The tricolor violet is very pretty. She is dressed in a festive multi-colored dress, so she stands out noticeably among others, not so bright colors. It is an annual herbaceous plant and belongs to the large violet family. It often grows as a weed in vegetable gardens and fallow fields. You can find the plant on forest edges, illuminated by the sun, and flooded meadows, near numerous bushes.
Such different violets...
Sometimes there is confusion with various types violets And their differences are as follows:
- The tricolor violet has a tricolor corolla. It grows up to 45 cm. Its flowers are large, usually with a deep blue tint or dark purple. Flowering begins in April and ends in September.
- The field violet is endowed with a corolla of two flowers, with white and yellow. Height is from 15 to 30 cm, flowers reach a size of up to 1.5 cm. It contains more violin alkaloid (it causes a gag reflex), but much less saponins. Blooms from mid-May to September. For sale in pharmacy chains, both types are used for packaging.
- Violet is dubious. It is also called changeable. It is cultivated thanks to its fragrant purple flowers. It is considered poisonous, although folk medicine it is widely used not only as a decoction, but also externally when treating wounds, swelling and inflammation of the skin.
The tricolor violet has its own fruits. They are a single-cavity green box in which small seeds are hidden. brown tint. Ripening begins in June.
Harvesting during the flowering period
Tricolor violet helps treat many diseases, which is why it is harvested every year. They mainly use the herbal part, less often the root. The best time to collect is during the flowering period.
The above-ground part should be cut off so that the root remains in the ground. The grass must be dried and spread under a canopy, turning over periodically. The place should not be very sunny, but with a constant influx fresh air. The procedure is considered complete when the stem becomes brittle and does not bend when pressed. If an oven is used during drying, its temperature should not exceed 40 degrees. The smell of tricolor violet after drying remains weak, and the taste is sweetish, with a mucus-like sensation.
Raw materials are best stored in glass jars, tightly closed. Violet does not lose its valuable qualities for 1.5 - 2 years.
What composition is contained in violet?
The plant has healing powers due to its rich composition. Here you can find:
- Saponins. They have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties.
- Flavonoids. They have a very wide spectrum of activity, primarily anti-cancer. In tricolor violet, these substances are a plant antibiotic that can remove heavy metal salts. Effective as a preventive measure for cardiovascular diseases.
- Glycosides. They play an important role in the respiratory process and have cardiotonic activity.
- Salicylates. They help reduce fever, relieve inflammation and fight pathogenic microflora.
- Essential oil violets have a calming effect on nervous system, as well as actions such as antiseptic, expectorant, antiseptic.
- Carotenoids. They have antioxidant capabilities, support the immune system, and help fight inflammatory processes.
- Vitamins C, E, R. These vitamins help a person stay healthy. Vitamin E performs a protective function by fighting free radicals and preserving fatty acids. For example, the appearance of age spots in older people is an accumulation of fat-like substances that have been oxidized by free radicals. If the body does not have enough vitamin E, they will not be able to appear. Vitamin C is also a strong antioxidant that strengthens the immune system. Helps the adrenal glands and restores tissue, necessary for the production of collagen, accelerating the wound healing process. Vitamin P improves capillary walls and supports the heart's ability to use oxygen.
- Slime. They have enveloping properties and a high expectorant effect.
People have been using all the beneficial substances of tricolor violet for a long time, because the plant has the following properties:
- antiseptic;
- calming;
- expectorant;
- anti-inflammatory;
- emollient;
- sweatogenic;
- blood purifying;
- antirheumatic;
- diuretic;
- disinfectant;
- tonic.
Tricolor violet is used when it is necessary to normalize metabolism, for those suffering from bronchitis, whooping cough, catarrh of the respiratory tract, polyarthritis, gout, and also for diseases gastrointestinal tract and urinary system. For women after childbirth, violet will help contract the uterus, and for children to get rid of rickets or diathesis. For eczema and scrofulosis, you can bathe children in the decoction.
Many skin diseases are stopped by compresses, decoctions, and infusions of tricolor violet. As a rule, these are dermatitis, psoriasis, acne, boils and trophic ulcers, long-term non-healing wounds. The grass juice is used to wipe problem areas if pathologies such as aphthous ulcers, herpes, and impetigo have appeared. Ringworms are removed using crushed grass. This plant is included in many diuretic and expectorant medications.
