Swamp dry wheat: medicinal properties, use, contraindications and recipes

The Russian land is rich in valuable medicinal plants. Among them a special place is occupied by marshweed, which is sometimes referred to as the topan (Gnaphalium uliginosum) from the family of Compositae. What is this insignificant grass is famous for and what diseases will it help to heal? This we will discuss in this article.

Description

The herbaceous annual plant has a low stem (up to 30 cm), from the base it is spread-branchy and covered with silvery-white "felt". The root is short, pivotal, rather thin. Leaves are small, regular. At the base they are narrowed, densely pubescent.

Flowers of light yellow color are collected in small baskets, settle down by bundles or dense heads on the ends of branches. They are surrounded by radially divergent upper leaves. Fruit - oblong form of light brown or greenish-gray seed with a tuft.

Swamp marsh, whose properties (medicinal) have long been noticed by folk healers, blossoms from the middle of June to August. Fruits ripen in October. The plant multiplies exclusively by seeds. From one bush it is possible to collect up to five hundred seeds, which will retain their germination capacity within five years.

Spread

Grass Swamp grass is found in temperate and cold regions of Eurasia, from Great Britain, Portugal, Iceland in the west to Japan and Korea in the east. Distributed in the territory of the former Soviet republics, in Eastern and Western Siberia, the Far East, and the Caucasus. Prefers fallow and flood meadows, swampy banks of rivers and lakes, floodplain forests. Occurs in vegetable gardens with waterlogged soil and potato fields.

Composition

Swamp desiccant contains many useful substances. Among them:

• Carotene (up to 55%);
• Flavonoids;
• Tannins (4%);
• Resin (up to 16%);
• Essential oils (0.05%);
• Phytosterols;
• Traces of alkaloids (gnafalin);
• Vitamins B1 and K;
• ascorbic acid;
• Thiamine.

Healing properties

Dried swine dries have astringent and anti-inflammatory, antiseptic properties. They are able to accelerate the processes of regeneration, epithelization and repair of ulcerous and wound surfaces of the skin and mucous membranes. During the research, hypotensive and vasodilating properties of the plant were revealed. The hypotensive effect is associated with flavonoids.

Preparations based on cudweed somewhat slow down the rhythm of contractions of the heart and have a sedative effect. The therapeutic effect of the plant is due to the influence of vitamins (provitamin A - carotene, which increases immunobiological properties in pathological processes) and other substances that are included in its composition (flavonoids, resins, tannins).

Application in traditional medicine

To date, marsh swine has been studied well. The healing properties and contraindications of the plant are known to all folk healers. It is used not only in folklore, but also in traditional medicine. As a rule, preparations based on this plant are prescribed to patients as an antihypertensive agent, not only slightly slowing the rhythm of the heart, but also favorably affecting the circulatory system.

Oil extracts from cudweed stimulate granulation. They are prescribed for regeneration of skin lesions caused by burns. The application of marshweed was found in the manufacture of medicines for the treatment of peptic ulcer of the stomach and intestines, gastritis.

Dried herbs are part of complex therapy for serious diseases of the nervous system. Today, medicines made from cudweed have proved to be very useful for treating the initial stage of hypertension.

Use in folk medicine

Folk healers have been using the useful properties of this plant for a very long time, and I must say, very successfully. Decoctions and infusions they recommend for ulcers of the digestive tract, migraine, angina, spasms of blood vessels, hemorrhoidal, uterine, renal bleeding.

Decoctions and oil-alcohol extracts are applied externally in the form of lotions, compresses, in the treatment of long-healing wounds, burns, ulcers. Swamp desiccant is a part of various charges, which are effective in the treatment of erosion of the cervix, Trichomonas colpitis.

Infusion (bath) gives good results with excessive sweating of the palms and legs. We suggest you get acquainted with some ways of preparation of medicines.

Infusion

Ten grams of cudweed pour in enameled glassware with a glass of boiled hot water. Close the pan with a lid and put it on a water bath for a quarter of an hour. Then the composition is cooled to room temperature, strain, wring out the raw material. Obtain the volume of liquid to the original boiled water.

The infusion is stored in a dark cool place for no more than two days. Take as an antihypertensive and anti-inflammatory drug in half a cup twice a day.

Broth

Twenty grams of dry grass, pour 300 ml of boiling water and put on a weak fire for five minutes, let it brew for about two hours. After this, the composition can be filtered and taken in the same way as the infusion.

Oily extract

You will need six grams of raw material (a tablespoon with a slide). It is poured into 200 ml of any vegetable oil (preferably olive oil), insisted for ten days, shaken daily, then filtered.

Application of the plant in other areas

Swamp dry wheat is used to make an alcohol-oil extract. It is successfully used in veterinary medicine.

Collection and Procurement

The raw material is produced during the flowering period of the plant. At collection it is necessary to leave for planting 2-3 plants per one square meter of thickets. The plants are excavated with a root, they shake off the ground and, without cutting off the root, are dried in the shade, outdoors, turning over several times a day.

In bad weather, you can dry the raw material under a canopy, in special drying chambers (temperature +40 ° C), in attics. The plant retains its medicinal properties in dry form for three years.

Swamp mulberry: contraindications

This medicinal plant and all preparations based on it are contraindicated to people with increased sensitivity and intolerance to the individual components that make up its composition.

It is strictly forbidden to take these medicines to patients suffering from low blood pressure. Usually, the plant does not cause side effects, but allergic reactions may occur. In this case, the drug is immediately stopped.

Use swamp grasshopper only after consulting with a doctor. Too often self-medication leads to very disastrous results.