What is pluck-grass?

Plakun-grass is a plant surrounded by secrets and legends. It is mentioned in the Bible and the ancient herbalists. The plant can "cry", heal and protect. Truly a magical grass.

What a marvelous plant?

The real name of it is a quackberry. It occurs quite often, sometimes it forms even thickets, which look very picturesque. This tall plant (50-150 cm) with a powerful root system and a thick stalk, on which narrow leaves, similar to willow, sit in whorls or are located opposite. The small crimson flowers collected in the brush appear in July-August. You can meet this plant on the banks of rivers and in damp forests on the fringes. It very much likes swampy meadows and drained peat bogs. Placoon-grass is similar to derbennik. But they can be distinguished. Plakun-grass leaves are not pubescent. In addition, in the derbennik, the leaf is wedge-shaped near the stem, and not leaf-shaped.

The plant is used in both official medicine and folk medicine. The roots of the derbennik contain tannic substances, and the stem and leaves - resin, traces of essential oils, tannins and glycoside salicarin. Flowers are rich in flavones, and in the seeds are alkaloids and glycoside, litrarine.

Useful properties of a plant such as derbennik

Plakun-grass has astringent, anti-inflammatory and toning effect. Effective treatment of her dysentery and diarrhea of various etiologies. It helps with chronic enterocolitis and gastritis. Kashitsu of fresh leaves is applied to bleeding wounds, since the plant also has a strong hemostatic effect.

In folk medicine, the whole plant is used: roots, grass with flowers and seeds. Raw materials are harvested at different times. The ground part of the plant is only in the flowering period, when the grass is most useful, and the roots are excavated in the fall. But, according to legends, there is one day in the year, when you can harvest the plant completely - in the early morning on Ivan Kupala.

Decoction from the roots treats stomach pains, female diseases and uterine bleeding, and also they are used as a diuretic. Broths from flowers help with diarrhea, and from leaves - with epilepsy, nervous disorders, insomnia, hemorrhoids and rheumatism. A good curative effect is observed in the treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system and some skin diseases, for example eczema. In the decoction of the grass bathe weakened children. It is believed that the raw root helps with a snake bite and restores the body after physical exertion. To do this, you need to eat it with bread or drink it with sour milk. With gastric pain, colds, headache helps tincture of the roots on vodka. And it is used externally for bruises. Powder from dry grass sprinkled for a long time not healing wounds. The most common recipe: one tablespoon of fresh herbs pour water in a volume of 200 ml, bring to a boil and turn off. To insist 15 minutes, then strain and drink ¼ cup 3 times a day.

Derbennik is an excellent honey plant. Its flowers contain a lot of nectar and pollen, thereby attracting a huge number of bees and bright butterflies. Honey from plakun-grass is dark yellow, fragrant and has medicinal properties. In the old days, flowers of derbennik were used as food coloring, and due to tannic properties the plant is still used to impregnate fishing tackle to protect it from decay. This herb is fed even by cattle, if it is restless.

Why did they call this a plant?

Plakun-grass got its name for good reason. In the pagan myths it is said that the goddess Lada herself was crying so much , seeing how the Slavic people are suffering. This plant and the Bible did not bypass this plant. It is believed that it was precisely from the tears that were shed on the earth that the placoon-grass grew.

Although everything is explained quite simply. In the cover tissues of the plant there are special organs with which it tries to get rid of the excess moisture accumulated overnight. Droplets of it flow down the edges of the leaves and look like tears. Most often this phenomenon can be observed early in the morning or before rain.

Magic

Plakun-grass in magic has great power. It helps in the fight against evil spirits and spells, which witches and witches send. The naked cross, carved from the root, protects its owner from evil spirits and willful death (killing). With its help you can cast out demons from people. Children, restlessly asleep, put the derbennik at the head of the bed. Plakun-grass helps to search for treasure and protects from evil spirits in swamps. When collecting other herbs, be sure to have a twig of the derbennik, otherwise the collected plants will not have force.

Contraindications

Plakun-grass, the medicinal properties of which are enormous, is not a poisonous plant. But it can not be used if a person has high blood coagulability or he suffers from senile constipation.

Atony of the intestine is another contraindication. People with high blood pressure need to be careful to drink broths from derbennika, since it has the property of narrowing blood vessels.

Conclusion

Plakun-grass is not officially recognized as a plant. Therefore, this plant in ordinary pharmacies can not be found. In this case, it is better to prepare it yourself or to contact people engaged in such fishing.