Knotweed is an annual plant with unique healing and nutritional properties. It has many other names: bird highlander, treadmill, crawler, grass-murava. The plant is called a knotweed in Russia because of its amazing ability to quickly regenerate tissues. To this day, the highlander is used to treat various ailments, but most often it is used to get rid of kidney stones.
The unique healing properties of knotweed make it possible to use this tool in official and traditional medicine. Also, this plant is widely used in industry, in agriculture. Maggot is a very hardy, unpretentious plant. It can be found near the home, along the roadsides, along the banks of rivers, on pastures. Grass is found throughout Russia.
Chemical composition
The medicinal properties of knotweed determine the indications for use. It contains:
- Flavonoids: myricetin, kempferol, isoramnetin, quercetin, hyperin, avicularin.
- Vitamins K, E, C, A.
- Anthraquinones.
- Coumarins.
- Acids: silicic and phenolcarboxylic, oxalic.
- Slime, tar.
- Tannins.
There are many carotene in sporosh, as well as iron, magnesium, potassium, and calcium. The root contains anthraquinones.
Billet
The medicinal properties of knotweed make this plant indispensable in the treatment of a variety of pathologies. In folk medicine, the entire terrestrial part is used: shoots, flowers, leaves and stem. Of particular value are the flowers. They have a pale pink tint. They are collected from May to September. Leaves and shoots are collected from the second half until the end of July.
To preserve the healing properties, knotweed is collected in dry, calm weather after the dew leaves the grass. It is necessary to collect the plant away from roads and the industrial zone.
After collection, the raw materials are carefully sorted, removing all debris and various impurities. Billets are dried under a canopy or in well-ventilated areas. Drying is allowed in the open air, but only in the shade: it is impossible that direct sunlight, precipitation fall on raw materials.
Dried herbs are stored in bags or in glass containers. You can store raw materials for two years.
During the growing season, freshly squeezed juice is obtained from the plant, which is collected during the flowering period. It can be stored for a long time, after boiling it and rolling it under the iron covers. You can store the product in the cellar or in the refrigerator until the next season.
Plant use
Sporish is widely used in folk medicine. The healing properties help get rid of a variety of ailments. Preparations made from knotweed can be used externally and internally. It is taken in the form of infusions, decoctions, juice, tea. Outwardly, the plant is used for compresses, lotions.
Healer knotweed
The medicinal properties and contraindications of knotweed grass determine whether the plant can be used for each specific case. This plant has a diverse healing effect on the human body. Plant-based drugs are used as anti-inflammatory, antihelminthic, antihypertensive drugs. Also, the grass helps to fight against pathogenic microorganisms, it is used as an antispasmodic, a diuretic.
The medicinal properties of knotweed herbs allow the plant to be used to reduce the uterus, strengthen the immune system. The plant improves appetite, promotes weight gain. Also, herbal remedies are able to activate the processes of regeneration of tissue structures of the skin, hair.
Grass is used as a hemostatic agent, as it can affect blood coagulation.
The official appointment of knotweed
According to official data, the healing properties of knotweed grass (the plant cures many ailments) are as follows:
- The constituent components are able to remove excess sodium and chlorine from the body, resulting in increased urine output.
- The plant contains silicic acid, which helps get rid of stones in the urinary system.
- Vitamins and beneficial trace elements help boost immunity.
- Tannin elements have a positive effect on the digestive tract, stomach.
- The plant has an antibacterial, anti-inflammatory effect.
- Flavonoids and some other substances reduce the permeability of the vascular walls, and vitamin K can increase blood coagulation.
Maggot is included in the herbal preparations intended for the treatment of cancer. In Chinese medicine, grass is used as an anthelmintic, tonic.
According to some reports, the plant is able to fight female infertility.
Contraindications
You can be treated for a variety of ailments using plants. Knowing the healing properties of knotweed herbs and contraindications, you can safely prepare decoctions and infusions, ointments and use them to treat a variety of ailments.
The mountaineer should be taken with caution in case of hypotension, since the grass can cause a sharp decrease in pressure. Those who plan to use the plant to treat diseases of the kidneys and urinary system need to remove garlic and onions from the diet, spicy: these products can cause tissue irritation.
