Dream grass is an extraordinary, charming plant that has been valued by people since ancient times not only for its visual attractiveness. The plant can charm with its amazing simplicity and beauty even in the photo, but sleep-grass has a number of useful and medicinal properties. It was believed that sleeping among the lumbago bells helps predict the future, and dried petals of the plant in everyday clothes can attract good luck and happy events in life. This article contains a description of the lumbago and the areas where sleep grass grows. Healing properties and contraindications when using lumbago to treat diseases.
Anemone open: botanical information
These amazing lilac-blue bells with pubescent stems are called sleep-grass or open lumbago. The plant belongs to the Ranunculaceae family, lumbago is listed in the Red Book in the territories of Russia and neighboring countries.
In nature, the growing area of lumbago is quite wide - graceful bells are found not only on our continent; sleep grass can often be found in North America, Central and South Asia. The plant inhabits wastelands, the edges of deciduous forests, prefers sod-podzolic soils, moss, and shrub thickets.
Sleep grass can be found all over the world
Lumbago is a low plant, the maximum height of the stem reaches 15 cm. Very often, decorative bells are used to decorate landscape compositions on alpine hills and rockeries. The plant is a perennial and dies off in the winter.
There are varieties with lilac, blue, purple, white and red flowers. The charming plant blooms for only a short time - amazing bells open their clear eyes in mid-spring (April-May).
The healing power of an open lumbago
Not all types of sleep grass have healing properties. Usually, for the treatment of diseases, raw materials of meadow and open lumbago are used, which equally contain saponins, tannins, camphor compounds, resins, and vitamin C.
Lumbago is used to treat the urinary and respiratory systems; lumbago drugs help suppress pain in the heart, normalize liver function, have a pronounced bactericidal effect, and are used to treat fungal skin diseases. Sleep herbs are used to treat mental disorders and nervous diseases; glaucoma; migraine and a number of other diseases.
The plant is collected only during the flowering period
How to collect lumbago grass correctly
To prepare medicines using herbal raw materials, it is worth using herbs that have been prepared in compliance with the rules for collecting medicinal plants. Harvesting lumbago grass should be started only during the period when the plant is in the flowering period.
Attention! Fresh lumbago juice causes severe burns, so when preparing raw materials it is worth protecting the skin of your hands, for which you need to stock up on durable gloves.
The grass is picked carefully, trying not to damage the perennial rhizome. The leaves and stems of the lumbago are laid out in a thin layer on a clean cotton cloth. The prepared raw materials are dried in the shade, constantly stirring the grass.
Attention! It is not allowed to use freshly harvested dry grass earlier than 3 months after drying.
Dry lumbago herb is stored in canvas or paper bags for no longer than 3 years.
How to properly prepare dosage forms from lumbago
Infusion: take 40 g of dry sleep-herb raw material per glass of boiling water, leave the composition for 40 minutes, then strain the infusion. Used for the treatment of nervous diseases, glaucoma (treatment lasts 2-3 months), hypertension (taking medications for no longer than 2 weeks). The use of the infusion should be distributed between meals 3 to 5 times a day, 1-3 tbsp. spoons at a time.
You can prepare the infusion of lumbago in another way: for 2 tsp. dry herbs, take 1 glass of chilled, pre-boiled water, leave for 12 hours. After filtering, the composition can be taken 50 ml up to 4 times a day.
Collection of dream grass
For external use, prepare a special composition, which is used for lotions: for 1 tbsp. a spoonful of dry lumbago grass, you need to take a glass of boiled water at room temperature. Infuse the composition for about 12 hours, after which the infusion should be strained. Use for external use.
To treat joint pain, prepare an infusion of lumbago with vodka: 10 g of lumbago raw material is poured into 150 g of good vodka. The composition is infused for 5 days in a dark place, then it is filtered. You can rub the sore spots several times a day. Use for external use only.
Therapeutic baths with lumbago: boil 4 tbsp. spoons of dried herb in one liter of water, boil for 3 minutes. Allow to brew, after which the composition is filtered and poured into a bath, which is taken for a maximum of 20 minutes, no more than three times every 7 days. Treatment procedures are carried out up to 14 times in a row, after which it is necessary to take a break.
Dream grass in the garden: video
Sleep-grass: photo
Description: The genus includes about 40 species, distributed in temperate, partly subtropical and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Pulsatilla vulgaris "Rode Klokke"
Photo by Mikhail Polotnov
In the former USSR there are 26 species of the genus Postrel, of which lumbago can be found in light, mostly pine forests and along their edges: spring(P. vernalis (L.) Mill.), meadow(P. pratensis (L.) Mill.) - in the European part of Russia; lumbago Turchaninova(P. turczaninovii Kryl. et Serg.) - in Siberia and the Far East. The first two species are included in the Red Book of the USSR.
