Perennial herbaceous plant up to 15 cm high. Leaves ovate-oblong, heart-shaped at the base, with ovate-lanceolate stipules. Flowers blue-violet, fragrant. Blooms in April-May. The fruit is a round tricolor fluffy box.
Distributed in the forest and forest-steppe zones of Western and Central Siberia. It grows in sparse birch forests, pine forests, on dry forest edges, in shrubs.
Medicinal raw material is a herb in the flowering phase.
In folk medicine, anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant, emollient and analgesic effects of water infusions of the aerial part of the violet are used. Violet is recommended for colds, coughs, runny nose, flu, convulsions, spasmophilia in babies.
Application
Infusion: 1 teaspoon of herb per 1 cup of boiling water, insist 2 hours, filter and drink 2 tbsp. spoons of cold infusion 3 times every day.