Crayon: useful properties and scope

Curative crap, useful properties of which have long been used in folk medicine, is a perennial herbaceous plant with pubescent, slightly branched upright stalk reaching 1 m in height. The leaves are large, the flowers are yellow, small, collected in a large inflorescence - an ear. The medicinal cake has fruits in the form of small conical cones, equipped with small hooks, clinging well to people's clothing and animal hair. He has quite a lot of popular names: a strawman, a field boy, a sorcerer, a heelbearer, a lepitel, a Greek hepatic herb, a pigtail, and lace-wool lice.

The cask has useful properties due to the substances contained in it. These are triterpenes, saponins, essential oil, tannins, coumarins, flavonoids, polysaccharides, vitamins B, C, K, A, mineral salts. The crayfish also has useful properties due to a wide range of acids: palmitic, salicylic, silicic, nicotinic, and ursolic.

Pharmacological action of drugs based on this plant is very diverse, not in vain it is called a forty-footed man. Apply it since ancient times. In particular, medicinal herb crayfish has potre-, urine, choleretic, expectorant, analgesic, astringent, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory action. It is also used to treat a variety of forms of allergy, strengthen immunity, rejuvenate the body, cleanse and stop blood. Preparations from rips have spasmolytic, restorative, antipyretic effect. They are used to improve liver function. According to the effect of the crap, the useful properties of which are highly appreciated by healers and doctors, is similar to St. John's Wort.

For medicinal purposes, roots, fruits and grass are used. The underground part of the plant is harvested in autumn, the upper part in summer. Drying is recommended to be carried out in the air, laying out or suspending plants by bundles. If the process is carried out with the use of special equipment, then the temperature of heating the medium inside must not exceed 40 ° C, since otherwise useful substances can break down. The finished dried raw material is suitable for use for two years.

More often, for medicinal purposes, infusions and decoctions of turnips are used. They help with the ailments of the gallbladder, liver, intoxication, chronic diseases associated with prolonged use of drugs. They are recommended to drink in case of chronic pancreatitis, postcholecystectomy syndrome, vegetovascular dystonia, urolithiasis, hypertension. One of the popular recipes of broth: dried flowers are covered in water in the proportion of 2 tbsp. Spoons per liter, bring to a boil and filter the resulting liquid.

In this form, drugs are used based on a rash for therapeutic enemas for bowel diseases. Decoction from the roots is used as a laxative, and a similar fluid from the seeds helps with ascites and swelling. Infusion from the underground part is recommended for bronchitis, pneumonia, colds. Outwardly, the juice of the cake is used for skin ailments: vitiligo, dermatitis.

Means based on this plant are not recommended for suffering constipation and thrombophlebitis, having an individual intolerance of the substances in its composition.