Bergenia crassifolia
Rhode Badan includes 6 species in our country grow 4 species, very close to each other. Medical and economic application has only one species - Bergenia crassifolia, other species are extended to very limited areas and to be protected. Bergenia crassifolia - a perennial herb with a long creeping rhizome. The leaves are collected in a dense rosette, broadly, leathery, dark green, very beautiful and decorative. Flower arrows thick and tall, are large, spreading panicle of purplish-pink flowers.Badan well adapted to the environment: transfer and dry, sunny places of the southern slopes, grows in shaded, moist slopes in pine, cedar -fir and birch-aspen forests, stand the rigors of the rocky shores of rivers and alpine lakes.
grows only in Siberia - Altai, Sayan, around Lake Baikal. Raw materials are leaves and rhizomes, which are harvested in the usual way. Badan has been known since antiquity, it is mentioned in many scientific treatises of the time. Taken to stop the chronic diarrhea and stomach capacity. Rhizome and leaf Bergenia contain mainly tannins of various structures.
Infusion from the leaves and decoction of the rhizomes of Bergenia have astringent, anti-inflammatory, disinfecting and styptic action. These properties of Bergenia are widely used in cosmetology. Applied in the form of lotions for the treatment of oily seborrhea face, hair, and porous skin, seborrheic dermatitis, acne, sweating. Badan - a plant is very decorative, it planted even in the flower beds, pots.
Despite the abundant fruits, Bergenia crassifolia reproduce vegetatively - segments of the rhizomes.