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Cuckoo adonis is a perennial herb with a straight, tall stem up to one meter, rough with short hairs directed downward. The leaves are acuminate, rough, the lower ones are large, semi-oval, the upper ones are straight, lanceolate. Flowers emerge from the upper rosettes in a sparse corymbose panicle. The upper half-calyx is bell-shaped, with pointed teeth and brownish veins. The corolla is four-lobed, petal-shaped, white or slightly pinkish in color. The fruits are a five-toothed capsule sitting on one nest, the seeds are drop-shaped, dark brown in color. The cuckoo adonis blooms in mid-summer.
Distributed on wet soils of meadows, along the banks of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, near swamps as a weed in forage grasses throughout Central Europe, the North Caucasus, Siberia, Altai, Transbaikalia.

For medicinal use, the grass, leaves, stems, panicles with flowers are collected. The grass is collected in the fall, after the fruits have fully ripened, dried in natural conditions under canopies until the humidity reaches 14%, packaged in dark containers, and stored in a dry, warm place. It is well preserved without losing its healing properties, so the shelf life is not regulated.

Chemical composition

The stems, leaves, and flowers of cuckoo adonis contain alkaloids, vitamins B, C, saponins, ascorbic acid, and traces of mucus.

Application

Due to the presence of saponins, preparations of cuckoo's adonis or cuckoo's color are used for diseases of the liver, gall bladder, and obstructive jaundice. Due to the presence of astringent materials, cuckoo-colored decoctions are used to stop gastric and uterine bleeding, in the treatment of bronchitis, aggravated by copious amounts of sputum.

In the form of water or alcohol infusions, it is used in the treatment of arthritis of rheumatic origin, and is also used as a good diaphoretic for colds.

As an external remedy, a decoction of cuckoo adonis is used for washing and healing wounds, trophic ulcers, and for use in compresses in the treatment of pustular skin diseases, scabs, and purulent abscesses.

An infusion of the cuckoo adonis herb is recommended for women who have exhausted all methods of treating infertility. Substances contained in cuckoo grass stimulate uterine contractions during sexual intercourse, which helps many women become pregnant.

Methods of application

Decoctions:

for internal use, take four sachets of herb per 200.0
for external use the herb is half as much.

Tincture: 25 gr. herbs at 250.0, leave for 10 hours.

Latin name

Coronaria flos-cuculi

Folk names

Cuckoo's color, dawn

Description

A perennial herbaceous plant with a straight, slightly branched, furrowed stem at the top, reaching 90 cm in height. The stem and pedicels are covered with short, downward, appressed hairs. Leaves are opposite; sharp, lower ones - oblong-scapulate, narrowed into a petiole, upper ones - sessile, narrow-lanceolate. The flowers are pink, collected in a sparse pyramidal panicle. The fruit is a single-locular capsule. Blooms from May to August.

Spreading

Grows in flooded and dry meadows, along the edges of swamps, in bushes: Distributed almost everywhere.

Part used

The stems, leaves, and flowers are used for medicinal purposes. Collection time is from late May to August. It is known that the plant contains saponin-like lichnidin, vitamin C, iron, and vanadium. The plant contains triterpene saponins; alkaloids. Sucrose galactosides and triterpene saponins were found in the roots

In the aerial part - carbohydrates and related compounds: D-pinite, triterpene saponins; unidentified gypsogenin derivatives, traces of alkaloids, phenolcarboxylic acids and their depsinoids, coumarins. Flavonoids: vitexin, saponaretin, isosaponarin, saponaretin galactopyranoiside, vitamin C, vanadium, iron

Vitamin C and phenolcarboxylic acids and their derivatives were found in the flowers: n-hydroxybenzoic, cis- and trans-n-coumaric, protocatechuic, vanillic, cis- and transferulic acids (all of them in a free and bound state).

Application

The plant has been little studied. In scientific medicine, an alcoholic extract from the herb is used, purified from saponins - flosculen (hemostatic agent)

The use of the plant is based on its ability to increase contraction of the uterine muscles and on its hemostatic effect. Adonis cuckoo preparations are prescribed in the postpartum period

In folk medicine, a decoction of the plant is used as a choleretic agent in the treatment of jaundice, liver and kidney diseases; as an expectorant for bronchitis, to stop uterine bleeding, in some areas - for infertility

Externally, a decoction of the herb is used to wash purulent wounds, ulcers, itchy skin scratches, and discoloration of age spots; compresses with herbal decoction are applied to abscesses, boils

In England, cuckoo blossom is used as a remedy against thyroid tumors. The extract from the plant has antibacterial activity.

Recipes

Pour 1 tablespoon of herb into 1 glass of boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. Leave in a sealed container until cooled, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.

Tincture 25% Take 20-40 drops 3 times a day.

