Avran is a medicinal, and at the same time is poisonous. The plant is common in Europe, Siberia and Asia. It is also called pharmacy, grace, fish grass, deer grass, horse tinder and bloodthirsty. The name "Avran" came from the Turkic language, which means "sick" in the translation. Let's talk about this plant in more detail.
Avran officinalis ordinary: description
The plant belongs to the Podorozhnikov family. Its root system is thin-shaped, the stem is 4-faced, which reaches fifty centimeters in height. The flowers of this grass are whitish and yellowish, which grow on a long peduncle. The fruit is an egg-shaped box with seeds. It matures by mid-summer. Seeds are brown, oblong.
Grass loves to grow in pits, in swamps, meadows and banks of water bodies.
The plant blooms throughout the summer, loves light and partial shade. It is transplanted in the spring, fertilized with mineral and organic fertilizers. And Avran officinalis propagates through seeds, division of roots and cuttings.
Heart root
There are about 20 types of plants. However, only one is found in the latitudes of Russia, although in the Amur and Primorye there are also Japanese, which received the popular name: heart root or intestines, which also means its scope. This species is a low grass with many small roots, fleshy stems and oblong leaves, which are in large numbers on it. The flowers are also located on a long peduncle.
The plant is common in Japan, China and the Far East. It prefers muddy soil.
Stories
Avran officinalis is mentioned in legends as a herb used by sorcerers and magicians. She could serve as protection and a talisman for man.
In the history of Egypt, there is evidence that the plant saved from the plague, and in ancient Greece that it helped to clean the room from diseases and all evil spirits.
Avran officinalis: properties
The use of the plant is justified by its composition, which includes glycosides, saponins and tannins. The former exhibit both beneficial and toxic properties. Also in the avran are Ca, Mg, Fe, K.
Consider what avran has medicinal use.
- It is often used for disorders in the gastrointestinal tract and for liver diseases.
- The plant helps relieve headache, irritability and rheumatism.
- Both grass and flowers act as a strong laxative. It can also be used as a diuretic and for vomiting.
- The plant copes with the problem of worms.
- Abraham is treated with dropsy, spleen, hemorrhoids, scabies, skin diseases, gout.
- Wounds, eczema, and ulcers will go away if you treat the affected areas with ointment obtained from the juice of the plant, mixed with fat.
- It is interesting that with small doses, green shades of color will increase, but with large doses, on the contrary, they will decrease until the color ceases to be perceived completely.
The herb is added to medications and is used to treat problems with the bladder, papillomas and gastritis.
Do not forget that Avran has medicinal medicinal properties and is poisonous. When used, there is a risk of poisoning. Symptoms then include saliva, diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, and even cramping. Cardiac activity may be disturbed and breathing may stop. Therefore, if you suddenly felt any symptoms, you urgently need to induce vomiting in yourself, drink a sorbent and call a doctor.
Application
Traditional healers used the leaves, having previously crushed them together with coal powder, to disinfect water in a well, lake and river in order to avoid infection with jaundice. At the same time, the plant soothed heart activity and treated fever. Consider several recipes for the treatment of certain ailments.
For pain in the liver, a special infusion is prepared. To prepare it, take half a teaspoon of grass and pour boiling water, keep it in a water bath for a quarter of an hour, and then cool for another 45 minutes, filter it well, and reheat to the temperature at which the liquid was with the grass. Take the finished product three times a day after meals.
With constipation and as a choleretic agent, the same number of leaves and roots of avran is taken (one teaspoon of the mixture is required for one glass of boiling water). The solution is insisted, filtered and consumed in a teaspoon twice a day.
For those who suffer from insomnia, a weaker infusion will help, consisting of half a teaspoon of grass, which is poured with a glass of boiling water and insisted for an hour and a half.
Growing
The place for growing the plant should choose a bright and well-moistened one. It is very fond of fertile land with neutral acidity, namely loamy and loamy soils. Avran will fit perfectly into the picture of decorating an artificial pond on the site.
Care
If you do not plant it near a pond, then frequent watering is necessary. This is especially true for young plants. In addition, they should be protected from adverse weather conditions. However, in general, when avran is already growing, it becomes quite frost-resistant and can easily survive the winter even without additional shelter.
If planting is carried out next to other plants, then it must be kept in special containers or limited to growth using fences.
Applying medicinal Avran for decorative purposes, the description of which we have analyzed, its shoots should be regularly cut. In addition, given the poisonous properties of the plant, you need to make sure that it grows out of the reach of children and animals. Of course, animals feel the poison, and usually do not touch it. However, grass may fall by accident. This danger especially concerns horses.
But this plant is not afraid of pests and diseases.
Breeding
As indicated above, the process of reproduction occurs through the division of roots and through cuttings. In artificial conditions, it is also grown from seedlings.
To do this, the seeds are sown in a wooden box. It is better to do this in April.
When seedlings appear, they cut it a little, and then transplanted into the ground.
Next year, Avran will be able to reproduce by division and cuttings.
In adulthood, the plant quickly spreads across the territory due to its long roots. This should be carefully monitored and limited to growth by removing shoots.
A good solution to the problem of plant growth is to plant it in special containers.
One way or another, interacting with a plant, one should also remember its toxic properties and be careful and cautious.