Speckled kakalia is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Compositae. It has horizontal rhizomes, and the stem reaches a height of 150 cm. It is straight, simple, almost bare.
Leaves are three-lobed, broad-shaped, with sharp-toothed edges. During flowering, creamy flowers appear on the plant, collected in panicled inflorescences. And after the fruits ripen - bare achenes with a characteristic crest. Flowering occurs in July-August.
Spear-shaped kakalia grows on the banks of rivers, in rare mixed and coniferous forests, in ravines. Grass can be found in the forest-steppe and forest zone.
Medical use
Grass is used only in traditional medicine. In the traditional is not used. And, of course, it is not listed in the State Register of Medicines.
Recently, scientists are increasingly trying to introduce herbal remedies with pronounced pharmacological properties into medical practice. There is an active study of the composition of plants, activity, the type of exposure is determined.
So, after a series of experiments on spear-shaped kakalia, scientists were able to establish that the plant has a laxative, antispasmodic, wound healing effect. In folk medicine, the plant has been used since ancient times to treat a variety of diseases.
Benefit
The beneficial properties of spear-shaped cakalia are determined by the composition of the plant. It contains a lot of ascorbic acid, carotene, alkaloids, tannins. Also in the plant there is tartaric acid, hastacin, many useful trace elements.
After a series of experiments, scientists were able to establish that the plant has a pronounced antispasmodic effect, due to the included hastacin. And ascorbic acid and carotene, in turn, have a wound healing effect.
What heals
Kakalia spear-shaped helps to cope with the following ailments:
- Bruises, calluses, bleeding wounds.
- Purulent skin diseases.
- Arthritis
- Used for diseases of the respiratory system, including bronchitis.
- Rash.
- Use as a remedy for ulcers.
- Helps to get rid of sciatica.
- It is used as an antispasmodic, a laxative.
Also, the grass helps to normalize urination, eliminates infectious diseases.
Different peoples of the world use speckled cocoa to treat various ailments. So, in Tibetan medicine, a plant is used to stop bleeding and as a wound healing agent. And Mongolian doctors use grass to combat liver pathologies.
Fresh leaves are used to stop bleeding from corns. They treat boils, purulent wounds. The beneficial properties of the herb help to cope with dysbiosis, staphylococcal infection, abscesses, hemorrhoids. The unique properties of medicinal cacti spear-shaped help to cope with dysbiosis.
Plant scientists
Scientists are constantly studying the actions of different plants on the body, identifying beneficial properties and harm. During the experiments, they were able to establish the healing properties of spear-shaped caclia.
It has been proven that the main active ingredient in the plant is hastacin. It determines the main effect of funds from cocoa on the body. So, in the proliferation stage, the use of infusions and decoctions helps to accelerate recovery. The ointment prepared with the plant allows to accelerate wound healing by 5%. Moreover, the effect of the potassium liniment is several times higher than that of methyluracil ointment.
Scientists recognize that this plant has a pronounced anti-inflammatory effect, stimulates tissue regeneration, and also has a highly effective antimicrobial effect.
After all the discoveries, scientists began to talk about further study of the beneficial properties of the plant, up to the use of drugs in the clinic. But this is only in perspective.
Disease treatment
Before starting treatment, you need to know what useful properties and contraindications kakalia spear-shaped has and how it is used in traditional medicine.
Kakalia can be used not only in dried form, but also in fresh. In this case, it is used as a wound healing agent for external use. To this end, take the leaves of the plant, grind and apply to the damaged area of the skin.
You can make alcohol tincture from fresh leaves. To cook it, you need to twist them in a meat grinder, put the resulting mass into a container and pour alcohol so that the pulp disappears under the liquid.
The composition is infused for a week, and then, without filtering, it is placed in the refrigerator. It can be stored there for up to a year. An alcohol tincture is applied externally to treat any type of wound, as well as a therapeutic agent for purulent infection.
Alcohol tincture of cocoa has a better effect than iodine and calendula. It is used this way: gauze is applied to the wound, and then, on top of it, gruel.
Gastrointestinal ulcer treatment
A stomach ulcer and a duodenal ulcer can be cured by taking a tincture of fresh leaves of cocoa. For its preparation, one hundred grams of vodka and a spoon of gruel, made according to the above-mentioned principle, are taken. The composition is allowed to infuse for a couple of days, then filtered. Take a spoon three times a day.
The use of dry raw materials
For the treatment of diseases of the stomach and bladder, the following remedy is used: a spoonful of dried leaves is poured with a glass of boiling water. The composition is allowed to infuse for an hour, and then filtered. The drug is taken in fifty grams up to four times a day.
Laxative
A decoction is prepared from the roots of the plant, which is used as a laxative. To prepare it, you need to take a teaspoon of pre-ground roots and pour a glass of boiling water. Then the composition is boiled for five minutes. After that, the product is allowed to brew for a couple of hours. Take after filtering twice a day in half a glass.
Billet
Having looked at the photo of spear-shaped kakalia, you can independently harvest raw materials. In this plant, all parts are useful - both aboveground and roots.
Harvesting of leaves is carried out during the flowering period, which lasts from July to the end of August. Cutting grass is recommended on a sunny day. The workpiece is dried in the shade under a canopy. Or in a well-ventilated area.
Harvesting of the roots is carried out from the beginning of September to the end of autumn. At this time, they accumulate a lot of useful substances.
The roots are dug up and thoroughly washed. Then they are cut into pieces and dried in the same way as the leaves.
Store prepared raw materials should be no more than a year.
Where grows
Kakalia is found throughout the European and Asian territories of the Russian Federation. There is also grass in the Far East and Siberia. The plant grows in mountain forests, in the steppes, along the banks of ravines, rivers, in meadows.
The plant is found in Eastern Europe, Asia, Korea, in the north of Japan, in China.