Grass plauna ram: description, useful properties and application

What is the plant of the plown lamb? The description of this herb, its properties, features and habitat will be discussed below.

general information

Plaun the lamb, or, as it is also called, the common lamb, is a herbaceous plant belonging to the genus Baranets and the family of the Plane.

The generic name of this species sounds like a hubertia ram. It was given to a plant in honor of the famous botanist - German Johann Hooperz.

Description of the grass

Baranets - the grass is evergreen creeping. This spore perennial with an underdeveloped root system, whose height reaches 7-30 cm.

The stems of the plant under consideration are upright or ascending, branching dichotomically, as well as taking roots in the base and forming loose and rounded curtains. It is according to these external signs that the mound of a ram differs from other species of the plains.

According to experts, the age of the curtains can exceed a hundred years, and their annual increment - vary within 1-4 cm.

Plane lamb has dark green, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, leathery, sharp and stiff leaves, which are densely spirally and well pressed against the axis of the shoot.

In Middle Russia, the spores of the plant in question ripen only in July-August.

Distribution and habitat

Baranets are common in Europe, East Asia, including Japan and North America.

In the Russian Federation, this plant is found in the territory from the New Earth to the Caucasus. In addition, it grows in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the Altai, southern Irkutsk region, Kamchatka, northern Yakutia, Chukotka, the Kuril Islands and the Amur region.

The environment of the considered grass is dark coniferous forests. It grows mainly on podzolized and acidic soils. Also, the mentioned plant can be found in spruce forests, in wet birch-mixed herbs and mixed communities.

Very rarely the ordinary baran grows in alders, pine forests, on the margins of sphagnum marshes and the bottoms of forest ravines.

In the mountains, this grass is also infrequent. It can grow on rocks, alpine meadows and gravelly slopes.

Chemical composition

Baranets ordinary is a medicinal raw material, which is actively used to create various medications and other medicinal products. According to studies, this herb contains 0.13-1.02% alkaloids, including nicotine, lycopodine, clavatin, pseudoseelagin, clavatotoxin, selagin, serratidine, seragonin, huperazine A and others. It should also be noted that for all the plains, there are several dozens of serratine type triterpenoids.

Also it should be said that the plant in question contains flavonoids and about 25% of carotenoids, including β-cryptoxanthin, β-carotene and lutein. In the above-ground part of this herb contain leucoanthocyanins and phenolcarbonic acids, such as vanillin and ferulic.

Application and economic significance

As it was said above, the ordinary baranet is actively used in medical practice. It is also sometimes used as an insecticide.

Previously, the grass in question was used to produce a yellow dye, which was painted with wool.

Long stems of the plains are very often used to decorate rooms. Moreover, in some regions of our country of them make funeral wreaths. This use of the plant has led to their rarity in coniferous forests.

Medicinal use of herbs

Does the plague help the ram from alcoholism? The testimonies of those who have repeatedly used this plant to treat this addiction say that it really helps to arouse aversion to alcoholic beverages. What is the reason for this? The action of the broth prepared on the basis of this herb is due to the development of a negative conditioned reflex to the intake of alcoholic beverages in connection with very strong unpleasant sensations.

In medical practice, as a medicinal raw material, common herring grass is actively used, which is harvested in August-September. Do this after the end of sporulation.

Cutting the yellowing or even green parts of the shoots, they are dried in special dryers at a temperature of 50 degrees (you can in a well-ventilated room).

Side effects of the plant

At random use of a large amount of decoction made on the basis of the baranta placenta, patients may experience diarrhea, sweating, speech disorders, convulsions and dizziness that are caused by the inhibition of (reversible) acetylcholinesterase in the brain by huperazine A. Such toxic properties are possessed by lycopodine, selagin and clavatin.

Mode of application

Where to buy a mule? It is quite difficult to find such a plant in conventional pharmacies. Therefore, many people order it through the World Wide Web.

It should immediately be noted that, like all the mice, the common mare is a poisonous herb. The treatment with decoctions made on the basis of this plant is possible only under stationary conditions and under the strict supervision of specialists.

Most often advocates of traditional medicine use the aboveground parts of the grass. They take them inside with neuroses, pulmonary tuberculosis and glaucoma. Also this plant is very effective in metabolic disorders, as an anticonvulsant, laxative, anti-inflammatory and diuretic agent. In addition, it works well for cystitis and is used as an anthelmintic and antitumor drug.

In addition to the internal reception of the broth, it is used externally. As a rule, such a remedy is used for conjunctivitis, skin diseases and alopecia. According to experts, this plant is effective even with infertility.

For medical purposes, ordinary baranas are used not 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 similar species, or more precisely, a barbel serrate. It contains much more chuperazine A, than other plauny. This plant is used to treat fever, tumors and blood diseases.

One can not help saying that the herb in question is highly effective in case of senile memory disorders and the treatment of myasthenia gravis. In addition, drugs based on huperazine A, have a pronounced neuroprotective activity. Such drugs are very often used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

Reception Features

It is very important to correctly take broths cooked on the basis of common bur. This is due to the fact that uncontrolled use of such drugs can cause severe intoxication, which manifests itself in the following: severe repeated vomiting, general painful condition, fibrillation of the muscles of the body, salivation, lowering of blood pressure, sweating, bradypnoea and arrhythmia. It should also be noted that all of these signs are significantly enhanced with the simultaneous intake of alcoholic beverages and tobacco smoking.

Until recently, infusions made on the basis of barants, were widely used in narcological hospitals for the purpose of conditional reflex therapy. Today, many attempts are being made to make a medicinal preparation from this herb for the treatment of alcoholism.