Wild yam Caucasian - a herbaceous perennial vine.It has a growing horizontally and slightly branched rhizomes.On the main escape, forming the main axis, picking up the rest of the shoots (in nature only 1-2 for the full year).Dormant buds and the base of the stems at the top of the rhizome.The number of groups to determine the age of Dioscorea.Location stemmed leaves egg shape varies: at the bottom - whorled, and at the top - the next.Flowers - both male and female - yellow-green in color, arranged in axillary spikes.The fruit looks like a bare box with three wings, and it matures in September.Blossoms from May to July.
Wild yam Caucasian: habitat
plant occupies a very small area.The area is bounded Dioscorea Western Transcaucasia: the pool Mzymta it stretches to the river Kodori in the southeast.In the north border of the area are on the spurs of the Caucasus Mountains.There Dioscorea found at a height of one and a half kilometers above sea level.Once the area of the plant extended to the Black Sea.But now there are known only to some of its location.Thus, the modern area of Dioscorea was very stretched.With a width of 20 km.its length is 200 km.
Wild yam Caucasian: ecology
highest point at which the plant was discovered - 1.6 km above sea level.For Dioscorea characterized by the association of the southern slopes.On the east and west sides, it grows only in well-lit areas.On the northern slope Dioscorea if found, we will never give fruit.Although slight shading plant tolerates normal, evergreen forests it is still not found.In vivo Dioscorea begins to throw out shoots in April, May or early June, already in bloom, and in September, gives the fruit.
Wild yam Caucasian: blank
Produced harvesting in the spring or autumn, when the fruits are ripe.We dug rhizomes of Dioscorea separate rotten parts and those that rose above the earth, the earth shake.They were then cut into small pieces and dried in attics.You can not dig up the rhizomes everything, as in the wild Wild yam is renewed very slowly.To its thickets fully recovered after harvesting takes 15 or even 20 years.
Root Dioscorea Caucasian: Use
In medical practice, a drug diosponin.It contains not less than 30% of saponins of Dioscorea caucasian, soluble in water.Admission diosponina helps reduce blood levels of cholesterol, lowers blood pressure.It is indicated for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis (especially if it is combined with hypertension), cardiosclerosis.If cholelithiasis, with recurrent jaundice appoint holelitin, which includes the infusion of fresh roots of plants.There is evidence that the treatment is also effective running gastritis Dioscorea Caucasian.Reviews of patients used in the treatment diosponin indicate its ability to quickly reduce the level of cholesterol, without creating side effects.It is considered important, and the absence of contraindications to the use of drugs based on Dioscorea.