In folk medicine beneficial features tricolor violets are used against diseases such as tuberculosis lymph nodes or lungs, cystitis, atherosclerosis, cystitis, kidney stones, palpitations, increased sexual excitability, painful erection (especially in combination with common hops), bleeding, skin lesions.
Healing recipes
A diuretic infusion can be made at home. There are several ways to prepare it:
- 60 gr. infuse herbs in 600 ml of water;
- 20 gr. pour 600 ml of water over the root and place on low heat. The broth should boil down to a third.
You should take no more than 5 times a day. Single dose – 15 g. If you want to use it as a laxative, the dose is increased to 45 g, and as an emetic, it can be increased to 50 - 60 g.
Most often a violet like medicine used with other medicinal herbs:
- for cystitis, pyelonephritis and kidney stones, take additional hop cones and lingonberry leaves;
- for dermatitis, psoriasis - centaury, wild rosemary, wild rosemary;
- for diathesis they collect string and bittersweet nightshade.
Anyone who often suffers from furunculosis should try this remedy. Required:
- violet herbs – 4 parts;
- marigold flowers - 2 parts;
- burdock root – 2 parts.
Grind all components. Pour 300 ml per tablespoon cold water, let it brew for 5 hours. Then put it on the boil so that the medicine boils for 60 seconds. Drink 150 g. 1 – 2 times a day.
If you are worried about cystitis, there is a way to get rid of it. To do this, you will need to take a bath with a decoction of medicinal plants. You need to prepare:
- violet flowers and oregano herb - 4 parts;
- birch currant leaves, preferably black - 6 parts;
- thyme – 3 parts;
- eucalyptus leaves – 1 part.
Three spoons of the mixture will require a liter of water. After bringing to a boil, let it brew. The water during the procedure should be warm.
Cystitis, as well as other inflammations associated with the urinary system, are treated with the following recipe:
- violet grass and common hop cones - 1 part each;
- lingonberry leaves – 3 parts.
You will need 400 grams per tablespoon of the mixture. boiling water The medicine should infuse for 3 hours. Then you need to strain. Drink 150 gr. twice a day. As a rule, therapy takes a month. If required, the course is repeated after 14 days.
The popular “Averin tea”, which is prepared for allergies, diathesis and scrofula, is made as follows:
- tricolor violet herb, string – 5 parts;
- bittersweet nightshade, herbaceous part with leaves - 1 part.
- Can be given to children according to Art. spoon 4 times a day.
After measuring out a tablespoon of mixed plants, pour a glass of boiling water over it. Insist until the medicine has cooled down. Children are also given 1 tbsp. spoon 4 times a day as a remedy for diathesis and scrofula.
Limitations in use
Tricolor violet is contraindicated for hepatitis and glomerulonephritis. Cannot be used while pregnant, as the plant tones the uterus.
Remember that not taking the dose may cause nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.
Video: beneficial properties and uses of forest violet
Violet tricolor, or pansies, - Viola tricolor L. is an annual or biennial plant from the violet family (Violaceae) with erect or ascending stems up to 15 cm high. The leaves are alternate, oblong, with petioles, equipped with large lyre-shaped stipules. The flowers are solitary, located on long stalks, large (up to 1.5 cm in diameter), with a five-membered irregular corolla: the upper petals are dark blue or purple, the lateral petals are lighter, the lower petal, equipped with a spur, is always yellow or pale yellow. The fruits are oblong capsules with small seeds. It blooms from April to late autumn, the fruits ripen at different times, starting in June.
Tricolor violet is widespread in different regions of Eurasia. In our country, it is found in the European part, in the Caucasus and Western Siberia, as an introduction noted in the Far East. It grows as a weed in fields, vegetable gardens and orchards, often settles in young fallow lands, and also grows in meadows, forest edges and clearings.
Widely cultivated in flower beds, pansies, represented by numerous varieties and forms, cannot be directly bred from wild violet tricolor. Actually it's special kind complex hybrid nature. It occurred as a result of the hybridization of several species: tricolor violet, Altai violet (Viola altaica Ker-Gawl.), yellow violet (Viola lutea Huds.), possibly and others.
Other similar species are also harvested for medicinal purposes, in particular the field violet (Viola arvensis Murr.), which grows in populated areas, near roads, in fields, wastelands, clearings in almost all regions of Russia. In terms of medicinal properties, field violet apparently does not differ from tricolor violet; in any case, when collecting raw materials, collectors, as a rule, do not distinguish between these types.
