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1. Photos, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
2. Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
3. Botanical description, reference data, useful information, illustrations
4. Recipes for use in traditional medicine and cosmetology
5. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing

Badan (bergenia), Bergenia. Photos of the plant, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism

Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism

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Family: Saxifragaceae (Saxifragaceae)

Origin: Badan comes from the mountainous regions of China and Central Asia.

Area: Badan is widespread in the mountainous regions of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, as well as in the western and northern regions of China. Plants of this species grow on rocks, slopes, in forests and meadows at an altitude of up to 4000 meters above sea level.

Chemical composition: Badan contains numerous biologically active substances, including tannins, flavonoids, carotenoids, anthocyanins, acids, vitamins and minerals. In addition, the roots and leaves of bergenia contain bergenine, which has anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties.

Economic value: Badan is popular in landscape design for its beautiful leaves and flowers that appear in the spring. In addition, bergenia has medicinal properties and is used to treat skin diseases, coughs, bronchitis, gastritis, stomach ulcers and other diseases. Badan root is used in folk medicine for the production of decoctions and tinctures. In addition, bergenia contains xerogenin, which is used as an ingredient in cosmetics and detergents.

Legends, myths, symbolism: In Slavic mythology, bergenia was considered a sacred plant that helped drive out evil spirits and protect the house and household from them. In folk medicine, bergenia was used to treat various diseases, including to increase immunity. In Chinese mythology, badan is associated with magic and mystery. Its leaves are considered a symbol of wealth, health and longevity. Among the ancient Greeks, badan was associated with the goddess of the earth and fertility, Demeter. Legends say that Demeter created badan to save her daughter Persephone, who was kidnapped by Hades, the ruler of the underworld. In European culture, bergenia is associated with mystery and mystery, and its leaves symbolize eternity and longevity. In general, bergenia is a symbol of longevity, protection, health and wealth.

Badan (bergenia), Bergenia. Description, illustrations of the plant

Badan (bergenia). Legends, myths, history

Today, about a plant that not all gardeners know well, which, frankly, is an unfortunate omission. This is a herbaceous perennial from the saxifrage family, with a powerful creeping horizontal branched rhizome, glossy evergreen leaves and delicate flowers collected in an inflorescence. The official scientific name of Bergenia (lat. Bergenia) was given to the plant by the name of the German physician and botanist Karl August von Bergen.

There is no need to prove the benefits of badan, it is enough to open the relevant literature. Today's legend is connected precisely with its useful properties. And she's so...

One little girl from the whole family had only an older sister, who, after a difficult birth, became very ill. The girl was frightened for her sister and turned to the healer - how to help?

"Badan will help her. Go to the spruce forest and find him," the healer ordered. There is nothing to do, the girl went into the forest. Searched and searched, couldn't find it. The girl screamed louder and more desperately: "Father Badan! Grandfather, brother, help!" Blue bells nodded sadly. A little forest fairy got out of one of them:

"Wait, don't scream so loud! Flowers talk when church bells ring. My name is Varia, I'll help you." Then, in the distance, there was a booming ringing of a large bell, and then small ones rang out: "dan-dan". Yes, here he is - badan!

The girl brought the roots and leaves of bergenia to the healer and told how the forest fairy Varia helped her. The sorceress smiled at this story, she knew it was true. Soon the girl's sister recovered. And then people went to bow to the badan. And for many centuries he saved people. The girl's name was Varya, and therefore they began to call this plant Varvarin bergenia, Varyushkin root, bergenia - given by God.

In the homeland of badan, Altai, it is called Chigir tea, in Siberia - Mongolian and is actively used in traditional medicine. During wintering under the snow, the leaves undergo natural fermentation and become extremely healing. Chigir tea tones up, improves immunity, treats many diseases. In traditional folk medicine, it is also called aus, kachintsy, kamchug, kinuch, koyashan, koyashnik, kylbysh, khamius, chagyr, shushun.

