Therapeutic properties of cuckoo wheatgrass (photo)

For amateur gardeners, a creeping plant with a long and branched rhizome is well known, which is difficult to find and quickly fills the whole space. This is wheat grass. Uninformed people take various methods to get rid of it, even without realizing the benefits of grass. The healing properties of the crocheted forge were known to ancient Romans and Greeks. The plant was used for medicinal purposes in medieval Russia and is still used in modern pharmacology.

Homeopaths respect a living weed and prepare from it drugs from physical misfortunes. It is also attractive for animals - dogs and cats with pleasure absorb wide stems with leaves, independently curing their body. In the common people, the plant is called "dog grass". Let's talk in more detail about the usefulness and therapeutic qualities of a nondescript root.

Pyritei creeping: description, harvesting and habitat

The plant has several names: a worm-grass, rzhanets, dandur and zhitets. It refers to the family of cereals, it has a very powerful root system, which forms multiple shoots. Often reaches a meter high. A distinctive feature is the presence of an upright stalk, on the top of which there is a small inflorescence similar to wheat.

Propagated mainly by rhizome. Flowering is observed throughout the summer period. It tolerates low temperatures, drought and has high survivability, which is probably why it is found almost everywhere: Europe, Russia. Weed can be noticed on the roadside, in the forest and steppe thickets, in meadows and in private plots.

Probably, ineradicable vitality is caused by the curative properties of the crocheted fork. As a pharmaceutical raw material, the root part is mainly used. Collect it begin in early spring or fall. Rhizomes are separated from stems and dirt, then washed and subjected to drying in natural conditions or a room with a certain temperature regime, previously laid on a tissue base. Prepared raw material is rammed on cardboard containers, glass containers or tissue bags and stored for 24 months.

A set of biochemical substances

The creeping pie (photo close-up brightly illustrates the plant) is a unique natural pharmacy, containing irreplaceable elements and vitamins for humans. For this reason, in many health resorts from the rhizome, curative decoctions and infusions are brewed, which are then prescribed for diabetics, patients with atherosclerosis and joint disease.

As part of the herb found a large dose of ascorbic, silicic and malic acid. The healing properties of the crocheted forge are explained by the presence of useful microelements, which take an active part in the work of internal organs: iron, sodium, calcium, etc. The roots are enriched with pectins, fructose, gluten, polysaccharides, protein compounds, triticin, saponins and essential oils.

Pyrei creeping: medicinal properties and use in medicine

In Russia, grass is not so popular as, for example, in Europe. German aesculapias make from the rhizome biologically active additives, which are used to treat diseases of the respiratory system. Infusions from the ryants show a diuretic, expectorant, diaphoretic and anti-inflammatory effect. Shredded roots brewed with boiling water and drunk as a tea drink, it helps the natural cleansing of the body, normalizes intestinal activity, strengthens and tones.

Folk doctors in our country recommend drinking decoctions to restore metabolic and carbohydrate processes. Due to the content of triticin in the composition, the herb can be used for women with a broken menstrual cycle. Creeping creepers, whose properties are characterized by strengthening, wound healing and hemostatic effect, are the best medicine for gastrointestinal, gallbladder, liver and spine diseases.

Helps to cope with a number of dermatological pathologies: eczema, furunculosis, adolescent acne, acne, psoriasis. Vegetative broths have a positive effect on the nervous system, relieve a depressed state, excitability, chronic fatigue. Indications for the use of the herbaceous root are all colds, rickets, hemorrhoids, hepatitis, edema, inflammation of the bladder, gout. Healers are used in malignant formations and hypertensive crisis of cuckoo wheatgrass (a close-up photo is presented in the material).

Folk recipes

Many physical misfortunes can eliminate a malicious weed. From our ancestors, we adopted a lot of useful medicinal prescriptions based on wheat grass, which help a modern man dispense with chemicals. We will gladly share them.

Those who suffer from skin diseases can use the following decoction: boil 450 ml of water, allow it to cool, then pour 4 large spoons of dried roots. Pour into a glass container and leave it under the closed lid for 10-12 days. Filter the solution. The remaining grass again pour a glass of boiling water, insist 60 minutes, drain. Combine two decoctions, drink daily for a month for 100 ml three times a day.

With diabetes and impaired metabolism

This drug acts on the body as a natural regulator. Preparing the infusion in this way: 60 grams of dry raw materials will require a liter of water. The mixture is cooked until it is half-evaporated. Before use, the broth is filtered and taken four times a day on a large spoon.

Remove the inflammatory process of the urinary tract

Also shown the drug for cystitis and inflammation of the colon in the form of microclysters - 60 ml per night. With hemorrhoids, the following infusion is used inside: take the rhizome root of the creeper (30 grams) and pour a glass of water. Boil for about ten minutes, filter and drink 70 ml three times a day before meals.

Diseases of the stomach and intestines

It will help to remove pain, colic, bloating, normalize digestion and stool loosening. The healing properties of herbs are known for their anti-inflammatory effect for more than one century. Make sure of this personally by preparing a simple decoction of five dessert spoons of crushed raw material and a glass of water. Infuse the solution for ten days, then strain, and pour the remaining roots 200 ml of boiling water, leave for 45 minutes. Mix the two broths, use half an hour before a meal of 100 ml four times a day.

Cough and inflammation of the respiratory tract

Has an expectorant and mucolytic effect, also fights against pathogenic bacteria. In a jar, pour a large spoon with a slice of crushed dry raw material, pour 500 ml of warm boiled water. Cover and insist for 12 hours. Drink half the glass three times a day only in a filtered form. To improve the escape of sputum to the broth, add 5 grams of herb maternal, coltsfoot and elderberry leaves.

Let's summarize the information article: the healing properties of the crochet crested are unique, return the person health and heal from serious diseases. Now, with the next weeding of the garden, think about what you are destroying.