Peony Evading - Beautiful And Healing

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Peony evading or zhgun-root

Zhgun-root - so called in Siberia for the pleasant sweetish-burning taste of the roots, a wonderful medicinal plant - peony evading, also popularly known as Maryin root.

Evasive peony (Peonia anomala) can be found in forest glades and edges, in dark coniferous taiga and mixed forests, less often in the European part of Russia, more often in Siberia.

Its large (more than 12 cm in diameter) beautiful purple-pink flowers, and most importantly, the roots, widely famous for their healing properties, did a disservice to the plant - in nature this type of peony has become rare and is listed in the "Red Book".

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Fortunately, thanks to its natural hardening (it is extremely frost-hardy) and unpretentiousness, it is very easy to grow the marin root in a personal plot. Perhaps the only thing that he has increased requirements for is soil fertility. But ordinary garden soil with the addition of a compost bucket on a 40x40x40 cm pit will perfectly suit him. The place can be allotted in partial shade, but without fail without stagnant melt water. All he needs is 2-3 good (bucket per bush) watering during dry periods. And that's it!

You can dilute the mariin root by dividing the rhizomes in the fall and sowing seeds before winter or early spring. In the latter case, they must be stratified for 2-3 months, i.e. keep in a moist substrate (moss, sawdust, peat) at a temperature of about 0-2 ° C (under snow, in a cellar or under a refrigerator freezer). The seeds of the root marin are very large (about 7 mm long and 5 mm wide), so they must be planted deeply - by 3-4 cm.

Sow on the garden bed every 5-10 cm. Their natural feature is such that only some of them will rise in the spring, and the other part will rise next spring. In the first year of life, the seedlings grow 1-2 leaves and one bud of renewal is formed. In the fall, plants can be transplanted to a permanent place, leaving a distance of 70 cm between them.

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Maryin root blooms in the third year. It blooms in late May - a month earlier than varietal peonies. There are more than 50 flowers on a perennial bush! From the age of three, roots and rhizomes can be used for medicinal purposes. They are very large - up to 80 cm long and 5 cm thick.

Harvesting is carried out late in the fall, when the content in the roots of nutrients stored for the winter is maximum. The roots are washed from the ground in cold water, dried for 2-3 days in a ventilated dark room and cut into pieces about 5 cm long and no thicker than 1.5 cm and dried in a dryer at a temperature of 45 … 60 ° C until brittle. According to the pharmacopoeial monograph FS-42-531-72, the raw material should have a dark brown or yellowish-brown color, a sweet-burning, slightly astringent taste and (when rubbed) a peculiar smell of methyl salicylate. Raw materials are stored for three years.

The chemical composition of the roots of the dodging peony is extremely diverse. They contain: essential oil containing at least 30 components (peonol, methyl salicylate, carvacrol, etc.), organic acids (salicylic, benzoic, gallic), glutamine, flavonoids, saponins, sterols, sugars, starch, tanning and other biologically active substances.

In official medicine, tincture (1 part of raw materials for 10 parts of 40% alcohol, 1 teaspoon three times a day before meals for one month) is prescribed for neuroses, hypochondria and insomnia (it has a calming effect), for gastrointestinal diseases (relieves pain and increases the acidity of gastric juice, has a bactericidal and antitoxic effect in case of poisoning, diarrhea and dysentery).

Marin root preparations are much more widely used in folk medicine of different countries. In Russia, in addition to alcohol tincture, an aqueous infusion of roots is used (1 teaspoon of dry roots for three cups of boiling water, infuse for half an hour and take a tablespoon three times a day for 10-15 minutes before meals) for rheumatism, gout, convulsions, impotence, encephalitis, hypertension, tuberculosis of the skin, erosion and cancer of the uterus, atherosclerosis, diabetes, malaria, cough, fatigue, for better hair growth and increased lactation in nursing mothers.

In China, the peony is widely used against cancer. It is believed that the antitumor effect is due to the high content of trace elements in the roots of chromium and strontium. In Tibetan and Mongolian medicine, peony roots are used for epilepsy, gastritis, kidney disease, pneumonia. In Siberia, Zhgun-root is also used as a seasoning for meat dishes.

For those who wish to breed this valuable medicinal and ornamental plant, I can send annual seedlings and seeds of mariin root. They, as well as seeds of more than 200 other rare plants, can be ordered from a catalog with a detailed description of the plants. Send an envelope with your address - in it you will receive the catalog for free.

My address: 634024, Tomsk, st. 5th Army, 29-33, mob. t. +7 (913) 851-81-03 - Gennady Pavlovich Anisimov. The catalog can also be obtained by e-mail - send a request to E-mail: [email protected]. The catalog can be found at sem-ot-anis.narod.ru.