Knowing the healing properties of bird knotweed and contraindications, people can treat almost any disease. However, this plant can not be used with increased blood coagulation, after a heart attack and stroke, during pregnancy, with polycystic ovaries. It is also forbidden to use the plant with a high content of androgens.
In order for the treatment to help, and not harm, a doctor's consultation is necessary.
Hair and skin treatment
According to reviews, the medicinal properties of knotweed help to cope with dermatitis, neurodermatitis, eczema. To treat these ailments, lotions are used.
With abundant hair loss, rinsing with knotweed infusion is recommended.
Infectious diseases
Avian highlander eliminates putrefactive processes, and also prevents the development of viral, bacterial diseases. This plant has an analgesic, disinfecting, wound healing, anti-inflammatory effect in infections of the oral cavity.
Rinses with a decoction of knotweed are prescribed for laryngitis, tonsillitis, dental diseases.
Grass is used as an antipyretic, diaphoretic in viral and bacterial diseases. Also, this plant has a general strengthening effect.
In complex therapy, plant preparations are used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
Cardiovascular treatment
Knowing, according to reviews, the medicinal properties and contraindications of knotweed, helps to treat all kinds of diseases of the cardiovascular system. Highlander helps to stabilize blood pressure with hypertension. Decoctions prepared from the aerial part of the grass have a restorative and tonic effect and are used for nervous exhaustion. With prolonged use, endurance increases, working capacity increases, and the effects of stress are eliminated.
Diseases of the genitourinary system
The unique healing properties of knotweed with kidney stones help. In folk medicine, this plant is used to crush medium-sized stones. The plant contains silicic acid, which destroys the structure of calcium deposits, crushing them into molecules. Then they are excreted in the urine.
Highlander is used as a prophylactic that prevents the formation of sand in the urinary system.
Decoctions and infusions of knotweed are used for inflammation of the bladder, kidneys: with pyelonephritis, cystitis, urethritis. The highlander helps well in male problems: he normalizes sexual function.
Circulatory problems
According to reviews, the medicinal properties and contraindications of knotweed should be known to everyone who suffers from diseases associated with blood and bleeding. The grass has unique hemostatic properties. Therefore, it is used for bleeding gums. Also, the drug is recommended for heavy menstruation, after abortion. Highlander is appointed to increase the speed of blood coagulation with a variety of bleeding: intestinal, uterine, pulmonary. A good effect is the treatment of hemorrhoids. Lotions are applied to long bleeding wounds.
The plant has a lot of iron, so it is recommended for iron deficiency anemia resulting from blood loss. After applying decoctions and infusions, hematopoiesis and intracellular metabolism are activated, myoglobin and hemoglobin begin to form actively. The healers use the plant to cleanse the blood.
Gastrointestinal diseases
Water-based infusion helps in the treatment of a variety of diseases of the digestive tract. It can be used for pancreatitis, hepatitis, cholecystitis. Maggot prevents the deposition of salts and helps prevent cholelithiasis.
Medication Recipes
Knowing the medicinal properties of knotweed and contraindications, many ailments can be cured. For this, infusions, decoctions, juices, teas are prepared from the plant.
To prepare the infusion, you need to take a liter of boiling water and pour them a tablespoon of raw materials. The tool is infused for two hours, then filtered. It is taken fifty grams three times a day, before meals. The infusion is drunk for three weeks.
In some cases, a decoction needs to be prepared from the highlander. For him, you need to take one part of the grass and pour ten parts of water. The composition is put in a water bath and boiled for half an hour. Then the tool is allowed to cool. A decoction of fifty milliliters three times a day is taken. For external use, more concentrated decoctions are used: 1 to 5.
You can take tea made from knotweed. It helps to strengthen the immune system, will have a general strengthening effect. To prepare it, you need two teaspoons of raw materials, pour a glass of boiling water and leave for ten minutes. Take before meals three times a day.
Knowing everything about the medicinal properties and contraindications of knotweed, you can make juice from a fresh plant. Freshly collected material is washed under running water, then twisted in a meat grinder or chopped with a blender. Squeeze the juice from the pulp, dilute it with cooled boiling water in a ratio of 1 to 10. The juice is consumed in two tablespoons three times a day. For external use, juice is used concentrated.
Maggot can be used not only to treat a wide variety of diseases, but also as a prophylactic. Useful properties determine under which pathologies a plant can be used.