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Foxglove rusty is one of the plants of the family called norichnikovye, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Digitalis ferruginea L. As for the name of the foxglove family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Description of foxglove rusty
Rusty foxglove is a perennial herb, the height of which will fluctuate between forty and seventy centimeters. Such a plant will be endowed with a fairly short and woody rhizome. The stalks of foxglove rusty will be straight, at the bottom they are sparsely hairy, while at the top they will be bare. The leaves of this plant are oblong-lanceolate, their length is seven to fifteen centimeters, and the width will be about one to two and a half centimeters. The basal and lower stem leaves of this plant at the very base will be elongated into a petiole, and from below they will be endowed with pronounced pubescent and arcuate veins. The middle and upper stem leaves of foxglove rusty will be naked and sessile, they also gradually pass into the bracts. The flowers of this plant are painted in yellow-brown tones, they will be bell-shaped in shape, and also gather in a multi-flowered dense brush. The fruit of the foxglove rusty is an ovoid glabrous capsule, the length of which will not exceed one centimeter. Such a fruit is endowed with numerous seeds, colored in yellow-brown tones.
Under natural conditions, this plant grows in the territory of Eastern and Southern Transcaucasia. For growth, this plant prefers forest clearings, thickets, places among oak forests and shrubs, the edges of beech, fir, pine, mountain and spruce forests, and also chooses calcareous and humus-rich soils.
Description of the medicinal properties of foxglove rusty
Rusty foxglove is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use basal rosette leaves of both the first and second years of development, as well as stem leaves of this plant.
The presence of such valuable medicinal properties is explained by the content of cardenoilides in the composition of this plant, while the aboveground part contains flavonoids, phenolcarboxylic acids and iridoids, which are derivatives of catalpol. The stems, in turn, contain flavonoids and phenol carboxylic acids. The leaves of this plant contain flavonoids, cardenolides, nitrogen-containing compounds, anthraquinones and phenol carboxylic acids.
As for traditional medicine, here this plant is quite widespread. An infusion prepared on the basis of rusty foxglove leaves is recommended for use in case of heart failure, pneumonia and ascites. In the form of an ointment, such an infusion is used for scabies and tumors. An infusion based on the roots of this plant is indicated for use in anthrax.
The preparations created on the basis of this plant are recommended for use in case of changes in the heart, which will be accompanied by severe atherosclerosis and degeneration of the heart muscle, as well as such preparations are used in acute infectious diseases.
For ascites, it is recommended to use a healing agent: about one gram of the leaves of this plant is taken for two hundred milliliters of water. Such a remedy based on foxglove rusty should be taken one teaspoon two to four times a day for ascites. To achieve greater effectiveness, when taking this remedy, you should follow both the cooking rates and the intake rates of this remedy based on rusty foxglove.
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