A frequent, but not always welcome guest in the garden area is carob oxalis - one of the representatives of the genus of the same family of acidic ones. Characterized by excellent decorativeness and endurance, the small plant also has incredible vitality, and therefore, once having appeared in your garden, it will not leave from there. Meanwhile, carob acid is useful, beautiful and able to decorate any home garden. The unique weed, its features, use in traditional medicine and garden interiors, as well as ways to limit its distribution will be discussed in this publication.
Description
Carob acid is one of the five species of a large family grown on Russian territory, and is an elegant low plant with delicate three-section leaves of a juicy cherry hue, with small bright yellow five-petalled flowers.
Sour flowers close at dusk and on cloudy days, and the leaves are folded with an umbrella, responding to mechanical irritation, bright sun, as well as the approach of rain or night. Ripening seeds are enclosed in miniature pods, which open as they dry and scatter them at a sufficient distance from the mother plant. It is this feature that makes it possible for acid to be constantly reproduced during the season. In addition, the seeds are stored in the soil during the harshest winters; they are not afraid of frost, drought, or short-term waterlogging. But not only self-seeding is a way of plant propagation. It very actively uses and creeping well-developed rhizome.
Carob acid: beneficial properties
All types of sour are edible, with a pleasant sour taste, reminiscent of sorrel. Carob acid is no exception. The indigenous peoples of the North call it that - northern sorrel. Its delicate, deep burgundy hue leaves contain not only ascorbic, succinic, pyruvic and oxalic acids, but also such valuable substances as carotene and rutin. Young leaves of the plant are eaten: they enrich any salad, adding an unusual sourness to the general gamut of the dish. In addition, the aerial parts of the plant are brewed as tea or used as a component in herbal preparations.
The balance of valuable acids present in the plant stimulates the digestive process, strengthens the immune system and normalizes metabolism.
The healing qualities of the plant
The healing effect when using the leaves of a plant is its choleretic, diuretic and general anti-inflammatory effect. Traditional healers, the use of fresh leaves of the plant is recommended during the period of spring vitamin deficiency, when the human body requires vitamin support. In the northern regions of the country, the plant has long been used as an anti-zingotic and anthelmintic agent.
In addition, it has been observed that carobic acid significantly alleviates painful conditions in cases of heavy metal poisoning, atherosclerosis, and diseases of the cardiovascular system. Oxygen helps with violations in the digestive tract, increasing the secretion of gastric juice. The plant is also used in the treatment of skin diseases, ulcers and wounds of varying severity.
Contraindications
Like any plant with a medicinal effect, carob acid should be used within a reasonable framework. Excessive consumption can cause kidney failure. Carefully consume sour leaves should be for people with impaired endocrine system and practicing hormone replacement therapy.
Carob Oxygen in the garden
This kind of acid is very common in domestic gardens. Along with its usefulness, the plant is distinguished by its excellent decorativeness, which, coupled with the vitality inherent in most members of the genus, makes it possible to arrange unique picturesque landscapes of alpine hills and rockeries. Use acid in the garden interior as a groundcover or border plant. Purple-cherry islets, which quickly form and retain a long decorative effect, give the artificial structure natural beauty and naturalness. During flowering, small yellow star flowers emphasize the unusual shade of foliage and soon turn into small pods directed upward.
If desired, miniature palm trees can be formed from sour bushes by cutting leaves from the main shoot and leaving a crown of a known shape. She transfers such scraps calmly and continues to develop as before. Another way to decorate the garden space, which is the power of this little grass, is growing in hanging flower pots. This spectacular design technique has been adopted by many gardeners today.
The unpretentiousness and high shade tolerance of the plant allow it to be planted in the darkest, darkest corners of the garden, decorating disadvantageous places.
How to limit overly active distribution of acid
Despite the high decorativeness, summer residents do not always welcome the appearance of carob acid in the garden, for fear of planting it because of the ability to quickly propagate by self-sowing and considering weed grass. It is necessary to take this feature into account if you want to decorate your garden with such a plant as carob acid. How to deal with its rapid reproduction? Gardeners recommend periodic weeding of plantings or to prevent the formation of pods, cut them in time, as soon as they begin to form. This will not reduce the beauty of the plant, but at times will reduce the possibility of its spontaneous distribution.
In addition to such radical methods, summer residents use others. For example, the practice of using the “Roundal” herbicide is practiced if the carob acid is uncontrollably grown. How to get rid of the plant with the help of the drug, the instructions for the tool will tell, however, resorting to such measures is very risky.