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Lungwort medicinal is one of the plants of the family called borage, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Pulmonaria officinalis L. As for the name of the medicinalis family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Boraginaceae Juss.
Description of medicinal lungwort
Lungwort medicinal or obscure is a perennial herb, the height of which will fluctuate between ten and thirty centimeters. Such a plant will be endowed with a slightly ribbed and erect stem, with prominent stiff glandular hairs. This stem starts from a thin creeping rhizome. The basal leaves of medunica officinalis will be cordate-ovate and ovate-lanceolate, they are rigidly bristly and pointed, while such leaves will suddenly taper into a rather long narrow-winged petiole. The lower leaves of lungwort in flowering shoots are oblong and sharp, as well as slightly descending. The flowers of this plant are collected in the apical inflorescence, which is a curl. The corolla of the medicinal lungwort will first be painted in pink tones, and then it becomes blue-violet, just before falling off, this corolla acquires a blue color. The fruit of this plant is rather small in size, it is a shiny and smooth nutlet.
The flowering of lungwort occurs in the period from April to May. Under natural conditions, this plant is found on the territory of the European part of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. For growth, the plant prefers deciduous and coniferous-deciduous forests.
Description of the medicinal properties of medicinal lungwort
Medunitsa medicinal is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. Grass includes flowers, leaves and stems. It is recommended to procure such raw materials in the month of May.
The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content in the composition of this plant of a large amount of minerals, silicic acids, manganese, soluble and insoluble salts, titanium, silver, copper, iron, vanadium, potassium, strontium, calcium and other elements. In the herb of medicinal lungwort, a fairly large amount of mucus, carotene, tannins, rutin, ascorbic acid, sugar, organic acids, polyphenols, bornesite, kaempferol, quercetin and traces of alkaloids will be present.
Lungwort is endowed with a very effective wound healing, astringent, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, analgesic, hemostatic and expectorant effect.
As for traditional medicine, healing agents based on this plant are quite widespread here. Most often, medunica medicinal is used as an aqueous tincture or infusion for pharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, pulmonary tuberculosis, colitis, tonsillitis, hemoptysis, the presence of stones in the bladder, with inflammation of the kidneys, hemorrhoids, as well as for the treatment of various diseases of the female genital area. It is noteworthy that folk medicine considers this plant to be one of the best remedies for childhood tuberculosis.
In the form of an infusion, this plant is used for vitiligo, eczema, psoriasis, vasculitis, lichen planus, collagenosis, graying hair, furunculosis and various viral skin diseases. In addition, medicinal lungwort is used as a means of regulating the activity of the endocrine glands and improving hematopoiesis.
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