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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 maryannik, in particular, oak maryannik, have long been used in folk 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.

Interestingly, since ancient times, people have endowed the flowers of Ivan da Marya with special magical properties, believing that, collected on 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

Ivan da Marya herb infusion is used as an 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.

It is known that the Ivan da Marya flower got its name in honor of two loving hearts - the young Ivan and the beautiful Marya. Popular legend says that Ivan and Marya turned into beautiful flowers so that they would never be separated from each other. That is why the plant always has flowers of two sharply distinguishable colors: Ivan has a purple shirt, and Marya has a yellow handkerchief. In this publication, a general description of Ivan da Marya, the chemical composition, the use of Ivan da Marya in folk medicine, as well as methods for harvesting and storing the plant will be considered.
In the common people, the Ivan da Marya plant (Melampyrum nemorosum L.) has several more names: brother, brother and sister, jaundice, zheltyanitsa, Ivan grass, meadow bell, oak maryannik, honeydew, copperhead, fire flower, tricolor grass. However, the name Adam and Eve (Ivan da Marya) has gained great fame ... At the celebration of Kupalo Day, fortune-telling is carried out using wreaths made of four different colors - attributes. The composition of such a wreath also includes Ivan da Marya.

Previously, there was a belief that if Ivan da Marya flowers were collected on Kupala on June 21-22, they would protect the house from various evil spirits for a whole year, and the grass protects the family hearth and contributes to finding long and strong love between spouses. It should also be noted that the fragrant juicy seed sacs are very popular with ants. These forest workers spread the seeds throughout the forest, thereby contributing to the spread of the plant.

Magic use: anti-demon herb. She removes evil spirits due to the fact that with the help of the reserves of the organism itself, it eliminates energy holes into which evil penetrates. This beautiful grass has practically no effect on a person’s thoughts. Ivan da Marya is used only in infusions.
This herb allows the body to achieve harmony of Yin and Yang energy, helps a person achieve happiness in life, attracts to him what he lacks.
It calms the nervous system, with the constant use of this herb, a person becomes noticeably prettier. But this herb retains its strength for a very short time. Having collected it near the day of Kupala (when it ripens), you will be able to fully use it for no more than a full lunar month. Dried, it loses about 10 percent of its healing properties every lunar month, although its chemical composition remains the same. But even more so, try not to miss the opportunity to wash yourself with a whisk of Ivan da Mary on the evening of June 21-22 (Kupala Day) in order to wash off those entities that, having stuck to you, devour beauty and well-being.
Many legends were composed by the Slavs about this flower, common in Russian fields and forests.
These are mythical brother and sister, who, according to one version, did not know about their relationship and got married. For violation of custom, they were turned into a flower by God.
In another way - they turned themselves, so as not to be separated.
Thirdly, the brother intended to kill his sister because she wanted to seduce him, and she asked to plant a flower on her grave.
There is another beautiful legend: once Ivan da Marya went to the forest for mushrooms. They came to the forest, and then a thunderstorm began. The mushroom pickers had nowhere to hide, and Ivan shielded Marya with himself. The storm subsided, and Ivan and Marya returned home safe and sound. And in the place where the young man saved the girl, grass rose with beautiful purple leaves, which protect yellow flowers from bad weather, just as Ivan protected Marya from a thunderstorm.
Combining yellow and blue, the flower reflected the Kupala meanings of fire and water, which are so widely used during the festival. The central characters in the rituals and songs were Ivan and Marya. The holiday of the highest flowering of natural forces became the apotheosis of human love, therefore this flower was the embodiment of a strong love passion. Giving this flower to each other, they confessed their love, devotion and fidelity.
Not quite accurately, the flower is identified with a tricolor violet, or pansies. Pansies - this name has its own mythological explanation. Allegedly, this is a girl who was turned into a flower for excessive curiosity about someone else's life.

