Large celandine - a long-lived plant, perennial grass. It grows in both Europe and Asia. In our country, it is found everywhere, except for the Far Eastern regions (beyond Amur) and northern (Arctic). Celandine is growing in abundance in Siberian regions and the European part of the country. For a long time, celandine is famous for its medicinal qualities and properties, due to which it is used in the treatment of a variety of diseases.
Biology: flora and its features
The celandine reaches a height of 80 cm. It is characterized by a scattered branchy stem and alternately arranged foliage of an unpaired pinnate type. The leaves below are larger than the upper ones, they have petioles, while those located above are sessile. The foliage in the upper part of the plant has a green color, in the bottom - a bluish tint. Leaves are covered with a wax layer. Large celandine flowers are painted in bright yellow color, form an umbrella inflorescences located at the end of the stem. Corolla of the flower contains 4 petals in the reverse egg shape, has the correct type. The flower has a lot of stamens and one pistil. After flowering, pollinated inflorescences ripen into fruits in the form of bivalve pods-boxes. The plant is characterized by an abundance of small black seeds.
Celandine juice is a large, the most interesting for traditional medicine, has a bright orange color. This substance is toxic and is found throughout the plant. It is on it that most of the recipes for using celandine are based. The plant is covered with flowers from May to September, bears fruit from July to September.
Where to find?
The distribution of large celandine is the Eurasian region. This plant does not grow in our country south of the Amur. In the Siberian part of the country, it cannot be found only in the coldest territories.
Celandine is usually found as a weed. Grows near human housing, often on heaps of garbage or under fences. It can be seen in most parks and gardens. Often floods gardens. More often the plant is found in small compartments, but the formation of thickets is not inherent in it. Cultivation is possible.
Celandine: chemistry and biology
The chemical composition of large celandine usually begin to be considered with alkaloids. They are rich in all parts of the grass. The set is quite large, the most significant are chelidonin, protropin. In the herbaceous part of the celandine, the concentration of alkaloids reaches 2%, and in the rhizomes - twice as high. Alkaloids have a complex chemical structure. These substances belong to isoquinoline products.
Celandine contains saponins and carotene, vitamin C. The plant is rich in various organic acids, flavonoids. There are various oils and resins, tannins and bitter compounds, acids and microscopic elements. Celandine juice is a source of copper and calcium, barium and potassium. Celandine contains selenium, coumarins, histamine and molybdenum.
Celandine in medicine
The grass is celandine, thanks to such a wide variety of active ingredients, when used correctly, it can stop spasms and activate the separation of urine and bile. The plant helps to reduce pressure, improve stool with constipation. The herb has a calming effect and a firming effect. Celandine is used as a tonic and inhibitory activity of inflammatory foci. For a long time, celandine is known for its wound healing abilities.
Great celandine has established itself as a reliable and high-quality natural antiseptic. Means based on this herb help inhibit the development of atypical cells. They have a bactericidal effect. It is believed that celandine is effective in fungal infections. Alkaloids isolated from plants are known to have increased pharmacological activity.
Helidonin is somewhat close to morphine. In a high dosage, it can paralyze the nervous system, inhibiting vital processes. Homochelidonin is a strong local anesthetic. Belongs to the category of convulsive poisons. Sanguinarine is close to narcotic substances, activates intestinal motility and the generation of salivary secretion. Protropin reduces the reactive reaction of autonomic NS.
How to use?
The use of large celandine is recommended in the form of an infusion made on the greenery of the plant. In our country, grass is classified as a medicinal raw material. The juice obtained from it has been used for a long time as an effective method for removing warts. The infusion can be used to cauterize such formations, as well as to deal with long-term healing skin lesions, diseases. The healers recommend drinking celandine infusion in a small dosage, if the liver hurts or a gastric ulcer is established, the gall bladder is disturbed in functionality.
In any form of celandine, large is used only after consultation with a qualified doctor. The doctor will choose the best option and method of use, dosage and frequency of use. It is unacceptable to use medicines on this herb during pregnancy and before reaching adulthood.
What are medicines made of?
It was indicated above where celandine grows - it can be found on the territory of our country in almost any locality, near human housing. However, not every plant is suitable for harvesting and subsequent use for medicinal purposes - it is necessary to choose strictly specimens growing in clean conditions.
