Zhivokost ( popularly: Comfrey, Bonecrusher, Fat Root ) is the most valuable medicine of ancient times. In ancient Rome, warriors healed their wounds, Paracelsus healed ulcers, bone fractures and other ailments. Medicinal larkspur is also actively used in modern folk medicine.
100% natural product. Without GMO. Does not contain fragrances.
Properties:
- improves the function of the musculoskeletal system
- helps to improve metabolic processes in the joints
- astringent
- emollient
- anti-inflammatory
- wound healing
Recommendations for use:
It is recommended to use as a dietary supplement to the diet to improve metabolic processes in the joints. It is also possible to use it in the form of tinctures, decoctions, for baths, rinses and compresses.
Mode of application:
Pour 1 teaspoon of chopped root with 1 glass of hot water, let it brew for 30 minutes, drink 2 times a day 30-40 minutes before meals. The course of admission is 30 days.
Contraindications:
Individual sensitivity to the components of the drug, pregnancy, lactation, children under 14 years old.
Storage conditions and periods:
Store in the manufacturer’s packaging, in a dry, dark room at a temperature not exceeding 25 ° C, for 24 months from the date of manufacture.
Release form:
Packing 50g
This product is not a medical product.
Reference:
Zhivokost , or Delphinium , or Shpornik (Latin Delph’inium) is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants of the Ranunculaceae family. Includes about 450 [2] species native to the Northern Hemisphere and the mountains of tropical Africa. Many species come from Southeast Asia and especially from China, where more than 150 species grow. The genus Larkspur is close to the genus of the famous poisonous plants Aconite (Aconite).
Annual species of the genus Larkspur are sometimes distinguished in the adjacent genus Sokirka (Consolida), which includes about 40 herbaceous annuals.
About 100 species grow on the territory of Russia and neighboring countries. The most common: Larkspur (Delphinium elatum) and an annual species Larkspur (Delphinium consolida), or Field picks (Consolida regalis).
Name:
The genus received its scientific (Latin) name, possibly due to the similarity of an unblown flower to the shape of the head and body of a dolphin. According to another version, the name of the plant comes from the name of the Greek city of Delphi, in the vicinity of which many of these flowers grew. The city was located on the slope of Mount Parnassus, and the city was home to the famous Temple of Apollo and the Delphic Oracle. It is possible that the name of the plant mentioned by Dioscorides can literally be translated as the flower of Apollo of Delphi.
The modern Russian name of the plant is most likely associated with the practice of its use in folk medicine. The outdated Russian name Shpornik comes from the form of an appendage outgrowth on the upper sepal, similar to a cavalry spur. The literal translation of the German name (German: Rittersporn) is “knightly spurs”; English (there are several of them) – “funny spurs”, “heel of a lark”, “claw of a lark” and “spur of a knight”; French – “leg of a lark”.
Pronunciation of the Armenian name – vochlakhot, Georgian – sosani, dezura.
In Russian, the name “delphinium” is more often found in fiction and popular literature, in scientific literature the word “larkspur” is mainly used. In gardening books, the name “delphinium” is commonly used, which is reflected in the names of the hybrids.
Not all types of larkspur have a recognized Russian name; transliterations are sometimes found in Russian-language publications, for example: Delphinium staphizagria.
Sometimes, perhaps by mistake, there is an outdated use of the word “larkspur” – it refers to another plant – Comfrey (Symphytum) of the family Boraginaceae (Boraginaceae).
Botanical Description:
The leaves are palmate-divided, often deeply, multiple dissected into pointed or serrated lobes.
The height of the stem, depending on the species, varies from 10 cm in some alpine species to 3 or more meters in forest species.
The flowers are irregular, consisting of five colored sepals. The peculiarity of the structure of the flower is the presence of a spur, a cone-shaped appendage of the upper sepal. Spurs are from 5-6 mm in primitive species and up to 45 mm in length in the African species Leroy’s Larkspur (Delphinium leroyi). The hollow spur contains two nectaries, under which are two small petals called staminodes. In the center of the flower, nectaries and staminodes form an ocellus, often differing in color from sepals. The flowers of most plants are colored blue or purple, but there are types of other colors.
Depending on the type of plant, the inflorescences consist of 3-15 flowers – in primitive inflorescences of the panicle type, or from 50-80 – in developed pyramidal inflorescences that form a simple or branched raceme. Many species of larkspur are melliferous, pollinated by butterflies and bumblebees, and two American species are hummingbirds.
Antolysis can be observed on the example of larkspur flowers. Sometimes, in some cultivated hybrids, proliferation is observed – the germination of a new flower above the old one, or peloria, when the axis of the inflorescence ends with the correct actinomorphic flower.