The Ivan da Marya flower has a racemose inflorescence, consisting of many individual flowers. Each flower is located on its own pedicel, hidden in the axils of the upper leaves. All flowers face the same direction. The upper bracts are purple, bright purple, crimson or blue. Moreover, the top of the bract has a more saturated color. The calyx is hairy, the corolla is bright yellow. The fruits of Ivan da Marya are oblong boxes, which, when opened, are divided in two. Ivan da Marya usually blooms in late spring and blooms until autumn.

plant habitat
Ivan da Marya is a medicinal plant and is found mainly in glades, edges, shrubs and light forests of the European part of Russia, as well as in the North-West and West of the forest-steppe of Ukraine, in the Caucasus, and even in Siberia.

Plant harvesting and storage
The plant Ivan da Marya (leaves, fruits, stems, flowers) is used for the preparation of medicines. For this, the fruits of the plant are stored in July - September, and the aerial part - in May - September. Dry grass should be in the shade, and store - separately from other plants and no more than 10 months.

The chemical composition of the plant
The plant contains elements such as the glycoside dulcite, alkaloids, and its seeds contain the poisonous glycoside aucubin.

The use of Ivan da Marya in folk medicine
The honeydew plant has an insecticidal, anti-inflammatory and good wound healing effect.
Infusion of grass has found application in folk medicine. It is used internally for hypertension, dizziness, heart disease, neuralgia, epilepsy, diseases of the stomach and organs of the gastrointestinal tract and externally in the form of washings and baths for skin tuberculosis, scabies, diathesis, eczema, various rashes, diseases of the chest, rheumatism and as a wound healer.
The crushed fresh grass of Ivan da Marya promotes rapid healing of wounds. A decoction of the fruits of this plant is used to kill harmful insects.

Recipes for making infusions

Infusion for external use:
In a bowl put 3 tbsp. l. crushed grass plants and pour 1 liter of hot boiled water. Insist for 2 hours, after which the filtered infusion is used as local washing and baths for skin diseases.

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.

Infusion for use in epilepsy:
In a bowl put 1 tbsp. l. crushed herb plants and pour 1 cup of hot boiled water. Infuse for 30 minutes, after which the strained infusion drink half a glass twice a day.

Contraindications
Attention! The composition of the plant includes toxic glycosides, so its use requires great care!

That was a long time ago. The moss of oblivion overgrown with events that once happened and even rumors about them have sunk into oblivion.

In one village there lived a young man, well done - handsome. And next door lived a girl, next to whom the star shone brighter, she was so beautiful.

Everything was fine, they lived, they didn’t grieve, until one gloomy morning, at an unkind hour, trouble happened - a fierce beast from the surrounding forests and swamp marshes kidnapped the red maiden. For what, only he knows.

The young man was grieving, because he loved his Maryushka more than anything in the world. He went to the great Mages to help him in a difficult matter. But they nodded their heads that, they say, we know about your grief, but we won’t be able to help, because we need help not magical, but of a different kind.

The young man threw a cloak over his shoulders, took a bow and arrows to kill the uninvited beast, and set off.

And not far from the village, so to speak, in the suburbs, lived an old man, gray-haired, thin. But a master of all trades. And shoe a horse, and he could talk heart to heart.

So the path led the young man to the old man. The guy asked for help, to which the old man answered him -

Love hobbles any horse and turns a wild boar into a meek lamb, you just need to show the feeling in its entirety as if it were not a beast at all, but a fierce man wounded in the heart by anger, who decided to take revenge on the whole world for his unrequited feeling.

And the old man told that a long, long time ago, a fairy, a beauty and an enchantress, an enchantress, lived in this forest. She liked the Forester, who lived nearby. How much effort he made to be heard by her, how many arrows of love he fired from his heart, we do not know about that, we only know that the sorceress aimed at the death of his soul, and did not want to bestow a reciprocal feeling.

The spell worked. The soul of the Forester was enslaved by malice, and the atrocities turned him into a beast. Not a single beauty could melt his hearts, for stolen love is not love at all.

And so the beast lived, tearing his heart to pieces and taking revenge on everyone who was at least a little happy with love in return.

The young man listened and thought.

