Violet tricolor - medicinal properties and contraindications. Violet Viola medicinal properties description application

Violet tricolor - Viola tricolor L.

Field violet - Viola arvensis Murr.

Violet family - Violaceae

Other names:

- pansies

- Ivan da Marya

- brothers

- tricolor

- field brothers

- semi-color

- axes

Botanical characteristic. One to two years herbaceous plant with a thin root, a hollow stem, reaching a height of 20-30 cm. The stems are ascending, ending in single flowers. In the field violet, all the petals are yellow, the corolla is smaller than the calyx; in the tricolor violet, the petals are multi-colored, on long peduncles; usually the top two are purple, the bottom three are yellow or white, and the center is orange-yellow, the corolla is larger than the calyx. Other shades are also possible. The plant blooms from spring to late autumn, bears fruit from June. The fruit is an oblong-ovoid capsule, cracking into 3 valves.

Spreading. Both species are distributed in the European part of the country and Western Siberia, field violet is also found in Eastern Siberia and the Caucasus. The main preparations are carried out in Belarus, in Ukraine. In a smaller volume (less than 1 ton), raw materials are harvested in the Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod and Tver regions.

Habitat. In meadows, in ditches, ditches, on forest edges and glades, in parks, gardens, on chernozem soils(violet tricolor); among crops, on fallow fields as a regular field and garden weed(field violet).

blank. Blooming aerial parts of the plant are collected, cutting them off with a knife at a distance of 5-10 cm from the ground, discarding the lower bare stems. Each type of violet is collected separately. It is not allowed to harvest the grass of the oak maryannik, which is also called "Ivan da Marya" by the people. Differs in a higher (up to 50 cm) stem, two-lipped yellow flowers, collected in a spike-shaped brush, with purple bracts and lanceolate leaves arranged oppositely.

Standardization. Authenticity and good quality of raw materials are regulated by GF XI.

Security measures. The frequency of procurement of raw materials is 2 years.

Drying. Under a canopy with good ventilation or in attics under an iron roof. The raw materials are spread in a layer of 5-7 cm and periodically mixed. The raw material is considered dried if the stems break easily when bent. Yield of dry raw materials 20-22%

External signs. According to GOST and GF XI, raw materials should consist of dried plants collected in a flowering state, without roots and yellowed basal parts. Each type of raw material must be selected in separate batches. The length of leafy stems with flowers is allowed up to 25 cm. The leaves are alternate, slightly pubescent, serrated along the edge, or large-sized, with two pinnatipartite stipules; the upper ones are oblong, almost sessile. The length of the leaves is up to 6 cm, the width is up to 1 cm, the lower ones are broadly ovate, petiolate. The flowers of the violet tricolor are blue-violet or violet, those of the field violet are white-yellow. Fruits are single, one-celled capsules, cracking into three wings, light brown in color. The color of the leaves and stems is green or dark green. The smell is weak, peculiar. The taste is sweetish, slimy. Reduce the quality of raw materials crushing, various weed impurities. Authenticity is determined by external signs.

Microscopy. Microscopic examination of the leaf from the surface of both types of violets along the veins and along the edge shows simple, gently warty hairs with thick walls. Along the edge of the leaf between the teeth and at the ends of the teeth there are glandular hairs with a multicellular head on a wide multicellular stalk. Numerous large drusen are located in the mesophyll of the leaf.

The cells of the epidermis of the petals have papillary outgrowths. Long unicellular hairs are located on the epidermis at the base of the middle and lower petals.

Numerical indicators.Whole raw material. Extractive substances extracted by water, not less than 30%; humidity no more than 14%; total ash not more than 13%; ash, insoluble in 10% hydrochloric acid solution, not more than 3%; yellowed leaves and stems no more than 7%; the content of other parts of the plant (fruits and roots) in the raw material is not more than 3%. Not more than 3% organic and not more than 1% mineral impurities are allowed.

crushed raw materials. Extractive substances extracted by water, not less than 30%; humidity no more than 14%; total ash not more than 13%; ash, insoluble in 10% hydrochloric acid solution, not more than 3%; yellowed pieces of leaves and stems no more than 7%; other parts of the plant (fruits, roots) no more than 3%; particles that do not pass through a sieve with holes with a diameter of 7 mm, not more than 10%; particles passing through a sieve with holes of 0.5 mm, not more than 10%; organic impurities not more than 3%; mineral impurity no more than 1%.

