The plant Ivan da Marya (oak maryannik) belongs to the genus Maryannik of the Broomrape family. It is also popularly called yellowberry, jaundice, well-marked grass, linden, Ivanova grass, meadow bell. The genus Mariannik combines annual herbaceous plants that have an underdeveloped root system and an erect stem, reaching a height of 15 cm to 50 cm.
Mariannik blooms with bright yellow flowers from early summer to autumn, after which the fruits appear on the plant in the form of boxes. The plant is very decorative, in addition, its flowers are a good honey plant. Some types of mariannik, in particular, oak maryannik, have long been used in traditional medicine.
Ivan da Marya - types and places of growth
Oak maryannik is a plant with a European range. The main places of its growth are the forest-steppe and forest European parts of Russia, the northwestern and western forest-steppes of Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Siberia. The best conditions for this plant are deciduous forests, chalk slopes and wet peat meadows.
In total, the genus Mariannik has up to 35 species, among which the most characteristic for our zone are oak maryannik (Ivan da Marya), field maryannik, meadow maryannik, forest maryannik and cut maryannik.
Ivan da Marya - healing properties
Ivan da Marya has anti-inflammatory, insecticidal and wound healing effects. In folk medicine, its decoction is used to treat diseases of the heart and stomach; use it for baths in the treatment of diathesis, eczema, skin tuberculosis, rheumatism. With the help of freshly chopped grass, maryannik oakwood effectively heals wounds.
It is interesting that since ancient times, the flowers of Ivan da Marya have been endowed with special magical properties, believing that, collected for Ivan Kupala, they can ward off evil influences from the house and keep good relations between spouses.
Ivan da Marya - dosage forms
As a medicinal raw material, the aerial parts of the Ivan da Marya plant are used in the form of flowers, stems, leaves, as well as fruits. The time for collecting grass and flowers is the flowering period (from May to September). After harvesting, they are dried in well-ventilated areas, then stored separately from other plants. The shelf life of dry raw materials is up to 10 months. The fruits of oak maryannik are harvested from July to September.
Ivan da Marya - recipes
An infusion of the Ivan da Marya herb is used as effective remedy for baths and local washings in the treatment of scrofula, various rashes and scabies. For its preparation 3 tbsp. l. maryannik is poured with 1 liter of boiling water and, after insisting for about 2 hours, filtered.
In the treatment of hypertension, dizziness, heart disease, neuralgia, epilepsy, diseases of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, another infusion of oak maryannik is used. For its preparation 1 tbsp. l. herbs are poured with a glass of boiling water, then insisted for half an hour and, after straining, take half a glass twice a day.
With the help of freshly chopped grass and its powder, they accelerate the healing process of wounds, and with a decoction of fruits they destroy harmful insects.
Ivan da Marya - contraindications
When using the Ivan da Marya plant, it should be remembered that it is very poisonous, so they should be used inside with great care. The seeds of the plant contain the poisonous glucoside rinanthin (aucubin), which has a narcotic and local irritant effect, manifested by weakness, drowsiness, weakening of cardiac activity. The appearance of these symptoms after the use of preparations of oak maryannik is a reason for an immediate visit to the doctor.
Ivan da Marya - this is the name of several types of plants. Most often it refers to oak maryannik, which also has other names:
- bicolor,
- ivan,
- brother and sister,
- medunka,
- lime tree,
- scrofulous grass,
- jaundice,
- Ivanova or well-aimed grass.
Male and female name among the people they gave plants that bloom with a multi-colored or excellent pair of inflorescences. These include meadow sage, periwinkle, Geneva tenacity, tricolor violet, campanula.
The colorful name of the flower was given for the contrasting combination of a yellow corolla of a flower with a purple bract. Such an unusual phenomenon is associated with the legend of the tragic love of a young man and a beautiful woman. Ivan is associated with yellow, and Marya with purple. Ancestors endowed the flower with magical properties and kept it in the house as a talisman of marital happiness and protection from evil forces.
Ivan da Marya is part of the wreath for divination for Ivan Kupala. Union of yellow and of blue color considered a combination of the elements of water and fire. According to popular beliefs, the flower contributes to the establishment of an alliance between man and the gods, heavenly and earthly. The flower gives eternal happiness, harmonizing the elements of yin and yang.
Grass collected in Kupala night, tied in brooms and went to bathe in the bath to gain health and well-being.