How to be?
After all, now it was not a fierce beast that stood before him, but a heart broken by bitterness.
And he decided to ask for help
At the Clear Light, the beautiful Sun,
At Voditsa - Moloditsa,
At the Wind - Bogatyr
And at the hope and support of all good people - Zemlitsy - Intercessor.

Having prayed three times, having bowed to the Four Directions of the World, he called on the Forces of Good and Order and managed to enlist their support in this difficult matter.

And with good fellow travelers -
Living Water, flowing Stream,
Descended from the Heavenly Source,
Holy Earth and Gray-winged Wind,
That fills with vivacity and strength,
And most importantly - the ability to GIVE
LOVE, and wait for the result
Only where the Light is manifested in full force
Lights of LOVE, giving wings to people.

And, having prayed to God three times,
Enlisting his support in the matter,
I walked boldly into the forest to test,
And everything, I tell you, was skillfully managed,
He covered the beast with solar chain mail,
He said that he would give love to him as a friend,
And the wind gave them a scent to drink
Wonderful flowers, and a magic board
He covered the dwelling dark, miserable,
By highlighting it, and on the way - the road
He flew away, thereby doing a good deed -
Salvation of the soul, Sage skillful!

And the young man, glad every time,
Began to be filled with a sunny diamond
From the Light of the rising Luminary,
Dawn Glorious - Hot Yaril!
O! As the Ray of Light disperses the darkness,
And this Ray from the heart sends
The youth is brave, and pierces the heart of the beast
With your love! Is it to be a loss?
After all, it has a small heart Ray
Epic Power, Mighty Valor!!!

And in a moment a sprout grew from the heart of the beast,
Filled with hope and trust
To the one who undividedly could
See in this monster a wonderful Light!

Krasna returned - the Maiden to Ivan,
They are glorious in honor, without deceit,
Ascended under the White Stone Vaults
In Love, Hope, Faith and Freedom!
They called themselves spouses gladly,
Each other became a fiery reward,
Warmly congratulated them, bread and wine
They ate, suddenly went into their house
A wanderer whose roads are sewn together by the wind,
He bowed to them, read prayers,
And wished them to be kept by fate
And for endless centuries - Beloved!

This traveler was able to comprehend a simple law -
You can become your favorite if you are in love
In endless fields, forests and clear rivers,
It is important to fall in love and remain a Human,
That even if the feeling is not shared
No need to take revenge, otherwise you will be a beast!

TO WHOM IS GIVEN TO LOVE, THAT WILL BE HAPPY,

AND THIS LIGHT WILL GIVE GOOD PEOPLE!!!

Natalia Kovaleva

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In every corner of the world there are religions whose teachings are based on the magic of herbs. Both sorcerers and modern doctors assure that plants have energy and healing properties that have not yet been studied by man. One of the most mysterious herbs is Ivan da Marya.

Our ancestors did not know about doctors and pills. But they corrected their health with the gifts of nature. Newborns were bathed in decoctions, the girls washed themselves with spirit water for beauty, and the sick were given tinctures for better well-being.

Of course, with progress, part of the knowledge was forgotten forever. But still, some information has survived to this day. Today, herbs help improve health, cleanse the body, and even attract good luck or win the heart of a loved one.

Ivan da Marya belongs to the paraphyletic group of plants. In the people, this flower is also called adam-and-eva, lungwort, brother and sister, zheltyanitsa, verdigris, fireflower, oak maryannik, jaundice, Ivanova grass, meadow bell.

One beautiful but tragic story is connected with this plant. The legend tells that once upon a time there lived a brother and sister - Ivan and Marya. Fate separated them at a young age. Many years passed and relatives met. The guy and the girl immediately fell in love and even decided to get married. Then the terrible secret of their relationship was revealed. In order to never part, the young people turned into a beautiful flower. According to another version, it was the punishment of the Lord for the fact that blood relatives got married. Purple and blue represent the guy's shirt, while yellow represents the girl's headscarf.