Perennial plants with a long vertical or oblique rhizome, erect, hairy stems from 5 to 40 cm in height; when fruiting, they elongate and bear a blanket of three leaves, fused at the bases and dissected into narrow lobes, similar to reduced basal ones. The basal leaves are petiolate, palmately or pinnately dissected, hairy, collected in a rosette. The flowers are always solitary, large, and bloom before the leaves appear or simultaneously with them. The outside of the petals is densely covered with hairs, there are many stamens and pistils. The fruit is a multi-nut with long hairy columns, which gives the plant a special decorative appearance at the time of fruiting.
 Alpine lumbago- Pulsatilla alpina (L.) Delarb.
Homeland - highlands of Central and Southern Europe. Plant up to 20 cm tall. The flowers are white or yellow. Blooms from May to August. Pulsatilla alpina variety (L.)Delarbre subsp. alpicola H. Neumayer= Pulsatilla alpina (L.)Delarbre subsp. austriaca Schwegler= Pulsatilla alba Rchb. It is found in the alpine belt of the mountains of Central and Eastern Europe. The flower is white with a bluish highlight on the outer side of the petals. The diameter of the flower is 3-3.5 cm. The height of the basal rosette of leaves is up to 10 cm, the peduncle is up to 20-25 cm. The plants bloom in thawed areas in the vicinity of myrtle-leaved rhododendron. Photo by Yuri Markovsky |
| Ayansky lumbago - Pulsatilla ajanensis Regel et Tiling
Siberia, Far East. On rocky, turfy slopes, in thickets of bushes, in mountain meadows, along river valleys, in larch and pine forests.
Perennial plants with vertical rhizomes. Stems are 5-12 cm high, lengthening to 20 cm when fruiting. Basal leaves on thin, almost bare petioles, develop during flowering; their plates are pinnate or almost trifoliate, with 1-3 pairs of lateral lobes, broadly ovate-rhombic or almost round in outline; the lobes are ovate-rhombic, not cut to the base into 3-4 sharp-toothed segments. The leaves have spathes with 2-3 divided lobes into narrow linear-lanceolate lobes. Peduncles are very short, densely hairy, and elongate with fruit. The flowers are erect or deflected, half-open, bell-shaped. Tepals are 2-3 cm long, purple, ovate, obtuse, reddish-haired on the outside. Fruit awns approx. 3 cm long, pinnately hairy, almost glabrous at the apex. |
Pulsatilla ajanensis
  Spring lumbago- Pulsatilla vernalis (L.) Mill.
In Russia, it is found only on the Karelian Isthmus (Priozersky and Vyborg districts of the Leningrad region) and in the extreme southwest of Karelia along the northwestern coast of Lake Ladoga. On the Karelian Isthmus, it is distributed mainly north of the line Primorsk - Michurinskoye - Otradnoye; to the south, only isolated isolated locations are known - Orekhovo, Lembolovo, Kanneljärvi. Outside Russia, the range consists of several isolated parts, covering the mountains of Central Europe (mainly the Alps and Pyrenees), the east of the Central European Plain, the north of the Jutland Peninsula, the southern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, southwest Finland Plant up to 30 cm tall, with straight or slightly curved stems. The basal leaves are trifoliate, leathery, and appear after flowering. The flowers are solitary, bell-shaped, up to 4 cm in diameter, white inside, light purple outside, bloom in the second half of May and bloom for 20-25 days. In nature it grows on grassy sunny hills, as well as in rare pine forests. It's difficult to separate her. Requires acidic soil with sand and pine litter. It should be planted under sparse pine trees. Easily propagated by seeds. When grown from seeds, spring lumbago blooms at 5-8 years of age. Winter-hardy down to -32 degrees. Photos by Yuri Markovsky |
 The lumbago is yellowing -
Pulsatilla flavescens (Zuccar.) Juz.
It is found in the Asian part of Russia, in Mongolia. It grows along the edges of larch forests, extends under the forest canopy, and is common on gentle mountain slopes. It is a herbaceous perennial with palmately dissected leaves forming a large rosette. The height of the basal rosette of leaves is 25-30 cm, the peduncle is up to 45-50 cm. The first to appear are yellow erect flowers up to 6 cm in diameter. The whole plant in spring is shaggy-silky with dense silver-gray hairs. In terms of the nature of the pubescence, the Yakut lumbago stands apart - their hairs are brownish-yellow. The densely pubescent buds are especially impressive. In Yakutia, the local population uses yellowing lumbago for medicinal purposes: for joint diseases, tinctures are prepared from unopened flowers. Under natural conditions, there are hybrids of open and yellowing lumbago. |
  Crimean lumbago, or Haller -
Pulsatilla halleri (All.) Wllld.= (R. taurica Juz.).
