Name: Uterine horns
UTERINE CORKS —
Claviceps purpurea Tul.
Sporyn’ev family — Clavicipitaceae
How do they look? They are formed by a fungus that infects the ovary of various cereals, mainly rye, less often barley. Horns appear in the resting stage (the so-called eclerotium of the mushroom, which mimics a very complex cycle of development). For the most part, the horns are oblong, obtuse-faceted, narrowed to both ends, slightly curved, 1-3 cm long (rarely – up to 5 cm long) and up to 2-3 mm thick, on each side with a more or less spiky beech, matte on the outside, black-fislet, with a violet tint, usually white at the fracture. They are very poisonous, so it is dangerous to eat bread made from flour with an admixture of horns.
Where to look for them? Horns are most often found in forest and forest-steppe areas of Ukraine. They contain alkaloids (ergotamine and ergometrine), ergosterol, various amines, amino acids and other substances.
When is it prepared? Horns are harvested during the harvest.
When is it used? In the postpartum period, to accelerate the contraction of the uterus, with its atony and as a hemostatic agent for uterine, pulmonary, gastric and intestinal bleeding.
It is drunk in the form of an infusion (Inf. secalis cornuti.). 1 full teaspoon of cornflowers (6 g) is infused in 1 cup of boiling water and taken 1 tablespoon three times a day for uterine bleeding (postpartum atony of the uterus).
Hydrogenated carob alkaloids are used to treat hypertension, menopause, local spasms of blood vessels, including migraine and angina pectoris. Horn preparations are used only prepared in a pharmacy and as prescribed by a doctor.
As a hemostatic, analgesic, vasodilator and anti-inflammatory (reduces the permeability of the vascular walls and increases the tone of the uterine muscles), the agent is used for uterine, nasal, hemorrhoidal and other bleeding, hemorrhagic diatheses, as well as for bleeding tendency during surgical interventions, infusions or tincture of the leaves and flowers of the intoxicating harelip (Lagochilus inebrians Bunge), a prickly, drought-resistant semi-shrub, 20-60 cm tall, from the family of celery (Ariaeaceae) or labial flowers (Lamiaceae), which blooms from May to September. It grows in the Pamiro-Altai (southern Uzbekistan and northern Tajikistan) on the foothill plains and scaly slopes together with sagebrush. Rabbit’s lip preparations have an anti-shock and desensitizing effect (for eczema), are effective for hypertensive disease of the I-II stages, for irritability, insomnia, headaches, if there is no tendency to thrombosis, myocardial infarction, thrombophlebitis); with Meniere’s disease, epilepsy; glaucoma (due to the content of tetraatomic alcohol lagochilin, volatile oil, tannins, iron, carotene and ascorbic acid). The plant is non-poisonous. From a tablespoon of the grass of the hare’s mouth, steam it for 4-6 hours in 1 glass of boiling water. The infusion is taken 1-2 tablespoons 3-6 times a day (if diarrhea, increased pulse, palpitations appear, the dose is reduced). Apply a 10% tincture of the grass of the hare’s lip in 65° alcohol – take 1 teaspoon for a quarter of a glass of water, drink 3-5 times a day. The plant is non-poisonous. From a tablespoon of the grass of the hare’s mouth, steam it for 4-6 hours in 1 glass of boiling water. The infusion is taken 1-2 tablespoons 3-6 times a day (if diarrhea, increased pulse, palpitations appear, the dose is reduced). Apply a 10% tincture of the grass of the hare’s lip in 65° alcohol – take 1 teaspoon for a quarter of a glass of water, drink 3-5 times a day. The plant is non-poisonous. From a tablespoon of the grass of the hare’s mouth, steam it for 4-6 hours in 1 glass of boiling water. The infusion is taken 1-2 tablespoons 3-6 times a day (if diarrhea, increased pulse, palpitations appear, the dose is reduced). Apply a 10% tincture of the grass of the hare’s lip in 65° alcohol – take 1 teaspoon for a quarter of a glass of water, drink 3-5 times a day.