Beautiful autumn outfit of Kuban nature. The color of trees, shrubs and grasses in fields, meadows, and along river banks changes. But autumn doesn’t have power over everyone!
On lawns, near roads, along the banks of streams, in pastures, despite the fact that winter is already coming, a small plant - knotweed, or, as it is also called, trampling grass, ant grass, continues to stay awake and even... bloom.
We can confidently say that this is the most widespread herb in our country. It has a branched creeping stem with greenish flowers and fruits in the form of a narrow triangular achene-nut.
And this is what the legend says.
Dawn had just begun to break over the earth, and the old witch was already halfway to the mountains, where she had gone for a healing potion.
The witch picked a full bag of magical herbs and, bent under the weight of her burden, slowly descended from the mountain. The sun was unbearably hot.
“Let me rest in the shade, under a tree,” the old woman thought. I sat down. She laid out the meager food. She began to chew with her weak teeth, looking around. She looked up at the path along which she had just descended. Lo and behold, on both sides of it, tiny grass makes its way into the mountains; in addition, the sorceress saw that she was sitting on a soft green carpet. All around was covered with small grass. I started a conversation with her.
“Why are you in such a hurry to go to the mountains?” the old woman asked the green baby as tenderly as she could.
“I’m leaving people, I have no life downstairs from them,” the grass ant said in a trembling voice. “They’re all plowing and grubbing, and there’s nowhere to live.” So I decided: “I’d better go to the mountains, neither I will disturb anyone, nor anyone will pursue me.”
The sorceress listened and listened to the babble of the little herb-traveler, and decided to do something unkind to people.
Are you saying that the people have plowed up all the land? - She said with false tenderness in a rattling voice. - Well, so what! It will be better for you to grow. You will hold on to the ground more tightly. In the mountains there are rocks, winds, and cold. You'll get lost, stupid. Go back to the people in the lowlands.
“Let it be your way,” the grass-ant agreed without objection and hurried to return to the warm valley.
That’s how it will be better!” the old witch laughed sarcastically after the little one running downstairs.
So, on the advice of the insidious wanderer, knotweed returned to people, populating their vegetable gardens, orchards, and flower beds. Feeling its strength, the grass-ant began to occupy more and more fertile lands. What they didn’t do to the taptun grass: they tore it out by the roots, weeding out the beds and flower beds, and trampled on sports grounds, and it grows and grows, expanding its vast domain. Moreover, he chooses land where it is looser and more nutritious.
The people realized that these were the tricks of the old witch, and cursed her for such deeds. But the grass ant still lives among people, sometimes causing them great trouble...
However, hardly anyone thinks about its real purpose; many even consider knotweed only a weed. But that's not true. Pay attention at least to the popular names of this plant: bird's buckwheat, goose grass, knotweed. Young knotweed greens are tender and nutritious; geese, ducks, and chickens pluck them with pleasure. And in late autumn they feast on its seeds. After all, taptun grass in 100 grams contains up to 2.5 percent sugar, up to 120 milligrams of vitamin C, that is, three times more than in the famous lemon. There are many other useful and nutritious substances in the grass. Goats, sheep and large animals love her cattle. Knotweed grass in hay is not inferior in vitamin content to legumes and is an excellent food for animals.
This plant also benefits humans. It contains resins, wax, nitrogen-free extractives, carotene, protein, protein, vitamin C, fat, fiber, avicularin glucoside, flavones, vitamin K, traces of essential oil, tannins and other substances. And although its chemical composition has not yet been fully studied, folk medicine knotweed has long been used for diseases of tuberculosis, malaria, and tumors. Knotweed infusions lower blood pressure and accelerate blood clotting. It is also used for edema of various origins. As a general strengthening and tonic, the plant is used for nervous exhaustion and weakness in old age. In addition, it works well as an antipyretic, anthelmintic and diuretic.
Externally, knotweed is prescribed in the form of ointments for some skin diseases. Shredded fresh grass, applied to wounds and ulcers, promotes their speedy healing.
In folk medicine in many countries, knotweed is very widely used for diseases of the liver, kidneys, inflammation and stones. Bladder, catarrhs of the stomach, with uterine bleeding and hemorrhoids.
Pharmacologists are now conducting research papers to study this healing plant so that it can be used in scientific medicine to treat people for various ailments.
Ant grass, ant grass, - we are all familiar with these phrases from fairy tales since childhood. What kind of grass is this, why is it called so tenderly and poetically, ant grass? I'll go take a walk through the grass, folk epics tell us, I'll sway through the ant-grass...
So, grass-ant is knotweed (knotweed). This grass grows like plantain where people walk. Where there is such grass, there are no weeds or thorns. According to popular belief, knotweed has great power and gives it to people. Therefore, it has long been recommended to run barefoot on dewy grass on a summer morning.
