Small basil: use in folk medicine. When is it time to collect basil? Basil - dosage forms.

Common basil.

Thalictrum minus.

Buttercup family - Ranunculaceae.

Description. Small basil - perennial herbaceous plant family of buttercups up to 60 cm high. The stem is straight or ascending, tetrahedral at the top. The rhizome is horizontal, segmented, brown.

Leaves are opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, with three longitudinal veins. Blooms from June to autumn. Flowers are solitary, on long peduncles. The fruit is an ovoid, polyspermous capsule. Seeds are small, reticulate wrinkled. They begin to ripen in July.

Place of growth. Basil is common in the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, Western Siberia and Kazakhstan. It grows in damp places, along flooded meadows and river banks among small bushes.

Collection time. Medicinal raw materials the grass serves. It is harvested during flowering, cutting off the leafy part of the plant. Dried outdoors in the shade or in the attic with good ventilation, laid out in a thin layer. Store in bags in a dry place for up to 3 years.

Legend. According to the legends, this plant received its Russian name in honor of the epic beauty Vasilista Vikulichna, who decided to leave this life without permission after her beloved husband, the hero Mikhailo. In the very place where the lifeless Vasilista fell, a hitherto unseen flower grew.

By the way, perhaps it is thanks to this mythical story that popular rumor persistently ascribes properties to the basilist that make it an extremely desirable component in the manufacture of love spells and decoctions.

Active ingredients. Basil roots contain steroids and alkaloids (talikmik, talikmidin, etc.); aerial part - saponins and alkaloids (malmin, thalmidine, etc.), vitamin C, tannins, aliphatic hydrocarbons.

Application. Decoction, infusion and tincture have antibacterial, antineoplastic, tonic, diuretic, laxative, wound healing effect. They are prescribed for acute and chronic infections (measles, smallpox, typhus, diphtheria, tuberculosis of the lungs and skin, anthrax, malaria, syphilis), diseases of the digestive system, inflammation of the gallbladder and liver, gastric mucosa and small intestine, diarrhea, and with gangrene of the extremities, abdominal pain, colds, nervous disorders and epilepsy.

Recipes. Infusion. 6 g of raw materials are poured with 1 glass of boiling water, kept in a sealed enamel container in a water bath for 10 minutes, infused for 1 hour, filtered through 2-3 layers of gauze and the volume is adjusted boiled water to the original. Store in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days. Take 1 - 2 tablespoons 3 times a day with meals. The course of treatment is 5 - 7 days.

Tincture. Prepared with 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10. Insist 7 - 10 days. Take 20 - 40 drops 3 times a day with meals. The course of treatment is 3 to 7 days.

Basil small - Thalictrum minus L. Buttercup family - Ranunculaceae

Botanical characteristic

Perennial herb. Grows in meadows, forest glades, in river floodplains, among bushes.

The root system is in the form of a shortened rhizome with adventitious roots. The stem is straight or curved, smooth, evenly leafy, up to 150 cm in height. The leaves are alternate, the lower ones are trifoliate, the middle ones are multi-pinnate, petiolate, the upper ones are smaller, sessile. Leaf blades are rounded, three-lobed at the top. Flowers are collected in a loose, spreading or drooping panicle. Corolla green, yellowish stamens. The fruit is oblong-ovate, ribbed-rough, gray-green nutlet. Blooms in June-July, bears fruit in July-August

Used plant parts

The roots and aerial part of the plant, collected in the usual way, are used as medicinal raw materials. Dry in the shade.

Chemical composition

Basil grass contains alkaloids (talikmin, talikminin, talmidin, talmetin, talmin, magnoflorin, glaucine, berberine, talitrimin, talikarpin, talflavidin, agremonin), tannins, saponins, flavonoids, coumarins, mainly organic acids; higher aliphatic hydrocarbons; higher fatty acids (talictric, ranunculenic, linoleic). Fatty oil was found in the fruits.

Application in medicine

V folk medicine infusions and decoctions of the aerial part are used for colds, diseases of the digestive system, nervous disorders, epilepsy, malaria, female diseases, jaundice, pulmonary tuberculosis, as a laxative and diuretic; outwardly - in gynecology; in the form of lotions and baths - for abscesses and bruises, as an astringent and wound healing.

