Rhodiola Rosea L. belongs to the family Crassulaceae, and is known as

Rhodiola Rosea L. belongs to the family Crassulaceae, and is known as 'golden root', as the root part of the plant containing the therapeutic agent. rain check Rhodiola grows on sandy soil and high altitudes Arctic regions of Europe and Asia. It grows to a height of 70 cm, with yellow flowers. Hardy plant with thick rhizomes (underground stems in part) by cutting a very distinctive smell. For centuries, this plant is used as a traditional rain check medicine in Russia, Scandinavia and other countries. Between 1725 and 1960 in the scientific medical literature of Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Russia and Iceland appear first articles about the healing properties of Rhodiola Rosea. Since 1960, he published more than 180 pharmacological, fitohemijskih and clinical studies on this plant. Rhodiola rosea in traditional medicine Traditional folk medicine used this plant to increase endurance, working ability, prolongation of life, resistance rain check to disturbances when working at high altitudes, in the treatment of fatigue, depression, anemia, rain check impotence, indigestion, infections rain check and disorders of the nervous system. In the mountainous regions of Siberia, traditionally young couples before marriage gives a gift bag with roots Rhodiola Rosea to enhance fertility and ensure the birth of healthy children. In Central Asia, tea Rhodiola Rosea has been used as the most effective against colds and flu during strong winter. Mongolian doctors prescribed it in tuberculosis and cancer. Over the centuries, only members of these families know how to collect wild "golden root" as well as the methods of its extraction. People from Siberia were secretly transported plant old trade routes rain check to the Caucasus rain check where it traded in exchange for wine from Georgia, fruits, rain check garlic and honey. Chinese emperors sent expeditions to Siberia to adopt a "golden root" for making medical products. 1755 Rhodiola Rosea is included in the first fakrmakopeju Sweden. The Vikings have used this plant to improve physical strength and endurance. rain check German researchers describe a good activity against pain, headache, scurvy, hemorrhoids, as a stimulant and as antiinflammatory drug. In 1961. Russian botanist and taksonomičar Krylov from the Russian rain check Academy of Sciences came to the conclusion that the root Rhoidole rain check Rosee contains powerful adaptogens and that humans and animals are protected from physical and mental stress, toxins and colds. Research on the drugs against diseases such as cancer, radiation sickness, and compositions for improving the physical and mental conditions have led to the discovery of a group of compounds fenilpropanoida specific for Rhodiolu dew.
Geographical distribution of Rhodiola as a genus originating from areas of southeast China and the Himalayas. Various types of Rhodiola naturally occurring in various mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere. These are the mountain regions of Mongolia and Siberia, Iceland, Scandinavia and all the south to the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Carpathians. Several species are also observed in Alaska, Canada and northern mountainous areas of the United rain check States. Phytochemical rain check properties of Rhodiola rosea has a range of compounds in its composition: - phenyl-propanoidi: rozavin, currants, rozarin - derivatives of phenyl-ethanol: salidrozid (rodiolozid), tirozol - flovonidi: rodolin, rodionin, rodiozin, acetyl-rodalgin, Tricine - monoterpenes : rozirdol, rozaridin - tritarpenns: rain check daukosterol, beta-sitosterol - phenolic acids: chlorogenic and hidroksicinamička, gallic acid Standardization root extract R. Rosee was carried rain check out in two distinct phases. During the 1970s, it was thought rain check that the component responsible for the specific properties of this plant salidrozid (rodiolozid). Therefore, the first tinctures and extracts approved by council for the Russian pharmacopoeia standardized to a minimum 0.8% of the content salisrozida. In the late 1980s significantly increased the demand for preparations rain check R. Rose. There was an excessive collection of wild plant materials, and the quality and effectiveness of preparations began to decline. Scientific rain check studies have revealed that in making preparations used by other species of Rhodiola (which also contain salidrozide) rain check and thus are Adulterated rain check preparations R. Rose. These forgeries were of questionable quality, mostly without pharmacological action. Thus it came to the idea that standardization on salidrozid insufficient to protect the authenticity of the products. It was assumed that Rhodiola Rosea contains many other components that have not yet been revealed. After more than a decade of research, Kurkino and colleagues rain check have presented evidence in 1986 that the chemical composition of the root R. Rosee totally different from other species within the genus Rhodiola. Using newly developed analytical methods, Dubichev and colleagues discovered rain check that the root R. Rosee contains three cinnamyl alcohol-vicianozida: rozavin, currants and rozarin. These compounds are specific only to this type of Rhodiola. According rain check to the revised Soviet rain check fakrmakopeji of 1989, extracts R. Rose in the form of alcoholic Tinktur