It lives in Crimea on the plateau-like treeless peaks of the Crimean Mountains, in meadows, in rock cracks and in the mountainous regions of Central Europe. Basal leaves up to 10-15 cm high appear after flowering. The stem is erect, up to 30 cm (after flowering), densely pubescent with horizontally protruding hairs. The flowers are large, erect, on the outside, like the peduncles, densely shaggy, 5-6 cm tall, of varying intensity of purple color, lighter when flowering. It blooms in late April-May for 25-30 days, sometimes some plants bloom in the fall. The fruits ripen in June-July. Photos by Zakutnaya Natalia |
  Meadow lumbago - Pulsatilla pratensis (L.) Mill.
Plant of pine forests and dry sunny slopes of the western part of the forest zone of Russia, including the Leningrad region, the Urals, Western Siberia. Outside Russia, the plant is found in the Baltic states, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, southern Scandinavia, and central Europe. Plant up to 30 cm tall. The basal leaves are pinnately dissected with twice pinnately divided segments, appearing during or after flowering. The flowers are bell-shaped, drooping, up to 5 cm in diameter, pale lilac, less often reddish or greenish-yellow. Blooms from the end of April for 25-30 days. Bears fruit. In the photo on the left Pulsatilla pratensis ssp.nigricans. Photo on the left of Yuri Markovsky
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| Common lumbago- Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill.
Grows wildly in Western Europe, except in the south. Stems are 15-20 cm tall. The flowers are bell-shaped, blue, and bloom before the leaves appear. Blooms in April. Winter-hardy down to -23 degrees. In culture since 1530. It has numerous forms and varieties, for example: lovely(var. amoena hort.) - with large red-violet, bell-shaped flowers, very early blooming; dark red(var. atrosanguinea hort.)- leaves are finely dissected, flowers are dark red, drooping; big(var. grandis Gurke - the flowers are especially large; " Mrs van der Elst" - the flowers are pale pink.
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 Magadan lumbago- Pulsatilla magadanensis It is close in structure and ecology to the Tarao lumbago. Described by A.P. Khokhryakov. The plant is a perennial taproot plant. The bases of the shoots are covered with black fibrous remains of the petioles of dead leaves. Leaves develop simultaneously with flowers. The leaf blades are double-pinnate. The height of the basal rosette of leaves is 3-5 cm. Ten-centimeter peduncles and flowers are densely pubescent with yellowish hairs. The flowers are broadly or narrowly bell-shaped. The plant differs from the Torao lumbago in its thick leaves and blue and white tepals. Plants are found on the gravelly ridges of flat mountains in the vicinity of Magadan. |
 Prostel multi-incision- Pulsatilla multifida (G. Pritzel) Juz.
In a number of characteristics it is similar to the yellowing one and differs in blue-violet flowers and a wider range. Ecologically, it occupies the same position as the yellow lumbago, but more often climbs steep gravelly slopes, is found in mountain steppes, and is rarely part of high mountain steppes.
Photo on the left EDSR
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Perennial plants with vertical multi-headed rhizomes, shaggy-hairy when young. Stems 10-30 cm high. Basal leaves developing at the end of flowering or after flowering, on long petioles covered with soft, erect hairs. The leaf blades are rounded-reniform, hairy on the underside, consisting of three lobes, the middle one on a short (approx. 5 mm) petiole, the lateral ones sessile; each lobe is dissected into 2 or 3 lobes of the second order, which, in turn, are incised into numerous (30-80 in number), lanceolate, sharp lobes and teeth. The leaflets are densely hairy, dissected into narrow lanceolate, sometimes linear lobes. The flowers are blue-violet, broadly bell-shaped, later wide open. The tepals are oblong-ovate, shortly pointed or obtuse, hairy on the outside. The stamens are numerous, many times shorter than the tepals. Fruitlets are hairy with feathery awns, 2.5-3.5 cm long.| Opened lumbago- Pulsatilla patens (L.) Mill.
It grows in the European part of Russia, in the south of Western Siberia, in Central and Western Europe. It has a fairly wide ecological range. It can grow in both moderately humid and fairly dry conditions, and tolerates moderately variable moisture. They are found in both poor and rich soils. Sensitive to light, especially in spring, during flowering. A plant with hairy stems from 7-15 cm to 40-50 cm in height with whorls of palmately dissected leaves that appear after flowering; young leaves are very hairy, rounded-heart-shaped in outline. The flowers are up to 8 cm in diameter, blue-violet, initially broadly bell-shaped, later star-shaped, erect, very decorative. On well-developed bushes, up to 40-50 flowers bloom simultaneously. Blooms in April - May for 20-25 days. The open lumbago reproduces mainly by seeds, but cases of vegetative propagation have been noted. Ripe fruits are buried in the soil with the help of an awn, which is hygroscopic and, under the influence of changes in air humidity, begins to twist and “screw” the fruit into the ground. They can germinate immediately after ripening. High germination rate is maintained for two years. Germination is above ground. The cotyledons are dark green, elongated, on small petioles that grow together into a short sheath. Soon the first three-lobed leaf with pronounced palmate venation appears, covered with sparse long hairs on top. The leaf blades that appear later, forming a small rosette, are densely pubescent with long silky hairs. Cotyledons persist until late autumn. Plants overwinter with green leaves. Further development occurs slowly. |
 The shot is questionable- Pulsatilla ambiqua (Turcz. ex G. Pritzel) Juz.