Medicinal value of violet tricolor and methods of medicinal use of violet tricolor
The aerial part of the violet, which has received the incorrect trade name “Ivan-da-Marya herb”, has medicinal use (botanists use this name for a completely different plant from the Norichinaceae family). Violet herb contains up to 300 mg of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), carotenoids (provitamin A), flavonoids (including rutin), saponins, essential oil, coloring and tannins, bitterness, mucus, salicylic acid.
Tricolor violet preparations have an anti-inflammatory and antiseptic effect in the gastrointestinal tract, facilitate expectoration of sputum, reduce vascular permeability and have antiallergic, diuretic and some choleretic properties. They are prescribed mainly as a good expectorant and cough sedative for bronchitis, pneumonia, and whooping cough. Violet infusions and decoctions are also used for diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract. In combination with other plants, it is used in the treatment of urolithiasis. This plant is also used for exudative diathesis, eczema, allergic dermatitis in the form of lotions and baths.
In folk medicine, the use of violets is much wider. Its decoction and infusions are taken for women's diseases, headaches, epilepsy, rheumatism and gout, cancer, as well as rickets and various skin diseases. It is used as an enveloping and anti-inflammatory agent for gastritis.
Infusion of tricolor violet: 1 tablespoon of dry herb per 1 cup of boiling water. Infuse, wrapped, for 2 hours, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for articular rheumatism, gout, arthritis.
For acne (damage to the pilosebaceous apparatus), a collection is used: tricolor violet herb, veronica officinalis herb, tripartite herb - equal parts in total. Pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture into 200 ml of boiling water and leave for 20 minutes. Drink 800 ml of infusion per day an hour after meals. The disease is typical mainly for adolescents during the period of hormonal changes in the body.
For sore throat, 1 tablespoon of the mixture (tricolor violet, string, nettle corollas, strawberry leaves - equally) per
melt in 200 ml of boiling water. Take 200 ml as tea 3 times a day.
For cardiac arrhythmia, drink tea from tricolor violet flowers.
For atherosclerosis, drink violet tea (15 g per 1 glass of boiling water) 2-3 times a day. The general condition improves within 1 month after the start of treatment.
For acute bronchitis, drink tea from the violet herb: the herb is brewed with boiling water in a ratio (1:10), heated for 15 minutes. and take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day.
If a child has rectal prolapse, if you crush violet petals well, squeeze out the juice, mix with sugar and give him a drink, this will help.
For mastitis, apply grass crushed into a pulp as a compress. After 3-4 hours, replace the compress with a fresh one.
For exudative diathesis, take 4 - 8 g of dry tricolor violet and infuse it overnight in 300 ml of water. In the morning, the infusion is boiled and given to drink on an empty stomach with an admixture of sweetened milk. The course of treatment is 2 - 3 weeks.
Violet oil is prepared to treat skin diseases. To do this you need to take 100 ml olive oil(or sunflower), 10 g of tricolor violet flowers and 5 g of ivy budra leaves. Cook all this for 10 minutes, then leave and strain. Apply wipes soaked in oil to areas of skin rashes.
To treat diathesis in children, people popularly use Averin tea, which contains crushed herbs of violet, string and bittersweet nightshade in a ratio of 4:4:1. To prepare it, pour 1 tablespoon of the mixture with 1 glass of boiling water and leave until cool. Prescribe 1 tablespoon of Zraz per day after meals.
For gout, the entire plant is harvested during flowering for treatment. The most commonly used steam is tricolor violet: 20 g per 200 ml of boiling water. Take 100 - 200 ml Zraza per day. Large doses cause intestinal irritation.
Dry tricolor violet powder is used as an expectorant, 1 g (for children - 0.5 g) 3 times a day.
For a cold, pour 200 ml of boiling water over 20 g of the aboveground part of the tricolor violet (without the lower bare stems), leave for 1 - 3 hours. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day as an expectorant.
For psoriasis, brew 20 g of herb in 200 ml of boiling water. Drink 100-200ml 3-4 times a day before meals. It is noted that for psoriasis, treatment success is achieved without the parallel use of external agents (ointments, lotions, etc.).
Infusion of tricolor violet herb: 20 g of dry crushed raw materials per 1 glass of boiling water, leave for 2 hours in a thermos, strain. Take 1/2 cup 2 times a day for increased nervous excitability, atherosclerosis, arrhythmias, whooping cough, bronchitis, pneumonia, for gargling with laryngitis, difficulty urinating, cystitis, inflammation of the appendages.