Chemical composition. Flavonoids violokvertsitrin (rutin) vitexin, arientin. Rutin content: in leaves - up to 0.15%, in stems - up to 0.1%, in roots - 0.05%, in seeds and flowers - traces. The anthocyanin glycoside violanin was found in the flowers. The alkaloid violaemetin was found in the roots. Grass during flowering contains carotenoids (violaxanthin, zeaxanthin, auroxanthin, flavoxanthin), saponins, ascorbic acid, and a little essential oil, consisting mainly of salicylic acid methyl ester. It also contains polysaccharides (mucus) up to 25%.

Storage. In dry, well-ventilated areas. Shelf life 3 years.

pharmacological properties. Violet herb has expectorant and diuretic properties. The roots have an emetic effect, which is attributed to the alkaloid violaemetin. Under the influence of violet preparations, the secretion of bronchial glands is enhanced and sputum is liquefied, its excretion is facilitated.

Medicines. Used alone in the form of infusions and mixed with others. medicinal plants similar action.

Application. As a diuretic and expectorant for coughs, whooping cough, bronchitis. Recently, pharmacological tests have shown significant antiallergic activity. medicines made from violets.

Used as an expectorant in the form of infusion (10.0:200.0) 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.

Due to the variety of biologically active substances, tricolor violet grass is successfully used in cosmetology: in the form of infusions and lotions for oily seborrhea of ​​the face and scalp; in the treatment of abrasions, pustular diseases.

Application, recipes and properties medicinal violets tricolor (Pansies).

Applies treatment plant violet tricolor to the family: Violets.

In various regions of our country tricolor violet called differently: brother and sister, magpie, pansies, triflower, field brothers, scrofula, moths, Kamchug, Ivan and Marya, half-flower, axes.

VIOLET THREE-COLOR is an annual small plant herbaceous, which reaches a height of about thirty cm, with lanceolate toothed-extreme opposite leaves and ribbed branching stems.
On long stalks of single flowers have a pair of upper and lateral and large (one). lower petals wild violet tricolor flowers differ from garden violets, they are much smaller and are always colored in several different colors. growing violet in the Caucasus, in Western Siberia, Far East, Scandinavia, countries of Eastern Europe, in Central Europe and the Atlantic.

HEALING PROPERTIES OF VIOLET. BENEFIT. In the aerial parts of the plant, scientists have found a high content of acid and its derivatives (violutosides), which have anti-inflammatory powerful impact. Yet, tricolor violet has flavonoids and tannins, anthocyanosides useful in cupping coughing fit- mucous substances.

Violet tricolor is treated (Pansies): urolithiasis, inflammation of the oral cavity, acute respiratory infections, skin diseases,.

PREPARATION OF A THREE-COLOR VIOLET. Herbalists start picking violets before blooming flowers, dried and used as infusions and decoctions. In pharmacies based on tricolor violets represented powders, gelatin capsules, syrups.

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Indications for the use of violet tricolor. Violet tricolor has anti-inflammatory activity. Salicylic acid has been widely used for the treatment of skin diseases in rheumatology, dermatology. The mucous substances of violet soften and soothe cough during and.

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Antiallergic and expectorant with violet tricolor. Insist one to two parts of the herb on three to four parts vodka; twenty - thirty drops of tincture three times 3 p. per day.

Zolotuha, herbal treatment: n ado chop and mix twenty gr. violet tricolor grass and succession leaves c, 3 parts ; per 1 liter boiling water - 3 tbsp. mixture, bring to a boil and insist.

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or pansies

Violet family - Violaceae

Folk names - pansies, brothers, funny eyes, earthflower, three-flower, ivan-da-marya.

Parts used are stems, leaves, flowers.

