Lastoven officinalis
Lastovinale officinalis is one of the plants of the family called lastovnevye; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Vincetoxicum ofTicinale Pobed.
As for the name of the family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Asclepiadaceae R. Bg.
Description of lastovnya medicinal
Lastovin officinalis is a perennial herbaceous plant, endowed with a creeping shortened rhizome, as well as quite numerous adventitious roots, the height of which will be about forty to one hundred and twenty centimeters. The stem of this plant will be simple and erect, and also double-rowed. The leaves of the plant are short-petiolate, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, opposite and pointed. The flowers are found in branched-umbellate inflorescences; they are small in size and white or yellowish-white in color, and are also endowed with a very unpleasant odor. The flower stalks of this plant are located in the very axils of the leaves. The fruits of the medicinal plant are pod-shaped, bare, lanceolate leaflets. The seeds of this plant are numerous and will have a tuft of long hairs at one end.
Flowering of the medicinal plant occurs in the period from July to August. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in Ukraine, Western Siberia, Central Asia, as well as the steppe and southern strip of the European part of Russia. For growth, this plant prefers places among bushes, forests, forest edges and river banks.
Description of the medicinal properties of lastovny medicinal
Lastovin officinalis is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the leaves, seeds, as well as rhizomes and roots of this plant. It is recommended to collect rhizomes in the spring until plant regrowth occurs; in addition, rhizomes can be collected in the fall after the fruits have ripened. As for the leaves, they are harvested throughout the entire flowering period of this plant, while the seeds are collected from August to September.
It is noteworthy that the medicinal raw materials of this plant contain vincetoxin, asklepionic acid, asklepion and asklepiodine. It has been scientifically proven that the extract from the seeds of this plant is endowed with strophanthin-like effects on the heart, while the root of the plant has the ability to induce vomiting.
As for traditional medicine, this plant has become quite widespread here, which should be associated with the fact that the medicinal plant is endowed with laxative, antitoxic, diuretic, wound healing and emetic effects. The seeds of this plant are endowed with analgesic properties. In general, the drug is used as an antifever, laxative and diuretic.
Preparations prepared from this plant are recommended to be used to eliminate edema and increased heart rate, for sexual impotence, for malaria, to relieve intoxication, and also as a means that can induce menstruation. Preparations that were produced on the basis of the seeds of the medicinal plant are used to reduce pain in hepatic and renal colic at the moment when stones pass. In addition, such drugs are also used as very effective laxatives. Externally, an infusion of the roots is used to accelerate the healing of wounds, ulcers and ulcers.