In Tibetan medicine, a watch is used for acute and chronic diseases; in Mongolian - with dropsy, diarrhea, measles, smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria, anthrax, as a general strengthening after diseases: in the Far East - with gangrene, syphilis, scrofula, stomach pains, jaundice, female diseases. In the medicine of the peoples of many countries, preparations of roots, fruits and the aerial part of the plant are used for various infectious diseases, venereal diseases; outwardly - as antibacterial. The aerial part is part of Zdrenko's recipe, used to treat cancer, papillomatosis of the bladder and anacid gastritis.

In the experiment, the alkaloids contained in the plant increase the heart rate and lower blood pressure. The amount of glycosides has contraceptive properties. Herbal preparations have antibacterial properties.

Young leaves and shoots are used in food as a seasoning for dishes.

Preparation

• For getting infusion take 20 g of the aboveground part, pour 200 ml of boiling water, insist on the bath for 15 minutes, cool for 45 minutes, filter. Take 2 tbsp. tablespoons 3-4 times a day after meals.
• For decoction 15 g of roots are poured into 180 ml of boiling water, infused in a bath for 30 minutes, cooled for 10 minutes, filtered. Take 2 tbsp. spoons 3 times a day after meals.

Common basil.
Thalictrum minus.

Buttercup family - Ranunculaceae.

Description. Little Basil is a perennial herb of the buttercup family up to 60 cm high. The stem is straight or ascending, tetrahedral at the top. The rhizome is horizontal, segmented, brown.

Leaves are opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, with three longitudinal veins. Blooms from June to autumn. Flowers are solitary, on long peduncles. The fruit is an ovoid, polyspermous capsule. Seeds are small, reticulate wrinkled. They begin to ripen in July.

Place of growth. Basil is common in the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, Western Siberia and Kazakhstan. It grows in damp places, along flooded meadows and river banks among small bushes.

Collection time. Herb serves as a medicinal raw material. It is harvested during flowering, cutting off the leafy part of the plant. Dried outdoors in the shade or in the attic with good ventilation, laid out in a thin layer. Store in bags in a dry place for up to 3 years.

Legend. According to the legends, this plant received its Russian name in honor of the epic beauty Vasilista Vikulichna, who made the decision to leave this life without permission after her beloved husband, the hero Mikhailo. In the very place where the lifeless Vasilista fell, a hitherto unseen flower grew.
By the way, perhaps it is thanks to this mythical story that popular rumor persistently ascribes properties to the basilist that make it an extremely desirable component in the manufacture of love spells and decoctions.

Active ingredients. Basil roots contain steroids and alkaloids (talikmik, talikmidin, etc.); aerial part - saponins and alkaloids (malmin, thalmidine, etc.), vitamin C, tannins, aliphatic hydrocarbons.

Application. Decoction, infusion and tincture have antibacterial, antineoplastic, tonic, diuretic, laxative, wound healing effect. They are prescribed for acute and chronic infections (measles, smallpox, typhus, diphtheria, tuberculosis of the lungs and skin, anthrax, malaria, syphilis), diseases of the digestive system, inflammation of the gallbladder and liver, gastric mucosa and small intestine, diarrhea, and with gangrene of the extremities, abdominal pain, colds, nervous disorders and epilepsy.

The aerial part of the plant is part of Zdrenko's recipe for the treatment of oncological diseases. Basil raw materials are used for edema, female diseases, as a cardiovascular agent.

Steamed and crushed leaves are a good wound healing agent for purulent wounds. The roots are used for acute and chronic infections. An ointment or powder is useful for boils.

Tincture of the herb is used to lower blood pressure and for heart attacks.

Healing recipes from basilist

Infusion. 6 g of raw materials are poured with 1 glass of boiling water, kept in a sealed enamel container in a water bath for 10 minutes, infused for 1 hour, filtered through 2-3 layers of gauze and the volume is brought to the original with boiled water. Store in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days. Take 1 - 2 tablespoons 3 times a day with meals. The course of treatment is 5 - 7 days.

Tincture. Prepared with 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10. Insist 7 - 10 days. Take 20 - 40 drops 3 times a day with meals. The course of treatment is 3 to 7 days.

Other plant names:

serebryanka, cinchona herb, nine-knee.

Brief description of the small basilist:

Small basil (silver) Is a perennial plant 30–100 cm high with a cylindrical horizontal rhizome and grayish roots. Stem erect, slightly furrowed or rounded, glabrous, branched in the upper part.

Leaves are short-petiolate, orbicular or triangular, double- or triple-pinnate, leaf lobes are inversely ovate, small-heart-shaped, crenate-lobed in front. The flowers are bisexual, regular, drooping, collected in a loose paniculate inflorescence. Tepals are yellowish, rapidly falling, the corolla is undeveloped, the stamens are yellow, hanging, with pointed anthers. The fruit is a ribbed achene. Blooms from May to August.

