What is the plant bash baranets? The description of this herb, its properties, characteristics and habitat will be discussed below.
The plaun baranets, or, as it is also called, baranets ordinary, is a herbaceous plant belonging to the genus Baranets and the Plunov family.
The generic name of this species sounds like Gupertia Baranets. It was given to the plant in honor of the famous botanist - German Johann Hooperts.
Baranets - evergreen creeping grass. This is a spore perennial with an underdeveloped root system, whose height reaches 7-30 cm.
Stems of the plant under consideration - uprightor ascending, branching dichotomously, as well as rooting into the base and forming a friable and rounded curtains. It is precisely by these external signs that morass differs from other species of moss.
According to experts, the age of curtains can exceed one hundred years, and their annual growth can vary between 1-4 cm.
The plaun baranets has dark green, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, leathery, sharp and tough leaves, which are densely arranged spirally and well pressed to the axis of the shoot.
In Central Russia, the spores of the plant under consideration ripen only in July-August.
The baranets are common in Europe, East Asia, including Japan and North America.
In the Russian Federation, this plant is foundin the territory from Novaya Zemlya to the Caucasus. In addition, it grows in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Altai, the south of the Irkutsk Region, Kamchatka, the north of Yakutia, Chukotka, the Kuril Islands and the Amur region.
Среда обитания рассматриваемой травы – dark coniferous forests. It grows mainly on podzolized and acidic soils. Also mentioned plant can be found in spruce forests, in wet birch-grass and mixed communities.
Very rarely the baranets common grows in alders, pine forests, on the outskirts of sphagnum bogs and at the bottom of forest ravines.
In the mountains, this grass is also infrequent. It can grow on rocks, alpine meadows and gravelly slopes.
Baranets ordinary representsmedicinal raw materials, which are actively used to create various medicines and other healing tools. According to studies, this herb contains 0.13-1.02% of alkaloids, including nicotine, lycopodine, clavatine, pseudoselagin, clavatotoxin, selagin, serratidin, selagonin, hoperazin A and others. It should be noted that the presence of several dozen triterpenoids of the serratane type is characteristic of all the plaunas.
It should also be said that theThe plant contains flavonoids and about 25% of carotenoids, including β-cryptoxanthin, β-carotene and lutein. The aboveground part of this herb contains leucoanthocyanins and phenol carbonic acids such as vanillic and ferulic.
As mentioned above, baranets ordinary are widely used in medical practice. It is also sometimes used as an insecticide.
Previously, the grass in question was used to produce a yellow dye with which wool was dyed.
Long stalks of moss are very often used forroom decorations. Moreover, in some regions of our country, funeral wreaths are made of them. This use of plants has led to their rarity in coniferous forests.
Does rain baranets help with alcoholism?Reviews of those who have repeatedly used this plant for the treatment of the above-mentioned addiction, say that it really helps to cause aversion to alcohol. What is the reason? The effect of a decoction prepared on the basis of this herb is due to the development of a negative conditioned reflex to the intake of alcoholic beverages due to very strong unpleasant sensations.
In medical practice, the grass of common baranza is widely used as a medicinal raw material; it is harvested in August-September. Do it after the end of sporulation.
Cut off the yellowing or still green parts of the shoots, they are dried in special dryers at a temperature of 50 degrees (can be in a well-ventilated room).
With the occasional use of a large numberdecoction, made on the basis of plaun barantz, patients may experience diarrhea, sweating, impaired speech, convulsions and dizziness, which are caused by inhibition of (reversible) brain acetylcholinesterase hoperazine A. Lycopodine, selagin and clavatine have such toxic properties.
Where to buy bouncer baranets? To find such a plant in ordinary pharmacies is quite difficult. Therefore, many people order it through the World Wide Web.
It should be immediately noted that, like all moons,baranets ordinary is a poisonous grass. Treatment with decoctions made on the basis of this plant is possible only in stationary conditions and under the strict supervision of specialists.
Most often, supporters of traditional medicineuse the aerial parts of the said grass. They take them inside with neurosis, pulmonary tuberculosis and glaucoma. Also, this plant is very effective in metabolic disorders, as an anticonvulsant, laxative, anti-inflammatory and diuretic. In addition, it helps with cystitis and is used as an anthelmintic and antitumor drug.
Помимо внутреннего приема отвара, его используют and outwardly. As a rule, this tool is used for conjunctivitis, skin diseases and alopecia. According to experts, this plant is effective even with infertility.
For medicinal purposes baranets ordinary usenot only in our country, but also in such an Asian state as China. However, for the preparation of medicinal extracts, the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire use a plant of a close species, or rather the ram's ramrod. It contains much more Hoperazine A than other moons. This plant is used to treat fever, tumors and blood diseases.
Нельзя не сказать и о том, что рассматриваемая Herb is highly effective in senile memory disorders and the treatment of myasthenia. In addition, drugs based on hoperazine A, have a pronounced neuroprotective activity. Such tools are very often used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
It is very important to take decoctions,cooked on the basis of baranets ordinary. This is due to the fact that the uncontrolled use of such drugs can cause severe intoxication, which manifests itself in the following: severe repeated vomiting, generalized condition, body muscle fibrillation, salivation, lowering blood pressure, sweating, bradypnea and arrhythmia. It should also be noted that all the above signs are significantly enhanced while taking alcoholic beverages and smoking tobacco.
Until recently, infusions made on the basis ofbaranza, were widely used in narcological hospitals for the purpose of conducting conditioned-reflex therapy. Today, many attempts are being made to make this herb a drug for the treatment of alcoholism.