The pharmacy name is tricolor violet herb - Violae tricoloris herba (formerly: Herba Violae tricoloris).

Botanical description

Violet tricolor (Pansy) is an annual or biennial, and field violet is an annual herbaceous plant with a thin taproot. Stem simple or branched, erect or ascending, 10-40cm in height.

The leaves are alternate with two pinnate stipules. The lower ones are broadly ovate, petiolate, the upper ones are lanceolate, with short petioles, almost sessile. The color of the leaves and stems is green or dark green, the fruit is light brown. The smell is weak, peculiar, the taste is sweetish, with a feeling of sliminess.

Flowers solitary on long pedicels emerging from leaf axils, with double perianth, irregular. There are five sepals, the corolla consists of five uneven petals. The upper ones are blue-violet or yellow, the lateral ones are lighter, the lower petal is larger than the others, yellow at the base, with dark stripes, purple along the edge with a curved bag-shaped spur. Stamens five, with very short filaments. Pistil one with upper one-celled ovary. The fruit is an oblong-ovoid capsule that opens with three valves, which then deviate horizontally. They bloom from April to autumn, the fruits ripen from June.

Pansies (Violet tricolor) grow among shrubs, in light pine and small-leaved forests, especially on sandy and sandy loamy soils, are found in upland meadows and are especially common in forest clearings and edges, as weeds in fields and vegetable gardens. Violet tricolor has found wide application in landscapes. Distributed in the forest, forest-steppe, less often in steppe zones European part of Russia, found in Western Siberia, in the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions. Field violet has a slightly larger range. It is also found in the Caucasus, more widely distributed in Western Siberia. The main areas of procurement of raw materials are in Belarus, Ukraine.

Active ingredients

Violet tricolor herb contains flavonoids (violanthin, vitexin, isovitexin, orientin, isoorientin, vicetin, peonidin 3-glycoside, rutin). The flowers contain anthocyanin glycosides (violanin, which, when hydrolyzed, breaks down into delphinidin, glucose, rhamnose, and hydroxycinnamic acid). There are carotenoids, traces of an essential oil containing salicylic acid methyl ester, saponins, vitamin C, mucus, ursolic acid, tannins.

Collection and drying

Collect the aerial part during flowering in May - June, cutting off the stems with a knife or sickle, and put them loosely, without compaction, in baskets or bags. Dry in a well-ventilated room, in attics, laying out a layer 5-7 cm thick and stirring occasionally. Drying is considered complete when the stems become brittle. In order to avoid increased grinding, the dried raw materials are left in a heap for 2-3 days, and then they are already packaged.

Healing action and application

Used for medicinal purposes medicinal herb(stems, leaves, flowers), which is collected during the flowering period and used as a decoction and tea. It has an expectorant, antispasmodic, choleretic and diuretic, blood-purifying and enveloping, diaphoretic and anti-inflammatory effect, disinfects the urinary tract, improves skin metabolism, reduces vascular permeability.

Tea from the herb of the tricolor violet is drunk for kidney diseases, lung diseases, gout and arthrosis, articular rheumatism, cold cough and as an expectorant. And also for gastritis, diathesis, various skin diseases, metabolic disorders and catarrh of the bladder, for all skin diseases in children, it is also recommended for blood purification. The course of tea treatment is several weeks. In case of skin diseases, simultaneous washing with the same tea is advised.

