Raven Eye - Medicinal Properties And Uses Of Raven Eye

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Raven eye

Treatment with drugs from a crow's eye. Signs of poisoning

What does a raven eye look like?

The raven eye is a perennial plant, the height of which is no more than 40 cm. The plant's rhizome is creeping and very long. The straight and smooth stem does not have leaves at the bottom, but on the upper part of it you can see a whorl, consisting of four leaves. The leaves are oval or ovoid, the ends of the leaves are pointed, the arrangement of the leaves is criss-cross. On the peduncle there is a single apical flower of yellow-green color. The flower contains 4 petals and 4 sepals.

The fruit of the plant is a black berry containing many seeds. The raven eye begins to bloom in May and ends in June. The fruits ripen in late July - early August.

This poisonous plant can be seen almost throughout Europe, in Western and Eastern Siberia, in the Caucasus. It grows in the forest and forest-steppe zone, or more precisely, in deciduous and coniferous forests, in the midst of shrubs. The raven eye prefers wet and shady places.

Many have heard that the raven eye is a poisonous plant, but it is used as a medicine. The aerial part of the raven's eye is used to prepare tinctures, decoctions. You will be surprised, but even fresh unripe berries are also harvested and used as a remedy.

Useful properties of the raven eye

The rhizomes and berries of the crow's eye are very poisonous. The whole plant contains saponins, steroids, pyridine glycoside. The herb has been found to contain substances called flavonoids, and the herb also contains coumarins and vitamin C. The rhizomes are rich in alkaloids.

Crow's eye can only be used after consulting a doctor. The specialist will determine whether you should really take the preparations of this plant, and if so, in what doses. The plant has anti-inflammatory, diuretic, sedative, antispasmodic and wound healing effects on the human body.

Crow's eye application

In medicine, raven eye is used unofficially, although there are drugs based on it that help people heal. There is one "but": it is possible to take the preparations of the crow's eye, but the dose must be homeopathic and the doctor must approve it. Crow's eye preparations are used for inflammation of the larynx, eye diseases, neuralgia, and juice from a fresh plant helps with loss of vision, headache, bronchitis and drowsiness.

Tinctures and decoctions from the crow's eye must be taken very carefully, do not forget that the plant is poisonous.

Decoctions of raven's eye relieve spasms that are caused by nervous disorders, help with fever and dropsy.

In case of metabolic disorders, dizziness, laryngitis, mental disorders, a tincture from a crow's eye, prepared with alcohol, helps.

Crow's eye herb tincture. Take 2 grams of fresh but chopped plant herb and fill it with half a glass of 70% alcohol. Leave the composition to infuse for one week. Strain be sure. Then take a glass of water and dilute 1 tablespoon of the finished tincture in it. If there are signs of nervous excitement, then you need to drink the tincture every 1.5 hours, but you cannot drink more than 200 ml of the drug per day.

Infusion from the collection. It is prepared in the following way. They take the same amount of crow's eye grass, blue cornflower, open grass, meadow clover flowers, geranium and bird cherry flowers. All these ingredients should be mixed well. Now you need to take 1 tablespoon of this collection and pour 200 ml of boiling water over it, then insist for an hour. After insisting, you must strain the infusion. Such a remedy is used as a lotion for blepharitis or conjunctivitis.

Crow's Eye Recipes

Recipe number 1. To prepare the tincture, take 2 grams of fresh, thoroughly chopped herbs of the plant, pour 70% alcohol (half a glass). The container should be closed and placed in a dark place for 7 days, then strain. The resulting product is taken diluted with water - for 1 tablespoon of infusion, 1 glass of water. Reception scheme: with a nervous tic, dilute 2 tablespoons of the leaf tincture prepared according to the indicated recipe in a glass of boiled water and drink 1 tablespoon every 2 hours throughout the day until the annoying tic under the eye or other similar twitching in the body is completely gone. Sometimes a few doses of medicine are enough for the tic to go away.

Prescription number 2. This medicine is prescribed by a doctor for concussion. To prepare the tincture, you will need to take 4 cups of raw materials (dried raven's eye grass) and pour vodka (500 grams). The container must be closed and placed in a warm dark place for 9 days, then strain. The resulting tincture is recommended to be taken diluted with water - 5 drops of 50 grams of water - 2-3 times a day.

Raven eye berries

Crow's eye berries ripen in July-August. The berries are highly poisonous, they are dangerous for both people and animals with their content of paradin and paristifin. At the same time, they contain useful substances that have a therapeutic effect on the human body.