In addition to stinking basil, yellow and small, in folk medicine, simple, twisted, less often alpine, spread-out basil is used in folk medicine in the same cases as the types of basil described above.

Growing places:

It grows in sunny, dry places: in well-warmed herbaceous and shrub glades, in light forests and on their edges - from lowlands to the mountain belt - in the European part of Russia, Siberia, the Caucasus, the Far East.

Basil's Harvest:

Herb serves as a medicinal raw material. It is harvested during flowering, cutting off the leafy part of the plant. Dried outdoors in the shade or in the attic with good ventilation, spreading out in a thin layer. Dry raw materials should remain green in color and consist of leafy stems with flowers and partially with fruits, have a faint smell and a bitter taste. Store in bags in a dry place for 3 years.

The chemical composition of small basil:

The grass contains ascorbic acid (175-225 mg%), saponins, pyrocatechins, phytoncides, tannins and aliphatic hydrocarbons, a large amount of alkaloids (berberine, talmin, thalmidine, talitrimin, glaucine, malmin, etc.), in the roots - talitcrimin , talikmidin; talikmin, talmin, glaucine, berberine, steroids; the leaves contain a glycoside, which, when cleaved, releases hydrocyanic acid.

It has been experimentally established that each alkaloid has a different effect: talmin causes depression of the central nervous system, relaxation of smooth muscles, significantly reduces blood pressure, talikmin and talikmidin cause a cataleptic state in animals, taliktrimin stimulates the muscles of the uterus, berberine has a laxative, diuretic, choleretic effect, somewhat lowers blood pressure. The ability of berberine to suppress cell proliferation was revealed, as well as to exhibit a therapeutic effect in leishmaniasis and malaria.

All these active ingredients form the basis of the chemical composition of the small basil (silverfish).

Pharmacological properties of small basil:

Pharmacological properties Basilis are determined by its chemical composition.

In folk medicine, basil is used in the form of infusions, decoctions, tinctures as an antibacterial, antineoplastic, tonic, diuretic, laxative, wound healing agent.

The use of a basil in medicine, treatment with a basil:

For female diseases (as a hemostatic agent), nervous disorders, acute and chronic infections (measles, smallpox, typhus, diphtheria, tuberculosis of the lungs and skin, anthrax, malaria, syphilis), diseases of the digestive system, diseases of the cardiovascular system, inflammation gallbladder and liver, mucous membranes, stomach and small intestine, diarrhea, abdominal pain, colds and epilepsy, with poor eyesight, drugs are prescribed from the small basil.

The tincture has bactericidal properties. Outwardly, the plant is used as a poultice (abscesses, bruises, rheumatism).

With epilepsy, malaria, enterocolitis accompanied by diarrhea, with pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis, with conditions of increased excitability of the nervous system, edema of various origins, as well as with colds, decoctions and infusions are used. Powder from small basil is sprinkled with festering wounds.

Its leaves and roots are used in Tibetan medicine for edema, dropsy, female diseases; in India they are treated for malaria.

The herb is part of Zdrenko's recipe for the treatment of cancer.

Dosage forms, method of administration and doses of Basil's preparations:

Basil herb is used to make effective medicines and forms that are used in the treatment of many diseases. Let's consider the main ones.

Tincture of small basil herb:

Pour 200 ml of 70% alcohol 20 g of grass, insist in a dark place for 7-10 days, periodically shaking the contents, drain. Take 20-40 drops 3 times daily with meals to lower blood pressure and for heart attacks.

The course of treatment is 4-10 days. The positive effect occurs on the 4-7th day from the beginning of taking the tincture.

The same tincture can be used to treat epilepsy.

Brew 6 g of raw materials with 1 glass of boiling water, keep in a sealed enamel container in a water bath for 10 minutes, leave for 1 hour, strain through 2-3 layers of gauze and bring the volume of boiled water to the original. Take 1-2 tbsp. l. 3 times a day with meals. Store in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days. The course of treatment is 5-7 days.

Infusion of small basil herb:

Brew with 1 cup boiling water 1 tsp. dry chopped herbs, insist in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes, drain. Take 1-2 tbsp. l. 3 times a day, 30 minutes before meals.