In addition to medicinal benefits, bergenia looks great in the garden and is actively used in ornamental gardening. Its evergreen leaves adorn the garden from early spring until the snow falls, and its early flowering will complement the flower garden in spring.

Bergenia crassifolia (L.) Fritisch. Botanical description, distribution, chemical composition, features of use

Saxifrage family - Saxifragaceae.

Perennial plant with thick creeping rhizome. The stem is thick, glabrous, leafless. Basal leaves in a rosette, on long petioles, shiny, glabrous, with an almost rounded blade and membranous sheaths. The flowers overwinter in a dense apical inflorescence. Petals purple-red, with numerous veins. The stamens are twice as long as the calyx.

Box with two divergent blades. Blooms from mid-spring to mid-summer. Propagated by rhizomes and seeds.

Badan grows on rocks and rocky slopes.

Distributed in Siberia (Altai, Buryatia, Chita, Irkutsk, Kemerovo regions, the Altai Republic, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Tyva, southern Yakutia), Kazakhstan, Primorye, northern Mongolia, China and Korea.

All parts of the plant contain tannins (13-23% in leaves and 15-27% in rhizomes) from the group of gallotannins with a good quality of over 35%, in seeds - 18%. Gallic acid, arbutin (10-22%), free hydroquinone and ascorbic acid (up to 0,26%) were also found in the leaves.

Phlobaphenes, glucose, sucrose, starch, glycosides, resinous substances, gums, dextrin, polyphenols, an isocoumarin derivative - bergenin were isolated from the rhizomes. With age, the content of tannins in the rhizomes increases, and in the leaves it decreases.

Badan is rich in arbutin.

Soaked in water and washed from tannins, rhizomes rich in starch are eaten, and overwintered old blackened leaves are used for aromatic tea.

In Siberia, this drink is known as "Mongolian tea".

The leaves are sometimes used in the manufacture of beverages.

Badan is known as an excellent tanning agent with a high content of tannins, which are 2 times more in badan than in willow and spruce bark and 4 times more than in oak wood. Leaves and rhizomes are used to prepare tannic extract.

Tannins are easily adsorbed by the skin, and it acquires beautiful brown-yellow hues. Badan extracts are used for tanning any kind of leather, especially plantar.

Due to the high content of tannins, bergenia rhizome has strong astringent properties and acts as an anti-inflammatory and antiseptic agent. It is used in medicine in the form of a liquid extract and is used in gynecological practice in the treatment of cervical erosion.

Badan has a hemostatic effect - it is recommended for heavy menstruation, hemorrhagic metropathies, bleeding after an abortion. The use of bergenia is effective in intestinal diseases - colitis and enterocolitis, in acute bacillary and chronic dysentery. The plant has pronounced phytoncidal properties. Decoctions from leaves and rhizomes stop the growth of dysentery and typhoid bacilli.

Outwardly, bergenia is used to rinse the mouth with stomatitis and gingivitis. Pharmacological studies have shown that bergenia lowers blood pressure and speeds up the heart rate. The leaves are used to treat diseases of the genitourinary tract, the arbutin contained in them is broken down in the body into glucose and hydroquinone, which has an antiseptic effect.

In the folk medicine of Altai, three-year-old leaves were used to make tea, in Siberia, an infusion of the roots was used for gastrointestinal diseases (diarrhea, colitis), diseases of the throat and mouth, and fever. Root powder was used externally as a wound healing agent for prickly heat in children. In Tibetan medicine, bergenia was used for pulmonary tuberculosis and kidney disease.

The plant produces a number of valuable chemical products: hydroquinone, gallic acid, pyrogallol, technical and medical tannin. The extract from the leaves is used to dye fabrics black, and green dye is also obtained from them. In the past, tarpaulins, fishing nets and gear were impregnated with an extract from the roots, which extended the service life by 1,5-2 times; it was used as a permanent black and brown dye. Badan is introduced into the culture as tanidonos (plantations are planted with segments of rhizomes).

Very ornamental plant, planted in flower beds.