A decoction of the plant at the rate of 30-40 g of herb per 1 liter of boiling water. For liver diseases, take 1 glass 3 times a day. Can also be used for washing wounds and for compresses.

CUKUSHKIN COLOR

For a folk word
He is cuckoo color;
At least akin to the cuckoo
There's nothing in it.

Low grass,
Pale and curly
It grows with sedge
Between the marsh grasses.

Looks weak, frail,
Low variety -
He's still very cute
Northern flower.

(N. A. Kholodkovsky)

“Northern flower,” the poet wrote, and he was absolutely right, because the botanist echoes him: “a rare and unique species for the floristic complex of the Volgograd region, but an ordinary meadow plant in all regions of Central Russia.” It grows in damp meadows, and our part of this region cannot boast of a large number of them. That is why this plant is included in the Red Book of the Volgograd Region. Still, you can find him along Khopr and Don. But as for the height, I don’t know what the respected poet compared it to, maybe with a ship’s pine, because 30-90 cm is not bad at all for grass.
Its stem is furrowed, straight and branches at the top, and all this, including the pedicels, is covered with short, downward, appressed hairs. Isn't it funny? Leaves are opposite; sharp, the lower ones are oblong, spatulate (I was tormented while writing this!), narrowed into a petiole, the upper ones are sessile, narrowly lanceolate (also a good word!). As for the flowers, they are pink, collected in a sparse pyramidal-corymbose panicle. Their petals are quite large, but extremely thin, I would say graceful. This is due to the fact that the petals are cut into 4 lobes, which hang from their own gravity and curl. Sometimes you can find this plant with white flowers. The fruit is a single-locular capsule. The seeds from which it reproduces. Blooms from May to August. If desired, you can cultivate it, but you need to take into account that this plant is completely non-competitive, and therefore you will have to make sure that others do not kill it. The advantages of breeding include unpretentiousness in the composition of the soil (as long as it is moist!), lighting, and most importantly - winter hardiness. So think about it if you need to decorate the banks of your ponds with something (since anyone has them).

Finally, I would like to give a few quotes from a very poetic story about this plant, created by Yuri Burgilov:

“Probably these flowers have the most fragile, subtlest structure: they are like a combination of rays, which - suddenly it seems! - is about to disintegrate, it is so unsteady, openwork.

The adonis rise high above the meadow sedge, flashing like pink stars - the petals seem to float in the lilac twilight, floating freely among them. Take the constellation of adonis out of the white nights - and something in the world will go out. It’s not for nothing that this flower is also called “slumber”: it knows how to hold the world on that edge of sleep and reality, where fairy tales are born. Another nickname for it is “cuckoo flower”: the poetic consciousness of the people caught here the connection between the call of the cuckoo and the pink flower. Probably, this connection must be felt with the heart, because it is inexpressible in words...

Come closer to the flower, bend over it. It will respond to your breath by ruffling its petals. Let attention and surprise be the lens - then the structure of the flower will become clear. What seemed from a distance to be delicately whimsical, it now amazes with its simplicity: here are five petals, each of which is cut into four narrow slices. If you increase the magnification, the individual petal will look like a four-fingered bird's foot. Why does the flower need such cuts? He probably wants to increase his visibility by swaying in the wind. You can’t help but think that adonis imitates the flame of a small fire. Unfortunately, it does not burn for long: after a storm of rain, not a single adonis can be found in the meadows. They burned out, they burned off!”
It’s only a pity that on the website where I got this story from, it was posted accompanied by a photograph of a completely different adonis - Adonis vernalis. The classic remains right - “we are lazy and incurious,” despite any modern capabilities of Internet search engines.
Admiring and studying cuckoo flowers, as the writer advises, is pleasant and useful, but collecting them in bouquets is strongly not recommended, because, like all plants in damp places, they quickly wither, even when placed in water.

And just as a postscript, I’ll give some synonyms.
Russian scientific: common cuckoo flower, scarlet cuckoo flower, adonis cuckoo flower, adonis cuckoo flower, coronary cuckoo flower, common cuckoo flower, Lychnis cuckoo flower.
Latin scientific: Coronaria flos-cuculi (L.) A. Braun, Lychnis flos-cuculi L., Silene flos-cuculi (L.) Greuter & Burdet.
Russian folk: cuckoo color, dawn, cuckoo, drowsiness.

Latin name: Coronaria flos cuculi (L.) A. Braun. or Lychnis flos cuculi L.

Russian name:

Ukrainian name: coronary zozulyach, zozulin color, buzzy vogon, smilka.

Common names: cuckoo color, cuckoo bird, dawn, doze.

Family: Cloves.

Pharmacy name:

Medicinal parts of the plant: stems, leaves, flowers.

