The grass is celandine

Grass celandine is a perennial bushy plant. Growing, reaches a length of more than a meter. From the stem of adult plants many branches leave, inside the stalk is hollow. Leaflets on top of light green, from the inside - bluish, soft, with small villi, regular. They are pinnately divided, with rounded edges. The root is multi-headed, finely branched. Medium or small bright yellow flowers grow on long pedicels. Flowers have four petals. Flowers are collected on simple umbrellas for several pieces. The fruit of the celandine is a single-nodular capsule that opens from the bottom up. Seeds are glossy-black.

On the fracture, the herb cleanness secretes yellow or orange juice and therefore it is not difficult to distinguish it from other plants.

The flowering time of the celandine continues from May to August. The plant prefers shady deciduous or coniferous forests, shrubs, river banks, stony mountain areas, and also it can be found on personal plots and near housing. Distributed throughout the territory of Russia.
The herb celandine refers to medicinal plants. In phytotherapy use the ground part of the plant. Billet of grass is performed in the flowering phase, cutting it with a sharp knife or a sickle under the root. The harvested raw materials are dried in the shade under an awning or in a room with good air access, not under the sun's rays. The criterion for good drying of grass is the moisture content in dry grass not more than fourteen percent and light green color. From one plant, eighty centimeters high, you can collect up to sixty grams of wet weight.

Harvested herb celandine, packed in a package or paper bags, used as a component of creams and ointments, solutions for topical application.

In its composition, the herb celandine contains a group of chemicals (alkaloids): chelidonin, sanguinarine, chelerythrin, protopin, homochelidonin, sparteine and others. The total number of alkaloids at the end of the vegetation reaches one and a half percent. In the seeds of grass contains about fifty percent of essential oil, enzymes that break down fats. In this grass there is carotene, ascorbic acid, flavonoids, resinous substances and organic acids (amber, apple, etc.).

Grass is pure, used in medicine.

The alkaloids of this herb are derivatives of naphtho-phenanthrene and have a narcotic effect. However, it is much weaker than opium alkaloids. They also have a harmful effect on bacteria and fungi. May inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi and malignant tumors.
An extract of grass, cooked on water, has a local irritant effect. When ingested, it causes hypotension, a decrease in heart rate, breathing becomes more shallow and deeper.

The chelidonine, contained in the purity of the alkaloid, is close in action to morphine: it has a calming effect. Homochelidonin is a powerful local anesthetic, but it is not used in medicine, as it leads to the appearance of seizures. Helerythrin has a strong local irritant effect. Sanguinarin initially acts depressingly on the nervous system with the subsequent occurrence of excitation. This is due to the anticholinesterase property. It increases intestinal peristalsis, causes hypersalivation. Protopin suppresses the work of the autonomic nervous system, increases the tone of the myometrium.

The grass is clean, treated in folk medicine.

Extract or broth, is used for skin diseases (wounds, trophic ulcers, abscesses and boils, warts and calluses, eczema). Inside the broth is taken with malignant neoplasms, tuberculosis, diseases of internal organs. Ointment with celandine is used for psoriasis, skin tuberculosis. The herb has a laxative and diuretic effect.