Authors: Dudchenko L.G., Kozyakov A.S., Krivenko V.V.

Badan thick-leaved, Bergenia crassifolia L. fritsch. Botanical description, habitat and habitats, chemical composition, use in medicine and industry

Perennial ornamental herbaceous plant up to 50 cm tall, Saxifragaceae family. The rhizome is fleshy, up to 35 cm thick. The leaves are basal, large, broadly oval, on long petioles, hibernating. Stems are leafless.

The flowers are bright pink, in a dense paniculate corymbose inflorescence. The fruit is a capsule with two diverging lobes.

Range and habitats. The plant is common in Siberia (Altai, Buryatia, Chita, Irkutsk, Kemerovo regions, the Altai Republic, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Tyva, southern Yakutia), Kazakhstan, Primorye, northern Mongolia, China and Korea.

Grows on rocks, screes, old moraines and rocky slopes of the subalpine and upper part of the forest belt, in coniferous and deciduous forests with a medium-closed canopy. The densest thickets form in places protected from the wind and with a thick winter snow cover. Can "climb" to a height of over 2000 m above sea level.

The plant is demanding on water, very shade-tolerant; tolerates acidic peat soils.

Chemical composition. The rhizomes contain 15-27%, in the leaves 17-21% of tannins, belonging mainly to the group of gallotannins, the tannin content in which ranges from 8 to 10%. The tannins of the rhizome contain up to 35% gallic acid. With age, the content of tannins in the rhizomes increases. The rhizomes contain isocoumarin bergenin, 6,52% glucose and up to 2,5% sucrose.

The leaves contain from 10 to 23%, in some cases up to 35% of tannins (with age, the content of tannins in the leaves decreases). Leaf tannins are a mixture of pyrogallic (up to 40%) and pyrocatechin tannins.

The content of arbutin in the leaves reaches 22%, and free hydroquinone - 4%, gallic and ellagic acids are also present. According to the content of arbutin, bergenia is the richest plant source in the world; before studying bergenia, the first place belonged to bearberry (5% arbutin).

The chemical composition of leaves from absolutely dry matter as a percentage: 7,0 ash, 7,8 protein, 3,0 fat, 10,0 fiber, 72,2 BEV. Rhizomes contain in percentage: 8,0 ash, 2,5 protein, 0,9 fat, 80,41 BEV.

Application in medicine. For medicinal purposes, rhizomes are used, much less often - leaves.

Aqueous extracts of the rhizome and leaves are used internally for non-infectious colitis and enterocolitis, tuberculosis, acute and chronic pneumonia, pulmonary hemorrhages, acute respiratory, influenza and some other infections, laryngitis, headaches, fevers, articular rheumatism, gastrointestinal diseases. They are used in gynecological practice with heavy menstruation due to inflammatory processes of the appendages, with hemorrhagic metropathies, uterine fibroids, after childbirth, with bleeding after an abortion.

Badan is also used for non-dysenteric colitis; with dysentery - in combination with sulfonamides and antibiotics. They are also used in dental practice for lubricating gums in chronic inflammatory processes in the oral cavity. Compresses with infusion or decoction of bergenia are used to heal wounds, ulcers and bruises.

Badan preparations have hemostatic, astringent, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties. They are used in gynecological practice for heavy menstruation due to inflammatory processes of the appendages, for hemorrhagic metropathies, uterine fibroids, and for bleeding after abortion.

Locally - for the treatment of cervical erosion in the form of douching. Badan is also used for non-dysenteric colitis; with dysentery - in combination with sulfonamides and antibiotics. They are also used in dental practice for lubricating gums in chronic inflammatory processes in the oral cavity.

Other uses. The plant is in the first row of world tannins (the content of tannins is 2 times more than in willow or spruce bark, and 4 times more than in oak bark), it is used for tanning soles and yuft, as well as for impregnating nets and tarpaulins. Raw materials collected high in the mountains contain more tannins than in the low mountains.