Name
Name
Ivan da Marya or oak maryannik (Melampyrum nemorosum) refers to herbaceous annuals. It has a straight, branched stem 15-60 cm in height with pubescence of white villi. Opposite green leaves are heart-shaped at the base with a pointed edge. The root is thin and undeveloped, so the flower is effortlessly pulled out of the ground.
Description
Marjannik attracts attention with a spectacular, two-tone color of the brushes, which is not difficult to see from the photo.
Flowers on short stalks of juicy yellow color are collected in apical inflorescences, similar to a spike-shaped, one-sided brush. They are decorated with jagged, ovoid bracts. purple at the top and green at the base. The color of the bract can be crimson, bright purple or blue. The flower cup resembles an elongated bell. Inflorescences are formed in the axils of the apical foliage.
The flowering period lasts from May to September. It ends with the formation of a small ovoid fruit. The box contains oblong, trihedral dark brown seeds. After falling, the seeds have time to germinate, and in October it is already formed root system, which allows you to overwinter under fallen leaves. After the snow melts, development continues.
Plant features
Small flowers produce abundant nectar that attracts bees, and the fruits serve as food for forest dwellers.
Interestingly, thanks to the aromatic oils on the seeds, ants love them and actively move along their paths, where dense thickets grow in spring. Thus, the Ivan da Marya flower (photo) spreads to new territories.
The flower is common in forests and forest-steppe. Found on forest edges deciduous type, in groves, among shrubs, on wet meadows and slopes of ravines. Chooses to Grow shady places, where it forms a dense growth.
Common types
The genus Mariannik includes 13 plant species. Of these, under conditions middle lane growing:
- oak maryannik
- maryannik field
- meadow
- forest
- split mariannik
Beneficial features
Mariannik oak - poisonous plant requiring careful handling. However, it has long been used in herbal medicine as a sedative, wound healing, anticonvulsant and anti-inflammatory effect.
Ivan da Marya flowers are used for heart disease and digestive problems, rheumatism, hypertension, neuralgia and epilepsy. Healing baths prepared for skin diseases such as eczema, scabies, rashes, diathesis. Tea from mariannik is drunk with scrofula.
Medicinal raw materials are stems, leaves, flowers and even seed pods. The ground part is harvested during flowering.
Once upon a time, a decoction of maryannik fruits was used to dye fabrics yellow and as an insecticide against insects.
Home flower Ivan da Marya
The indoor variety of Ivan da Marya is tuberous begonia, which differs significantly from the wild species. Outwardly, it looks like a bush with leaves rounded at the base, elongated in one direction. Leaf outline with fine teeth. The flower throws out two types of buds. Some are terry, similar to the buds of red roses, while others are ordinary, of 5 petals.
Begonia tubers for planting should be free from damage and signs of rot. They are put up for germination in February. The container is filled with a loose substrate with the addition of peat. The tubers are laid out on wet surface and do not sprinkle. Keep in a bright and warm place. The soil is added when the sprouts reach 6-8 cm. Flowering occurs in June and lasts until autumn. Watering is moderate, along the edge of the pot. Recommended organic and mineral supplements.
Perennial indoor flower propagated by seeds and cuttings.
Growing in the garden
When growing Ivan da Marya on garden plot, v decorative purposes or for medicinal raw materials, they begin with soil preparation. It should be loose and moist. Under the preliminary digging, top dressing is made from mullein.
The laying of seeds is carried out in winter in order to get early shoots and May flowering in the spring. It should be borne in mind that maryannik has low seed germination and in the spring the crops will have to be renewed. Large seeds are pressed into the soil or sprinkled thin layer earth. For development and bright flowering The flower needs a moist environment.
The site is chosen in partial shade so that Sun rays were able to give brightness to the inflorescences. Top dressing Ivan da Marya is not required. The flower independently extracts nutrients from other plants or synthesizes.
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Maryannik, Ivan da Marya, yellowberry, scrofulous grass
MARYANNIK OAK (Melampyrum nemorosum L.), or IVAN DA MARIA - annual herbaceous plant with a pubescent stem, family norichnikovyh (Scrophulariaceae), genus maryannik (Melapyrum L.). Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate. The flowers are light yellow, two-lipped, collected in spike-shaped inflorescences (yellow lips, red-yellow corolla tube). The flowers have comb-toothed purple bracts. The fruit is an ovoid capsule. Seeds are large, oblong, brown or almost black, with seed. Height 15-60 cm.