Recipes

1. Violet tricolor tea. 2h spoons of pharmaceutical raw materials pour 1/4l hot water and let it brew for 10 minutes. Take 3 glasses a day. You can also mix tricolor violet in equal parts with linden leaves and drink tea from this mixture to prevent hypothermia.
2. Pour 10 g of raw materials with 200 ml of boiling water, let it brew for 1 hour, strain and take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day after meals for catarrh of the respiratory tract, cough, bronchitis, whooping cough, rheumatism, gout, atherosclerosis, cystitis.
3. Pour 20 g of herbs with 200 ml of boiling water, let it brew for 1 hour, strain and make lotions for skin rashes, abscesses on the skin, skin itching, except for oral administration. A decoction of herbs in the form of baths is prescribed for exudative diathesis in children.
4. Napar (water infusion) - pour 1 tablespoon of crushed raw materials with 1 cup of boiling water and let it brew for 1 hour. Strain and take 0.5 cup or 1 cup 3 times a day. As a blood purifier for various skin diseases (eczema, boils, rashes).
5. Pour 1 part of chopped grass with 10 parts of boiling water, insist, strain and take chilled 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day. With diseases of the bladder, urolithiasis.
6. Blood purifying tea. Grind and mix - 15g dandelion root, 10g tricolor violet and buckthorn bark, 5g each - elder flowers, fennel fruits and horsetail. Pour 1 liter of boiling water over the mixture and let it brew for 1 hour. Strain and take 0.4 cups 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

- beautiful and useful plant, which, due to its unsurpassed medicinal properties actively used in folk recipes .

Violet grass has some similarities with another herb called "maryannik", therefore, in order to avoid unpleasant consequences, it is worth choosing raw materials for future harvesting very carefully.

A special science, which is called pharmacognosy, highlights the following in the flower formula: healing properties:

• expectorant. An excellent remedy that not only stimulates expectoration, but also liquefies sputum well.
• Diuretic. Regulates the work of the kidneys, improves their performance, improves the excretory system of the body.
• Emetic. An indispensable remedy for intoxication, nausea and poisoning.

For treatment, only the upper part of the plant is used. In recipes, leaves, stems and flowers are most often indicated, in rare cases, fruits.

In some folk recipes, the plant is used to make lotions, fragrant baths, medicinal infusions and decoctions, and healthy teas.

Description

The plant also received another name (folk) pansies, thanks to the bizarre shape of its flowers. In addition to beauty, the plant is known for its amazing healing properties. The flower is quite unpretentious in care - this is due to the region of its growth. Violet was originally a wild plant, because of this, it has become able to adapt to almost any climatic conditions.

Flower - biennial or annual herbaceous plant, which belongs to the violet family, the height, based on the description of biologists, reaches 10-30 cm, the flowering period begins in early spring, and the plant usually bears fruit in June.

Medicinal properties and contraindications

Useful medicinal properties violet herbs are widespread and widespread range of its application:

• microbial control;
• elimination of inflammation;
• removal of painful spasms;
• relaxing sedative effect;
• disinfection treatment;
• strong diaphoretic action;
• rapid healing of wounds;
• safe blood purification;
• active contraction of the uterus in women after childbirth.

Most of the contraindications for use for treatment purposes are associated with the sensitivity of the individual organism to certain components of the phytocomposition or overdose. It is also undesirable to take herbs for hepatitis and other serious illnesses liver.

Medicinal properties

Traditional medicine experts most often insist that the most effective part of a plant is its grass. In most cases, it is used as a raw material for infusions.

Indications for use:

• to stimulate childbirth in the form of tea;
• to overcome the symptoms of certain lung diseases, rickets, rheumatism, as a diuretic or diaphoretic infusion;
• a decoction of the plant will be very good for difficulty expectorating sputum, as well as treating a common cough with a cold;
• ointments and baths will have a positive effect on cauterization of scrofulous scabs;
• medicine suggests using tea to treat sexually transmitted diseases and purify the blood.

Immediately after therapeutic agents have been applied, which include tricolor violet, urine will begin to acquire a "cat" smell.

Contraindications

1. Specialists from the field of herbal medicine and botany classify the tricolor violet as a poisonous plant.
2. The cause of allergy and its severe consequences can be an individual intolerance to some components from the phytocomposition.
3. Abusing folk remedies based on medicinal plant can easily provoke irritation of some parts of the intestine.
4. It is forbidden to take the plant for medicinal purposes for more than a month, so it is necessary to take breaks and pauses.

Application in traditional medicine

Medicinal herb received wide use and application in the field the following diseases:

• different kinds cough, which is characterized by complicated expectoration;
• inflammatory processes of the bladder and intestines;
• skin diseases with eruptions in the form of acne.

