Plant Name | Elaeagnus angustifolia L. |
Botanical Info | Tree-shrub in height to 6 m |
Geography | Grows on skirts of forests, on shores of the rivers, in Crimea, on Caucasus, in southern districts of Siberia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia, from plains to mountains. |
Chemical Content | Fruits contain carbohydrates, organic acids, tannins, grease, the nitrous, slimy and pigments. The cortex contains alkaloids eleagnine (0,1 %) and tetrahydroharmol (0,05 %), tannins and pigments. In leaves there is an ascorbic acid; in flowers – an aromatic essential oil (0,3 %). |
Traditional Use and Activity | Fruits possess astringent, antiinflammatory, anaesthetising both enveloping action and property to abjoint a sputum .
Decoction of roots or fruits of the oleaster accept at diseases of wind-pipes, a colitis (in a combination with jam from fruits). Infusion of flowers of the oleaster used at catarrhal diseases, and also as an agent enriching a cardiac performance. The ground fresh leaves of this plant put to purulent wounds for their purification and fast healing. Fruits used in nutriment. |