The plant is distinguished by a particularly striking contrast of bracts of blue tones and bright yellow corollas. It is very decorative, therefore it often attracted the attention of painters and poets, but when plucked into bouquets, it quickly fades. The flowers of Ivan da Marya produce abundant nectar and are deservedly considered a good honey plant. The seeds serve as fodder for forest game.
Popular names: oak maryannika - Ivan-da-Marya, Ivanets, Ivanova grass, maryannik, brother and sister, pansies, two-flowered, yellowberry, scrofulous grass, fireflower; meadow mariannika - Peter's grass, magpie shavings, field cornflowers, kusharka, lucrets, jaundice; maryannik forest - gnetukha, mare grass; field mariannika - vertebra, bell, ivan-da-marya, yellow-headed, coltsfoot, field grass.
Many legends associated with Ivan da Marya are dedicated to the symbolism of forbidden love. If you believe the fairy tale, the name Ivan da Marya arose as follows: fate separated a brother from his sister, Ivan and Marya, in childhood. When they grew up and met, they fell in love with each other, but when they learned about their relationship, in order not to be separated, they turned into a flower with a double color. The toughest version of the legend says that the sister wanted to seduce her brother, and he killed her for this (see "Legends of the Violet").
Ivan da Marya is the name of several herbaceous plants, the flowers of which (or the upper parts of the whole plant) are distinguished by the presence of two sharply distinguishable colors, most often yellow and blue or purple. The most popular are oak maryannik and tricolor violet. This name is used much less often: Geneva tenacious, meadow sage and periwinkle. They also have two brightly different colors (the violet has a third, white, is not taken into account).
Oak maryannik is found in the northern, middle and southwestern zones European part of the country. It grows in forest clearings (sometimes in large massifs), forest edges, hills, in thickets of shrubs, marshy meadows and chalk slopes. The most common plant in our meadows, clearings and edges of deciduous forests, where it blooms from late spring to early autumn (May-September).
Five types of mariannik grow in our zone: oak maryannik (M. nemorosum L.); field mariannik (M. arvensis L.); maryannik meadow (M. pratense L.); forest maryannik (M. silvaticum L.) and cut maryannik (M. laciniatum Kosh). The most common maryanniki: meadow and cut. And now we will talk about the closest relative of the oak maryannik, which is called the meadow maryannik.
Mariannik meadow is very similar to Ivan da Marya, but only it does not have purple leaves, and the flowers are almost white. This type mariannika is characteristic of coniferous forests, although it has the species name "meadow". Meadow maryannik is an annual plant. Every year it begins life as a seed. At the end of spring in the forest every year you see many shoots of maryannik with large oval cotyledons. Seedlings develop quickly and turn into mature plants in a few weeks. In the middle of summer, flowering is already beginning. Mariannik seeds are quite large, white, very similar in appearance to "ant eggs" (ant larvae). These seeds are spread by ants, who carry them throughout the forest. This method of seed dispersal is often found in forest herbaceous plants. Many species of them use the "services" of ants.
The plant is poisonous. Internal application maryannikov, as poisonous plants, requires great care. It is known that the plant contains traces of alkaloids, glucoside melompicrite (dulcite), and in the seeds - a very poisonous glucoside rinanthin (aucubin), which has a narcotic and local irritant effect. In case of seed poisoning, weakness, drowsiness are observed, and cardiac activity is weakened.
Poisoning of sheep and horses can be observed when they are fed with grain and flour contaminated with maryannik seeds. Sick animals become drowsy, tremble, blood appears in their urine, and a heartbeat is noted. First aid consists in prescribing laxatives first, and then in conducting a course of symptomatic therapy (stimulating, cardiac, etc.).
Currently, it is used only in traditional medicine. For medicinal purposes, the herb of the plant is used, which is harvested during the flowering period. Air dry in the shade or in a well ventilated area. The part used is grass (stems, leaves, flowers) and fruits. Grass is harvested in May - September, fruits - in July - September. How to use: 3 tablespoons of herb mariannika leave for 2 hours in 1 liter of boiling water, strain. Use as an external agent for local baths and washings in case of skin diseases.