Freshly squeezed juice, for example, is useful for treating ulcers on the genitals and mouth.

To prepare a decoction, you need to pour one tablespoon with a glass of boiling water and leave the remedy for about two hours. A more concentrated decoction is used for external use.

Of great value is the essential oil of violet, which is valued by some perfumers more than gold. However, it is not without health and medicinal properties:

• reduces dizziness and headaches;
• perfectly fights against purulent skin diseases;
• strengthens and calms heart activity.

Decoction actively used in the treatment of cough in children. The recipe for this remedy is quite simple: insist 10 g of herbs in a glass of boiling water. Apply 1/4 of a glass after careful straining. Be careful and take precautions, do not forget to consult a specialist. For example, the herb has some contraindications for use in young children as a remedy. Therefore, it is necessary to limit the use of this decoction to 1 glass per day.

Infusion widely known as a remedy for vomiting. Due to its antitoxic medicinal properties, it is actively used as an antidote for some poisonings (not very complex). You should not try to treat severe cases of homeopathy with this remedy, and in especially emergency cases, it is best to seek help from a doctor. Here classic recipe this infusion, which is worth your attention: pour one tablespoon of raw materials with boiling water and keep the infusion in a warm place for about two hours.

During pregnancy. It should be noted: the use of the plant externally has no contraindications and does not cause harm to lactating or pregnant women. However, external agents can provoke uterine muscle contractions, which will lead to sad consequences: premature onset of labor or miscarriage.

Syrup for bronchitis. The syrup is able to cope even with prolonged bronchitis, which has become chronic. It is customary to prepare it necessarily from fresh flowers of the plant, after washing them running water. As an ingredient for syrup, you need 4 tbsp. spoons of such vegetable raw materials. Fill the flowers with boiling water (1 liter will be enough) and leave to infuse all night. In the morning, the composition is filtered through gauze, and boiled with the addition of sugar until it thickens.

For 1 liter of this infusion, 1.3 kg of sugar is required. Two minutes before the end of cooking, add the juice of two small or one large lemon to the mixture.

The syrup is used 1 teaspoon 3 to 6 times a day. The dosage has the same amount for both children and adults. This remedy relieves the inflammatory process in the throat and removes phlegm from the lungs, thereby helping to stop coughing and clear the bronchi.

Violet Vinegar. Pansies that have been infused in table vinegar, will help to cope with the most unpleasant type of pain - migraine. At the time of the attack, it is necessary to use the composition for wiping the forehead. This miraculous infusion must be prepared as follows: pour 3 tbsp. tablespoons of dried flowers with 50 milliliters of vinegar, preferably nine percent, and leave the product to infuse in a dark room for 10 days. The bottle with the mixture will need to be shaken periodically. After the required time has passed, the medicine must be filtered.

Decoction for skin diseases. Such a tool is intended for external use, used for wiping and as lotions, compresses and baths. For cooking you will need: 20 g of dry violets and 1 cup of hot water. Pour the raw materials with hot, but by no means boiling water, wait a couple of minutes for the violet to settle to the bottom of the container, after which we put the whole thing on a slow fire and boil for about 15 minutes. The ware for preparation of broth has to be closed by a dense cover. After that, the medicine will be almost ready - it remains only to strain the broth. Use it externally as a remedy for the above skin conditions.

Blood cleansing tea. As a rule, this useful tea is used as an additional therapy for venereal diseases and blood diseases. To prepare, you need to pour one teaspoon of dried violet grass into a 200 ml teapot. The tea will be well infused in about a quarter of an hour. We filter it in any way convenient for you and use tea leaves 3-4 times a day. Honey can be added to the drink if desired. This can be done both to improve the taste and to bring additional benefits to your health.

Planting and growing

Very often, pansies are used as decorative flowers for flower beds and window sills. The plant is unpretentious in care, prefers moderate shade, loose soil and medium humidity. For flowering, seeds must be planted in advance. winter flower able to tolerate cold well and almost never get sick.

Procurement and storage

To obtain high-quality preparations from tricolor violet, it should be properly prepared and stored under suitable conditions. Any small disruption to the process can lead to a reduction or complete loss of medicinal properties plants.

