Zubrovka (grass): useful properties and contraindications. Where the grass grows

Bison fragrant is a herbaceous plant that belongs to the family of cereals. It is popularly called a tooth-smelling odor, a turkey, a chapel, a rabbit. The collection period is from late May to early June.

Description

Zubrovka is an herb that is a perennial plant. Reaching a height of 70 cm, it has a long creeping rhizome and upright ascending stems. The leaves on the stem have a shortened flat shape. From below they are green, naked, and on top of a gray-green color and with scattered hairs. The flowers of the teeth, collected in spikelets, form a panicle of oblong-oval form. Flowers in spikelets are collected on 3 pieces, during flowering they are similar to sprawling whisk. The fruit of the plant is a grainy brown color and an oblong form, ripening in August.

Zubrovka fragrant is a herb that prefers to grow on sandy fresh and dry soils in pine forests, along glades and roads, on forest clearings and glades. In addition, it can be found among shrubs. Along the banks of rivers and lakes, the southern herb is widespread, where it grows throughout the summer. These plants differ as a place of their growth, and the structure of the panicle. In addition, they are the most favorite food of bison, which live in North America, as well as the bison of Belovezhskaya Pushcha.

Collection and procurement period

Grass biting has a variety of useful properties, but its medicinal raw material is foliage. During the flowering period, when it contains the most coumarin, its harvesting is carried out. Although even after flowering and after secondary regrowth, it can be cut again, only in this case the concentration of coumarin will be much less. The tooth is dried in a room with normal ventilation or directly in the open air, while hiding it from direct sunlight. Zubrovka is an herb that retains its properties for 2 years.

Spread

In our country, this herb is found in the Caucasus, in the European region, in the Far East, and also in Eastern and Western Siberia; In the Ukraine - mainly in the forest-steppe and in Polesie. It grows in mixed and pine forests, in forest plantations, on sands, glades and clearings, in flood meadows, along the banks of reservoirs.

Useful material

Stems and roots contain a huge amount of alkaloid dinaksina and coumarin. In addition, the tooth-grass, which includes oxycinnamic acid anhydride in the form of a glycoside, gives the plant a subtle aroma.

Grass Gum: useful properties

The plant stimulates appetite, in addition, improves the digestion of a person. Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, stimulation of digestion and appetite, fever are those cases when the herb is used as a vodka tincture or water infusion. In addition, it is used in the form of lotions with slowly healing wounds and various fungal diseases of the skin.

Methods of application

To stimulate appetite and improve lactation in young mothers use water infusion. For this, a glass of boiling water is poured into a tablespoon of dry grass (herbage is sold in pharmacies, in markets, in specialized stores), after which they insist half an hour under a closed lid. Next, decoction is filtered and taken before meals on a tablespoon.

Application in other areas

Zubrovka is grass (the photo can be seen in this article), which is used extensively in the distillery industry for the production of aromatic tincture "Zubrovka". In the confectionery industry is used for food essences. It is also used in the form of spicy seasoning for fish. The herb taste is slightly astringent, while it has a bright, unique flavor.

Zubrovka is a grass that blooms profusely from May to June. At this time, the content of coumarin in it reaches its maximum. This plant is very actively used in the production of flavored alcoholic beverages - vodkas and liqueurs.

In Poland since the XVII century vodka "Belovezhskaya Zubrovka" is known, which became in the XVIII century a favorite drink of the Polish nobility. In Brest-Litovsk in 1926, the industrial production of this drink began. Later in the world, this method began to be used by other manufacturers.

Russian "Zubrovka", Czech "Zubrovka", German "Grasovka", as well as the American "Bison Vodka" - all these drinks use a herb tooth, the properties of which were described in the article above. The Zubrowka brand, registered by Polmos Bialystok in Poland, is the national treasure of the country.

Honey liqueur "Krupnikas" or "Krupnik" is known in Lithuania and Poland since the 16th century. In it, along with such spices as coriander, cloves, vanilla, cinnamon, muscat color, juniper, cardamom fruits , baden, walnut, also added a fragrant tooth. This herb, except for use in various beverages, is in itself a spice that is rarely used.

In France, a pork braised scoop with a sauce prepared from a tooth, was able to get a silver medal in a competition in regional cuisine. For cosmetic and perfumery products, the oils of this plant are used as a stunning aromatic composition that resembles the smell of freshly cut grass.

Side effects

Any theory of "alcohol treatment" usually does not lead to anything, in addition to alcohol dependence. Scientists were able to prove that mixtures of alcohols are not needed for the healthy functioning of the human body.

To drink or not worth it? The answer to this question is due to the situation in the society and personal values, although no tinctures on herbs as a medicine should be taken seriously. The negative influence of alcohol on the central nervous system and the human liver is much higher than the "antimicrobial" positive effect of a plant called the herb tooth, the properties of which are described above. And yet, knowing that "you are being treated", it's easy to start drinking daily, which will become a sign of dependence.

For medicinal purposes, alcoholic tincture is suitable only for grinding the chest in the case of fever. It should be understood that alcohol evaporates quickly enough, while the person at the expense of this process feels relieved. In case of an overdose, any sources of coumarin cause headaches.

Zubrovka - the grass, the photo of which is presented in this article - is not suitable for self-treatment. Often a person can not independently diagnose a disease, and the symptoms of one disease take for another. It turns out that the treatment does not work. It should be remembered that any recipes for herb treatment belong to the ambiguous legacy of traditional medicine, but not to proven scientific facts from the field of scientific medicine. Tooth in the framework of aromatherapy is desirable not to mix with other sources of coumarin, in addition, essential oil of cinnamon.

Interesting

Hierochloe from the Latin language is translated as "holy grass", therefore, in some European countries the name of the tooth is directly associated with the image of the Mother of God. The plant in England is called "sweet grass", in translation it means "sweet grass", and this name refers directly to the sweetish aroma of scallop odor. In the Indian tribes (pauni, menomine, Omaha, Lakota, caddo), buffalo hunters and the rest considered the sacrifice of their ancestors smoke from the burning sacred grass. In addition, this smoke protected them from unclean spirits. In addition, the tube of the World contained a tooth, pounded and dried in powder, which then mixed with tobacco.

It was believed that the smoke of this grass helps to achieve meditation and the peak of unity, the shamans of India used this fragrant smoke plants, twisted into small bunches or woven into braids, in rituals of initiation and purification. In the form of smoking or broth, the Indians used this sacred plant and against colds, coughs and other pains. The grass excelled the insects with its soft fragrance, and the women of India wove baskets and mats from them, stuffed mattresses and pillows. And the inhabitants of Europe in the days of various religious holidays with these fresh bunches of grass decorated churches and porches, so that the fragrance of fragrant greens would rise swiftly upward.