It has an insecticidal, anti-inflammatory and good wound healing effect. An infusion of herbs is used internally for scrofula, externally - in the form of baths and washings for scrofula, various rashes and scabies. Fresh crushed herb and its powder speed up wound healing. A decoction of the fruit is used to kill harmful insects. Another type of mariannik has similar properties - field mariannik (Melampyrum arvense L.).
Aboveground part. Decoction - for hypertension, dizziness, heart disease, neuralgia, epilepsy, diseases of the stomach and organs of the gastrointestinal tract; externally (baths, washings, poultices) - for scrofulosis, skin tuberculosis, scabies, diathesis, eczema, rashes, chest diseases, rheumatism and as a wound healing agent. Leaves. Infusion, tea (inside and out) - with scrofula, rashes.
Method of application (Medicinal plants
Oak maryannik, or Ivan da Marya (Melampyrum nemorosum L.)
Mesophyte. Quite demanding on soil conditions. Seeds of oak maryannik germinate in autumn, in September - October. They form a long branching root - in this state, the seeds lie on the surface of the soil, covered with litter. Their further development occurs in the spring, after the snow melts.
Mariannik blooms, preserving the cotyledons, after seeding, it dies off in September October.
Nemoral, Middle South European-Ropean species. It grows in the European part of the USSR, in Siberia - in a single place, in the Irkutsk region, - apparently, as an alien; outside the USSR - in Scandinavia, Central Europe and the Western Mediterranean. Widely distributed in the forest and forest-steppe belt, common in deciduous forests, on the edges, near shrubs, found in damp peaty meadows, very rare in the north-east of the European part.
In Siberia, it is proposed to protect this species in the only known habitat.
Contraindications:
in case of seed poisoning, weakness, drowsiness are observed, cardiac activity is weakened. The toxicity of the plant is due to the presence of aucubin, which has a narcotic and local irritant effect.
Mariannik oakwood
Melampyrum nemorosum
Ivan da Marya
Description: An annual herbaceous plant 15-50 cm high. The stem is straight, branched, pubescent with whitish hairs directed downwards. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, entire. Flowers on short pedicels, facing one way, one at a time in the axils of the upper leaves, form a loose one-sided raceme, the flower has a purple, blue or raspberry color. Flowers slightly drooping. The corolla is bright yellow. The fruit is an ovoid, pointed capsule. It blooms in late spring and almost all summer until autumn.
Distribution: Widely distributed in the forest and forest-steppe zones of the European part of Russia, in the Caucasus, in the western, north-western regions of the forest-steppe of Ukraine, in Siberia - adventive. It occurs along the edges, among shrubs, in wet peat meadows, on chalk slopes.
Part Used: The herb and fruits are used. The grass contains alkaloids, glycosides, and the seeds contain aucubin.
Collection and harvesting: the grass of the plant is harvested during the flowering period. Air dry in the shade or in a well ventilated area. Grass is harvested in May - September, fruits - in July - September.
Application: The plant has insecticidal, anti-inflammatory and good wound healing properties. In folk medicine, infusion of herbs in small doses is also used for diseases of the stomach, heart and urticaria, and externally in the form of baths and washings - for scrofula, various rashes, eczema and scabies, skin tuberculosis and diathesis in children. Fresh crushed grass promotes the fastest healing of wounds.
3 art. l. herbs maryannika oakwood per 1 liter of boiling water, leave for 2 hours, strain. Use as an external agent for local baths and washings for skin diseases.
Maryannik oak, Ivan da Marya
Sem. SCROPHULARIACEAE - Oak maryannik, Ivan da Marya - Melampyrum nemorosum L.
Oak maryannik is an annual herbaceous plant with an underdeveloped root system. Stem erect, 15-50 cm in height, obtusely tetrahedral, with long opposite obliquely upward deflected branches, covered with stiff, downwardly directed hairs. The leaves are opposite, glabrous above and slightly hairy below. Flowers on short stalks, turned to one side, sitting one by one in the axils of the upper leaves, forming a loose one-sided brush, each flower is provided with a bract, painted in bright purple, more intense at the top; the corolla is bright yellow, with a red-brown curved tube, the lower lip of the corolla is longer than the upper one. The fruit is a capsule, ovoid, pointed, equal to or shorter than the calyx, glabrous, bifurcates when opened.
Blooms from June to autumn.
Grows on forest pastures, on bushes, hills and edges, forms thickets.
Dosage form: 3 tablespoons of maryannik insist 2 hours in 1 liter of boiling water, strain. Use as an external agent for local baths and washings in case of skin diseases.
