Out of ignorance and inexperience, people clean theirvegetable gardens from medicinal plants. Many gardeners must have seen grass-ant on sites and deliberately exterminated it. The plant has several names: the goose, the tope, the passerine, the knotweed, and the bird mountaineer. This is a representative of the buckwheat family with a long history. About the healing properties of unpretentious weed is known since the time of Hippocrates.
The habitat of the creeping plantubiquitous except Antarctica. Adapts to almost any soil. Weed can be seen near the roadsides, ponds, on arable land, shallows, forest often. The seemingly inconspicuous grass occupies the podium in alternative and traditional medicine. The abundance of healing properties allows the use in the treatment of various pathologies.
The bird's mountaineer (knotweed) is respected by all folk healersand homeopaths. As a medicinal drug in the course are ground parts, or rather, the stems with leaves and flowers. Harvest start in the period of active flowering - in summer, in dry weather. The collected raw materials are laid out in a uniform layer on paper and are thoroughly dried in a darkened room. The main thing is to protect the plant from the penetration of sunlight, otherwise all its benefits will evaporate. Well dried parts are packed in cloth bags.
You can not even imagine how valuablefor medicine bird highlander! This is a natural storage of protein substances. It is proved that the amount in the protein is equivalent to chicken meat. Enriched with starch and ascorbic acid. No wonder the young leaves are used in cooking. Of them are preparing fortified salads and toppings for baking.
The knotweed is rich in carotene:Vitamin A is responsible for the state of vision, the quality of the skin. Note the content of tannins, oxalic acid and pectins. Since ancient times, the grass has been used as a cleaning agent (removes heavy metals, radionuclides, chlorine, sodium). The nature has awarded a weed with microelements: iron, silicon. Under this ridiculous name and unpretentious view hides the real champion in the content of medicinal components.
This plant has long been used tolower pressure. In Russia, broths were prepared that were used to solder a patient with kidney stones. It also made lotions and compresses for dermatological diseases, injuries (wounds, cuts). Ground parts have hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antihistamine action.
Folk doctors wrote infusions with abundantmenstruation, after childbirth. Herbal medicine eliminates anemia, restores hemoglobin levels. The bird mountaineer (the photo is shown in the material) is called a male plant. Appointed with a weakened libido, impotence, inflammatory processes in the prostate gland, adenoma. As an additional therapy, it is used for infertility.
Pharmacies sell drugs based onknotweed, which are shown in gastric ulcer, gastritis and other pathologies. It is easy to create the drug with his own hands. We buy or collect 20 grams of dried grass, chop it, pour it with warm water (250 ml), steamed for about half an hour. Then we cover with a lid and insist for another hour. We filter the finished infusion, diluted with a glass of water - stored in the refrigerator for three days.
Inside take 30 grams three times a day tofood intake. It is indicated for infertility, metabolic disturbances, hormonal imbalances, calculi in the kidneys, internal bleeding, and gastrointestinal diseases. They also make medicinal baths from broth, apply compresses on the affected areas.
The bird-mountaineer is, without any doubt, useful.grass, however, has some limitations and side effects. If abused, it will cause vascular thrombosis, arrhythmia, and even stroke. Not allowed to apply with reduced pressure, chronic constipation, varicose veins, bladder disease. It is forbidden to plant pregnant (miscarriage is possible).