Harvesting is carried out during the period when the plants bloom. Immediately after cutting, the specimens are dried. The optimum temperature regime is up to 60 degrees. It is better to dry the houses in the attic, placing the stand directly under the iron roof. An alternative is a canopy with good air exchange with the environment. It is necessary to lay out the celandine loosely and thinly, constantly turn it over. If the grass lies thick or dries slowly, under inappropriate conditions, the color changes to brown, decay begins.
Being dried, the grass of the celandine is very dusty. Certain components can settle on the mucous membranes of the respiratory system, causing severe irritation. To prevent undesirable effects, a protective moisturized mask must be worn before collecting dried grass. After unpacking, dry grass should be stored in a ventilated room with a low humidity level for no more than three years.
Ecology and safety
So that there is no shortage in the celandine, it is necessary to collect grass carefully, leaving developed specimens for further propagation of the culture.
From the description of the large celandine it follows that the natural reserves are currently greater than the need for grass. Previously, preparations for the entire Soviet Union were carried out in Ukraine, and this was enough to meet the needs of the state. Currently, predominantly celandine is harvested in the European regions of the Russian Federation, as well as in Siberia and the Far East. Rich in celandine Bashkiria, Altai, especially mountainous places. The productivity of celandine is high in Tuva.
Folk wisdom to fight disease
For a long time, celandine in our country is known to healers. In different areas it is called differently: a warthog, a clean man. From the names it is clear that the grass is primarily associated with cleanliness. Some even say that celandine is the Russian equivalent of ginseng. But in Greece, celandine is called chelidonium, which literally means "heavenly gift."
In the Great Encyclopedia, published in the USSR, there was a place to describe the method of using celandine: it is necessary to lubricate flat warts with fresh plant juice. The encyclopedia recommends thus fighting only solitary formations. It is indicated that often this method is enough to completely get rid of the neoplasm. The site should be treated no more than four times. Modern doctors agree with the conclusions of the Soviet: up to 80% of cases end in the cure of the patient. This is due to a pronounced antiviral effect. Plant juice affects the root cause of the formation of warts.
What helps?
The spread of celandine in folk medicine received due to the abundance of positive qualities. The most pronounced choleretic effects are provided by the presence of alkaloids. They also show an analgesic result and stop the activity of inflammatory processes.
Due to the wide variety of beneficial compounds, the plant stimulates the reproductive male system, has desensitizing properties and astringents. It is used as an immune stimulating drug.
Celandine is used both as an independent medicine and as an element of herbal preparations for combating various diseases.
Diagnosis and use of herbs: fees and combinations
It is difficult to list under which diseases large celandine preparations are used: there are too many such diagnoses. This includes warts, pyoderma, dermatitis, problems with the menstrual cycle. Celandine is used as one of the means of alleviating the condition of women in the menopause. Celandine preparations are effective for chronic female diseases, neuritis and neurosis.
For example, with pyoderma, it is recommended to mix celandine with pine needles, clover grass, plantain, with burdock rhizomes and heather shoots. The broth prepared at such an assembly (the ready-made mixture for it can be bought at the pharmacy) is used externally for about three weeks. But the mixture of celandine with elderberry and poplar buds, dandelion rhizomes and pink petals, geranium is used to prepare the infusion, used for a month in small doses.
Options and Combinations
With menopause, the healing properties of celandine are most pronounced in combination with wormwood and a string, valerian roots, flaxseeds, blueberry shoots, ripe viburnum berries and calendula inflorescences. Treatment with drugs on such an herbal mixture takes about four weeks.
In chronic female inflammatory pathologies, celandine is used in combination with violet, tansy inflorescences, flaxseed, yarrow leaves and St. John's wort. On herbs make a decoction used for small enemas for at least four consecutive weeks. For douching for the same period, a combination of the plant in question with clover, alder, soapwort roots, horsetail and viburnum is more suitable.
The curative properties of the celandine, which help to combat male sexual impotence, are enhanced in combination with sage, licorice, chamomile inflorescences, hawthorn berries and anise fruits. The duration of treatment reaches five months.
How to use?
In folk medicine, celandine is used in the form of dried grass. For the above (and the following recipes) all components are taken in equal quantities. Infusions are prepared in the following proportions: for 10 g of dry raw materials - a third of a liter of boiled water. The mixture is insisted for about four hours, then the liquid is carefully drained. The resulting preparation is intended for consumption before meals in one day in four divided doses.
Options and recipes
With prostatitis, celandine can be used as an infusion prepared according to the above recipe, mixing grass with pear, plantain and juniper fruits, as well as St. John's wort and bearberry. The duration of the course is seven weeks.
