What does a bird's buck look like? Description, composition, useful properties of the plant

N. Levakovskiy, a lecturer at Kazan University, turned his attention to grass, 100 years ago, which flooded the entire university courtyard - bird's buckwheat. He knew this plant very well. The grass covered the country streets and city squares with its thick carpet. Even on the roads managed to grow between a path, trodden by the hoofs of horses, and tracks from the wheels. At that moment N.Levakovsky began to study it. In this article we will find out what the bird's buckwheat looks like, what its useful properties are, etc. In addition, let's talk about medical prescriptions based on it.

Description of plants: birdwort

Highland bird (goose grass, or sporish) - this is an annual herbal medicinal plant. Refers to the buckwheat family.

The height of the plant is 100 cm. It has a curly stem branching from the base. Leaves with base are arrow-cordate, triangular-ovate, with rather long petioles. The fruit is a trihedral nut, correctly triangular in cross section, 3 mm long and 2 mm wide, dull, black, elongated-pointed at the tip, encased in perianth.

What does a bird's buck look like?

Small flowers of the plant are arranged differently. Perianth outside green, white inside, 5-membered. Ovary with three stigmas and one short stalk. Flowers are 2-6 pieces on the tops of stems or in the axils of leaves in spiky interrupted rare whisks. Dissolving in the very beginning of summer self-pollinating. Moreover, the late flowers grow so long pistils that they can not pollinate their stamens. Then it is necessary to cross pollination, which goes very badly, and at the end of summer the fruit grows a little. The question arises: "Why does the buckwheat benefit from self-pollination, considering that it gives offspring less viable?"

The second ambiguity is with its fruits. They are also different. Considering what a bird buckwheat looks like, one can find that some of them are wide and short, while others are very long. The first grow from short-stemmed flowers, the latter from long-stalked flowers. Until now, it is not known what is the cause of this diversity. It is noted that long ones grow faster than short ones. There is an opinion that this is a peculiar way to stretch the moment of germination.

Spread

Poultry buckwheat (photo can be seen in this article) grows almost throughout the entire territory of our country. It grows in the fields, in courtyards, along roadsides, along river banks.

Chemical composition

Reading the description of plants, you can find out that in this grass there are sugars, gums, flavonoids, mucus, vitamins C and K, carotene, tannins, wax.

Pharmacological properties

This herb shows astringent, diuretic, anti-inflammatory and hemostatic effect. The plant is used in traditional medicine as a means that has restorative and tonic properties. Preparations based on plants lower blood pressure, eliminate the bleeding of mucous membranes, accelerate the healing of wounds.

Application

Many people know what a bird buckwheat looks like, but not everyone understands that it is used to treat pathologies of the urinary tract, as well as cholelithiasis. Highlander bird splits stones, after which they are excreted from the body imperceptibly with urine or bile.

Preparations of this plant - an effective tool that reduces the musculature of the uterus, due to which its tone rises. This makes it possible to use it in uterine postpartum haemorrhage. The plant increases blood coagulability, has a hemostatic effect.

Due to its astringent properties this plant is used for ulcer of stomach and duodenum, with colitis, gastritis and diarrhea.

Traditional medicine also recommends the use of a bird mountaineer in such diseases: pulmonary tuberculosis, rheumatism, acne, boils and dermatitis.

Hemorrhoids

Take 40 g of grass. A glass of buckwheat is filled with a glass of cool water (photo is presented in this article), it is heated for half an hour in a water bath, after which it is insisted 15 minutes, filtered, and the raw material is squeezed out. With such infusion, you need to periodically make baths.

Urolithiasis disease

A glass of boiling water is poured over the bird's spore (3 tablespoons) and heated for 15 minutes in a water bath. Further insists half an hour under the lid and filtered. The ready-made broth is taken half a cup twice a day.

Diseases of the gallbladder

With a glass of cool water, pour the crushed roots of the plant (20 g), insist half an hour on a water bath, then cool 15 minutes and filter. Use on a spoonful three times a day.

Notes

For a long time mankind has been using this plant for cooking various dishes. As a result, his young leaves and stems were used in salads, side dishes, second and first courses - in a sauerkraut, dried and boiled.

Contraindications

Bird mountaineer can not be used by people who suffer from thrombophlebitis and angina, as well as pregnant women.