Badan - medicinal properties of the Altai plant

In the subalpine and forest belt of Altai, in the Western Sayan Mountains and in the mountains of the Transbaikalia, a plant of bananas is widespread. This is a perennial grass with a low( up to 50 centimeters) ground surface. A root system of badana is represented by a horizontal, relatively powerful rhizome( up to 3.5 centimeters in thickness and up to 1 meter in length), which passes into the vertical root. Leaves of this plant are radical, leathery, large, broadly oval, dark green in color, on broad and long petioles. The flowers of the hood are lilac-pinkish, bell-shaped. And they are collected in spreading, large, paniculate inflorescences. Another badan, the photo of which is located below, fructifies. Its fruits are leaflets of greenish or reddish color, reaching 6-8 millimeters in length. Budan blooms in May-June, and in August its fruits ripen.

And already in ancient times people noticed the plant of badan, the medicinal properties of which are still used by Altai medicine. With its help, many diseases are treated - beginning with a disorder of the stomach and a common cold and ending with severe forms of female diseases. Badan is also useful to people who suffer from cardiovascular diseases, since it has a favorable effect on arterial pressure and the rhythm of heartbeats. And Tibetan medicine uses it as an effective remedy for pneumonia, fever, rheumatism, tuberculosis, kidney and gastrointestinal diseases. In addition, Badan helps healing various ulcers and wounds.

Mongolian tea, saxifraga thick-leaved, banana thick-leafed - such names still have a banana. The healing properties of this plant are provided by the content of sugar, tannins, glycosides, phytoncides, copper, iron, manganese and vitamin C. These substances provide a disinfectant, anti-inflammatory, healing and diuretic action of the balan. Medicine uses the leaves and root of this plant for its own purposes. Harvesting of roots occurs in early summer. To do this, they dig it out, wash it with cold water, then dry it, laying it out on paper or cloth. If the root is large, it is cut into parts. A gram of 250 grams of medicinal raw material comes from a kilogram of fresh roots. At the same time, the dried root does not bend well and breaks well, and at the point of fracture it must have a pink or light yellow color. And to store such medicinal raw materials it is desirable not more than 4 years.

Less commonly used are the leaves of the plant. Their healing properties are manifested in the hemostatic, astringent and antimicrobial action. And for these purposes, only old, overwintering leaves under snow are suitable. And they are collected in autumn or spring, washed and dried at a temperature of 60 degrees, stored in a paper bag or box. They are stored up to 4 years. From these leaves are brewed tea, which lowers the pressure, tones, helps with kidney pathologies, pulmonary tuberculosis, rheumatism, gastrointestinal diseases, increases the rhythm of contractions of the heart, relieves stress.

The root of the plant is used more often, the medicinal properties of which are preserved in broths, for example, in this: a tablespoon of dry root is taken and filled with 200 milliliters of hot water. Then this mixture is covered and heated for half an hour on a small fire. Then filter, and squeeze the roots. Then the resulting broth is diluted with boiled water, bringing its volume to 200 milliliters. And take it in doses - a tablespoon three times a day. This broth works well for dysentery, but in combination with sulfonamides and antibiotics. And if you need to prepare a decoction for the treatment of chronic inflammation, then take a double dose of dried roots of the badan. Then the broth is more saturated. External application of such decoction accelerates the healing of ulcers, bruises, wounds, bruising.