Tricolor violet decoction: 1 tablespoon of crushed raw material per 1 glass hot water, boil for 15 minutes, cool for 45 minutes, strain, squeeze, bring the volume to the original volume. Take 1/3 cup 3-4 times a day after meals for inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, dysentery, as a mouth rinse for toothache, stomatitis, unpleasant smell from mouth.
In folk medicine, the use of violet herb to treat scrofula and some skin diseases is widely practiced. It is believed to be especially effective for thrush and eczema in young children. For skin diseases in children, it is used by adding tricolor violet infusion to the water used to prepare baby food.
There are known successful attempts to use tricolor violet infusion for rheumatism and gout.
An infusion of tricolor violet is prepared as follows: 2 teaspoons of chopped herbs are poured into 250 ml of hot water and left for 10 minutes. Drink 2 - 3 glasses of infusion daily. You can also mix tricolor violet raw materials in equal parts with linden leaves and drink tea from this mixture to prevent hypothermia.
The homeopathic remedy Viola tricoloris is obtained from fresh flowering plants tricolor violets. Prescribed for skin rashes, dry and weeping eczema, thrush and itching in the vaginal area. This remedy shows good results for rheumatism, as well as for night sweats in adolescents.
Infusion of flowers (1:5) on vegetable oil used as an external remedy for malignant skin lesions.
Warning. Long-term use of violet preparations or their use in large quantities causes vomiting, diarrhea and an itchy rash.
From Paul Sedir we read: “Good for the chest and heart. The root (Saturn) and seeds are poisonous. Grass and flowers - from stone disease; as an emetic and laxative; flowers for epilepsy, seizures and other nervous attacks; syrup - against suffocation. Used as magical smoking: flaxseed, pselium, orris root and celery in equal parts represent smoking that serves as a tool for fortune telling about the future.”
Violet contains the powers of Venus and Mercury. Collect on the third quarter of the Moon, on the 16th or 17th lunar day, at sunset, in the evening dew.
Features of tricolor violet preparation
Violet grass is collected during the budding and beginning of flowering of plants, plucking with hands or cutting with a knife or scissors. Dry in shaded places (under awnings, attics, sheds), laying out thin layer on clean litter. Stored in a wooden or glass containers up to 2 years.
Among the early and beautifully flowering cultivated plants Pansies occupy one of the first places in floriculture. The variety of their colors and color combinations is simply incredible: from pure white to almost black with all sorts of shades of yellow, blue, and red. There is often a spot in the center of the flower original form and colors. In this article we will talk about the most popular types and varieties of pansies, and also share our experience in growing these beautiful flowers.
Pansies - beautiful, like in a fairy tale! © Jon K Content:
Description of the plant
There are two most popular types of this plant - Violet tricolor and Violet Wittrock. They differ in the shape of the flower. F. Wittrock has more large flowers, and F. tricolor is a small-flowered plant.
- Pansies, or Violet tricolor (Viola tricolor) - herbaceous plant, common in Europe and temperate areas of Asia; species of the genus Violet of the Violet family.
- Wittrock's violet, or garden pansies (Viola × wittrokiana) is a herbaceous plant of hybrid origin of the Violet family. Under this name numerous varieties and variety groups obtained with the participation of tricolor violet ( Viola tricolor), Altai ( Viola altaica) and yellow ( Viola lutea) and some other species.
In ancient times, pansies were credited with the ability to bewitch love: one has only to sprinkle the juice of the plant on the eyelids of a sleeping person and wait for him to wake up - he will fall in love forever. The French and Poles give pansies as a keepsake when they are apart. And in England a tradition was born: a young man who is embarrassed to declare his love just needs to send his chosen one this dried flower and write his name.
Pansies - perennials 15 to 30 cm tall, they are usually grown as biennials. Their showy flowers repeat the shape of a violet. The bushes are compact at the beginning of the growing season, then become spreading; the main shoot is erect, root system fibrous. In the axils of the leaves, pansies form peduncles, the ends of which are crowned with single large flowers with a diameter of up to 7 cm. The special value of pansies lies in their early and abundant flowering. IN middle lane Russia blooms already at the end of April.
Numerous varieties of large-flowered violets are common in cultivation - a complex hybrid obtained during many years of breeding work. Many modern hybrids are heat-resistant and have the ability to bloom throughout the summer.
