Despite being a wood weed, the beneficial properties of this plant deserve respect. It belongs to the clove family. Its scientific name is "medium asterisk." This is a grassy annual plant with a branched, creeping stalk 10-30 cm long. The leaves of wood lice are opposite, whole, ovate, pointed. Flowers are small, white, with legs. The fruit is a box. It blooms from May to September. This plant is most common in damp places, in forests, along river banks, in vegetable gardens as weed grass. Medicines are harvested from its aerial parts. Her grass is stored during flowering. To do this, pick the greens dry and dry, periodically turning over, in the open air or in well-ventilated rooms.
Woodworm has beneficial properties due to the substances contained in it. It contains a large amount of vitamins E, C and K (quite rare in plants), which regulates blood coagulation. In addition, it contains volatile and minerals: magnesium, iron, cobalt, copper. There are carotene, flavonoids, ascorbic acid and saponins.
Just universal grass lice. Useful properties make it and preparations based on it an antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, anti-zingotic, moderate diuretic and choleretic agent. In addition, medium stellate has a hypotensive effect. With it, you can fight with coronary heart disease, vegetovascular dystonia. In ancient times, this plant was used to treat diseases of the kidneys and liver, thyroid gland, hemorrhoids. It is considered a good tool for the prevention of acne and acne in young people.
In folk medicine, it is believed that a fairly universal remedy is grass lice, treatment with it is performed for neurasthenia, chronic gastritis and pyelonephritis, cirrhosis, cholecystitis, hepatitis, colitis, cystitis, gout, edema of various origins, menopause, ulcer, eczema, acute vaginitis. Apply it for mastopathy and other tumors, applying lotions from it on the chest for the night. Often it is used in conjunction with other medicinal herbs.
It helps with eye diseases (clouding of the cornea). For this, her decoction (drops) is used. Healing fluid can also be used to prevent pain and delays during menstruation. A swab moistened with a decoction of grass helps in the treatment of cysts and erosion.
The wood lice are good in food too. Useful properties and pleasant taste allow you to use it in a variety of dishes, borscht, salads, seasonings. On its basis, even a drink is prepared (with the addition of horseradish), which is served as a chilled cocktail with a slice of lemon. This herb is also used in agriculture. It helps to increase milk yield in cows, with the help of it dye the wool. Woodlice is considered a good honey plant.
There are several contraindications for its use for medicinal purposes. In particular, it is undesirable to use it under reduced pressure, pregnancy, during lactation. Woodlice collected from calcareous soils can cause allergies.