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Madder is one of the plants of the family called rotational, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Rubia cordifolia L. As for the name of the madder family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Menyanthaceae Dumort.
Description of madder
Madder is a herbaceous perennial plant, the height of which will reach two meters. The rhizome of this plant is branched, creeping, very thin and repeatedly twisted. The base of the madder's roots will form a complex, but at the same time rather compact weave, up to seven centimeters long and wide. In the upper part, the stems of this plant are weak, spreading, tetrahedral and geniculate-bent, they will also be endowed with long internodes. Madder leaves are in whorls, located on the lower and middle nodes of six to eight pieces. The inflorescences of this plant are located at the ends of the stem and branches in the form of rare and up to twenty-five centimeters long panicles, which will be more or less leafy. The formation of such inflorescences occurs by means of half-umbels, the corolla is quite small in size, its diameter ranges between three and a half and four and a half millimeters. Such a corolla is painted in pale yellow tones and is bell-spike-shaped. The length of the fruits of this plant will be about four and a half millimeters.
The flowering madder falls in the period from June to August, while the fruits will ripen from August to October. Under natural conditions, this plant is found on the territory of Primorye and Priamurye in the Far East, as well as in the Angara-Sayan and Daursk regions of Eastern Siberia. For growth, this plant prefers meadows, forest edges, forests, coastal tree and shrub thickets, rocky and rocky slopes.
Description of the medicinal properties of madder
Marena cordifolia is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the fruits, rhizomes, leaves and stems of this plant.
The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of cardenolides, triterpenoids in the plant composition: rubifolic and rubiconmaric acids. As for the rhizomes of this plant, there are coumarins and the following anthraquinones: purpurin, lucidin, alizarin, rubiadin, ruberythric acid, pseudopurpurin, rubiadin primveroside, nordamcantol, fiscin and mollugin. The aerial part of merana cordifolia contains coumarins, flavonoids and the following iridoids: asperuloside and desacetylasperuloside.
The infusion and decoction, prepared on the basis of the rhizomes of this plant, are widely used in Korean, Indian, Tibetan and Chinese medicine. Such healing agents are used for amenorrhea, various gynecological diseases, dysmenorrhea, leucorrhoea and endometritis.
As for Tibetan medicine, powder and decoction of madder's rhizomes is widely used here. Such a healing agent is used for exudative pleurisy, laryngitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, kidney and liver diseases, anthrax, smallpox, headache, lung abscesses and complicated diseases of the digestive system. Also, rhizomes are present in the composition of drugs that are recommended for use as prototypes of drugs that regulate salt metabolism. It should be noted that such a remedy based on madder is very effective.