The Slavs believed: if you collect flowers on the night of, then the plant will protect your home from trouble throughout the year. This herb drives away evil spirits, protects the family and multiplies the love between a man and a woman.

Grass is harvested in the summer, during the flowering period. The leaves are dried outdoors. You can meet this specimen in the fields and in light forests. The plant is common in the European part of Russia, in the steppes of Ukraine and in the Caucasus. Keep the herb away from other medicinal plants. Shelf life 10 months.

Ivan da Marya helps with inflammation. With the help of lungwort heal wounds. It is also used for headaches, stomach ailments and skin problems.

Bath tinctures are made from this specimen. To do this, take 3 tablespoons of chopped, dried grass and pour 1 liter of boiling water. The liquid must be infused for at least two hours. After that, the wounds are washed with a decoction.
Heals the plant and epilepsy. 1 teaspoon of herbs is poured into a glass of hot water and left to infuse for half an hour. Then filter and drink one spoonful several times a day.

But you should be very careful. Improperly prepared grass may contain toxic substances.

In fact, several completely different plants belonging to different families are called this name. Therefore, it is rather difficult to say exactly which flower our ancestors called it. In any case, it is known that this name bears a two-color flower, usually yellow with purple.

Most often, Ivan da Marya is called a plant known in botany as oak maryannik - an annual plant that is distinguished by bright yellow flowers with purple bracts. Other names for this plant are Ivanova grass, brother and sister.

Sometimes Ivan da Marya is also called tricolor violet (pansies) or meadow sage, less often - small periwinkle.

Legends about Ivan da Marya

The most common version of the legend explaining the name of the flower is associated with the name of Ivan Kupala.

They were once born in the same family - and, Kupala and Kostroma. When they were still small children, Kupala was carried away to distant lands by the Sirin bird. Many years later, the young man was sailing down the river in a boat, wandering in unfamiliar lands. In the meantime, a girl's boat was sailing past his boat. Kupala picked him up, and when he went ashore, he met his mistress, the beautiful Kostroma. The young people fell in love with each other with all their hearts. They got married according to the Slavic custom. And only then, having come to their native village, did they find out that they were brother and sister to each other.

According to one version of the legend, the gods punished Kostroma and Kupala for their forbidden love by turning them into a flower. According to another version, the unfortunate lovers themselves asked the gods about this so that they would never be separated.

Another version of the legend tells that Kostroma, unable to bear the shame, went to drown herself in the river and turned into a mermaid, a mara.

The most cruel legend tells of a sister who tried to seduce her brother, for which she was killed by him. Before her death, she asked to plant this flower on her grave.

A “softer” story is about a brother and sister who lived on the banks of a river. Once the sister was lured by mermaids and turned into a mara, the wife of a merman. Then her brother gathered wormwood-grass and with its help defeated the merman.

Plant symbolism

Ivan da Marya is one of the main symbols of the Ivan Kupala holiday, a sign of unbreakable love.

In addition, it is believed that yellow symbolizes fire, and purple - water (dew). Thus, Ivan da Marya is a symbol of the unity of opposites, a sign of fire and water.

It so happened that many people have heard about the Ivan da Marya flower, but few people have at least some idea about it. But the contrasting beauty of this plant can be a highlight in any garden. And besides, the flower will be at hand if there is a need to use its healing properties. The article will help to understand the features of the medicinal plant, and the attached photos will allow you to enjoy the beauty of the flower.

Ivan da Marya: legends and traditions

Knowledge about the Ivan da Marya flower goes back centuries. In pagan times, the Slavic ancestors called the flower Kupala da Mavka. Only with the advent of Christianity did he acquire a new name, which has survived to this day.

According to East Slavic myths, a brother and sister lived in the world - Kupala and Kostroma, separated by chance and parental disobedience in childhood. After many years, an unfortunate accident brought them together again, but they did not know about their relationship, and fell in love with each other. And only after the wedding did they find out that their hearts were bound by forbidden love. The bitter truth forced the brother and sister to choose between death and disgrace. They chose death - Kostroma drowned herself in the depths of a forest lake, and became the first Mavka mermaid, and Kupala threw himself into the heat of the fire.

