The healing pulp, the beneficial properties of which have long been used in folk medicine, is a perennial herb with a pubescent, low-branched upright stalk, reaching 1 m in height. Its leaves are large, small yellow flowers, collected in a large inflorescence - an ear. The medicinal herb has fruits in the form of small conical-type achenes equipped with small hooks that cling well to people's clothes and animal hair. He has quite a lot of popular names: strawberries, field males, forty-henna, five-leafed leaves, lepilator, Greek liver grass, pigtail, and jack lice.
The flare has useful properties thanks to the substances contained in it. These are triterpenes, saponins, essential oil, tannins, coumarins, flavonoids, polysaccharides, vitamins B, C, K, A, mineral salts. Thanks to a wide range of acids, the pulp also has beneficial properties : palmitic, salicylic, silicic, nicotinic, ursolic.
The pharmacological effect of drugs based on this plant is very diverse, it is not for nothing that it is called the forty-hedonica. Apply it since ancient times. In particular, the medicinal herb has a sweat, urine, choleretic, expectorant, analgesic, astringent, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effect. It is also used to treat various forms of allergies, strengthen immunity, rejuvenate the body, cleanse and stop the blood. Preparations from the pulp have an antispasmodic, restorative, antipyretic effect. Use them to improve liver function. According to the effect, the repes, whose useful properties are highly praised by healers and doctors, looks like St. John's wort.
For medicinal purposes, roots, fruits and grass are used. The underground part of the plant is harvested in the fall, the upper - in the summer. Drying is recommended to be carried out in air, laying out or hanging plants in bunches. If the process is carried out using special equipment, the temperature of the heating medium inside must not exceed 40 ° C, since otherwise useful substances can be destroyed. Ready dried raw materials are suitable for use for two years.
Most often, for medicinal purposes, use infusions and decoctions from the reposhka. They help with ailments of the gallbladder, liver, intoxication, chronic diseases associated with prolonged use of drugs. They are recommended to drink with chronic pancreatitis, postcholecystectomy syndrome, vegetovascular dystonia, urolithiasis, hypertension. One of the most popular decoction recipes: dry flowers fall asleep in water in a proportion of 2 tbsp. tablespoons per liter, bring to a boil and filter the resulting liquid.
In this form, preparations based on repeshka are used for therapeutic enemas for intestinal ailments. A decoction from the roots is used as a laxative, and a similar liquid from the seeds helps with ascites and edema. The infusion from the underground is recommended for bronchitis, pneumonia, colds. Outwardly, juice is used for skin ailments: vitiligo, dermatitis.
Means based on this plant are not recommended for those suffering from constipation and thrombophlebitis, which have individual intolerance to its constituent substances.