The collected material is dried in the room, spreading the raw material on paper sheets with a layer of no more than 6 cm. During the drying process, the raw material is constantly mixed to prevent decay.

A dry tricolor violet is stored in a dry place in a tightly closed container for no more than one and a half years.

Regardless of whether the raw material was purchased at a pharmacy or collected independently, it will bring great benefit when applied correctly.

Why is violet tricolor herb highly valued all over the world? From ancient times to the present, it has been widely used in folk and traditional medicine for the treatment and prevention of various ailments. From our article you will learn what useful properties and contraindications for use are considered characteristic of this type of violets, as well as what rules and conditions must be observed for its cultivation.

Violet tricolor is a herbal plant of the Violet family, has many other names. Commonly referred to as pansies, scrofula, sparrow seed, tricolor violet. A small delicate flower that can be found in the forest zone on the territory of a number of former CIS countries: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine. Also, the tricolor violet lives in the grasses of the steppes, fields, and even in the territory of an ordinary personal plot.

A wild-growing annual or biennial herb of the medicinal subspecies. Where did the name tricolor violet come from? Three colors are characteristic of the color of the flower:

• purple or blue-violet - upper petals;
• milky lilac or light blue - side petals;
• yellow with several vertical stripes of dark color - the lower petals.

In the common people to the violets "stuck" interesting name- Pansies. This name is also due appearance tricolor violets.

It has a thin vertical (rod) root, from which several small shoots, as well as one main one, can depart. The leaves are placed alternately, they are oblong or elongated-ovoid in shape. Supplemented with large stipules.

Period active flowering starts in May and lasts all summer. In mid-June, the fruits of forest and field violets are formed - tricuspid boxes with small Brown color seeds, the number of which is about 3 thousand pieces.

The medicinal properties of the plant

A herb with a wide spectrum of action is considered a tricolor violet, the beneficial properties of which have become indispensable in traditional, homeopathic and traditional medicine. So, what is useful, it would seem, ordinary wild grass? What are the medicinal properties of a flower called Pansies?

The plant is rich in various minerals and active ingredients. On the basis of violet grass, ointments, syrups, infusions, and decoctions are made. Included in some medicines. The wild plant has found application in various fields of medicine:

• in gynecology - to reduce the uterus after childbirth;
• in cosmetology - an effective product against the loss and fragility of thin weakened hair;
• in neurology - with insomnia, frequent mood swings, overexcitation, to neutralize stressful conditions, with dizziness and headaches of a different nature;
• for the treatment and prevention of diseases of the respiratory system;
• as an antiphlogistic, antibacterial and disinfectant;
• with ailments of the gastrointestinal tract;
• in case of problems with skin(eczema, dermatitis, rashes, etc.).

Violet tricolor contraindications

In spite of a large number of useful properties and extensive use in modern medicine, tricolor violet is characterized by a number of contraindications.

• children under 12 years old (only according to the recommendations of pediatricians);
• pregnant women (causes uterine tone, which is fraught with a high risk of miscarriage or early onset of labor);
• during the lactation period;
• in the presence of an allergic reaction (any medicinal product based on herbal components requires preliminary test control);
• intolerance of an individual nature;
• hypotensive patients (in addition to drugs, various decoctions and infusions based on herbs are also prohibited);
• with acutely grown diseases of the liver and kidneys;
• in acute or chronic form of peptic ulcer;
• people suffering from gallstone disease.

Violet tricolor belongs to the category of dangerous wild plants, in its composition there are impurities of toxic substances. In case of drug overdose and folk remedies from violet grass there is a high probability of intoxication of the body - you may need health care. As recommended by workers medical institutions, with prolonged therapeutic or prophylactic use / use, it is necessary to take a break. The duration of the treatment course is no more than 1 month.

The plant is useful for various ailments and ailments. However, before starting any medication or folk method it is necessary to carefully study the entire list of contraindications, make a test sample for the manifestation of allergies and, of course, seek advice from a medical center.