The Healing Properties Of The Golden Hair

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

Bupleurum aureum - a good healer

I would like to acquaint gardeners of the European part of Russia with the golden buckwheat - a valuable medicinal plant that is found in nature only in the Urals and Siberia.

There are many different types of bullocks in Russia. For example, in the academic multivolume work "Flora of the USSR" 42 species are described. In the European part of Russia, Bupleurum rotundifolium is more common than others. It is an annual plant. But another species of Bupleurum multinerve is a perennial plant up to 70 cm high and others.

Ours is a completely different thing - Siberian - golden buckwheat (Bupleurum aureum). It is a powerful and beautiful perennial herb of the umbrella family with a thick horizontal rhizome, a straight stem as tall as a person, large light green leaves with a bluish bloom and large loose umbrellas of golden yellow flowers. It lives in sparse forests, along forest edges, in forest meadows, along river banks.

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When a bullock blooms, and it blooms at the beginning of the hay season, when summer is at the top, it seems that the sun itself has spread over the meadows. But as soon as the sun wanes, the blush disappears from the meadows - the buckwheat fades. Seeds begin to ripen. They ripen early - in early August. Ripe seeds are dark brown oblong achenes about 5 mm long.

Properties and application of golden hair

Traditional herbalists have long been using follicle patients. In folk medicine, this plant is used for nervous diseases, scrofula, fever, as an anti-inflammatory, laxative, mild tonic. The leaves are applied to various wounds, ulcers, burns for quick healing.

Pharmacologists paid attention to the golden bollush only in the middle of the last century. Studies of Tomsk scientists (V. G. Vogralik and others) found that the aboveground part of the plant contains saponins, flavonoids (quercetin, rutin, etc.), coumarins, essential oil, carotene, vitamins C and P. Siberian scientists obtained P-vitamin the drug "Buplerin", which has a vasoconstrictor effect, has a beneficial effect on the permeability of blood capillaries, and improves blood circulation. In official medicine, the buckwheat is known as a good choleretic agent for diseases of the liver and gallbladder.

It has a sokogonic effect on the stomach and pancreas, regulates the activity of the gastrointestinal tract, and is used in the treatment of hypertension. Modern research has established that the buckwheat protects the liver from the effects of various poisons, and has anti-tumor activity.

In culture, it is advisable to use not the entire aerial part of the plant (as they say in herbalists), but only the upper 35-50 cm long, leaving the lower part to feed the root. This is all the more expedient because the content of nutrients in flowers and leaves is 3-5 times higher than in the stems. Harvesting is carried out during flowering. The herb is dried in a dark, ventilated place. It turned out that preparations from dry raw materials are more effective than from fresh ones. The raw materials are stored in paper bags for five years.

In everyday life, an aqueous decoction is prepared from it: 1 tablespoon of chopped herbs per 1 glass of boiling water, boil for 5 minutes and leave for 15 minutes. Apply three times a day, 0.5 cups before meals for three weeks. Bupleur is also good as a component of herbal tea, especially after eating fatty foods.

More than half a century ago, Siberian botanists began to conduct research on the introduction of various types of buckwheat into the culture. And they came to the conclusion that the most productive and easy-to-breed species is the golden hairball. They also found that the content of useful active substances in plants grown in culture is much higher than in those that live in nature.

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Growing bullocks

It is not very difficult to grow a buckwheat on a personal plot. Seeds sown before winter give friendly shoots in early spring. When sowing in spring, the seeds should be pre-stratified, i.e. soak for 30-40 days in damp sand at a temperature of about 0 ° C (you can in the refrigerator). Sow in early spring in grooves to a depth of 2-3 cm in normal garden soil. Seedlings will grow over the summer. In the fall or early spring of next year, it must be planted in a permanent place. Plants are placed in a lighted place after 30-35 cm. They do not need special care, the bullock is undemanding to the soil, winter-hardy. Bupless plants are durable - in nature they reach 50 years of age, so it can be grown in one place for a long time. In the future, plants can be propagated by dividing the rhizomes.

Unfortunately, bullock seeds are not available for sale in Semyon stores, even in Moscow. But everyone can grow it on their site - I will willingly send bullock seeds. They, as well as planting material for maral root, wild garlic, rhodiola, golden currant, alfredia, Siberian kandyk, kalufer and more than 200 other rare medicinal, spicy plants, vegetables, flowers and shrubs can be ordered from the catalog. Send an envelope with your address - in it you will receive the catalog for free.

The catalog can also be found on the website www.sem-ot-anis.narod.ru or received by e-mail - send a request to E-mail: [email protected] - Gennady Pavlovich Anisimov - 634024, Tomsk, st. 5th Army, 29, apt. 33. Mob. t. +7 (913) 851-81-03