Common bruise
Common bruise is one of the plants of the family called borage; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Echium vulgare L.
As for the name of the common bruise family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Boraginaceae Juss.
Description of a common bruise
The common bruise is known by numerous popular names: blue, hedgehog grass, cornflowers, blush, maiden’s love, bruise, early blue, night blindness and cyanosis. Common bruise is a biennial herbaceous, coarse-haired plant, the height of which will vary between thirty and one hundred centimeters. The stems of this plant are erect and simple, they will be endowed with paniculate inflorescences consisting of curls that are located at the very top. The flowers of the common blueberry are quite small in size, funnel-shaped, beautiful and colored in bright blue tones, while the buds will be pink.
The fruits of the common bruise are blunt-tubercular nuts, colored brownish. This plant blooms from May to July.
Under natural conditions, the common bruise is found in the Crimea, Western Siberia, the Caucasus, Ukraine, Belarus and the European part of Russia. For growth, this plant prefers the steppe zone, dry slopes, wastelands, forest strips, ravines and places along roads.
Description of the medicinal properties of common bruise
Common bruise is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. The term grass includes leaves, flowers and stems. The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of saponins and the following very poisonous alkaloids in this plant: consolicin, consolidine, choline and cynoglossin.
The common bruise is endowed with a calming effect, will promote expectoration of phlegm and has the ability to reduce seizures. As for traditional medicine, here this plant is very widespread. An infusion prepared from the common bruise herb is indicated for use in epilepsy and poisonous snake bites, and is also used as an expectorant for whooping cough and whooping cough. In Belarus, it is recommended to boil the herb of this plant and then apply it to sore spots for rheumatism and sprained tendons.
When coughing with phlegm, it is recommended to use the following very effective medicinal remedy based on this medicinal plant: to prepare such a medicinal product, you will need to take about ten grams of dry crushed grass of the common bruise in about one glass of boiled water. The resulting medicinal mixture based on this plant should first be left to infuse for about two to three hours, after which this mixture based on the common bruise must be filtered very carefully. Take this medicinal remedy one tablespoon three times a day, regardless of food intake, for coughing, which is accompanied by sputum production. It is important to note the fact that in order to ensure the greatest effectiveness when taking this medicine based on the common bruise, you will need to not only carefully follow all the rules for preparing such a remedy, but also strictly follow all the rules for taking this medicine based on the common bruise. In this case, the positive effect will be noticeable quite quickly.