Where does the name “grass-ant” come from? In old times green color in Rus' they called ant . For example, tiled tiles- covered with green glaze. The leaves of the knotweed are a rich green color. The plant covers the ground with a green carpet from June until late autumn, until the snow.
This ubiquitous plant has many names: knotweed, bird's buckwheat, grass-ant. knotweed- because it grows spores, that is, quickly. IN good conditions can grow up to a meter in length. But more often it has to exist in difficult conditions: people and animals walk on it, tractors and cars drive on it, it feeds on Domestic bird, he is eaten by cattle. But knotweed survives and branches even more abundantly. There is no place in the city or village where this plant would not settle. Name "bird buckwheat" quite understandable. Birds feast on small nut-shaped fruits, triangular, like buckwheat.
Bird's knotweed is an annual unpretentious herbaceous plant. It grows everywhere: in courtyards, on rural streets, in gardens, parks, on playgrounds, along roadsides, in young plantings, along river banks. People also call it grass-ant.
The herb is used for medicinal purposes. Harvested during the flowering period. Cut with a knife. Dry in attics, racks in the shade, spreading in a thin layer. Store in canvas and paper bags. Shelf life - up to 3 years.
Knotweed is used both independently and in collections with other plants.
Acts as a diuretic, anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic, blood purifying, tonic, analgesic, antipyretic, wound healing agent.
Knotweed preparations dissolve and remove stones from the kidneys and gall bladder, drive away sand, and improve metabolic processes in the body. You just need to take them carefully, increasing the dose gradually, starting the course of treatment with small doses.
For swelling of the legs, make compresses at night using a decoction or fresh crushed herbs.
An infusion of the plant is taken for salt metabolism disorders, gout, polyarthritis, obesity, and also as an antipyretic for pneumonia, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, pleurisy, fever, cough, pulmonary tuberculosis, whooping cough.
For inflammation of the mucous membrane oral cavity, for hoarseness, it is used for rinsing, taken warm orally.
The plant has an appetizing effect for gastritis, astringent for diarrhea, upset gastrointestinal tract, dysentery, it is useful for diseases of the liver and pancreas, stomach ulcers and duodenum, diabetes mellitus.
The decoction is used internally and used for douching for leucorrhoea, externally for long-lasting ulcers, as well as wounds, bruises, tumors, abscesses, boils, and burns. From the infusion or decoction of the plant, washes and lotions are made. Fresh crushed grass is placed on the affected areas, and the decoction is used to make baths and applications for skin diseases.
The plant has a tonic effect on the nervous system, so it is used for nervous exhaustion, as a tonic after a serious illness, for weakness, loss of strength, in old age, for neurasthenia and as an antispasmodic for rheumatic pain and headaches, to lower blood pressure.
A decoction of the herb is used to wash your hair for dandruff; it strengthens the hair. The use of knotweed is contraindicated in acute inflammatory processes in the kidneys and bladder, and during pregnancy.
Knotweed is valuable medicinal plant. Young greens are quite edible. It can be used raw (in salads) and added to green cabbage soup.
Infusion: 1 tbsp. spoon of raw materials per 1 glass of boiling water, leave for 30 minutes, strain before use, take 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day.
WEED - ANT
We were talking once with one of my good friends, with a constant critic of my poems and opuses, and this is what I hear:
- You wrote incorrectly in your poem that everything around is overgrown with “ant, ant.” The plant is not called correctly. Its scientific name is "Knotweed!"
I scratched the back of my head, what could I object to? How about knotweed - “you can argue”? The fact that each herb has its own folk names in different areas. That there is even a folk song where it is sung: “Oh, you, my ant-grass...”, and not “my knotweed grass.” But the remark touched me, and I decided to find out more about this weed growing near my porch and along the path, as well as in the yard. After all, since childhood, we have become accustomed to lying on this grass - the ant. Which is undoubtedly useful. After all, when the grass is crushed, as scientists have proven, phytoncides are released from it, which have a beneficial and rejuvenating effect on our body.
And I began my research, since my wife, Lyudmila Petrovna, a biologist by training, has collected quite a few books on herbs. And this is what I learned while reading about the familiar sorrel.
“In the same family as sorrel, knotweed, bird buckwheat, or ant grass,” writes Nikolai Mikhailovich Verzilin in his book. “Thin but strong stems of bird buckwheat are spread out along the road. Three pinkish small flowers stick out from the axils of the oblong leaves.
Buckwheat seeds, along with mud, stick to the boots of passers-by and to wheels and are thus carried along roads over long distances.
But this inconspicuous, surprisingly hardy herb, it turns out, can also be useful.
Not only poultry are well fed with bird buckwheat seeds. Its young greens are tender and nutritious. The leaves contain proteins, sugar and vitamin C. You can make soup and puree from it. Blue dye is extracted from the roots of the bird's buckwheat."