Pansy, or Viola tricolor. © Dan Chiriţă 
Wittrock's violet, or garden pansy (Víola × wittrokiana). © Vinayaraj Growing and care
Pansies are used for early spring two-shift flower decoration. In the summer, when it loses its decorative value, it is replaced with summer flowers. But depending on the timing of sowing and the adopted agricultural technology, you can get flowering in summer and late autumn. In this regard, pansies are a very flexible, undemanding and easy-to-cultivate plant.
Pansies are propagated mainly by seeds and green cuttings. Depending on the planned time of flowering, sowing is done at different times. To obtain abundant early spring flowering, seeds are sown in the summer of the previous year.
In the northern and northwestern zones For example, near Leningrad and Murmansk, seeds are sown in open ground (nurseries) in the second ten days of July so that the plants do not develop too much, are not excessively large, and do not bloom in the fall.
Pansies are winter-hardy plants, but in the North-West, and sometimes in the middle zone, they experience freezing and damping off. More often this happens in damp places and when sowing dates are violated. If the seeds are sown in late May-early June, the seedlings bloom in the fall and outgrow. Such plants go into winter already weakened; they do not tolerate winter well and often die out.
Therefore, plants that are well bushed, but not overgrown or weakened by autumn flowering, tolerate overwintering better, do not wither away and bloom well in the spring of next year. With later, belated sowings, the plants go into winter not strong enough and have little bushiness. They winter worse and bloom later in the spring.
A winter with little snow and severe frosts has a negative effect on the overwintering of pansies. Spring can be especially destructive, when the snow melts very early, thaws begin, and at night there are severe frosts. Therefore, it is advisable to retain snow on ridges with pansies. They do not tolerate low, damp places and especially spring stagnation of water.
Pansies are winter-hardy plants. © albert_zsolt Propagation of pansies by seeds
To obtain seedlings, sowing is done in nurseries or on well-cultivated ridges in rows; seeds are not sown densely in a row; seedlings appear on the 6-14th day. Regular care: watering, loosening row spacing. The seedlings are spread to other ridges or nurseries, where they should overwinter. The picking distance is 20x20 cm. Picking must be done in a timely manner, preventing the seedlings from stretching and outgrowing.
On next year In early spring, plants quickly begin to grow and bloom. To speed up the flowering of the beds, you can in early spring cover with film. Pansies in bloom are transplanted into flower beds. To decorate windows and balconies, they are planted in pots or flower boxes.
Caring for plantings in places of registration consists of systematic weeding and loosening. If necessary, water and control pests. It is useful to feed the seedlings with ammonium nitrate and add superphosphate (20-40 g per 1 m2). Pansies do not tolerate fresh manure. To prolong flowering summer time It is necessary to remove all faded flowers to delay the development of fruits, since when seeded the plants stop flowering.
On poor, dry, sandy soils, pansies quickly become smaller, especially varieties with gigantic flowers. It is necessary to apply on such soils organic fertilizers in the form of compost and humus (5 kg per 1 m2), fresh manure is not recommended. On sunny place The flowers of pansies are large and bright. In partial shade they bloom a little longer, but poorer, the flowers are smaller and not so bright.
In the summer, when pansies fade and lose their decorative value, they are dug up and replaced with annuals.
To obtain seeds, the most typical strong compact specimens are selected from among the plants dug up and planted on seed beds (they can easily tolerate replanting in a flowering state). Watering is necessary.
Considering that pansies are cross-pollinating plants, when planting them for seeds, it is necessary to maintain spatial isolation of one variety from another. This will allow you to obtain pure-quality seeds. Seed collection should begin when the boxes turn yellow, otherwise they will quickly crack and the seeds will spill out.
If desired, pansies can be maintained as annual crop. To do this, seeds are sown in February-March in a greenhouse or room in bowls or picking boxes. In April they dive into greenhouses, and in May they are planted in the ground. When sown in spring, pansies experience prolonged flowering in the summer of the same year. But in terms of the abundance and size of flowers, the annual crop is much inferior to plants grown from last year’s summer sowing.
For autumn flowering, pansies are sown in April-May; they bloom on the 55-70th day.