Decoction of basil roots:

Brew with 1 cup boiling water 1 tbsp. l. dry crushed roots, insist in a sealed container in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes, cool at room temperature 15 minutes, drain. Take 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day, 30 minutes before meals for acute and chronic infections.

Powder is sprinkled on festering wounds.

Contraindications of small basilist:

Small basil - poisonous plant, they need to be used with great care.

In case of poisoning with basil preparations, the stomach should be washed with an aqueous suspension of activated carbon (30 g per 0.5–1.0 l of water) or with a 0.1% solution of potassium permanganate. Further treatment is symptomatic.

"Happiness is the natural state of a person!" Mistletoe herbalist

Again, I will consider the types that are found in our strip. Upon further consideration of buttercups, there will be corrections to the spring cleaner in terms of its possible danger - after all, not all buttercups are so fierce!
In general, at the end I will try to generate a generalized post on buttercups.

General description:

Small basil(wild parsley, rutvitsa, rutka) - perennial edible plant from the buttercup family with pinnate leaves. Decorative foliage and undemanding in the garden. There are many types of basil, differing in both the height and size of the leaves, and the color of the inflorescences. You should look for the plant in the steppes, steppe meadows, on the slopes of ravines, in thickets of bushes, in damp places. Loves water very much.

The ancient Greek name Thalictrum minus comes from the words "thalos" - green branch and "icter" - pleading. The plant looks like an olive branch entwined with fluff. Such a branch denoted a plea for protection. The graceful foliage, as follows from the popular name of the most famous representative of the genus, resembles the foliage of the catchments (aquilegia), with which the basilists are united into one subfamily. In English-speaking countries, their foliage is compared to rue by the delicacy and waxy bloom, and the name of the plant sounds like "meadow rue" - meadow rue.

The plant is 50-100 cm high. The leaves are three-or four-pinnate, double-pinnate, with small, obovate, at the apex 3-incised or lobed leaves. Flowers in a loose spreading panicle, greenish, filaments of stamens are yellowish. Blooms in June-July. The fruit is a multi-root (ribbed achene).

Gardening notes:
Basil plants reproduce by seeds and by dividing bushes. Seeds can be sown in the fall on ridges in the ground, in protected ground after a month of stratification or in winter in boxes and after 5-7 days taken out under the snow, the seedlings must be cut into ridges. Seedlings bloom in the second year. They are undemanding to the soil, grow well both in open sunny places and in slightly shaded ones. Special care do not require. The plant is frost-hardy and winter-hardy. Used for planting in flower beds from the north side garden house, near reservoirs and for cutting for bouquets.

Beneficial features:
Young leaves and shoots are used in food as a seasoning for dishes.
Leafy tops are used as medicinal raw materials. herbs, up to 60 cm long.The plant is harvested during the flowering period (usually June-July), dried on fresh air in the shade, periodically mixed, and stored in linen bags for up to 3 years. Darkened and yellowed raw materials are not suitable for use. The roots are dug up in September-October.

Decoction, infusion and tincture basil have antibacterial, antitumor, tonic, diuretic, laxative, hemostatic and wound-healing effects. They are prescribed for acute and chronic infections (measles, smallpox, typhus, dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, malaria), diseases of the digestive system, inflammation of the gallbladder and liver, mucous membrane of the stomach and small intestine, diarrhea, as well as gangrene of the extremities and pain in a stomach. It is used for nervous disorders and especially epilepsy.

Basil raw materials are used for edema, female diseases (in particular for painful menstruation) and as a cardiovascular agent. Effective for malaria, pulmonary tuberculosis, jaundice, metabolic disorders, nosebleeds, colds, rheumatic pains.

Steamed and crushed leaves are a good wound healing agent for purulent wounds.

Roots used for acute and chronic infections. An ointment or powder is useful for boils (chirps). Tincture herbs used to lower blood pressure and heart attacks. It is prepared with 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10. Insist 7-10 days. Take 20-40 drops 3 times a day with meals. The course of treatment is 3-4 days

For decoction 15 g of roots are poured into 180 ml of boiling water, infused in a bath for 30 minutes, cooled for 10 minutes, filtered. Take 2 tbsp. spoons 3 times a day after meals.

For cooking infusion 6 g of raw materials are poured with 1 glass of boiling water, kept in a sealed enamel container in a water bath for 10 minutes, infused for 1 hour, filtered through two or three layers of gauze and the volume is brought to the original with boiled water. Store in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3 times a day with meals. Treatment course 5

Tincture small basil has a satisfactory effect in the early stages of hypertension, with angina pectoris, circulatory disorders. In Tibetan medicine, medications from leaves and roots were prescribed for cardiac edema and some gynecological diseases.

