Synonyms: warthog, warthog, cow grass, bloodthirsty, gusset, gusset, yellow spurge (Ukrainian gladushnik, gusset zilla, yellow chistik).
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Description . Perennial herbaceous plant from the poppy family (Papaveraceae), 40100 cm high. All parts of the plant contain yellow or orange milky juice. The root is branched, taproot, with a short multi-headed rhizome and branched stems. Leaves basal and lower stem petiolate, upper sessile. The leaf blades are deeply divided. The flowers are golden yellow, collected in umbellate inflorescences. The fruit is a pod; seeds shiny, black, ovoid. The weight of 100 seeds is within 0.60.8 g. The plant is poisonous.
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Medicinal raw material: herb.
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Habitat . It grows near living quarters, in gardens, kitchen gardens, along ravines, on fallow lands and fields.
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Spreading. It grows throughout the USSR, with the exception of the Far North and the desert places of Central Asia. Less common in Siberia and the Far East.
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Composition of active substances. There are a number of alkaloids in the herb and roots of celandine: chelidonin, homochelidonin, chelerethrin, etc. In addition, the herb contains essential oil, vitamins A and C, organic acids (chilodonic, citric, malic), and resinous substances in the milky juice, in the composition which is within 40% fatty oil. Even more fatty oil in the seeds of celandine 4068%.
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Application. Herb infusion and fresh juice are widely used to cauterize warts. In folk medicine, celandine has been very popular since ancient times. Roots, grass and especially milky juice were used to treat a wide variety of diseases. Celandine was especially often used in the treatment of skin diseases. Celandine treated jaundice, gout, skin tuberculosis.
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Currently, celandine is used in different states in the treatment of the gallbladder, liver, as an analgesic for peptic ulcers. Essences from the fresh roots of the plant are used in homeopathic practice in the treatment of the liver, kidneys and lungs.
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In Belarusian folk medicine, celandine is used in the treatment of cancer, as well as pain in the heart, pulmonary tuberculosis, and venereal diseases (Gammerman, Yurkevich 1968).
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Celandine is also used as an effective insecticide. So, with its infusion, pests of vegetable gardens and orchards (cabbages, whites, caterpillars, aphids) are destroyed. In gardens, fumigation with celandine is successfully used (Matyushenko, 1970).
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Collection. Grass is harvested throughout the flowering period (from May to August). All leafy parts of plants are cut with sickles, knives, scissors. The collected raw materials are carefully sorted out, browned plants, bare stems and impurities are removed.
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Drying. Drying is carried out in the open air, in the shade or in well-ventilated areas.
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Pack. Raw materials are packed in bales of 2025 kg.
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Storage. Stored in a dry, well-ventilated place, packed, with care as a poisonous plant.
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quality requirements. According to the State Pharmacopoeia IX, the following is allowed in raw materials: moisture 14%; total ash 15; ash, insoluble in 10% hydrochloric acid, 2; brown and dark grass 3; impurities organic 1 mineral 0.5%.