The plant is poisonous.
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Ivan da Marya is a plant common in the European part of Russia and in Western Siberia. It has been covered with legends and beliefs since antiquity, largely due to its contrasting color with bright yellow flowers and blue-violet leaves.
The Eastern Slavs believed that earthly and heavenly things were united in this flower: a flower can connect people with the gods. On the day of the celebration of Ivan Kupala, it was torn down, and it became a symbol of sacred marriage between a man and a woman. Yellow- the groom, and blue - the bride.
This flower is the herb of strength. It is believed that it can help achieve harmony between yin and yang, bring what a person lacks - complete earthly happiness.
Description and use of the plant
Appearance
Ivan da Marya flower - herbaceous annual plant. It can be found in meadows, forest clearings, near bushes, on the edge of the forest, near swamps. Botanical designation - Melampyrum nemorosum L. The people have different names: oak maryannik, brother and sister, honeydew, yellowberry, fireflower, jaundice, willow grass, meadow bell ...
The fruit of the plant is an egg-shaped box, similar to a grain of wheat. These seeds are spread by ants, dragging them along the ground. Therefore, dense thickets of this grass are often found along ant paths in the forest.
This plant is an excellent honey plant, but poisonous. Its ground part contains alkaloids and glycosides. The seeds are the most dangerous. Dosage forms from it must be taken carefully.
Today, modern pharmacology is engaged in a deeper study of the plant.
Application in medical practice
The herb Ivan da Marya has long been widely used in folk medicine. It is used in the form of lotions, decoctions, infusions and baths in the treatment of:
- skin diseases
- neuralgia
- hypertension
- dizziness
- heart disease
- diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Mariannik oakwood has a wound-healing, anti-inflammatory, insecticidal effect. Fruits with seeds and the ground part of the plant are used.
Successfully treated with herbs:
- epilepsy
- depression
- scabies
- diathesis
- lupus
- rheumatism.
There are no specific contraindications. Not recommended for pregnant women and people prone to allergies. Grass is harvested during the flowering period, which lasts from May to September. Drying is carried out in a room that is well ventilated. Dry raw materials are stored for ten months.
The infusion of the flower is used as an effective remedy for baths and washings. For this, usually 3 tbsp. spoons of dry grass pour 1 liter of boiling water and leave for two hours, then filter.
An infusion of a flower for the treatment of hypertension, heart disease, stomach and neuralgia is prepared from 1 tbsp. spoons of grass, filled with 1 cup boiling water. After half an hour, filter and take 2 times a day for ½ cup.
Externally, a powder of crushed grass is used to heal wounds.
A decoction of the fruits of the plant is used to combat harmful insects.
However, we must remember that the plant is very poisonous, and take precautions.
This plant is believed to have magical properties. Last grass they plucked it on the day of the summer solstice and kept it with them as a means of protection: there was a belief that the flower would protect from the chase and dangerous people. To protect against thieves and evil spirits, Ivan da Marya flowers were placed in the corners of the house.
Fresh juice from a flower was given to people who lost their hearing or reason. It was believed that the presence of this grass in the house did not allow quarrels and disagreements between spouses.
And in our enlightened time, people believe that in order to find beauty and well-being, it is necessary to take a steam bath on Ivan Kupala in a bathhouse with a broom of Ivan da Marya grass.
legends
The Ivan da Marya flower has always been considered a symbol of fidelity and love among the people. There are many legends about the origin of the name of this flower. The most common of them is about Kupala and Kostroma. The legend told that once on the day of the summer solstice, the god of the hearth, Semarg, saw the goddess of the night Bathing suit on the banks of the river Ra (Volga) and fell in love. Their children were born: son Kupala and daughter Kostroma.
It so happened that the swan geese stole Kupala and took it to distant lands. Many years have passed since then. Once the beautiful Kostroma was walking along the river bank, braided a wreath and put it on her head. She told her friends that no one would ever tear a wreath from her head (that is, she would never marry). The gods were angry with her for these words. The wind blew the wreath from her head. The wreath fell into the river. At that time, he sailed past on Kupala's boat and picked up a wreath. According to custom, they were supposed to get married. Only after the wedding did they find out that they were brother and sister, but they had already managed to fall in love with each other. Then, in order not to part, they decided to drown themselves. The gods took pity on them and turned them into a plant Ivan da Marya. Since then, they have always been together.