Distributed in the forest-steppe zone of Siberia and Mongolia. Flowers range from blue-violet to blue. This coloration is found only in representatives of this species. The flowers are splayed-bell-shaped, 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm in diameter, slightly pubescent on the outside, drooping at first, then almost erect. Tepals with curved edges. The plant prefers substrates containing lime. In the forest belt it blooms from late April to late May, in the highlands - from the second half of May to mid-June. The basal, complex pinnately dissected leaves appear simultaneously with the flowers. The height of the basal rosette of leaves is 25-30 cm, the maximum length of the peduncle is 40-45 cm. Mongolian cattle breeders value this plant as an early spring fattening feed, which quickly restores the strength of animals weakened during the winter. Photo by Mikhail Polotnov |
| Tatewaki cross- Pulsatilla tatewakii Kudo
A low alpine plant with large lilac pubescent drooping flowers and trifoliate leaves.
Perennial plant 10-20 cm in height (after flowering the peduncle lengthens), leaves are basal. The plant has from 2 to 13 (23) flowers. The color of the “petals” on the inside is darker, burgundy. In the center of the flower, bright yellow stamens and lilac stigmas of pistils stand out beautifully. The diameter of the flower is about 3 cm. The flowers and involucres are covered with thick reddish pubescence. It blooms in April - early May, until the leaves are fully expanded; the seeds ripen in June.
An interesting early spring plant for planting in open, well-drained areas in parks and rocky gardens. Noted by Japanese botanists is P. sugawarai Miyabe et Tatew. very close and has no clear differences. Photo on the left of Tatyana Rozantseva
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Endemic to Sakhalin, grows on rocky alpine lawns and in sparse dry larch forests. Mesopsychrophyte.
In SakhKNII since 1965, planted in an open place on the ridges of the first section. It remains decorative for 5-6 years (Fig. 27, b), then the plants begin to gradually fall out. The height of the plants is slightly greater than in nature - 20-23 cm. After the end of flowering, the peduncles lengthen to 30 cm. The diameter of the flower is 3-3.5 cm, the length of the tepals is 2.1 - 2.3 cm. The number of flowers on the plant is 7 -18. It blooms in April-May, for three weeks. Flowering is often interrupted by falling snow. Propagated by seeds. It tolerates transplantation well. Tarao cross- Pulsatilla taraoi (Makino) Takeda ex Zarn. et Paegle
A mountain plant, rare, found only in the Kuril Islands. Employees of the botanical garden managed to examine the habitat of this rare species in the upper third of Mount Burevestnik on Iturup Island, one of the largest in the Kuril ridge. The plants were found on the southern slope of one of the large rocky screes next to the snowfield. The slope at an altitude of 1300 m above sea level consisted of turf areas and scree. Along the edges of the scree, the lumbago is abundant and larger in size compared to specimens growing in the turf. The lumbago also grows in the grass between low-growing alder, golden and Kamchatka rhododendrons. A perennial plant 15-23 cm in height, the diameter of the rosette of leaves is 15-23 cm, the leaves are dissected into small linear lobes up to 2 mm wide, the number of flowers on the plant is 1 - 6, in some specimens - up to 20. An adult plant in nature has 50-70 vegetative rosette shoots. It blooms in May, the seeds ripen at the end of June. In SakhKNII since 1963, growing in open areas on ridges. It forms a lush rosette of leaves, but the flowers are single (sessile). Seeds do not set. It should be tested in cultivation on more suitable light sandy and well-drained soils and with regular moisture. The experience of growing Tarao lumbago at the GSB RAS gave positive results. In April-May the plants bloomed annually. White, slightly bluish flowers with a diameter of 3-5 cm bloomed above the soil surface. Double-pinnate leaves began to grow after the plant had flowered. Photo by Kirill Kravchenko |
 Turchaninov's cross- Pulsatilla turczaninovii Krylov et Serg.
