legend says that the Tartar warriors in all swamps, rivers and reservoirs, found their way in the twelfth century, planted calamus swamp as a strategic raw material.Rhizome each soldier carried with him as an amulet and as a cure for all diseases, including disinfecting the water needed for drinking.So they were interested in the spread of this wonderful plant.
Soldiers of the Russian tsarist army also treated airom.They team commanders harvested root in the swamps.He insisted on vodka.After the meal, the soldiers were given a dose of vodka for rinsing the mouth of the bitter and stinging infusion and oral administration.Thus, it was treated not only periodontal disease and delayed tooth cracks and hollows, but also to maintain healthy the entire gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system, respiratory system.
Air marsh in each locality has its own name.In some places it is called Acorus Calamus, Potentilla Tatar, thistle or Tatar potion, and even angelic, heavenly, water grass, king-potion, and a dozen more names.But they all belong to the Water perennial reaches a height of up to six meters.It has creeping, growing horizontal root, which has several paranasal roots.How does Air marsh?Photo shows very well his thick root and gathered in bunches narrow linear leaves.Calamus inflorescences appear in mid-summer.They are like the ears from which fruits ripen oblong red.
smell of roots and all other parts of the plant sharp and it tastes very bitter and even burning plant, roots and leaves of which contain very valuable biochemical compounds or a real natural pharmacy.Roots either harvested in the spring or in the middle of fall.They were taken out of the water with the forks, mud layer washed with cold water, and then cut the side stems and roots and leaves, without disturbing the upper layer of the main root.Purified root left in the open air for several days.Provyalennye roots are cut along the large chunks the size of fifteen to twenty centimeters in autumn and dried in an oven at a temperature not exceeding thirty-five degrees, and in the spring in the attics.Air marsh is inadmissible dry in ovens.All essential substances and important biochemical elements at high temperature will be lost or destroyed.
medicinal raw materials is considered ready when pieces of dried root become brittle.It can be stored for three years in a cool and ventilated conditions in sealed paper bags or jars.
India still Air marsh is an indispensable remedy.It is used for rheumatic pain, oppression of the nervous system, for functional recovery of hearing and vision.This is an excellent bactericidal saving medicines from any epidemics, including cholera and typhoid.Using extracts of this plant can not be afraid of flu during an epidemic, to treat kidney stone disease and diseases of the biliary tract.