If desired, pansies can be grown as an annual crop. © bong tuazon Vegetative propagation
The vegetative method of propagation is of great interest hybrid varieties pansies - green cuttings in open ground. It is simple, effective and at the same time allows you to keep the variety pure and get a lot in one summer. planting material. Cuttings are taken from May to July in 2-3 doses. All green terminal shoots with 2-3 nodes are suitable. To do this, low ridges are made in shaded, slightly damp places (under the canopy of trees). They are compacted tightly and watered.
The cuttings are planted tightly to a depth of 0.5 cm, so that the leaves of one cutting are in contact with the leaves of another. On square meter 400 pieces are planted. After planting, spray with water.
In the first days, to avoid wilting, the planted cuttings should be covered with paper soaked in water, creating a more humid atmosphere, which promotes rapid rooting. Care consists of daily watering, spraying, and weeding. After 3-4 weeks, the cuttings give 95-100% rooting. With early (May, June) cuttings, the plants bloom in the summer or autumn of the same year. Later cuttings produce abundant flowering in the spring of next year.
Rooted cuttings are transplanted into ridges or flower beds in the fall. When cuttings are taken very late (August), it is better to leave the rooted plants to overwinter at the cutting sites, covering them with a leaf for the winter. Plants should be planted in flower beds in the spring of next year.
Propagation of hybrid pansies by green cuttings provides rejuvenation of plants, which tend to grow greatly in the third year to the detriment of flowering. About 10 cuttings can be cut from one mother plant at one time, and over the summer - 30-45 pieces.
The best varieties of pansies
Small-flowered varieties
- "Blue Boy"- blue-blue flowers, 3-4 cm in diameter;
- "Snow Maiden"- flowers are white, 3-4 cm in diameter.
- "Little Red Riding Hood"- flowers are bright red, 3.5-4 cm in diameter.
Large-flowered varieties
- "Ice King"- the flower is white with a barely noticeable yellowish-green tint. The lower three petals have purple spots, the edges are smooth. Flower on a long stalk (8-10 cm), up to 5 cm in diameter. Bush height 20 cm.
- "Winter sun"- the flower is bright yellow, on the three lower petals there are dark velvet-brown spots, the edges are uneven. Flower on a long stalk (8-10 cm), 5 cm in diameter. Bush height 20 cm.
- "Heavenly Queen"- the color of the flower when blooming is almost pure blue; in the sun it fades and acquires a light lilac-blue hue. The flower reaches 4.5-5 cm in diameter. The edges of the petals are smooth, the peduncle is long - 9-11 cm. The height of the bush is 20 cm.
- "The Magic of March"- the flower is dark purple, almost black in color when fully blooming. The petals are velvety, the edges are smooth. The flower is 5-5.5 cm in diameter, the peduncle is long (9-10 cm). Bush height 20 cm.
- "Jupiter"- the flower's upper petals are purple-violet at the base and whitish at the top. The color of the three lower petals is also purple-violet, the edges of the petals are even, the pedicels are short (7-8 cm). Bush height 20 cm.
- "Evening Heat"- the flower is brownish-red, the lower three petals have darker spots in comparison with the main background, the edges of the petals are slightly wavy, the peduncle is long (9-10 cm). The flower reaches 5-5.5 cm in diameter. The bush is low 10-15 cm.
Pansies are ideal for container growing. © Online Plant Guide Gigantic varieties
- "Blue"- the flower is violet-blue, there are dark purple spots on the three lower petals, the edges of the petal are even, the flower is 6-7 cm in diameter, on a long peduncle (10-11 cm). Bush height 25 cm.
- "White"- the flower is white with a barely noticeable yellowish-greenish tint, reaches 6-7 cm in diameter, the edges of the petals are slightly wavy, the peduncle is long (9-10 cm). Bush 20 cm high.
- "Golden yellow"- the flower is monochromatic, golden-yellow in color, reaches 6-7 cm in diameter, the edges of the petals are even, the peduncle is long (10-12 cm). Bush height 20 cm.
Possible growing problems
Of the pests, pansies can be affected by aphids and cutworms, against which appropriate drugs are used. Diseases that occur if agricultural practices are violated include blackleg, root and stem rot, spotting, and powdery mildew.
Thanks to unpretentiousness and abundant flowering pansies are grown in flower beds and in balcony boxes, decorated with plantings of bulbous flowers and alpine slides. At proper care they will delight you with their flowering from early spring to late autumn.
There is a legend that after many years of waiting, the faithful girl Anyuta turned into this flower, who once saw off her groom to protect his native land, who never returned. And now, like many years ago, pansies stand near the road, “peering” into the distance with hope.