Grows in the Dauro-Mongolian steppes. Perennial plants with thick multi-headed vertical rhizomes. Stems 5-35 cm high. The basal leaves grow simultaneously with the appearance of flowers, their plates are three times pinnate, generally almost ovoid, the second-order lobes are dissected into long and narrow, linear and sharp segments. Petioles almost equal to the plate or slightly longer or shorter than it. The involucre is broadly campanulate, pinnately divided almost to the base into linear and entire-margined lobes or 2-3-toothed lobes at the apex. The number of lobes and teeth in the wrapper is from 20 to 40. The pedicels are initially short and do not come out of the wrapper; when fruiting, they become much longer. The flowers are almost erect, half-open, blue-violet. The tepals are elongated-elliptical or almost lanceolate, 2-3 times longer than the stamens. The fruits are spindle-shaped, fluffy, with long feathery columns, 4-5 cm long. It blooms in April-May, the flowers appear simultaneously with the leaves. Photo by EDSR. |
Location:
They achieve best development in lightly shaded areas, although they also grow well in open areas. Wet areas are not suitable for planting. Places with a slight slope to the south are preferred to allow excess water to drain.
The soil: should be well seasoned with organic and mineral fertilizers, processed to great depth. It is advisable to add lime, nitrogen in small doses, and phosphorus and potassium several times a season as fertilizing.
Reproduction:
exclusively by seeds. You can collect seeds 1-1.5 months after the end of flowering.
 Pulsatilla halleri subsp. halleri var. segusiana Photo of Stepanova Lyudmila |
 Pulsatilla x papageum Photo EDSR. |
 Dream grass in nature Photo Polina Chuck |
 Pulsatilla violacta Photo by Mikhail Polotnov |
 Pulsatilla grandis Photo by Olga Bondareva |
 Pulsatilla georgica Rupr. Photo of Elena Arkhipova |
Widely distributed species: open lumbago, meadow, yellowing - successfully reproduce by seeds. It is best to sow lumbago with freshly harvested seeds in June-July or in warm soil in the spring. The optimal germination temperature is 20-25° C.
Pulsatilla vulgaris ssp.gotlandica
Photo by Dubova Galina
Autumn sowings are less productive. If there are a lot of seeds, then they are sown immediately in the ground, in furrows (the distance between them is 20 cm). The seeding depth is 1-1.5 cm. They are sown densely, which promotes better germination. The soil should be light, well drained. It is possible to add a moderate amount of peat, sand, and mineral fertilizers. It is advisable to sow in an open place, but young plants should be shaded. Seedlings appear after 3-4 weeks and develop well in hot weather with watering, but excess moisture is harmful. It is necessary to constantly maintain moderate soil moisture; for this, the crops are covered with hay or straw, which, in addition. protects seedlings from cold and severe overheating of the soil. It is better to sow a large number of seeds in pots or picking boxes. You can do this in a greenhouse in March-April. This sowing period will speed up the development of the plant. “Summer” seedlings are planted in a permanent place in the spring of next year, and for early spring sowing - in August of the same year at a distance of 30-50 cm from each other. In the fall, crops, as well as seedlings grown on ridges, are covered with spruce branches or brushwood for the winter, this is especially necessary in a frosty, snowless winter.
Pulsatilla pseudoslavica
Photo by Mikhail Polotnov
Seed germination lasts 2-3 years. Often species such as open lumbago, meadow and yellowing, bloom by the end of the second year. It is better to transplant seedlings to a permanent place at the age of 1-2 years in early spring with a clod of earth. A decorative effect can be expected from the plant at 3-4 years of life.
Mature plants do not tolerate transplantation well, but with a large lump it can be done in spring or autumn. Prostelas grown in containers and sold with a closed root system can be replanted from spring to autumn. In dry and hot seasons, sleep grass needs to be watered, especially moisture is needed after planting. They can grow in one place for up to 10 years.
For the group of high-mountain lumbago, autumn sowing is desirable, since their seeds need stratification. Shoots appear in May. These shoots require fertile and moisture-absorbing soils. Seedlings of these species bloom in the 7th year. If several types of lumbago grow in your garden, their seeds can produce hybrids that vary in color, leaf shape, and habit.
 Armenian lumbago Photo by Kovina Alevtina |
 Pulsatilla nigricans Photo by Dmitry Zubov |
 Pulsatilla tenuifolia Photo by EDSR. |
 Pulsatilla rubra Photo by Mikhail Polotnov |
 Pulsatilla cernua Photo by Mikhail Polotnov |
 Pulsatilla turczaninovii v. montata Photo by Mikhail Polotnov |
Usage: Almost all shoots look organic in landscape gardens, in group plantings along the edges of pine and larch forests and forested areas, and on open lawns. It is promising to grow them on alpine hills and in rocky gardens. Adult lumbagos do not tolerate transplantation. Perhaps at least this consideration will keep you from wanting to dig up a wild specimen. Not to mention the fact that replanting lumbago from natural habitats is strictly prohibited.
Partners: elegant in plantings with crocuses, scylla, primroses near the paths.
I somehow started hiding behind this plant. Then one of the archangels, in order to deal with the evil spirits once and for all, threw a thunder arrow there and shot through the grass from top to bottom. Since then, the evil spirits have avoided the lumbago and do not come closer than 12 miles to it. On this occasion, it is written in an ancient herbal book that if you carry the herb with you, the devil will run away from that person.
