Peony
At the edges and clearings, grassland slopes and glades mixed, conifer and small-leaved forests, as well as in alpine areas north-east of the country, in southern Siberia, in the mountains of Kazakhstan and Central Asia is growing peony, which gave the name to avoid, and the local population calls Marin is a plant root or Marina grass, warm berries.plant - perennial, large, grassy, with petioles twice troychatorasseche GOVERNMENTAL bare leaves. Belongs to the family Pionovyh. Flowers are usually one on top of the stem and consist of 5-6 bright pink-red petals. The root system is strong. This plant differs from the closely related species of peony, are not subject to harvesting the pion hybrid, angustifolia, Bieberstein, and others, which only count up to 15 species. Russian names of plants - Peony - from the Greek, meaning "doctor, healing." Greek legend connects the origin of the word with the name of the doctor Peona, healed the god of the Underworld Pluto from the wounds inflicted by Hercules. Grateful gods Peona saved from death by turning him into a flower. One described in the ancient Greece of the pion and in the Middle Ages in Europe, belonged to a miraculous healing plants, helping with asthma, gout, liver disease.
Underground parts Peony contain essential oils, tannins, starch, minerals, etc. In the Tibetan folk medicine, peony used for various gastric diseases, epilepsy and other nervous disorders. In Mongolian medicine Marin root is prescribed for kidney disease, in Arabic - have long used the roots of the peony as a component of anticancer drugs and as an antidote for poisoning. Medicine found that the herb has sedative, analgesic, bactericidal action. With these same goals can be eaten and the grass, but its effect is weaker. Traditional medicine is also an interesting information about this "remarkable growth". Marin root recommended healers, "when the liver man fatally tormented when she and the stomach cancer he has criss-crossing", "when women suffer from uterine cancer, not seeing the pain of white light," when the grave ahead of time driving the evil malaria.
Bactericidal properties of extracts of peony used in cosmetics, and prepared based on these funds are used for tuberculosis skin, bleeding, purulent skin diseases, for the treatment of erosions.