Joster Laxative

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Joster laxative is one of the plants of the family called buckthorns, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Rhamnus cathartica L. As for the name of the family of the laxative joster itself, in Latin it will be like this: Rhamnaceae Juss.

Description of the laxative joster

Zhoster laxative is known under various popular names: tin, zhoster, lady-berry, zheret, zherit, gestor, zhostir, zastr, road needle, bergatika, privet, corushatnik, teres, chrobost, blackberry, dog berries and buckthorn. Joster laxative is a highly branched shrub or tree, whose height reaches eight meters. The branches of this plant end in thorns. The leaves are opposite, serrate-crenate, rounded and endowed with three pairs of arcuate veins. The flowers of the laxative ghostera will be four-fold, bisexual or unisexual, small in size, they are collected in bunches and painted in greenish-yellow tones. The fruit of this plant will be quite juicy, gymnospermous, spherical in shape and black in color.

The flowering of the laxative joster occurs in the period from May to June. Ripening of the fruits of this plant occurs in the month of August-September: at this time, raw materials should be harvested. Under natural conditions, this plant grows on the territory of the European part of Russia in all regions with the exception of only Dvinsko-Pechersky and Karelo-Murmansky, the plant is also found in all regions of Western Siberia except for the Ob, all regions of the Caucasus except the Transcaucasian. The plant grows in Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine and in the following regions of Central Asia: with the exception of the Karakum, Kyzylkum, Gorno-Turkmen and Amu Darya regions. As for the general distribution, the plant grows in the northern part of Turkish Armenia, North Africa, Asia Minor, Scandinavia, Atlantic and Southern Europe.

For growth, the plant prefers shrubs, hillsides, steppe groves, places along high river banks, on pebbles, on gravelly and stony slopes. The plant sometimes grows in thickets, is also decorative, but at the same time it also remains a honey plant.

Description of the medicinal properties of laxative joster

Joster is a laxative endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the bark, roots, branches, leaves and fruits of this plant.

The presence of such valuable medicinal properties is explained by the content of malic acid, carbohydrates and related compounds, tannins, alkaloids, essential oil, alpha-carotene, flavonoids, higher fatty acids and their triacylglycerols in the bark of this plant. The leaves of this plant contain vitamin C. The fruits of this plant contain flavonoids, malic acid and carbohydrates. The seeds contain anthraquinones, fatty oil, paraffin and the following acid glycerides: stearic, palminic, butyric, oleic, linoleic, isolinolenic.

It should be noted that this plant is an old Russian anti-cancer agent that was used as early as the sixteenth century. A broth prepared on the basis of the roots, bark, branches and fruits of this plant is used for peptic ulcers, intestinal colic and gastralgia, and also as a laxative. It should be noted that the decoction and infusion of the fruits of this plant is a mild laxative.

The infusion of the bark of the laxative is used as a laxative for rectal fissures, hemorrhoids, spastic and atonic constipation in the climacteric and postoperative period. In homeopathy, the essence from the roots of this plant is used as an abortifacient and for chronic constipation.