Another name for the plant is sleep grass. We will present a brief description of it in this article. For different peoples, it is directly associated with sleep. Perhaps the appearance of the plant, fluffy to the touch, covered with densely soft hairs, spoke to people about rest, peace and soft slumber. The epic “Edda” says that after the dream-grass was under Brünnhilde’s head, she instantly fell asleep. At the same time, the Russian literary monument - the Kiev-Pechersk Patericon - tells how a demon wanders around the temple at night and throws this plant at the lazy monks. And everyone it hits immediately falls asleep.
The name of the sleep-grass plant, the description of which we give, in Latin sounds like Pulsatilla. Translated, this word means “push”: the lumbago sways in the wind, as if receiving pushes. Currently, botany identifies 26 species in the domestic flora. These are mostly low herbs with single large flowers. They usually bloom before the leaves appear in early spring.
Dream-grass: description for children
Lumbago is a perennial plant with a vertical rhizome of dark brown color. It has an unbranched stem, reaching a height of 20 cm, with soft hairs, and densely pubescent.
The leaves are basal, pinnately dissected, shaggy with a huge number of white hairs. Together with them, a peduncle develops with a large single drooping purple flower, reminiscent of a small tulip. A simple perianth consists of six lobes pubescent on the outside. At the base of the peduncle there is also a bracted pubescent leaf.
Lumbago (sleep-grass), care, cultivation, propagation of which is not particularly difficult, blooms in the spring. It grows mainly on sandy open hills, on dry slopes, and in pine forests in the Western European part of Russia.
The plant contains saponins, anemonin. At the same time, the extract from the leaves of the sleep grass has a strong fungicidal and bactericidal effect. Used in veterinary medicine. Very poisonous. It is actively destroyed in many areas by primrose collectors. The shot was included in the Red Book and is currently under protection.
Beneficial features
The plant contains the glycoside hepatrilobin, protoanemonin, vitamin C, saponins, tannins, camphor, resins and other substances. It has an expectorant, diuretic, analgesic, sedative and bactericidal effect. Stimulates liver function.
Sleep grass is rich in protoanemonin, a very caustic substance that produces a surprisingly strong fungicidal and bactericidal effect. Saponins were also found in it. The juice of this plant greatly irritates the skin, causing very unpleasant sensations.
Turchaninov's cross
This is a grass up to 35 centimeters high. The leaves are dissected into narrow and long, sharp and linear segments, developing together with the flowers. They are almost half-open, erect, blue-violet in color. The plant blooms in spring.
Opened lumbago
There are several varieties of sleep grass. The description for children usually includes one type - an open lumbago. It reaches a height of 50 cm. The leaves are heavily pubescent, rounded, heart-shaped, and appear immediately after the flowers appear. The flowers are broadly bell-shaped when blooming, then star-shaped, open, erect. This plant blooms in May for 20 days.
Prostel multi-incision
This dream grass has the following description: height up to 30 cm, leaves are on fairly long petioles, covered with soft hairs. They appear after flowering. At the same time, the flowers are blue-violet, first widely bell-shaped, and then wide open.
Spring lumbago
This is a plant reaching 30 centimeters in height, with a straight or curved stem, leathery leaves that appear after flowering. Spring lumbago has snow-white flowers on the inside, with a slight purple tint on the outside. They bloom in May and bloom for almost a month.
Meadow lumbago
Reaches a height of 30 cm. The leaves are cut into fairly narrow lobes and appear during the flowering period or immediately after it. The plant has violet or lilac flowers. It blooms in April for 30 days.
Common lumbago
This is a plant whose height does not exceed 20 cm. Common lumbago (or sleep grass) has several very spectacular varieties and forms. Its flowers are usually blue and bloom to the leaves.
Crimean lumbago
This is a plant reaching 30 cm in height, with a densely pubescent stem. Its flowers are of different shades of purple, densely pubescent on the outside. Blooms in May for a month.
The lumbago is yellowing
This dream grass is described somewhat differently from other varieties. This plant reaches 50 centimeters in height and has a large basal rosette of leaves. They are densely covered with silver-gray hairs. Has yellow flowers.
Golden lumbago
A plant reaching 50 cm in height. Its leaves are lush green, pinnately dissected, on very long petioles. Due to the fact that they are completely covered with thick hairs, they look fluffy. The flowers are golden yellow, wide open, and bloom in June.
Campanulate lumbago
This dream herb has a very interesting description. Its height is up to 35 centimeters. The leaves are heavily dissected. The plant is characterized by narrow bell-shaped flowers, violet or blue-violet. They bloom in late spring, in May.