But what the author called “bird buckwheat” is not the ultimate truth.
Buckwheat, namely buckwheat, which we all know very well from the famous buckwheat porridge, (Until 20-30 it was called buckwheat porridge, and even today it is used in the conversation of local villagers.) gave its name to the whole buckwheat family (Polygonaceae). This is where research has taken us, starting with ant grass and sorrel - to the whole buckwheat family.
What is this very large family famous for?
And because it grows everywhere, both wild and domesticated. And I would add “courtier”. Since ancient times, it has served humans for both food and medicinal purposes.
Buckwheat, an annual cultivated plant with a knotty stem and heart-shaped leaves, blooms in June-July, when its flowers, leaves and seeds are collected medicinal purposes. At this time, the grass contains the highest content of rutin, which is used to prevent hemorrhage in various organs. The body especially needs routine when hypertension, scarlet fever, measles, typhus and radiation(!) diseases.
In addition, during flowering, buckwheat contains chlorogenic, gallic, protocatechinic and caffeic acids, and the flowers contain fagoprin. Therefore, the preparations rutin and urutin are produced from the tops of flowering plants. Rutin is close in composition to vitamin P; it reduces the fragility and permeability of blood capillaries.
At home, use half a glass of infusion 3-4 times a day. Infuse 15 g of buckwheat flowers for 2 hours in a closed vessel filled with half a liter of boiling water.
Buckwheat contains protein, starch, sugar, citric and malic acids. There is also iron, phosphorus and vitamins. B1 and. AT 2.
But I got a little distracted from the original plan to find out and finish the debate on the topic of how correct name grass-ants, knotweed and bird buckwheat. So, in addition to the above popular names, you can add a few more, namely plantain, gooseberry, murukh, gooseberry and many others.
Scientists have named knotweed - Polygonum aviculare - Bird's buckwheat, Bird's knotweed - a grass that is resistant to trampling and is found everywhere. Stems, leaves, and flowers are collected for medicine. Possessing a diuretic, anthelmintic, astringent, hemostatic and anti-inflammatory effect, knotweed infusion accelerates blood clotting, reduces arterial pressure. Have a very good action in the treatment of kidneys, liver, inflammation and bladder stones, diarrhea, catarrh of the stomach, stomach and intestinal ulcers, malaria, pulmonary tuberculosis and as a hemostatic agent for hemorrhoids and uterine bleeding.
Knotweed is used externally in the form of ointments for certain skin diseases. Fresh, crushed herbs are applied to wounds and ulcers as an anti-inflammatory and wound-healing agent.
But knotweed, sometimes mistakenly, is also called another plant - bitterweed, kidney grass, goose grass or goose grass. Scientifically, it sounds like this: Polygonum persicaria. We already know what is growing everywhere. What we mean is what is used in the treatment of the same diseases as buckwheat. But! In addition (the composition and preparation of the infusion is similar to that given above) due to the significant content of additional chemical substances, herbal infusion is taken as good remedy for hemorrhoids (renal; hence the name of the plant), and also as a diuretic, laxative pain reliever. Internal use Knotweed, as a poisonous plant, requires caution. Externally, herbal poultices are used as pain relievers and anti-inflammatory agents for hemorrhoids, swelling of the legs, as well as flux and rheumatism. In addition to the knotweed, in our area they also grow medicinal plants, Amphibious knotweed - water buckwheat. And the snake knotweed, popular names are snake buckwheat, serpentine, crayfish necks, agyra and many others. This is a perennial herbaceous plant with a thick, double-curved (snake-like, which gives the plant its name), dark brown, pink inside rhizome. The plant is found in wet floodplain meadows, along the banks of rivers and lakes. The rhizomes are used for treatment in the form of infusion and decoction for chronic diarrhea, stomach and duodenal ulcers and acute inflammatory processes of the intestines. Externally, the infusion and decoction are used to rinse the mouth during inflammatory processes (stomatitis, gingivitis - inflammation of the gums). Boil 1-2 tablespoons of dry rhizomes for 20 minutes in a glass of water, leave for half an hour and strain. Take a tablespoon 2-3 times a day half an hour before meals. What else is interesting? The rhizomes of Knotweed are used for tanning leather and in the leather industry. The roots are used to make yellow and black paint.
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in the picture - knotweed, knotweed, ant grass, meadow, goose grass, murukh, goose grass
Victoria Proskuryakova
“Ant-grass” (learning a nursery rhyme)”
Technological map of organized educational activities No. 13
Spent: Proskuryakova V. G.
the date of the: 02/16/2015
Age group: middle group № 5
Educational area: "Communication"
Chapter: Fiction
Subject: « Ant weed» (memorizing nursery rhymes) »
Target: help children remember nursery rhyme, learn to read it expressively; develop memory, expressiveness of speech; to cultivate interest and emotional responsiveness to works of oral folk art.