The gods, looking at such a tragedy, took pity and turned the brother and sister into a beautiful flower - partly blue, like water, partly yellow, like fire. With the advent of Christianity, Kupala was renamed Ivan (in honor of John the Baptist), and Mavka, his miserable sister, was named Mary, in honor of the Virgin.

Medicinal plant in natural conditions

Rumor gives magic to a two-faced flower plucked on the day of the summer solstice (on the Kupala holiday):

helps to escape from persecution to a person wearing it with him;
the owner of a marvelous plant will be able to move quickly, even if there is an old horse under him (in the modern interpretation, he will help the racer in any car);
freshly squeezed juice of the plant was given to drink to people who had lost their memory or reason;
keeping a mystical plant in the house helps protect the home from evil intentions and spirits;
acts as a keeper of peace between husband and wife.

Botanical features of the Ivan da Marya flower

An annual herbaceous plant from the extensive Norichnikovye family, preferring partial shade in forests and groves. From this family, two species grow in central Russia: Maryannik oak and Maryannik meadow.

It grows in height from 10 to 50 cm. Moreover, the height of the maryannik directly depends on which plant it “joined”.
The pointed lanceolate leaves of Ivan da Marya are located opposite each other on an upright stem. The inner side of the leaves is equipped with short hairs.
The two-lipped flowers are yellow, and the upper woolly-toothed stipules are colored blue (they are not flowers).
Flowering lasts from June to September.
Ivan da Marya intensively secretes nectar, being an excellent honey plant.
It reproduces mainly by seed. The spread of the plant is facilitated by ants who love to feast on juicy seeds and take them away.

Attention! Cows cannot be pastured in areas where Ivan da Marya grows, because the plant is poisonous and rich in glycosides. Milk from cows that have eaten maryannik will be bitter and unpleasant in taste.

Preparation and pharmacological properties

In official medicine, preparations containing the Ivan da Marya flower are not used. However, folk healers use maryannik in their medicinal potions, using recipes that have come down to our days from time immemorial.

For harvesting, the entire aerial part of Ivan da Marya, including its fruits, is used. During the flowering period, the plant is either pulled out with a spine or cut off. Then the medicinal raw materials are dried in the shade or in any room with access to fresh air, spread out in a thin layer on a dry surface, or hung in bunches. The dried flower of Ivan da Marya is stored in a dry room with good ventilation for 2 years in cloth bags.

Ivan da Marya flower is rich in flavonoids and organic acids.

Attention! Mariannik seeds contain the glycoside rinanthin (aucubin), which is toxic.

The medicinal plant has the following effects:

sedative (acts like tranquilizers);
anticonvulsant;
hypotensive;
wound healing;
anti-inflammatory;
has a positive effect on the cardiovascular and nervous systems.

Ivan da Marya: indications for use

In folk medicine, mariannik is widely used to treat scrofula (in the modern interpretation, a type of atopic dermatitis in children). The long-standing use of the plant for the treatment of this ailment is evidenced by one of the popular names of the flower - Scrofula. With this skin lesion, Ivan da Marya is applied externally - the child is washed in a decoction or lotions are made.

Healers use dry crushed maryannik grass as a wound healing and antiseptic agent, preventing putrefactive processes. In the form of an infusion, Ivan da Marya is taken orally for hypertension and heart disease. Herbal tea relieves the condition with neuralgia and epilepsy.

However, treatment should not be started without consulting an experienced herbalist. In case of violation of the dosage and regimen of taking Ivan da Marya, the following manifestations are possible:

discomfort or pain in the stomach;
nausea, vomiting;
irritability;
drowsiness;
slow heart rate;
slowing of the pulse;
weakness.

If one or more of the above symptoms appear, it is necessary to stop using Ivan da Marya, wash the stomach and seek medical help. It would not be superfluous to recall that Ivan da Marya belongs to poisonous plants, and oral use by pregnant women and children is strictly contraindicated.

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