Jeffersonia Dubious

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Jeffersonia dubious is one of the plants of the family called barberry, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Jeffersonia dubia. As for the very name of the Jeffersonia family of doubtful, then in Latin it will be like this: Berberidaceae Juss.

Description of Jeffersonia dubious

Jeffersonia dubious is a perennial herb, the height of which will fluctuate between ten and forty centimeters. The flowers of this plant are on leafless peduncles, they are quite large, endowed with six petals and painted in pale lilac tones. All leaves of this plant are basal, in the spring they will be dark-colored and reddish, and later such leaves will be painted in green tones. The leaves of this plant will be long-petiolate and chopped off-bilobate.

The flowering of Jeffersonia dubious falls on the period from April to May. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in Primorye and Amur region in the Far East. For growth, Jeffersonia dubious prefers deciduous and mixed forests, places among thickets of shrubs and in meadows, as well as humus soils. This plant grows either in small groups or singly. It is noteworthy that this plant is decorative.

Description of the medicinal properties of Jeffersonia dubious

Jeffersonia dubious is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the rhizomes and grass of this plant for medicinal purposes. The concept of grass includes flowers, leaves and stems of this plant.

The presence of such valuable medicinal properties of Jeffersonia is doubtful due to the content of saponins in the roots of the plant, alkaloids and saponins were also found in the rhizomes, and alkaloids are present in the leaves of this plant. The main alkaloid in this plant is berberine.

It is noteworthy that the tincture and decoction of the leaves of this plant have the ability to enhance the activity of the isolated frog heart. A decoction of Jeffersonia dubious rhizomes is recommended to be used in order to improve appetite, as well as to strengthen vision and to wash out inflamed eyes. As for traditional medicine, a decoction of the herb Jeffersonia dubious, which is used for chronic gastritis and to improve appetite, is widespread here.

With a poor appetite, it is recommended to use the following remedy: to prepare it, you will need to take eight to ten grams of the rhizomes of this plant per three hundred milliliters of water. Then the resulting mixture should be boiled over low heat for four to five minutes, after which the mixture is left to infuse for two hours, after which the mixture is thoroughly filtered. This remedy is taken on the basis of jeffersonia of doubtful one-fourth of a glass three to four times a day before the start of a meal.

In case of gastritis with reduced secretion, it is recommended to prepare the following very effective remedy based on Jeffersonia of doubtful: for its preparation, you should take one tablespoon of dry crushed herb in one glass of water. The resulting mixture should be boiled over low heat for two to three minutes and left to infuse for an hour, after which this mixture is thoroughly filtered. Such a remedy based on this plant is taken one third of a glass three to four times a day, half an hour to forty minutes before the start of a meal. It should be noted that the healing properties of this plant have not been fully studied, for this reason, we can expect the emergence of new ways of using dubious Jeffersonia.