Root of ayr: application and useful properties

Air is a perennial marsh herbaceous plant belonging to the family of aroids, having a creeping fragrant rhizome no more than 3 cm in diameter, white inside, porous. The leaves are long (up to one meter), xiphoid, leaving bundles from the apex of the rhizome. The root has a lot of thin cordlike roots. Stem up to a meter tall, straight, not branching, covered in the lower part by a bundle of leaves. Blossoms in the period from June to July with small yellow-green flowers. The rhizome has a sharp spicy taste and smell. The air is growing along the shores of lakes, ponds, slowly flowing rivers and other water bodies, in wetlands. It occurs in the steppe zone of European regions (up to the Volga), in the south of the Far East and Siberia.

The root of the aura has found application in all these regions, as it has an excellent curative effect.

Chemical composition of root of ayr and its preparation for medicinal purposes

For medicinal purposes, the root of calamus is used, the use of which gives a remarkable effect due to the content of essential oil (about 5%), the bitter glycoside of acorn, ascorbic acid, gum, tar, tannins, calamine alkaloid, choline, up to 35% starch.

Harvesting of rhizomes is carried out in the beginning of autumn, in some places - in early spring. Rhizomes are excavated, washed in cold water, then cut into pieces about 20 cm in length, without cleaning at the same time from the cork layer. At first, they wilted in the air in the shade, after which they cleanse the skin with a knife and dry it in an attic, under a canopy or in ovens or dryers with a temperature of no higher than 30 °. In dry form, they can be stored for at least 2 years.

Root of ayr: application in folk medicine

Apply the root of calamus aura in the form of broths, alcohol and water infusions and tinctures, as well as powders.

The glycoside acorin and essential oils contained in the roots of the aura affect the endings of the taste buds, thereby increasing appetite, improving digestion and enhancing the release of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, which is especially useful for patients with low gastric juice secretion.

Drugs of the root of ayr today are used for peptic ulcer diseases of the duodenum and stomach. Glycoside, acorin increases the tone of the gallbladder and the biliary excretion of the liver.

Also preparations of the root of this bog plant are prescribed for jaundice and kidney disease, malaria, rickets, exudative diathesis, bronchitis, tuberculosis, pneumonia, cough, bladder diseases, as a diuretic.

Decoction of the roots has analgesic, disinfecting, wound-healing and expectorant actions. Drugs of the root of aira are also used for chronic gastritis, achilia, diarrhea of various origin and other digestive disorders. The root of the aura is a part of the stomach and laxatives.

Some herbalists recommend the root of calf in nervous diseases accompanied by convulsions, with chronic spinal cord diseases with loss of sensitivity, with frequent palpitations and for lowering blood pressure.

A root juice is used as a remedy for improving vision and memory.

Sometimes root preparations are used for hepatitis, colic and cholecystitis.

The root of the plant has found application in external means. For example, old sores and purulent wounds are sprinkled with a crushed root (powder) or washed with tincture or decoction from the root of ayr. The effectiveness of aura in infected ulcers and wounds is explained by the content of phytoncides possessing antiseptic properties.

The root of the hair for the hair is also extremely useful. So, when hair is lost for washing your head, decoctions of dried, crushed roots are used (ground the root, pour boiling water and boil for 10 minutes, then add the leaves and flowers of the aura and boil for another 5 minutes. The same broth is used in the form of lotions and washings in the treatment of ulcers and purulent wounds.

With poor hair growth, their increased loss or dry seborrhea, the head is washed or rubbed into it with infusion of the roots of ayr: a glass of cold water is poured into the table. Spoon of crushed ayr root and insist for about 8 hours, use twice a week (2 months course).

Decoction of the root is drunk when dental pains or rinse the mouth with inflammation of the mucous gums and mouth: 1.5 tbsp. Boiling water is poured into the cay. Spoon of chopped roots, 2 hours insist, filter.

And to strengthen the gums and teeth, ordinary tooth powder is mixed with powder from the roots of calamus (no more than 0.5 grams per time). They brush their teeth three times a day.

With heartburn, a quarter of the cousins. Spoons of a powder of roots of aira wash down a gulp of water. Or chew a small piece of roots and swallow.

When hepatitis take the roots of aira, St. John's wort and immortelle in equal parts. Pour boiling water (200 ml) a tablespoon of the mixture, 5 min. Boiled. They drink before meals three times a day for 100 grams.

With gastritis, intestinal and gastric colic, colitis is good infusion of roots of ayr marsh: pour a glass of boiling water. Spoon of root (crushed), 20 min. Insist, filter. They drink up to 100 grams of food before meals four times a day.

With diarrhea, 2 teas are brewed. Spoons of a powder of aira 200 gr of boiled water, 2 hours insist in the closed ware. Filter and drink 50 grams of glass before meals, three times a day.

With hemorrhoids, sedentary baths from the decoction of the roots of ayr help: 30 g of raw material per liter of water.

In diseases of the gallbladder pour 200 grams of boiling water a teaspoon of root, 20 minutes. Insist, filter. Infusion is taken four times a day for 0.5 cup.

With angina, caries, periodontal disease and toothache, the root of calamus is chewed.

For colds, nasal congestion and polyps, sniff the air powder. And in small doses, it is an effective means of bringing the person to consciousness in coma or shock, it cleans the respiratory tract, causing sneezing, and also improves memory.

Root of ayr: contraindications

The root is contraindicated in all sorts of bleeding, including nasal and hemorrhoidal. Do not use the root to patients with increased gastric secretion. In large doses, the root of marsh aura acts as an emetic.

The root of the aura, the use of which, as we have already seen, is quite multifaceted, can only be used after consultation with the doctor!