Radiola pink – panacea from many diseases

Medicinal plant called pink Radiola is known in folk medicine for several centuries. Healing properties of pink or Golden root, also called radiogram, it is recognized and official medicine, currently preparations on the basis of this unusual plant is widely used in the treatment of various diseases.

Description

Rhizome radiograms pink bronze-gold color, and so it is called Golden root. The plant has not branched erect stems, the height of which does not exceed 40 cm Radiola Usually grows in groups of 10-15 units, but occasionally can meet single instances. The root is thick and fleshy. Leaves elliptical Form, alternate, sessile, lanceolate or oblong-ovate, cuneate at the base. Tip sheet – palmately toothed. Inflorescence corymbose, many-flowered, with small flowers unisexual, yellow or greenish color. Fruit length of about 8 mm in erect leaflets with a short beak at the tip. Radiola pink blooms in mid-summer, and its fruit ripens in September. Golden root propagated by seeds and vegetatively. He is not particularly demanding to heat and light, however, dependent on moisture. Carpathians, polar Yakutia, the Urals, the mountains of Eastern and southern Siberia, the far East, the Altai mountains – those are the places where you can find this healthful plant. It usually inhabits the banks of mountain rivers, stony placers and on the grassy slopes. For the first time some therapeutic properties radiograms pink described by the Roman physician and pharmacologist of Pagani Discred. Special honor this plant has been used in Tibet: it was believed that the person who finds the Golden root, will be happy and healthy two centuries, and in China believe that Radiola prolongs life.

Golden root medicine

For the treatment of diseases of the nervous system used an alcohol extract of roots and rhizomes of the plant. Their collection is carried out when the radio-gramophone pink begins to bear fruit. The roots are dried in a dryer at a temperature of about 60 °C. Coronarienne ethanolic extract has a stimulating and adaptogenic effect similar to the action of drugs ginseng and Eleutherococcus, but can increase blood pressure. In cornevishchah and roots of Rhodiola contain a glycoside radiologic, tyrosol, tannins, carbohydrates (glucose, sucrose), acids (citric, malic, Gallic, oxalic, succinic), essential oil, anthraglycosides, lactones, flavonols (quercetin, kaempferol, isoquercetin, giperozid), lipids and sterols. Aboveground part of the plant used for the manufacture of lotions and decoctions, which are treated trachoma. Rhizomes of Rhodiola used in gastrointestinal diseases, cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, various fractures, skin diseases and as febrifuge and General tonic. Ointments and lotions from radiograms pink treat skin rashes, inflamed wounds, conjunctivitis and boils. The juice from the rhizomes well heals wounds and helps in jaundice. In addition, pink Radiola is able to improve physical and mental performance, helps to fight stress and congestion. Note that the preparations from the rhizome of the plant increase blood pressure, consequently, they are contraindicated in hypertensive patients.