Cyanosis Is Blue: It Heals And Pleases The Eye

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

Overcome-herb (Polemonium caeruleum) - a beautiful and medicinal plant

This is what the people call blue cyanosis, which, along with the evading peony (Mary's root), curly lily (locust), Asian swimsuit ("hot" or "lights"), is one of the most beautiful plants of the Siberian flora.

In June, when the haymaking season approaches and the grass stand up to the waist, the meadows are colored with towering clumps or pyramids of individual plants with bright azure bells. This is blue cyanosis (Polemonium caeruleum).

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For a long time, people noticed this beautiful and useful plant and in each province named it differently: St. John's wort blue (Yaroslavl), forty inflow (Tver), mother plant (Vyatka), horse incense (Siberia), Buldyryan walnutsky (Moscow), Yegoryevsky spear (Arkhangelskaya), holy mountain ash (Tobolsk), natural grass (Kazakhstan), stolistnik (Kaluga), Greek valerian and others. Sinyukha likes to settle in humid, open to the sun or semi-shady places, along the banks of streams, in meadows, forest glades and forest edges.

This plant enchants with its harmony. The bush has the shape of a pyramid up to 120 cm high, the bottom of which is filled with a dense rosette of openwork long (up to 30 cm) pinnate leaves with oblong lobules, in the middle of the stem the leaves are shorter, and they are less often placed, and the top is crowned with a paniculate inflorescence of azure, like the March sky, bell-shaped flowers.

Siberians love this plant and willingly grow it in their garden plots. They love not only for their beauty, but also as a faithful friend who can come to the rescue in difficult times. And the overpowering grass will help out for many ailments.

With bronchitis and other colds, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, with hypertension and atherosclerosis, metabolic disorders and epilepsy, insomnia and disorders of the central nervous system. By the way, the calming effect of cyanosis is 8-10 times stronger than the effect of valerian. The healing power of the plant lies in the rhizome with many roots.

They contain up to 30% saponins, organic acids, fatty and essential oils, lipids, flavonoids, coumarins, microelements. All these and other biologically active substances in the maximum amount of plants are stored for the winter. Therefore, the roots are harvested in August-September, during the withering of the aboveground mass. They are washed in cold water and dried in a well-ventilated area. Applied in the form of infusion (2 tablespoons of raw materials per glass of boiling water, boil for 15 minutes), 1 tablespoon 3-5 times a day after meals.

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It is clear that it is not at all difficult to grow a plant capable of standing up for itself in nature. This perennial plant is frost-resistant, shade-tolerant, unpretentious to soils. The only thing it needs is 2-3 waterings per summer during dry periods.

Cyanosis can be propagated by dividing rhizomes with renewal buds. Thanks to the fibrous root system, the plants tolerate transplantation painlessly. Easily propagated by seeds. It is better to sow them before winter, but you can also in early spring. In the latter case, the seeds are stratified - kept in a moist substrate (peat, moss, sawdust) for 1-2 months at a temperature of + 1 … + 3 ° C. Seeds are embedded in grooves 1-1.5 cm deep.

40 cm is left between the rows. In the first year, the plants develop a rosette of leaves. Flowering begins from the second year in June. The seeds ripen in July. They are dark brown, pyramidal, about 3 mm long. Rhizomes can be harvested from the second year.