In case of diseased buds, the plant in question will help in mixing with flaxseed and nettle, leaves of Veronica, white, cornflower inflorescences, lingonberry and strawberry foliage. The duration of the decoction is a little more than a month.
With cystitis, you can use a combination of celandine and hop cones, steel rhizomes, coriander fruits, as well as green herbs, orthosiphon. The broth is used for about 35 days.
Celandine collection with strawberries, mint, rhizomes of dandelion, elecampane, chicory, as well as grass of cinquefoil, woodruff is effective against pancreatitis. The duration of treatment is at least six months.
With hepatitis, healers recommend taking decoctions with celandine, supplemented with horsetail and initial letter, ash foliage, dill seeds, rhizomes of dandelion, valerian, calendula, viburnum inflorescences. Here you can add dried milk thistle, a watch, lemon balm.
Diagnoses and decoctions
When vegetovascular dystonia, celandine is recommended to cook according to the above recipe in combination with lavender, motherwort and marigold inflorescences. In a mixture of herbs for greater effectiveness include strawberries, St. John's wort. The duration of treatment is about seven weeks.
In asthma, celandine is indicated in combination with primroses, violets and caraway fruits, pine buds, white herbs, rosehip berries. The infusion is used every day for a quarter of a year.
Lack of lung function can be eliminated by using a celandine infusion with lemon balm, hawthorn, rosehip, caraway fruits, Ledum and heather shoots, plantain greens, Ivan tea, cuffs, meadowsweet, motherwort. The duration of the course is up to six months.
Celandine: use on your own
You can use this plant not only in combination with others, but also by itself. When ingestion, a slowing of the pulse, a decrease in pressure are observed, the output of bile is activated. Celandine has established itself as a means of combating angina pectoris, hypertension and pathological conditions that provoke muscle cramps. With gastric cancer, it is used as a method of pain relief. Helps with pathologies of the gallbladder, liver.
Cases of successful use of celandine with polyps in the colon are known. Experts attribute this to a cauterizing, keratolytic effect.
The plant is mixed with water: one part of the grass - ten times more liquid. For one procedure, it is desirable to have 15-60 g of greenery. The exact amount depends on the weight, diagnosis, general condition of the patient - it is better to give their choice to the doctor. The drug is administered for an hour with an enema. Three hours before the procedure, you must put an enema to cleanse the body. It is known that elimination of polyps was achieved in 6-10 procedures.
Options and Opportunities
Celandine-based preparations have a pronounced bactericidal effect, due to which they are effective in diseases provoked by a wide range of pathological microscopic life forms. The effectiveness of the plant's juice against Koch's bacillus, which causes tuberculosis, has been proven. Ointment from crushed foliage, juice is effective in the skin form of the disease. Clinical trials have proven that the local use of juice obtained from herbs, rhizomes, can also get rid of polyps localized in the bladder.
Outwardly, juice is used, cauterizing warts, condylomas. The drug will help with papillomas in the larynx, with lupus erythematosus at the initial stage.
The plant is poisonous, so at first it is used only in a small dosage. For greater safety, celandine should be used in combination with other medicinal herbs.
Juice is considered an analgesic, therefore it is used to relieve soreness in pathologies of the gallbladder, stones in it, and liver diseases, including jaundice. Milky juice is effective for colitis, sand, gastritis. In addition to the analgesic effect, it weakens muscle cramps. It is used in the form of water and alcohol infusion, for the preparation of which they take a fresh plant. The most effective is considered to be tincture for alcohol.
Traditional medicine: celandine is indispensable!
In our country, for a long time, healers use celandine to treat rheumatism, gout. External use allows you to quickly get rid of corns, depriving, to alleviate the condition of the patient with skin oncology, eczema. The affected areas must be lubricated with fresh juice or ointment made with its inclusion. Every day, the affected areas are treated three times with equal time intervals between procedures. With scrofula and skin diseases of children, celandine juice is used to prepare baths in which the baby is bathed, being careful that the child does not swallow medicinal water.
In Bulgaria, a collection of folk recipes mentions the effectiveness of celandine with dropsy. The tool is used as a diuretic and improves menstruation, effective in malaria and syphilis. You can use it for jaundice and liver pathologies, scrofula.It is recommended to use celandine decoction in these conditions. Outwardly, juice is used if necessary to remove warts.