Mountain lumbago
This plant is up to 30 cm high with dark purple, almost black flowers. Mountain dream grass blooms in early May, flowering continues for a month.
Alpine lumbago
A plant reaching a height of 20 centimeters, with yellow or white flowers. Petals are bent, slightly wavy. This species blooms for a very long time.
Sleep-grass: application. Description of indications for medical use
The plant has antimycotic and antimicrobial effects, reduces blood pressure, has a powerful sedative effect, and slows down the respiratory and pulse rates. It is not used in official medicine.
Infusions and decoctions of sleep herbs are used for neuroses, headaches, insomnia, and hysterical attacks. Externally, lumbago is used for pyoderma, joint pain, fungus, and scabies. It is believed that a decoction of this herb helps in small doses with weakness of the abdominal anterior wall and lung diseases. The tincture is taken orally for articular rheumatism; it is also rubbed into sore joints. In Chinese folk medicine, dry extract and infusion of the plant are used to treat bacterial and amoebic dysentery. Homeopaths use it as a venotonic.
You need to know that the fresh plant is very poisonous due to the content of anemonin, which causes inflammation of the mucous membranes and skin. When contacting sleep grass, a 1st or 2nd degree burn occurs. In this case, when taken orally, symptoms of damage to the intestinal and gastric mucosa appear. The plant is not used during pregnancy, pyelonephritis, hepatitis and gastritis.
The open lumbago, which is popularly called sleep-grass, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Lumbago from At the end of April or the beginning of May, immediately after the snow cover melts, you can see a fabulously beautiful primrose plant. With white, yellow, brown-red and purple petals of delicate flowers, lumbago announces the coming of spring.
Visual appeal
A plant that has flowers with six pointed petals of purple or lilac color is an open lumbago. Its root system is vertical, multi-headed. In the lower part of the stem, basal, pinnately dissected leaves are formed, and thin and long simple stem leaves are fused at their bases. Both are covered with light fluff. Each individual plant produces one large flower at the top of the stem, shaped like an erect or drooping bell.
Description
Wild grass has interesting features - an open lumbago. The description of the species indicates that under favorable conditions it grows up to 25 centimeters in height, growing every year from a powerful dark brown root. Root leaves on long petioles grow after flowering and die off in the fall. The erect stem is also covered with soft fluffy hairs.
Dream grass flowers have numerous yellow stamens and pistils with long fluffy styles up to 5 centimeters in length. The outside of the petals is densely covered with down. Tender heads bloom either before the leaves appear, or simultaneously with them. The spring plant blooms in April and May, forming oblong and heavily hairy fruits at the end of the season, which give the appearance a special decorative appearance.
Spread of the lumbago
Open lumbago - sleep-grass - prefers sod-podzolic soils, characteristic of thinned pine forests, as well as mixed pine-birch and pine-oak forests. Flowers grow on slopes and in thickets of berry bushes, on mosses and grass litter. Glades of lumbago can be found in the meadows and steppes of the European part of Russia, in Siberia and the Far East. In addition, the distribution area of this species is Europe, Asia, and North America.
Types of lumbago
The genus contains approximately 40 different species, native to cold, temperate, subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most (26 species of the genus Postrel) are observed on the territory of the republics of the former Soviet Union, including the open lumbago, which grows in Central and in the south of Western Siberia.
In light pine forests and on the edges there are Turchaninov's lumbago, spring, and meadow. On the high, vast plateaus and peaks of the Crimean mountains, as well as in the cracks of the rocks of the mountain ranges of Central Europe, the Crimean species can be found. Most varieties of sleep grass are listed in the Red Book of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Estonia. These include an open lumbago. The Red Book prohibits the destruction of the population of a rare plant that is in danger of extinction.
The following types of lumbago are known: alpine, ayan, spring, mountain, yellowing, golden, bell-shaped, Crimean, meadow, ordinary and many others. Primary colors: white, yellow, red, blue-violet, lilac.
Favorable for open lumbago
The open lumbago, the photo of which is presented below, has a fairly wide range of distribution. The spring plant feels equally good both in moderately humid climates and in drier places. Delicate purple flowers sprout not only in rich soils, but can also be content with poor, unmoistened ones. They are particularly sensitive to light and especially need sunlight in the spring, during the flowering period.
Botanical description of sleep grass
An open lumbago is suitable for rubbing the squeezed juice of the green on inflamed rheumatic joints. Fresh juice also cures glaucoma. Another species - drooping lumbago, growing in the east of the country - has found its use in Chinese medicine. Decoctions of mature rhizomes are used as a hemostatic and astringent.
Naturally, before taking advantage of the miraculous properties of lumbago, it is necessary to obtain professional advice from a doctor. There are also certain contraindications due to the fact that the plant is poisonous. In particular, in the presence of diseases such as gastritis and other gastrointestinal pathologies, nephritis. The medicinal collection is carried out during the flowering period of the dream grass, which lasts from April to May.