Material and equipment: toy - bunny, picture of spring.
Vocabulary work: grass - ant.
Bilingual component: shp – grass, oyan-hare.
activities Actions of the teacher Actions of children
Motivational and incentive - Guys, today an unusual guest came to visit us. Do you want to know who it is? Guess riddle:
Long ear
A ball of fluff
Jumps deftly
Loves carrots.
Indeed, this is a hare. The children are happy to meet their new guest.
They guess the riddle.
Organizational search Surprise moment. (Knock on the door).
The teacher brings in a toy hare. The bunny greets the children. Bunny speaks: “I heard that you were talking about me, asking a riddle, and I decided to come visit you.”
Our guys know the bunny nursery rhyme I want to tell you about the bunny?
Well done guys, fun nursery rhyme.
Bunny: Children, you are probably tired of sitting on chairs, let’s play with you a little?
Fizminutka:
In the spring in the garden
The bunny walks happily
He'll dig everything up first
And then everything will be leveled out
He sows the seeds deftly
And he goes to plant carrots
Hole - seed, hole - seed
And look, in the garden again
Peas and carrots will grow
How will autumn come?
He will reap his harvest.
Bunny, soon the snow outside will melt, streams will run, soon the greenery will appear grass, grass - ant.
Bilingual component: shp – grass, oyan-hare.
And now I'll read nursery rhyme, she called: « Ant weed» .
The teacher reads nursery rhyme
« Ant weed» .
Weed - ant,
the pine tree has risen
The tit bird grabbed the grain,
Bunny - for cabbage,
mouse - for the crust,
Children - for milk.
What is this about nursery rhyme?
How it begins nursery rhyme?
What did the tit bird do?
What's the bunny for?
Mouse for what?
And the kids are for...
Guys, listen to this one again nursery rhyme and you bunny.
He reads the poem expressively.
Guys, now I’ll start the line nursery rhymes, and you try to finish it.
A game "I'll start, you continue"
The children also said hello to the hare.
Children tell nursery rhyme:
Bunny is a coward
He ran across the field.
Ran into the garden
I found cabbage
I found a carrot.
Sits and chews.
Go away
The owner is coming!
Listen carefully nursery rhyme.
Perform the movements:
Raise your hands up
Stand on tiptoes
They give up.
Together with the teacher they remember the beginning nursery rhymes« Ant weed» .
Children repeat these words.
Choral and individual responses.
Everyone repeats the lines together.
Repeat the final lines nursery rhymes.
Reading nursery rhyme by heart.
Reflective-corrective Praises children for their active participation.
They express their impressions and what they liked.
Expected Result:
Know:
. nursery rhyme« Ant weed»
Have:
An idea of the signs of the season - spring; skills learning nursery rhymes by heart.
Be able to:
Irina11/07/2015Herbal medicine knotweedDear readers, do you know such a herb as knotweed? If not, then I highly recommend paying attention to it. Everyone needs this herb. Why everyone? To begin with, I will briefly say that it removes metal salts, treats arthritis, arthrosis, is good for the kidneys, in gynecology, treats tuberculosis, even helps crush small stones, strengthens blood vessels and solves other health problems. Today I want to tell you about useful and medicinal properties knotweed, where and how this herb is used and whether everyone can take it.
Ant-grass, ant-grass... This is how Russian fairy tales and epics speak so affectionately and poetically about one quite ordinary plant, which is probably familiar to each of us from childhood. Knotweed or knotweed grows literally under our feet; the plant is the most ordinary and inconspicuous, but very useful.
This grass can be found near roads and paths, in courtyards near residential buildings, near the shores of small reservoirs, it grows everywhere and small birds feed on its seeds until the frosts. You've probably seen flocks of sparrows along the roads, swarming in the short grass in the fall, chirping cheerfully; this grass is knotweed. As people call it: knotweed, ant grass, bird's buckwheat, gosling grass, trampling grass, sparrow's tongues, but they are all the same plant called knotweed.
I first met her a long time ago. Even when I lived on Far East. A friend of mine brewed it in a thermos and treated it gynecological diseases. This herb helped her a lot then. Now I myself am finishing a course of treatment with this herb. I take it for prevention - to cleanse the body so that salts do not accumulate, and it very well relieves inflammatory processes in the body, if there is something somewhere, it is good for blood vessels. The course of treatment is usually 3 weeks. Let's see what this grass looks like.
