Mordovnik ordinary and its medicinal properties

Mordovnik ordinary is classified as a perennial herb that grows up to 80 cm and has single (rarely several) stems. They are simple or branched at the top.

The flowers are collected in a spherical large blue head. The leaves are alternate, white-tomentose below, dark green above. Mordovia blooms in June-August, bearing fruit from August to September. This is a good nectar plant, widespread in the southern, middle (steppe) zone of Russia, in the southern regions of Western Siberia, in the Caucasus, in Central Asia. Cultivated as an ornamental plant grown in parks.

In folk medicine, mordovna is used in the form of fruits, which contain alkaloids, triterpenoids, flavonoids, phytosterols, higher aliphatic hydrocarbons. Fatty, essential oil, rubber, tannins are isolated from the fruits of the muzzle. In addition, found: vitamin C, coumarins, saponins.

The medicinal use of the common scabbard is associated with the treatment of paralysis, plexitis, it has an exciting effect on the central nervous system, helps with exhaustion, headache. The muzzle is used for hypertension, hypotension, for skin diseases, for diseases of the throat, nose, lungs, acts as a diuretic, diaphoretic.

Separate parts of the muzzle are used in the treatment of infectious hepatitis, liver echinococcus, intermittent fever, respiratory infections, malaria, gastroenteritis, pleurisy, pneumonia, headache.

In addition, the fruits of the muzzle are included in the composition of drugs that help with asthenia, muscle and optic nerve atrophy, and peripheral paralysis.