2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Intoxicating haregub is one of the plants of the family called labiates, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Lagochilus inebrians Bunge. As for the name of the intoxicating haregub family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Lamiaceae Lindl.
Description of the intoxicating haregub
The intoxicating hare is a half-shrub, the height of which will be about twenty-four to sixty centimeters. Such a shrub is endowed with a taproot and rather numerous erect simple or branched thorny stems. The leaves of this plant are on petioles, they will be slightly leathery and opposite, at the base such leaves are wedge-shaped, they are three to five-part, endowed with rounded and sometimes even incised lobes. The flowers are in whorls, they will be two-lipped and painted in pale pink tones. The fruit of the intoxicating hare consists of four oblong brown nuts, which after ripening are contained in the remaining calyx.
The intoxicating haregub blooms in the period from June to September.
Description of the medicinal properties of the intoxicating haregub
The intoxicating zaytsegub is endowed with very valuable medicinal properties, while for medicinal purposes, flowers and leaves of this plant should be harvested throughout the entire flowering period. This requires drying such parts of the plant on a tarp or on clean clay areas. The flowers and leaves of the intoxicating hare should be collected for medicinal purposes. Under natural conditions, this plant is found on the territory of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The presence of such valuable healing properties is explained by the content of lagochilin in the leaves and flowers, which is a tetrahydric alcohol. The leaves of this plant contain tannins, sugar, essential oil, ascorbic acid, carotene, organic acids, calcium salts, trace elements, vitamin K, as well as flavanoids, from which hyperoside and rutin are derived.
Preparations based on this plant are recommended for various bleeding: nasal, pulmonary, juvenile, traumatic, hemorrhoidal, as well as bleeding due to uterine fibromatosis, in addition, drugs are used to prevent bleeding before surgery. Such drugs are also taken for hemophilia, Werlhof's disease and other hemorrhagic diathesis, in the treatment of eczema, nettle, neurodermatitis and lichen planus.
An intoxicating haregub infusion is recommended to be administered orally for glaucoma, in the complex treatment of patients with rheumatism to reduce capillary permeability, as well as to reduce the hypocoagulating effect of salicylates. In addition, such an infusion of this plant is also used as a desensitizing agent. It is noteworthy that it was proved that preparations based on this plant are able to increase performance and endurance in conditions such as increased solar radiation, as well as in conditions of high temperature.
Also, there are positive results when using drugs based on the intoxicating haregub in patients with functional diseases of the central nervous system. This effect should be associated with the sedative effect of this plant, as a result of which sleep will improve, and effective excitability, tearfulness and other symptoms will completely disappear. As a sedative, the infusion of the leaves of this plant is recommended to take one tablespoon three to six times a day. Such an infusion is prepared in a ratio of one to ten or one to twenty.
