Goriksvet spring - a medicinal plant with a poisonous tint

Goricolus spring is a perennial plant, reaching 30 cm in height, has a thick brownish-black rhizome and numerous stems. The leaves of the coronet are pinnate or palmate-cut, pentagonal in shape. Flowers bright yellow color, single, large size. Fruits are presented in the form of many small nuts with a diameter of up to 5 mm.

In the people, the spring town got a multitude of names: the Montenegrin, the hairy grass, the old-spade, the field fennel, the mohnatik, the yellow-flowered, the hare poppy, the consumitor, the yellow-throated man. The official name is "Adonis spring".
The flowering period starts in April and lasts until the end of May. The spring horn is a cold resistant plant that can withstand significant temperature drops.

Places of growth of adonis are forest edges, steppes and forest-steppes, open slopes, bushes. Mass meets in Ukraine, in the southern steppes of Siberia, in the Caucasus, the Urals, and in the central part of Russia.

Goriksvet spring - sun-loving curative plant, although it is poisonous. In many countries, in addition to the use of medicinal properties, adonis is grown as a garden culture with large bright colors.

The shrub propagates with rhizomes and seeds, which are planted in early spring or autumn in moist soil, to a depth of three centimeters.

On the Russian territory, such species of Goricvet as Amur, Golden, Turkestan, Summer and Spring are common, which are valuable medicinal plants. It is not for nothing that Goris is used for medical purposes in many countries. Only the ground part with flowers is of benefit. The grass is collected during the period from the formation of color to the beginning of fruiting. The greatest amount of medicinal substances adonis contains during flowering.

Curative properties are pre-dried grass goritsveta. To open them, it must be dried immediately after collection in the oven or oven, observing the temperature regime within 40-50 degrees. In hot weather, the herb grows well under a canopy or attic. Store the plant for no more than a year in a well-ventilated area, and care should be taken because the grass is poisonous.

When harvesting is useful only Goricolus spring, other close relatives have no medicinal properties.

Adonis drugs are referred to cardiac glycosides, which have a therapeutic effect on the heart muscle - increase the contractile function. Side effect is expressed in lowering the excitability of the heart and slowing the frequency of its contractions. The main feature of the drugs goricveta is a sedative effect, which is indicated on the central nervous system. Medicines based on adonis have diuretic properties, they are used for edema and liver enlargement, as well as for dyspnea.

The use of coronet is shown in functional heart neuroses, infectious diseases that occur with the weakening of the heart, with neuropsychiatric disorders, kidney diseases with symptoms of heart failure, Graves' disease, acute attacks of glaucoma.
Because of dyspeptic phenomena , goritsvet preparations can not be taken to people suffering from duodenal ulcers and stomach ulcers, enterocolitis and gastritis.

From adonis produce various medicines: infusions, extracts, tablets and medicines.

Today, the popularity of the Kokushkin (adonis) mountainous plant has grown unreasonably, it is considered a panacea, a remedy for almost all diseases. Therefore, there is a rapid reduction in the natural reserves of medicinal herbs, and in some places a complete disappearance of the species has occurred.