There is a wide variety of violets, almost all of them are medicinal, but the palm among them is held by the tricolor violet - this beautiful plant with variegated tricolor flowers.
Folk names - Ivan-da-Marya, pansy, magpie, kamchug, brothers, three-flowered, scrofula, brother-and-sister, moths, Trinity grass, Trinity color.
Tricolor violet is an annual, or less often biennial, herbaceous plant of the violet family (Violaceae) with a straight, low stem. Lower leaves long-petiolate, heart-shaped, crenate, upper - lanceolate, short-petiolate. Stipules are lyre-shaped and divided. The flowers are large (up to 3.5 cm), irregular, with a spur. Corolla of five petals larger than the calyx. The two upper petals are dark or light purple, the two lateral petals are blue and the lower one is white-bluish with stripes. The throat of the corolla is yellow. The fruit is a capsule. Height 10 - 40 cm.
It grows in dry meadows, in ditches, in forest glades, in thickets, among bushes, in fields, in woodland and forest-steppe of the European part of Russia, partly in Siberia. Blooms from April to autumn.
The above-ground part of the plant is used for medicinal purposes. Violets are collected during flowering and dried on outdoors in the shade, in a place protected from the wind, spread out in a thin layer. Stir occasionally. In good weather, the raw material dries in 5 - 7 days. When collecting, it is important to collect raw materials not everywhere, but only 50 - 60%. Raw materials are stored in boxes lined with paper inside. The shelf life of raw materials is 1.5 years.
Tricolor violet contains flavonoids (2.1%), glycosides, ursolic acid, mucous and tannins, vitamins C, P, E, provitamin A and essential oil (0.01%), which includes salicylic acid methyl ester.
The medicinal properties of tricolor violet have a wide range of effects. Infusions have anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, bronchodilator, diuretic, choleretic and antispasmodic properties. This plant is prescribed for inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system. Used as a good expectorant. Tricolor violet is especially good in children's practice for colds, coughs, asthma, allergies, and is indispensable for adults - for rheumatism, arthrosis, gout, cystitis, kidney stones, atherosclerosis, bleeding. Violet infusions are widely used in dermatology due to their antimicrobial and antipruritic properties. Tricolor violet also helps with poorly healing wounds, furunculosis, and skin rashes due to vitamin deficiency.
Recipes for using tricolor violet
- For deforming spondylosis and osteochondrosis The following recipe is suitable - take equal parts of tricolor violet grass, bean pods, corn silk, bearberry leaves, birch buds. Pour 1 tablespoon of the mixture into 1 glass of boiling water and leave for 20 minutes. Take 2 - 3 tablespoons 2 - 3 times a day. The treatment is designed for a long period - about 3 months. Every 3 - 4 weeks you need to take a break of 1 - 1.5 weeks. You can combine treatment with light rubbing of angelica and red elderberry tincture into the spine, alternating them with each other after 3 to 4 weeks.
- Violet tricolor, commonly used for pulmonary diseases, used with some success for neuroses, palpitations. The daily dose is 2 tablespoons of herb per 0.5 liter of boiling water, leave for 4 hours.
- Violet is used as an expectorant for bronchitis, for any type of cough– 20 grams of grass are crushed to particles smaller than 5 mm. Pour 250 ml. water room temperature. Boil for 15 minutes. Leave for at least 45 minutes. Strain, add water until you get 200 ml. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day.
- For allergies, especially at its first manifestations, tricolor violet, nettle, chamomile, calendula and horsetail herb are mixed in equal proportions. Two tablespoons of the collection are infused in 0.5 liters of boiling water overnight in a thermos - this is the daily norm. You can drink for a long time.
- Glomerulonephritis. A mixture is prepared from equal parts of violets, initial grass and black poplar buds. Pour 1 tablespoon of the mixture into a glass of boiling water, leave for 30 minutes, take 1/4 cup 4 times a day before meals. The treatment is long-term. After completing a month's course of such treatment, you can replace it with another treatment for a month, then return to this collection again. You need to be patient and persevering.
- As a blood purifier for various skin diseases (eczema, rashes) use an infusion of tricolor violet. 20 g of raw material per 1 glass of boiling water, leave for 15 - 20 minutes, take half a glass or 1 glass three times a day.
- For eczema and psoriasis good for lubrication skin juice of a fresh plant.