Knotweed grass. Photo
Knotweed (knotweed herb). Useful and healing properties
The beneficial and medicinal properties of knotweed have been known for a very long time; it was used in ancient times as a hemostatic and wound-healing agent. Our wise ancestors squeezed the juice from the grass, soaked the fabric in it and applied it to wounds, ulcers, bruises, thereby avoiding complications and speeding up recovery.
Currently, the properties of this plant have been studied more deeply, which makes it possible to expand the spectrum of its action. Vitamins C, K, E, mineral salts, carotene, tannins, essential oils, flavonoids, resins, saponins, coumarins, various acids and much more.
Knotweed herb is widely used in official and folk medicine, as well as in homeopathy; preparations based on it have the following properties:
- diuretic
- astringent
- anti-inflammatory
- antipyretic
- disinfectant
- hemostatic
- tonic
- blood purifying
- hypotensive
- strengthens blood vessels
Medicinal herb knotweed (knotweed). Application
The range of uses of knotweed (knotweed) is quite impressive, and the herb is considered low-toxic and has a minimum of contraindications, which makes it possible to take it for a long time for various diseases
- For diseases of the kidneys and bladder, long-term use of decoctions and infusions allows you to dissolve and remove sand and stones from the kidneys, reduce swelling, relieve inflammatory process for cystitis. If you are prone to stone formation, knotweed is taken as a preventive measure.
- At inflammatory diseases liver and gall bladder, a decoction of knotweed is also used, but in this case it is necessary to consult a doctor, do an ultrasound of the abdominal cavity to make sure there are no large stones in gallbladder. Knotweed copes with small pebbles, but in the presence of large stones any choleretic agents contraindicated.
- For vascular diseases and hemorrhoids, knotweed helps strengthen the walls of blood vessels, improve blood circulation, and normalize blood pressure.
- For internal and uterine bleeding and hemorrhoids, knotweed improves blood clotting, thereby speeding up the healing process. But you need to understand that like all herbs, knotweed is used in complex treatment, especially in severe cases, which include internal bleeding. In this case, you cannot do without consulting a doctor.
- The anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties of knotweed (knotweed) allow it to be used for colds With elevated temperature, as well as for sore throat and inflammation of the gums.
- Thanks to its tannins and antimicrobial properties, knotweed is used to treat various wounds, cuts, and non-healing ulcers.
- Knotweed is also used in the treatment of gout, it helps remove salts from joints uric acid, thereby reducing pain and inflammation.
- Tuberculosis, arthritis, arthrosis, diseases of the stomach and intestines are also included in the list of diseases for which knotweed helps therapeutic effect on the body.
How to take knotweed
Knotweed (knotweed) is taken in the form of infusions, decoctions or as part of complex medicinal fees. It is best to prepare decoctions and infusions for one day, since after just a day their properties decrease.
Infusion of knotweed (knotweed)
It is very simple to prepare an infusion; you need to take a tablespoon of dry crushed herb per glass of boiling water, leave for 30-40 minutes and take 1/4 cup 3 times a day 20 minutes before meals.
Decoction of knotweed (knotweed)
The decoction turns out to be more concentrated; to prepare it, you need to take two tablespoons of herb in a glass of boiling water, put it all on water bath for 15 - 20 minutes, then cool, strain and add boiled water to a full glass. Take 1-2 tablespoons of decoction before meals.
You can prepare a decoction without a steam bath, simply boil the herb for 3 - 5 minutes over low heat, then remove from heat and strain after 20 minutes.
Knotweed juice
Knotweed juice is squeezed from fresh grass, which is harvested during its flowering. It is recommended to take 1–2 tablespoons of juice two to three times a day before meals for hypertension, convulsions, tuberculosis, intestinal diseases and kidney diseases.
To treat wounds and other skin damage, you can also use the juice, which is used to wash the wounds and apply bandages soaked in the juice. You can do it even simpler: wash the grass, dry it and grind it into a paste, which is applied under a bandage to the damaged areas of the skin.
I suggest watching a video about the beneficial and medicinal properties of knotweed herb.
Knotweed grass. Treatment. Recipes
Traditional medicine uses many recipes with knotweed for treatment various diseases, it is taken both separately and in combination with other plants that enhance therapeutic effect knotweed. I will give you some of them, perhaps they will be useful to someone.
- For kidney stones, mix knotweed herb, bearberry herb and bean leaves in equal parts, pour 15 grams of the collection (this is approximately a full tablespoon) with 1.5 cups of boiling water, leave for 30 minutes, filter and drink the resulting infusion in large portions throughout the day
- For cystitis, prepare an infusion of a tablespoon of knotweed and a glass of water and take half a glass three times a day for a week
- For inflammation of the gallbladder, prepare a decoction of a tablespoon of knotweed herb, keep in a water bath for 30 minutes, strain after 20 minutes and take one tablespoon 3-4 times a day
- For hemorrhoids in the summer, during flowering, pick fresh grass and immediately squeeze the juice out of it. Take a tablespoon twice a day
- For joint diseases, boil a glass of fresh crushed knotweed herb (knotweed) in a liter of water for 5 minutes, leave for at least an hour. Apply lotions from this decoction to sore joints and add it to foot baths.