Since all types of lumbago have an incredibly attractive appearance, they look natural in group landscape plantings and will be an excellent decoration for lawns, alpine slides and park areas. And for those who want to dig up a rare and forbidden wild specimen of the open lumbago flower for their garden, it will be useful information that adult lumbago does not tolerate replanting.
Opened lumbago (sleep-grass)
Open lumbago (lat. Pulsatilla patens), Ranunculaceae family. (Appendix 1, Fig.6)
Botanical description
Botanical description. Perennial herbaceous plant 25-30 cm tall. The rhizome is powerful, vertical, dark brown, multi-headed. Root leaves on long, not densely hairy petioles, rounded-heart-shaped in outline, palmate-tridissected with rhombic deep two-tripartite segments and with wedge-shaped, two-to-four incised or jagged lobes with sharp, often somewhat curved lobes, in youth, especially at the bottom hairy, later becoming hairless, appear after flowering and die off in autumn. The stems are erect, covered with thick, protruding, soft hairs. The leaves of the spathe are erect, divided into narrow linear lobes, and very hairy. Peduncles are straight; flowers are erect, initially broadly bell-shaped, later star-shaped; perianth simple, six-leaved, with leaflets 3-4 cm long, narrowly ovate-pointed, straight, blue-violet, hairy on the outside; stamens are numerous, many times shorter than the tepals, yellow, the outer ones are transformed into staminodes (honey cakes); there are many pistils, with a long fluffy style 3-5 cm long. It blooms in early spring - in April-May, the fruits ripen in May-June. The fruits are oblong, like the columns, very hairy. The plant is poisonous!!!
Distribution and ecology. Northern Europe: Finland (south), Sweden (east); Central Europe: Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia; Southern Europe: Romania; territory of the former USSR: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, European part of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Western Siberia, Eastern Siberia (south), Far East; Asia: China, Mongolia; North America: Canada (western Northwest Territory, Yukon, western Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), USA (northern Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Washington , Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas, northern Utah.
It grows on soddy-podzolic soil in pine, pine-oak, pine-birch forests of heather, lingonberry, bracken, mossy and grass types, on heather heaths, pine forest slopes and in shrubs.
In the Belgorod region: Belgorod, Gubkinsky, Prokhorovsky, Shebekinsky, Korochansky Alekseevsky, Krasnensky (Bolshoi Log, Novo-Khutornoye), Grayvoronsky (Mount Podol), Veidelevsky (Gniloye), Rovensky (Kalyuzhny Yar, Nagolnoye), Yakovlevsky districts. -- Meadow steppes, sparse pine forests, edges, glades, dry sunny slopes.
Chemical composition. Fresh grass contains protoanemonin, dry grass contains bicyclic lactan (anemonin) and saponins. The raw material also contains hepatrilobin glycoside, vitamin C, camphor, tannins, and resins.
Collection and preparation of medicinal plant materials. The above-ground part of the plant (Herba Pulsatillae) is used, harvested during flowering. When collecting, you need to be careful, as contact with the plant leads to skin irritation and sometimes blisters appear. The raw materials are dried by spreading them in a thin layer on paper or fabric in the shade outside or in a well-ventilated area. The herb is used fresh or dried 3-5 months after collection. The plant is not used in official medicine.
Application in medicine
Application in medicine. Due to its toxicity, lumbago is currently almost never used in folk medicine, but in homeopathy, preparations from it are often used against a very large number of ailments. It is used for depression, especially in young girls. Its use is especially effective as a sedative for increased nervous excitability (insomnia, dizziness, headache, convulsions, neuralgia, hysteria, dysmenorrhea). In addition, lumbago is considered an effective remedy for tychyarrhythmia, heart failure accompanied by shortness of breath and ascites, glaucoma, constipation, renal and hepatic colic. During labor pains, an infusion of lumbago herb is recommended as a means of reducing pain and facilitating childbirth. When used externally, lumbago preparations have an antimicrobial, antifungal, irritant and mild anesthetic effect. Used for headaches in combination with stomach diseases, irregular menstruation, migraines, diseases of the gallbladder and liver, bladder and kidneys. It is also recommended for the use of this remedy for colds of the ears, nose, pharynx, larynx, and bronchi. As a painkiller, sleep herb is used externally for joint pain, eczema, frostbite and urticaria, vascular spasms and inflammation of the veins, rheumatism and gout, and the juice from its leaves is rubbed on numb parts of the body.
Dosage forms, route of administration and doses
Dosage forms, route of administration and doses. Herbal infusion. 2 teaspoons of dried herb per 200 ml of cold water, leave for 12 hours, strain. Take 1/4 cup 3-4 times a day. Used for washing wounds during dressings and for lotions for fungal skin infections, added to the bath in the treatment of skin diseases.