- For scrofula, as well as for other skin diseases (eczema, itching, acne, rash, pustules) use the Averina tea recipe - 4 parts tricolor violet, 4 parts string, 1 part bittersweet nightshade. Pour 1 tablespoon into 1 cup of boiling water. Give chilled to children and adults 3-4 times a day, 1 dessert/tablespoon. The same collection can be used for baths and washes. The recipe belongs to the St. Petersburg merchant Averin, who lived in the first half of the 19th century.
Contraindications
- If, with prolonged use of a medicinal plant and in excess of dosages, an itchy rash and other allergic skin reactions appear, then the daily dose should be distributed over 3 to 4 days. If this does not help, cancel this type of treatment.
- In its individual form, tricolor violet is contraindicated for glomerulonephritis, but in combination with the letter and buds of black poplar, its use in this disease is beneficial.
- Small children should not be given more than 1 glass of tricolor violet infusion per day at the rate of 10 - 12 years. dry plant for 1 glass of boiling water (in 3-4 doses).
- Along with healing properties violets have another quality - decorativeness. As a result of selection, the Wittrock violet was developed, which has numerous varieties with large, brightly colored flowers. Cultivated varieties of tricolor violet also have medicinal properties, but to a lesser extent.
- If you have collected violet tricolor seeds, you can grow them on personal plot. This unpretentious plant. But once you start it, it will persistently spread by self-seeding.
draw your attention to that it is advisable to eliminate any problems by three levels: physical, energetic and spiritual. The recipes contained in the article are not a guarantee of recovery. The information provided must be considered as capable of helping, based on the experience of traditional and modern medicine, the multifaceted action of herbal remedies, but not as a guarantee.
Bibliography:
- “Plants are your friends and foes”, R.B. Akhmedov
- “Odolen is grass”, R.B. Akhmedov
- « Medicinal plants in folk medicine”, V.P. Makhlayuk
- “Medicinal plants and methods of their use among the people”, Nosal M.A., Nosal I.M.
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Growing tricolor violet and using the flower
Violets, moths, pansies - these are the loving names for these delicate plants that delight us from the very first warm days of April until the end of summer.
They bloom, despite the still very cold nights, competing with primroses, and can have different shades and colors even in the same clearing.
If you plant a wild violet on your plot, it will never leave you.
The seeds formed on the violet scatter over a distance of up to 2 meters.
The same beautiful plants will constantly grow from the scattered seeds, appearing either on the lawn or in the flower garden, while nothing has bloomed there yet.
The violet can be placed in a rocky garden, on alpine slide and near an artificial reservoir.
It will delight you not only with its variety of colors, but will also give you the opportunity to stock up on medicinal raw materials for colds for the long winter.
Yellow-eyed Anyutka
This is not a joke at all!
After all, Pansies
They blossomed like in a wonderful fairy tale!
Blue - naughty
And they are bottomless.
Yellow and blue
As if with white frost.
As if they sat on the meadows
Moths of all shades!
Among the Slavic peoples, many conspiracies for love and for a betrothed were associated with the field violet. Girls wove wreaths from it and scattered its buds in order to quickly get married.
Tricolor violet - find and recognize
Violet tricolor is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant - 10-35 cm in height. Single multi-colored violet flowers bloom on pedicels emerging from the axils of ovoid leaves and consist of five unequal petals. They can be from 1.5 to 3 cm in diameter, depending on the conditions in which the plant grows. Tricolor violets can be found in meadows, forest glades and along roadsides throughout our country.
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For medicinal purposes, violet stems and flowers are collected and the roots are dug up. Violet tricolor herb is used as an anti-inflammatory, diuretic, disinfectant, diaphoretic and sedative. It contains vitamin C, and is also widely used as an expectorant in the form of infusion and mixture for catarrh of the respiratory tract.
- The stems, leaves and flowers of violets should be collected during flowering, dried in the shade and stored for up to two years;
- Wine infused with violets is considered medicinal;
- Baths with violet decoction cleanse the skin and are recommended for children with scrofula and prickly heat;
- For stomatitis and toothache, you can chew violet flowers and leaves;
- Violet tea and even just the smell of violets helps with headaches;
- A decoction of violet with honey should be drunk for colds and coughs;
- Tea made from violet leaves and burdock roots will relieve pain from rheumatism, gout and arthritis.
Violet roots serve as an emetic and laxative.