- For uterine bleeding, pour three teaspoons of dry herb into a glass of boiling water, leave for 40 minutes and take 3-4 times a day, regardless of meals.
- For anemia, prepare an infusion of knotweed herb by brewing a tablespoon of dry raw material with a glass of boiling water. After cooling, strain the infusion and mix with beet juice in equal proportions. Take one spoon 3 times a day before meals for a month
- For pulmonary tuberculosis, mix a tablespoon of crushed dry knotweed herb and crushed licorice root, pour two tablespoons of this mixture into 1/2 liter of boiling water, simmer over low heat for 3-5 minutes, strain after 30 minutes and take 4–5 times per day 1/4 cup
- For bronchitis and pneumonia, prepare a mixture of knotweed grass, coltsfoot leaves, and black elderberry flowers, taking a teaspoon of each. Brew a glass of boiling water, leave until it cools and take a tablespoon 3 – 4 times a day
- For stomach diseases increased acidity gastric juice prepare a mixture of knotweed herb, peppermint, plantain, St. John's wort and calamus root. Mix everything in equal parts. Prepare an infusion from a tablespoon of the mixture and a glass of boiling water.
Knotweed. Grass collection, preparation
Knotweed grows everywhere, but, of course, you cannot collect it in the city; you need to look for it away from city roads and railway tracks.
It is also necessary to distinguish it from other types of knotweed, which do not have medicinal properties. This is not difficult to do, look carefully at the photographs; in knotweed, the stem begins to branch from the very ground, the stems are divided into knees, the leaves have an elliptical shape, and small, inconspicuous flowers are located in the axils of the leaves and have a dirty white color with a pink tint.
For medicinal purposes, knotweed is harvested at the beginning of flowering, this usually happens in late June - early July, the aerial part is cut off at the base, leaving the lowest leaves, then dried with any in an accessible way without exposing to direct sunlight.
It is not recommended to store dried grass for more than two years; it loses its properties over time. healing properties. Glass jars, thick paper bags or linen and cotton bags are suitable for storage.
Where to buy knotweed grass? Price
If you don't want to harvest the herb yourself, buy it at the pharmacy. It is sold in almost every pharmacy. It's very inexpensive. I recently bought it here in Yaroslavl for 30 rubles. Packaging 50 grams.
Knotweed grass. Contraindications
As always, when describing the medicinal properties of any plant, I want to warn you this time that knotweed (knotweed) is a potent plant and taking medications based on it has its contraindications.
Absolute contraindication pregnancy is associated with taking knotweed. They should not be used by people with thrombophlebitis, varicose veins veins, to everyone who is prone to the formation of blood clots, since taking knotweed, which increases blood clotting, can lead to an attack of angina pectoris and even to a heart attack and stroke.
Knotweed is not prescribed to those with low blood pressure.
Despite the fact that knotweed is able to soften and remove stones from the kidneys and gall bladder, people with cholelithiasis and kidney stones can take knotweed with caution and only after consulting a doctor, so as not to aggravate the situation, since the stone can block the bile ducts, which poses a threat to life.
People who have stones in the urinary ducts larger than 6 mm should also not take knotweed.
Here is the information for you today about beneficial properties knotweed and its contraindications.
And for the soul, today we will listen to the old waltz Autumn Dream. Many considered it a native work, written in Russia, but its homeland is in distant, foggy Albion. It was written by pianist and composer Archibald Joyce in 1908. Just such nostalgia... A brass band and an amazing waltz.
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Do you remember how in folk epics mighty heroes loved to sleep on grass-ant, gaining strength before battle? In fairy tales, the cunning Baba Yaga rolled on the grass to regain her health, and even in the poems of Korney Chukovsky, familiar from childhood, a pot-bellied sandwich with sausage lured a red-cheeked bun to walk on the ant... And what’s most surprising is that this fairy-tale grass is actually completely real, and its name is knotweed - its medicinal properties and contraindications have been known to the Russian people from time immemorial to this day.
Cleansing herb for body and soul
Knotweed is a plant with many faces and many names. Take, for example, its official name – bird knotweed. And also bird buckwheat, because small grains of knotweed, similar to buckwheat, are so loved by birds to peck. The most delicate ones are ant grass, goose grass, and knotweed - they grow very sporadically and quickly.
In Rus', the herb knotweed has always been valued - they have tried to use medicinal properties and contraindications even to cure a person of envy, hatred and causeless anger... Whether knotweed can heal the soul is quite problematic to test in our rational age, but one thing is certain - ordinary ailments from the body are avian buckwheat pulls out no worse than fashionable drugs.
