Barvinok: medicinal properties and contraindications for use. Recipes of traditional medicine, reviews

Periwinkle small refers to the family of kutra. Among the people, it can be known as ivy, grave, coffin grass, noyushka, povoy, hreshchatik. Thanks to bright, beautiful blue flowers this plant is sometimes planted in front gardens or in kitchen gardens. But what else could be interesting for a small periwinkle? The use, contraindications and prescriptions with this plant will be described in this article.

Description of the plant

Barvinok is a perennial evergreen shrub. It can grow to a height of 35 cm. The roots are thin to 70 cm long. The stems of the plant are of two types: creeping and vertical. The first type is unfruitful, stretches for one and a half meters and takes root. Vertical stems grow upward by 20 cm. The leaves are short-petioled and persist throughout the winter. They are oblong-elliptical in shape 3-5 cm long. Above the dark, green color, from the bottom a little lighter, gray-green shade, shining. Leaflets collected in whorls of 3 pcs.

Flowers can be dark blue and dark blue, 2-3 cm in diameter. On the pedicels are located one by one. The fruit of the plant is two curved leaflets up to 8 cm with brown seeds. Flowering vinca occurs in May-June. Fruit ripening begins in June.

This plant attracted human attention in ancient times and was considered a medicinal product due to the fact that he was attributed a magical power. But already in the 18th century they learned to use it as a sedative and hypotensive drug. Although physicians at that time actively used periwinkle, medicinal properties and contraindications were not yet fully understood.

Where it grows

This plant loves the steppe slopes, the edges of deciduous forests, cuttings and places between shrubs. Periwinkle in the European part of Russia, Ukraine, the Crimea, Moldova, Belarus, the Baltics, the Caucasus, and also in Asia Minor. Distributed by roots, fission of the bush and seed method. In the care of the plant unpretentious, normally tolerates a shadow. Today periwinkle is often planted as an ornamental plant in flower gardens, parks or cemeteries. In a cold winter it can freeze, but in the summer it will necessarily recover. Although many saw how the periwinkle blossoms in the forest or the banks, useful properties, the chemical composition of this plant is not known to many people.

Plant composition

In past times, this half-shrub was used only for certain diseases. Years later, additional studies were carried out, it was found out which areas of health the periwinkle could influence. Therapeutic properties and contraindications depend on the chemical composition. In the grass contains more than 20 alkaloids, among them there are those that have oncolytic effect, they are minoror, devinkan, isomaidin, reserpine, aymalicin, pubebtsin, vinin and others. In the composition there is apple, acetic, ascorbic, succinic acid. Also contains rutin, carotene, flavonoids, mineral salts, pectin, triterpene saponins, glycosides, phytosterols and tannins.

Healing properties

Given the rich chemical composition that has periwinkle, medicinal properties and contraindications are in the following areas. The plant can be used as:

• Wound healing;
• Hemostatic (improves the contractile function of the uterine musculature);
• Hypotensive (dilates blood vessels and reduces vascular tone, thereby reducing blood pressure);
• Sedative (alkaloid vinquamin affects the nervous system, soothing it);
• Blood-purifying;
• Astringent (the plant has a depressing effect on the pathogenic flora);
• Laxative (enhances the relaxation of the muscle tissue of the small intestine;
• Bracing (improves metabolic processes).

It should be noted that pink vinca pink is rich in alkaloids, which have an antitumour effect, they have a destructive effect on cancer cells.

Application in folk medicine

People's healers often use periwinkle in their recipes. The medicinal properties and contraindications of this plant make it possible to use it for various ailments. So it has a beneficial effect on migraine, dizziness, fever, scurvy, toothache, bad breath, enteritis, stomach pain, diarrhea and colic. Periwinkle is also useful in cases of bronchitis, tuberculosis and colds. It can be taken to people who have hypertension. The plant is often used in female whites and sexual weakness in men.

Periwinkle is used externally if bleeding occurs from the nose, uterus, lungs or with hemorrhoids. If there is an inflammation in the oral cavity or a toothache occurs, rinses are prescribed. Lotions help if there is a rash, itching, wet eczema or wounds.

How to cook a plant

It is possible to collect and prepare the small periwinkle for further treatment. The healing properties, recipes of traditional medicine have been collected for many years. Here are some tips for preparing a home remedy from vinca:

• Hypertension. Spoon the crushed leaves into boiling water in 200 ml of water for 20 minutes. Take a strained broth 4 times a day for ¼ cup.
• Colds, intestinal disorders, fever as hemostatic, wounds, rashes and for rinsing the oral cavity. Shredded shoots and leaves 2 tbsp. Spoon the spoon in 300 ml of boiling water. Boil for another 15 minutes, then wait another hour for the remedy to infuse. Take 100 ml, a day three times. From this broth do compresses and rinses.
• With a decrease in sexual tone. Prepares tincture on vodka or alcohol (250 ml). 20 g of flowers and grass fall into alcohol. Bring to a boil and set aside for cooling. Take 8 drops in the morning and overnight for 4 days. After this, two days break. This scheme is repeated only three times.
• Dermatitis. Spoon the grass in a thermos and pour boiling water. Chilled, filtered infusion moisten gauze and do wrapping the affected areas.
• Headache, nosebleeds, cough, eczema and skin rash. Prepare the tincture for alcohol and take.
• Allergic diathesis. Ten fresh leaves should be ground and mixed with a spoonful of melted butter. Heat the mixture and leave to infuse for 20 minutes. Streaked with a mass of rubbing problem areas of the skin.
• Internal bleeding. Suitable for itching dermatitis and washing of wounds. Grass and flowers (30 g) put in boiling water and put on steam with the lid closed for 10 minutes. Strain already cooled decoction. Three times a day to drink half a glass.
• Headache. 20 grams of the plant (leaves) are infused in 100 ml of alcohol. The drug is ready for use on the 10th day. Take three drops a day before eating five drops. If the disturbances are caused by the narrowing of the vessels in the brain, in this case it will not be superfluous to plant such a useful plant as a periwinkle on its site.

Therapeutic properties and contraindications: reviews of people

Today, not everyone knows that phytotherapy can be used with a small periwinkle, but those who have already tried it on themselves, testify to its beneficial effect. Some women prepare a decoction in order to more easily survive the menopause. Also during the sexual breakdown, individual men support themselves with a medicine from the leaves of the vinca.

To maintain their immune system or normalize the nervous system, patients prepare a decoction, infusion or alcohol tincture. The effect will be noticeable in any cooking option.

Many people with migraine help get rid of migraines. But it is worth noting that the medicine prepared on the basis of this plant is not a panacea for headaches, since much can depend on the causes of the disease state. As you can see, many actively use periwinkle in folk medicine. The healing properties of the plant are proven by experiment, but, despite this, it is important to carefully use this herb.

Warnings

Periwinkle is allowed to use only after a conversation with a family doctor. This indication applies especially if the medicine is administered orally. Periwinkle is a poisonous plant, any overdose is unacceptable, as this can suppress the work of the heart, in some cases such treatment can lead to cardiac arrest. Do not use for treatment with bradycardia, lactation and pregnancy.

Collection and Procurement

In this article, attention was drawn to how the periwinkle can help (the medicinal properties, application and caveats have been considered). Therefore, you can prepare this plant yourself, so that this useful collection was always in the medicine cabinet. Flowers, leaves and stems are harvested in May and June, when the periwinkle is dissolved. Roots can not be pulled out. Raw materials are laid out in a ventilated place and dried for a week. Since the plant is poisonous, it is dried in places where there is no person.