Crow's eye berries, despite their toxicity, are used in folk medicine to treat, first of all, heart diseases (heart failure, tachycardia, arrhythmia, and other diseases). In addition, berries are an effective remedy in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, metabolic disorders, neuralgic diseases, ascites. With the help of tinctures from these berries, laryngitis, migraine, sweating, hernias, and drowsiness are treated.

Tincture recipe. It is prescribed for heart failure (with edema). You need to take 10-12 fresh raven eye berries, pour vodka (500 grams), close the container, put in a dark place and leave for 15 days. Reception scheme: for 1 dose you should take 20-30 drops of tincture, dilute in 50 g of water, the number of doses is three per day. The course of treatment is 3 weeks. After a break of 10 days, the course can be repeated if necessary.

This tincture is also recommended for diseases of the nervous system. It is recommended to take it according to the following scheme: dilute 1 tablespoon of the tincture in a glass of water, it is important to drink 1 tablespoon every 1.5–2 hours. Do not take more than one glass a day!

Raven eye is a poisonous plant

The raven eye is a poisonous plant; such substances as paradine and paristifin have been identified in its composition. Crow's eye berries, when eaten, are dangerous to humans and animals. The leaves of the plant are the least dangerous, and its berries are the greatest. If you eat up to two berries, the body most likely will not react negatively to this product. With more use, vomiting, colic, diarrhea, dizziness, convulsions are noted, the heart works differently (worse than before), it is difficult to breathe, paralysis. If the above signs are observed, then there is a fact of poisoning with a raven's eye.

Given that the plant is known for its healing properties, it is recommended that treatment be carried out exclusively under the supervision of a doctor in order to avoid cases of poisoning. The raven eye affects the organs of the gastrointestinal tract.

In case of poisoning, it is necessary to rinse the stomach from the poisons present, namely, give the poisoned person pieces of ice, let him hold it in his mouth (this is like an antidote). Inside, you need to inject anesthesin and some drug that will restore the work of the heart, for example, strophanthin.

Raven eye flower

The crow's eye flower is single, located at the top of an erect stem. In the center of the flower there is a ball of the ovary, painted in a dark purple shade, from which eight narrow stamens, four narrow nondescript petals and four green sepals (the sepals are slightly larger than the petals), branch off. After the completion of the flowering process, a rather large black-blue (bluish-black) berry is formed from the ovary.

The blooming period of the raven eye falls on May-June. For traditional medicine, the flower of this plant does not represent any value, therefore, it is not used in the recipe for infusions and decoctions. Like all other parts of the crow's eye, the flower is poisonous, so it should be handled with extreme caution.

Crow's eye four-leafed

The four-leafed raven eye is a perennial herb of the lily family (some new sources attribute the plant to the melanthia family). The rhizome is long, creeping. Stem - single, erect; the lower part of the stem is glabrous (without leaves), in the upper part there is a whorl of 4 leaves (less often 3, 5 and 6). Leaves - oval or ovoid, whole-edged, short-petiolate (sessile), criss-cross, pointed at the end; they are painted green.

The flower is single, inconspicuous, located in the upper part of the stem, star-shaped, painted in a yellow-green hue. In the center of the flower there is an ovary, from which, at the end of flowering, a fruit is formed - a bluish-black polyspermous round berry. The four-leafed raven eye blooms in May-June, bears fruit in July-August.

The natural distribution area of this species is almost everywhere throughout Europe (except for the arid southern regions), in Eastern and Western Siberia and in the Caucasus. This plant grows mainly in deciduous and coniferous forests, in dense thickets of bushes, as well as in dark and humid places.

All parts of the plant are poisonous (berries and rhizomes are a particular danger), but this did not become an obstacle for traditional healers, who for a long time use the aerial part of the plant (grass and berries) in the treatment of various diseases. The grass of the four-leafed crow's eye is harvested during the flowering period and is used for the preparation of infusions and tinctures mainly fresh; the berries are harvested after ripening - in August.

Self-medication with medicinal infusions and tinctures of this type of plant can lead to undesirable consequences, therefore, before starting to use such medicines, it is necessary to consult with your doctor.

The four-leafed crow's eye herb is used in the treatment of migraines, neuralgia, ascites, pulmonary tuberculosis, metabolic disorders and in the case of seizures. Berries are used for diseases of the cardiovascular system.

Contraindications to the use of crow's eye

All parts of the plant are poisonous, especially for berries and creeping rhizomes, for this reason it is necessary to use medicinal tinctures and infusions with extreme caution, not exceeding the indicated dosage and only after consulting with your doctor. Crow's eye medications are not used during pregnancy, during lactation, in children under the age of 12, with hypertension and insomnia.

The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist

Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).