- If you suffer from kidney problems, knotweed will definitely help - the medicinal properties of the herb lower the level of salts in the urine, remove swelling and inflammation, normalize metabolic processes and remove sand from the kidneys and gall bladder.
- Relieves gastrointestinal inflammation, kills harmful bacteria and acts as a mild fixative for diarrhea.
- Treats purulent wounds, heals boils, relieves pimples and blackheads.
- Improves the condition of respiratory ailments - pneumonia, bronchitis, tuberculosis, relieves fever from colds.
Traditional healers recommend walking on a fluffy carpet of grass and ants in the summer as often as possible - such walks energize good mood, relieve fatigue in the legs and significantly strengthen the immune system before the rainy autumn. And if problems with your legs overtook you in the cold season, it doesn’t matter, pharmaceutical knotweed will help (you can buy it for mere pennies!). Hot baths with knotweed for 30 minutes will remove evening fatigue and relieve swelling from the legs (a glass of grass in 3 liters of boiling water, simmer over low heat for 15 minutes, leave for an hour).
Benefits for women's health and contraindications
Ant-grass... There is so much warm, affectionate, feminine content in this name! And in the pictures, knotweed grass looks very attractive - the photos show a thick carpet of powerful stems, on which flowers interspersed with leaves sit in small clusters. And what a beauty these ant fields are - dark blue in late spring, dark green in summer, and soft golden in early autumn...
There are real legends about the benefits of knotweed for women's health. The epic herb saves from a variety of “ladies’” ailments - from the disgusting cystitis familiar to everyone to uterine bleeding. For painful and heavy periods, special herbal teas with bird buckwheat - 10 grams of ants and horsetail, 30 grams of centaury and 50 grams of cinquefoil.
But knotweed is not so simple - its medicinal properties and contraindications have been known for a long time, and the latter are quite serious. It is important to remember the prohibitions on the use of knotweed by heart, otherwise the fabulous ant will turn into a dangerous poison.
The most important contraindication for treatment with knotweed is pregnancy. At the slightest suspicion of future motherhood, stop drinking goose grass, otherwise there will be a risk of bleeding and miscarriage. If you have kidney or gallstones, knotweed should also be removed from the first aid kit. Low blood pressure, varicose veins and a tendency to blood clots, recovery from heart attack and stroke are the most inappropriate diagnoses for epic recipes.
Knotweed as a means of conception
IN Ancient Rus' knotweed was not always an ordinary meadow flower - originally it was a double grain, a symbol of fertility. And only then did our ancestors take a closer look at the mysterious grass in the pastures and fields - what kind of plant is it, it is not afraid of cold or heat, cattle eat it - it only grows more, the village girls trample it in round dances - and it only benefits it!
For its amazing fertility and wonderful ability to quickly restore shoots, the Russians called it knotweed, and only then realized that the grass actually brings profit to the house - a long-awaited pregnancy.
Modern research has shown that knotweed can really help with infertility: it enhances the contractile work of the uterine muscles, normalizes respiratory function and improves the supply of oxygen to tissues, and this significantly increases the chances of conception. And folk legends echo: knotweed is the best thing for desperate women effective method give the husband an heir.
Knotweed for pregnancy: what reviews say
On women's forums and special blogs for mothers, medicinal herbs for infertility are discussed tirelessly, and opinions can be found radically different. Among those who have used knotweed for conception, reviews are also mixed.
Many opinions sound like this:
“My friend drank knotweed for several months and just got pregnant. I doubted whether I should take this herb, but now I’ll definitely start.”
“I couldn’t get pregnant for six years, then I found out about knotweed. I drank it for a year instead of tea and coffee, and now I’m pregnant!”
Other members of the forum warn: the grass-ant is full of contraindications, and before taking knotweed, you should definitely visit a doctor. If you are diagnosed with kidney stones, elevated testosterone, or an ovarian cyst, take medicine from folk tales strictly prohibited! Most visitors write: this herb knotweed is not an easy medicine - its medicinal properties do not help all girls, but if you have already tried all the methods, you can try a course of knotweed. The main thing is to consult your gynecologist.
How to take knotweed?
Traditional medicine has accumulated quite a lot of recipes with herb-ant: for almost every ailment there is its own method of treatment. What are the most effective ways to use knotweed?
- For pustules, ulcers and skin problems, prepare a simple infusion: pour a tablespoon of crushed dried ants with a glass of boiling water and leave for 10 minutes. Then we simply moisten the gauze in a healing decoction and make compresses.
- If you have a cold, bronchitis, or your baby has caught whooping cough, knotweed is useful here - the application is as follows: A large spoon of dried bird buckwheat + 200 ml of boiling water. Keep in a water bath for 10 minutes and immediately remove to infuse for 2 hours. Drink a tablespoon 3 times a day.
