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Glaucium yellow is one of the plants of the family called poppy, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Glaucium flavum Crantz. As for the Latin name of the yellow glacium family itself, in Latin it will be: Papaveraceae Juss.
Description of glacium yellow
Glacium yellow is also known as a yellow macula, the height of this plant will be about twenty to fifty centimeters. Glacium yellow is a biennial herb, this plant will be endowed with bare, branchy stems. The leaves of this plant are thickish, and they will also be very bluish, while the basal leaves will be quite large, as well as densely pubescent and lyre-pinnately dissected. The bud of this plant will also be bare or slightly acicular-bristly, and such a bud is ovoid-oblong and sharp. The length of this yellow glacium bud will be about two to three centimeters, the petals can be either yellow or orange with a reddish or purple spot located at the very base. Moreover, the diameter of such petals will be about one and a half to three centimeters. The stalks of yellow glacium are short and straight, and their pods will be about fifteen to twenty-five centimeters long.
The flowering of yellow glacium occurs in the period from May to June. Under natural conditions, this plant can be found in the Black Sea region in the European part of Russia, as well as in the Crimea, the Caucasus and in the Black Sea region of Ukraine. As for its distribution in the Caucasus, here this plant can be found in the Ciscaucasia and Western Transcaucasia. For growth, this plant prefers stony, rocky slopes and talus, as well as the coast of the sea in the littoral zone. This plant is cultivated on plantations, since glacium yellow has been introduced into cultivation.
Description of the healing properties of glacium yellow
For medicinal purposes, it is recommended to use the herb of this plant, which is recommended to be harvested during steming and budding, as well as during flowering. At the same time, the grass should be collected from cultivated plants of both the first and second year of life. The grass of yellow glacium should be dried under a canopy with good ventilation, while the grass is spread in a thin layer on paper or on fabric. Glacium yellow contains alkaloids, namely isocoridine, protopine, aurotensin and glaucine. The roots of this plant also contain alkaloids: magnoflorin, norhelidonin, helirubin, chelerythrine, protopin, alcocryptopin and sanguinarine.
In the herb of this plant, the environment alkaloids will be found: isocoridin, glaucine, protopine, sanguinarine, cheleritin, helirubin, alcocryptonin, xinoactin, methylateroline, glaucine, isoboldin, resins, mineral salts, magnoflorin and dimethylglaucine. Glacium yellow leaves will contain quercetin, sanguinarine, as well as the following phenol carboxylic acids: coffee and ferulic acids in the hydrolyzate. The seeds of this plant contain fatty oil, it is noteworthy that such oil can be used for food and even for making soap.
It should be noted that the alkaloids of this plant are biologically active substances. For this reason, preparations based on this plant will help fight coughs. Also, these drugs are also endowed with a pronounced hypotensive, analgesic and antispasmodic effect. Preparations based on glacium yellow are used as antitussives for the treatment of pharyngitis, bronchitis, lung abscesses and croupous pneumonia, as well as various other respiratory organs.
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