Appearance: A perennial herb with a straight, branched stem at the top, height 30-90 cm, with sessile narrow-lanceolate leaves, and the lower ones are oblong spatulate. Inflorescences- rare pyramidal or corymbose panicles with opposite branches. Flowers small, less than 1 cm long, bell-shaped calyx, covered with reddish-brownish veins. Petals pinkish-red in color, the lower ones are deeply divided into 4 narrow lobes.

Where it grows: in flooded and dry meadows, on the outskirts of swamps, in bushes.

When it grows: The cuckoo adonis blooms in June-July.

Chemical composition: Saponins and alkaloids were found in the adonis herb.

Medicinal (pharmacological) properties: the herb has diaphoretic and antirheumatic properties.

What treats: used to treat jaundice, chronic bronchitis, uterine and other bleeding. Adonis, brewed as tea and drunk for infertility, used externally in the treatment of scabies, for washing wounds, for a compress for.

Contraindications: No.

Collection time: summer.

Traditional treatment recipes.

Recipe: 1 tbsp. l. adonis herbs pour 250 ml of water and boil for 5 minutes. Infuse in a closed container, cool and filter. Take 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day.

Recipe: Tincture 25% Take 30 drops 3 times a day.

Recipe: Decoction: 40 g of herb per 1 liter of boiling water. Take 240 ml 3 times a day for liver diseases. Also used to treat wounds and for compresses.

Walking in the forest, you can notice a lot of flowers, which are its stunning decoration, peeking out from the density of grasses in the forest clearings. In addition, quite a few plants are medicinal. These include , otherwise called cuckoo color(Coronaria flos-cuculi).

Habitat

The cuckoo adonis is widespread in the Caucasus, Ukraine (with the exception of Crimea), in the European part of Russia, in Western Siberia, but it prefers dry and flooded meadows, shrubs and the outskirts of swamps, often forming thickets.

Description

Belongs to the Carnation family. Otherwise, this plant is called cuckoo's tears, marsh tar, magpie soap, sleep-grass, chistushki, hay carnation, white moth, rattlesnake, sorcerer, etc.

This is a perennial herbaceous plant that has short, appressed pubescence and reaches a height of 30-60 cm (sometimes the height reaches a meter). Its stem is swollen, erect, furrowed, branching upward. Quite often, a pennicia larva lives on the stem, secreting foam. On the stem there are sessile opposite and entire leaves, rough to the touch. Those at the top have a linear-lanceolate shape. Those located below have a clawed appearance.

The plant produces five-petaled flowers, collected in a sparse panicle. The petals are pink, divided into 4 parts and have narrow lobes diverging in a fingerlike manner. Sometimes there is a plant with a white color. The flower has 10 stamens and 5 styles. Cuckoo adonis blooming begins in May, continues until July and ends with the formation of a single-locular capsule. The plant is a honey plant.

Care

If you decide to get cuckoo's tears, then plant the plant on the sunny or, in extreme cases, shaded side in a marshy or damp area. In this case, the composition of the soil is completely ignored. The plant requires virtually no maintenance; it is frost-resistant, but due to its non-competitive nature, it is imperative to ensure that it is not “clogged” by neighboring plants. Propagated by seeds or by dividing the bush.

Chemical composition

During the study, scientists found that the leaves of the cuckoo adonis contain ascorbic acid, the roots contain sucrose galactosides, and the flowers contain phenolcarboxylic acids and their derivatives, such as vanillic, n-hydroxybenzoic, trans- and cisferulic, protocatechuic, trans, n- and ciscumaric acid. The plant also contains flavonoids such as isosaponarin, vitexin, saponarein, etc., alkaloids, triterpene saponins, coumarins. In addition, the plant contains vanadium, saponin-like lichnidin and iron.

How to prepare

To harvest, the plant must be collected during its flowering, i.e. in June-July. To do this, use a sickle to cut off the above-ground part and send it to dry in the attic or under a canopy, after first spreading it out on fabric or paper in a thin layer. The thoroughly dried plant is stored in a well-ventilated area indefinitely.

Medicinal properties of cuckoo adonis

This is a medicinal plant and its above-ground part is used in treatment. Cuckoo adonis has antiseptic and hemostatic properties. It is part of Floculene, a drug used to stop postpartum hemorrhage. The plant extract is used for the same purpose. Freshly squeezed adonis juice works well against staphylococcus, Bacillus subtilis and Proteus vulgaris. Infusions are prepared from the herb, which are then used as compresses for ulcers, boils, abscesses, and scabies. They also wash wounds and discolor pigment spots.

Traditional medicine also favors cuckoo adonis and uses it for uterine bleeding, jaundice, bronchitis, as an antirheumatic and diaphoretic, and for kidney pain. People believe that the plant helps with infertility, so it is brewed as tea and drunk.

But the British use cuckoo tears as a remedy for thyroid tumors.

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