Grass Ivan da Marya in the country
Currently a flower oak maryannik, so beautifully named by the people and fanned by the legends of our ancestors, finds the greatest use only in folk medicine.
ivan da maria flower
Often the name Ivan da Marya is used in relation to several different types plants. Often this is the name of meadow sage, and tricolor violet, and Geneva tenacious, and periwinkle, but the more famous plant is oak maryannik. Its other names are Ivanets, bicolor or brother and sister.
This plant belongs to the broomrape family and is considered an annual. Ivan da Marya flower - honey and ornamental plant but also poisonous. Despite this, it is widely used in folk medicine.
The inflorescence is apical, the raceme is spike-shaped with a rare color. Bracts are heart-shaped-ovate, opposite, pointed with teeth, along the veins and slightly pubescent at the base. Bracts at the bottom of the inflorescence Green colour, at the base of the middle part - purple-blue, at the top - purple color.
The calyx is usually tubular with pointed teeth. Flowers on a plant irregular shape, pedicels are small, turned in one direction and pubescent. Corolla yellow, two-lipped, with lower lip and reddish tubule. Blooms from May to September. It prefers to grow in oak forests, on edges and fields, in swampy meadows and among shrubs.
Ivan da Marya grass is widely distributed in European territory. The main places of growth are the forest and forest-steppe zone in the European part of Russia. But also the plant can be found in the Caucasus and in Siberia, Ukraine. Better conditions for plant growth - peat and damp meadows, chalk slopes and deciduous forests.
The genus Mariannik has 35 species. For Russia, the most characteristic species is Ivan-da-Marya (oak maryannik), meadow maryannik, field and cut.
Gallery: Ivan da Marya flower (25 photos)
flower legends
Nature endowed the Ivan da Marya plant with a very bright and contrasting color, which is why so many different legends and tales go around it.
Each nationality tells its own legend of the appearance of a flower, but in every story there were lovers who, in spite of everything, wanted to be together. So this one bright flower became a symbol of loyalty and love. Since ancient times, it was believed that blue is male color and yellow is feminine. But it is also not surprising that the name uses the most common Russian names - Ivan and Marya. They could symbolize any couple in love. The two most common legends are:
These are amazing and interesting stories composed the people about this grass. But the flower became famous not only unusual legends, it has also become known for its healing properties.
Application in traditional medicine
In folk medicine for cooking medicines use the aerial parts of this herb:
- flowers;
- fruit;
- leaves;
- stems.
Beneficial features
Ivan da Marya grass is a poisonous plant. Its entire terrestrial part contains glycosides and alkaloids, including dulcite and aucubin. The seeds are considered very poisonous.
They can cause quite severe poisoning in both humans and animals. Therefore, it is necessary to use the plant as a remedy with caution. Despite this property, the plant has a therapeutic effect in many diseases:
- So, its benefits are obvious in diseases of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, heart (hypertension), as well as in neuralgia and epilepsy.
- It is especially effective to apply externally for skin tuberculosis, diathesis, scabies, rheumatism, various rashes, for washing wounds. Externally, powder from a dried plant can be used, but also juice from a fresh one.
- An infusion of flowers has a calming, sedative, anticonvulsant effect. Tea from the plant is drunk with scrofula.
Possible danger
But you need to use the plant only according to the instructions, otherwise you can harm your health. The main symptoms of overdose, poisoning:
- stomach pain;
- weakness and drowsiness;
- vomiting and nausea;
- reduction in heart rate.
If a person is faced with the need to use this flower, then do not forget about it. toxic properties. The seeds are especially dangerous. They have a narcotic effect, cause drowsiness and irritability. If the above symptoms appear, you should consult a doctor.
The magical properties of the plant
People have long endowed Ivan da Marya grass with magical properties. So, if you pick a plant on the day of the solstice, then the flower will help the one who keeps it with him to get away from the chase.
Also in Russia, it was believed that a person who keeps a flower with him can quickly ride even on a sick and old horse. Previously, many scouts and messengers carried Ivan da Marya in their pockets. It is known that the fresh juice of the flower was given to drink to people who had lost their mind and hearing, reason and memory.
The flowers of Ivan da Marya, which were collected for Ivan Kupala, were kept in the hut. People believed that the flower protects their home from bad people and evil spirits, and also helps to restore relations between spouses. To protect against thieves, flowers were laid out in the corners of the house.