Basil is part of the collection for cooking potions by M.N. Zdrenko for the treatment of cancer, peptic ulcer, gastritis!

Official medicine allows only this type of basil to be collected.

Precautions:
Low toxicity, but well tolerated. Some sources contain information about the toxicity of the plant, but there is no such information on medical and botanical sites. Given the active effect of the plant on the nervous and cardiovascular system, do not abuse the doses or duration of use - overdose is fraught with the opposite effect (which is true for many calming plants) - increased pressure, excessive heart rate, increased nervous excitability.
Plants from different areas and habitats have a different alkaloid composition, that is, they have different degrees of toxicity, but in general they are rather small. The general chemical composition can also vary.

General character and magical properties:(looks like the truth, but can be added)
Heals heart disease (even strokes), cancer, peptic ulcer diseases, purifies the blood and normalizes metabolism. It is widely used for female diseases. Gently cleanses, disinfects and stimulates healing.
This is a plant with long ago It is used to treat many female diseases and is considered a female love spell. It is recommended to sprinkle chopped tomatoes with finely chopped basil herb to rekindle passion and desire in a woman, but for men, basil herb has the opposite effect, so this plant can also be used to lapel and eliminate sexual desire.
Due to all this information and appearance plants, one gets the impression that he is closer in character to water, which for some reason I am more convinced of. It can be used as a light protective amulet, or an amulet for love or friendship (allegedly the American Indians used it this way). A female soft plant.

Basil simple.
General description:
Thalictrum simplex
According to the description, chemical composition and the properties are very similar to the small basil.
The leaves are dissected into ublinenno-wedge-shaped, deep-lobed lobes. The panicle is pyramidal. The flowers and stamens are drooping, greenish, the filaments of the stamens are pale pink. It is more common on forest edges and clearings than in meadows.

In folk medicine, the water infusion and decoction of the plant is used for various female diseases and as a general tonic in the postpartum period.
Infusion washed wounds and gargle with sore throat. The herb is applied to the cuts to speed up their healing, and they also make poultices from it with a flux, washing with purulent wounds.
It has vasodilating and choleretic properties. Lowers blood pressure and increases heart rate.

Basil yellow
General description:
Thalictrum flavum (scrofula, gyrennik). Perennial plant 50-150 cm tall, with a creeping rhizome. The leaves are alternate, compound, with rounded obovate, dull leaflets on top, 20-50 mm long. The flowers are fragrant, light yellow or greenish-white, collected in a dense thyroid panicle. Stamens are straight, yellow.
It is widespread at the edges of swampy forests, among shrubs and reed bogs, near rivers.
Ornamental deciduous and ornamental flowering plant, planted in groups.

Useful properties (see small basil):
It is used in folk medicine, but not in official medicine. It appears to be more pungent due to its alkaloid content.
The plant has a laxative, diuretic, antipyretic, sedative, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, hemostatic and wound healing effect.

Also, in different sources, the stinking basil is often mentioned, but I did not find any differences in the description at all. Not mentioned in medicinal books.
And there are many more decorative varieties, the contemplation of which brings true pleasure.

Collection according to Zdrenko's prescription:

I - collection: six-petal meadowsweet roots - 20 g, calamus roots - 20 g, marshmallow roots - 20 g, barberry roots - 20 g, valerian roots - 20 g, elecampane roots - 20 g, yellow iris roots - 20 g, capsule rhizome yellow - 20 g, rhizome of the white capsule - 20 g, comfrey roots - 20 g, horse sorrel roots - 20 g, juniper fruits - 20 g, dried annual herb - 7 g, knotweed herb - 7 g, yarrow flowers - 7 g, laxative joster berries - 5 g.

II - collection: herb Avran officinalis - 3 g, small cornflower herb - 7 g, spring adonis herb - 7 g, Laxman's tenacious herb - 7 g, prickly grass herb - 7 g, dioecious nettle herb - 7 g, silver cinquefoil herb - 7 g, flowers May lily of the valley- 7 g, peppermint leaf - 7 g, tansy flowers - 7 g, medicinal leaves - 7 g, motherwort herb five-lobed - 7 g, chamomile flowers - 7 g, medicinal sage leaves - 7 g, Ethiopian sage herb - 7 g, sandy immortelle flowers - 7 g, wormwood herb - 7 g, three-part succession herb - 7 g, field horsetail herb - 7 g