Buttercup anemone

Anemone buttercup herbaceous perennial plant up to twenty-five centimeters in height, which has an extremely well developed rhizome. The leaves of the plant have three-lobed yellow flowers that appear between April and May. Grows among shrubs and forests.

Anemone buttercup medicinal plant, which is used in folk medicine, but in large doses is poisonous (in Kamchatka, hunters grease arrows with plant sap). For medicinal purposes, fresh leaves of some types of buttercup anemone are used.

Anemone contains ranunculin, which is broken down upon drying into glucose and protoanemonin (which has antimicrobial, antispasmodic and analgesic effects), as well as resins, saponins and tannin.

Traditional medicine recommends using in the form of an extract (cold infusion in a glass of water ten grams of fresh leaves, insist for a day) for cholelithiasis, with inflammation of the liver, spleen, bladder and kidneys. For asthma, shortness of breath, scabies, fits of hysteria, pain, anemone is recommended to be used together with other plants. When sciatica, rheumatism, headaches, scrofula and toothache are tormented, an alcoholic tincture of buttercup anemone should be used externally. Plant rhizome juice is used to remove warts. In some regions, buttercup anemone in the form of cold infusion is used for weakening of vision and hearing.

Recently, traditional medicine has advised the use of an alcoholic tincture from a plant for cancer, it is believed that the poison of a plant has a detrimental effect on metastases and a tumor, and is good for pain relief.

It is necessary to use derivatives from the plant very carefully, the symptoms of an overdose are as follows: swelling of the eyelids, pain in the kidneys, "cotton feet".

In traditional medicine, buttercup anemone is not used, as it is poorly, little studied.