscle and relaxes it, facilitating the athlete's condition.
Experts say that athletes are so full of energy, taking this tool that they are able to spend even more time in the gym than usual.
Sports result
Positive results will not be long in coming if rhodiola extract was taken correctly. Reviews of a positive nature (and there are many of them) indicate the real effectiveness of the drug. Muscle tone improves, all exercises are performed without much effort. Therefore, athletes give all the best.
Many also note an increase in stamina and a significant improvement in mood.
Those athletes who suffered from painful krepatura noticed that muscle pain was reduced. Their recovery went much faster.
Rhodiola rosea
The price of the drug "Rhodiola liquid extract" in a pharmacy depends on the form of release.
But, in general, this is a very useful medicinal plant is quite inexpensive. If Rhodiola rosea is purchased in the form of a liquid extract, its price on average is from 300 to 400 rubles.
And the dry packaging cost is only 175 rubles.