Wild rab ragweed: what it is and what harm it can do to health

Ambrosia is a herb that horrifies allergy sufferers. After all, when it blooms, particles of its pollen get into the air, causing a runny nose, puffiness, and sometimes choking. It is difficult to hide from it, and people suffering from allergies, nothing remains, how to be out in the air and take drugs that suppress symptoms. Unfortunately, in almost all vacant lots, in the fields, and sometimes just in the courtyards of private and even multi-storey houses ragwort grows. The flowering period of this grass usually falls at the end of summer. It is at this time that people try to spend the maximum amount of time in nature, in order to enjoy its beauties.

Ambrosia: what it is and where it grows

Initially, this wild grass of the Astro family was common only in the American continent. Due to the development of trade and other international relations, it was brought to Europe. Now this quarantine grass grows almost everywhere, excluding only the extreme south and north of the planet.

Hardships it delivers not only allergies, but also farmers. Quite often the main weed in the fields is ragweed, what it is, knows any farmer who grows on his own land cereals or vegetables. In addition, if pollen particles are detected, let alone the seeds of this herb on any cargo, its international delivery will be immediately canceled. Similar actions occur only in the presence of pathogenic bacteria or other dangerous parasites.

Use in medicine

Despite the enormous harm caused to man by this plant, he has certain positive qualities. In particular, in the composition of many folk remedies used in hypertension, to combat parasites and some other ailments, it is ragweed that is used. What is it in terms of raw materials for medicines, classical pharmacology is unknown. However, there are many examples of successful use of folk remedies based on leaves, seeds and even plant pollen.

Types of ragweed

It turns out that most species of this plant are harmless enough (there are about 40 of them). Hassle they deliver only as a weed, in the rest they do not pay attention. Allergy causes only a few species of grass - ragweed, wormwood, tripartite and holomelchataya. It is their pollen that makes millions of people around the world cry every year. Entire raids of employees of sanitary-epidemiological, communal and other services are devoted to their destruction. It is from them that the dacha and farmers, janitors and just tenants of high-rise buildings try their best to get rid of. And specifically these types of plants are most often referred to when using the word "ambrosia". What is it and what the main cause of hay fever looks like, almost everyone who suffers from it knows. Those who, fortunately, are deprived of this ailment, we can say that the ragweed is very similar to wormwood.

How to deal with this pest

Unfortunately, of all methods of controlling weeds known to mankind, only mechanical ones act on this one. That is, the plants need to be mowed repeatedly, preventing the appearance of inflorescences and further reproduction, or to root out still young shoots. What usually employees of sanitary and epidemiological stations, utilities, as well as farmers and gardeners do.