The thickets of this plant have been exploited for the production of tannins for a long time and in places convenient for harvesting they have become very depleted, therefore, bergenia has been introduced into cultivation (plantations are laid by segments of rhizomes). Gives black and brown paint.

Soaked in water and washed from tannins, the rhizomes are eaten, and the overwintered, darkened leaves are used for aromatic tea - Mongolian tea, or Chigir tea.

It is possible to obtain technical (for fixing paints) and pharmaceutical (for medicinal purposes) tannin, gallic acid (for the production of pyrogallol), dye and hydroquinone from arbutin (30% yield during the hydrolysis of arbutin).

Authors: Turova A.D., Sapozhnikova E.N.

Badan (bergenia), Bergenia. Recipes for use in traditional medicine and cosmetology

Ethnoscience:

• Cough treatment: take 1 glass of fresh bergenia leaves and pour 1 liter of boiling water. Leave to infuse for 1 hour, strain and drink 1 glass 3 times a day to reduce cough symptoms.
• Wound treatment: applying fresh bergenia juice to a wound can speed up healing and prevent infection.
• Strengthening immunity: Steep 1 teaspoon of dried bergenia leaves in a cup of boiling water for 10 minutes. Drink 1-2 times a day to strengthen immunity and reduce the risk of disease.
• Treatment for abdominal pain: take 1 glass of fresh bergenia leaves, pour 1 liter of boiling water, insist for 1 hour, strain and drink 1 glass 3 times a day to reduce abdominal pain.
• Cold treatment: brew 1 teaspoon of dried bergenia leaves in a cup of boiling water for 10 minutes, add honey and lemon juice. Drink 1-2 times a day to reduce cold symptoms.

Cosmetology:

• Mask for the face: crush fresh bergenia leaves and mix with a little honey. Apply to face and leave for 15-20 minutes. Wash off with warm water. This mask helps to moisturize and brighten the skin, as well as reduce inflammation.
• Face lotion: brew 1 tablespoon of dried bergenia leaves in 1 cup boiling water for 10 minutes. Cool and soak a cotton pad in the infusion. Wipe face to reduce inflammation and improve skin tone.
• Hand cream: Mix 1 tablespoon freshly cut bergenia leaves with 1 tablespoon coconut oil and a little beeswax. Melt all ingredients in a saucepan over low heat. Cool and apply to hands to moisturize and reduce dryness.
• Body Spray: brew 2 tablespoons of dry bergenia leaves in 2 cups boiling water for 20 minutes. Cool and add a few drops of lavender or rosemary essential oil. Pour into a spray bottle and use as a body toner to refresh and hydrate skin.

Attention! Before use, consult with a specialist!

Badan (bergenia), Bergenia. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing

Badan, or bergenia, is an ornamental plant with broad leaves and bright flowers.

Tips for growing, harvesting and storing bergenia:

Cultivation:

• Badan prefers shady or semi-shady places with fertile, loose soil. The plant can grow in the sun, but it thrives best in shade or partial shade.
• Badan does not require special care, but regular watering and fertilizer contribute to its growth and development. The plant does not tolerate drought, so keep an eye on the level of soil moisture.
• After flowering, bergenia is recommended to be cut. This preserves the beauty of the plant and promotes its healthy growth in the next season.

Workpiece:

• For medicinal purposes, you can use the leaves and roots of bergenia. Leaves and stems should be collected during flowering, and roots - in the autumn.
• Leaves and stems can be dried in the sun, in a ventilated place or in a special dryer at a temperature of 40-50 °C. Dried leaves and stems can be stored in a dark place in an airtight container.
• The roots should be thoroughly washed and cut into pieces. Then they need to be dried in the sun or in a ventilated place at a temperature not exceeding 40 ° C. Dried roots can be stored in a dark place in an airtight container.

Storage:

• Dried leaves and stems can be stored in a dark place in an airtight container for up to 2 years.
• Dried roots can be stored in a dark place in an airtight container for up to 3 years.
• Compliance with the correct storage conditions will help preserve the medicinal properties and aroma of bergenia for a long time.

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