- Are you struggling with your kidneys? Pour 20 grams of dried herb-ant into 200 ml of plain water, boil and keep on fire for 5 minutes. Leave for 15-20 minutes, take as in the previous recipe.
- And if knotweed is needed for conception - how to take it in this case? The method is very simple: pour a large spoonful of herbs with a glass of boiling water and wait half an hour. We drink without special restrictions, like our favorite tea, course – 1-3 months. One condition - it is better to be treated with grass-ant in the first half monthly cycle, before ovulation.
Knotweed in cooking
Our knotweed has found its way everywhere - its medicinal properties and contraindications are not its only advantage; on the kitchen table, the grass-ant also works very real miracles. Thanks to ascorbic acid and other vitamins, fresh essential oils and fats, knotweed looks great in spring and summer salads, vegetable side dishes, and green soups. And in the Caucasus and in the countries Central Asia They make a wonderful filling for pies from it - especially for those who are bored with rhubarb and sorrel.
- Knotweed puree with cheese and garlic
You will need: 200 grams of young green herbs, 2-3 cloves of garlic, 50 grams of cheese, salt and pepper to taste, vinegar (balsamic can be used). Grind the knotweed in a meat grinder, add crushed garlic. There is also grated cheese, spices, dressing. This puree is an ideal summer side dish for barbecue, grilled fish, and an excellent option for sandwiches.
- Summer drink made from knotweed
You will need: 1.5 liters of water, 500 grams of tender knotweed herb, 2 cups of rosehip infusion, a tablespoon lemon juice, sugar and any berry syrup - to taste.
Pour over the ant cold water, leave for 5-6 hours. Then strain, add the rest of the goodies - and on the table.
Knotweed is a universal herb: it will help in healing and how it is used as food, and walking on it is a pleasure. In the summer, be sure to look for endless fields of ant-grass at your home country house or in your grandmother’s village - this flower should not remain only on the pages of fairy tales.
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Knotweed and its medicinal properties
Do you know what knotweed is? Is the grass an ant? Bird knotweed? All these names were given to the same plant, which lives everywhere - in the forest, in the park, on the banks of reservoirs, in gardens and courtyards. By the way, these are not all the names of the grass, which gardeners consider a common weed.
They call it sparrow tongues, conotope, bird buckwheat, trampling grass, and goose grass. Well, we will still call it knotweed, because this plant got its name from the word “spore”, that is, very quickly.
By the way, in Rus', herbalists long ago noticed the property of knotweed to quickly restore damaged shoots, and this gift of regeneration was used in folk medicine. Moreover, during collection, only the softest, upper parts of the plant were cut off. Decoctions, infusions and ointments were made from them.
And even earlier, BC, the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates treated his fellow citizens with this herb.
What is knotweed rich in?
This plant is a real storehouse of vitamins, minerals and useful substances. Vegetable protein, fiber, resins, sugars, tannins, glycosides, carotene, vitamins C, K, E... And also silicon, which is so needed lung tissue. It is very valuable in the treatment of such a complex disease as tuberculosis. In short, fresh knotweed is a worthy competitor to many berries and fruits.
Knotweed in spring salad is extremely useful component. If its young leaves are mixed with finely chopped hard-boiled eggs and dill, this is not only a fortified, but also a very tasty dish!
Use of knotweed
This simple herb has many medicinal properties. Based on it, they are created medications, having anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and diuretic properties.
In addition, it has long been known that knotweed is present in medicines that increase immunity, lower blood pressure, and heal wounds.
In pharmacies you can find various herbal preparations, which include knotweed. They are recommended for treatment chronic gastritis, stomach diseases, tuberculosis, kidney stones and other ailments.
Stones turn to sand
This is exactly what patients say, for whom knotweed-based medicines helped get rid of kidney stones. As a result long-term use fees, where the grass-ant is combined with other diuretics, the stones are crushed and turned into sand. The most remarkable thing is that patients hardly notice how this healing process gradually occurs.
The most popular composition of such a collection is as follows: in equal parts - knotweed, dwarf bean pods, bear's ear leaf, hernia grass. The healing drink is prepared separately for each daily dose: 15 grams of the dry mixture is brewed with a glass of boiling water and drunk warm throughout the day.
Even practicing doctors do not deny the positive effect of this infusion. Cases have been recorded where gallstones passed without surgical intervention and even the jaundice receded.
This composition is successfully used and how prophylactic, which does not allow salts to form entire conglomerates.
There is another infusion recipe that effectively removes stones. In this case, only dry knotweed is needed. One tablespoon is brewed with a glass of boiling water, left for half an hour, filtered and drunk a tablespoon three times a day, without timing these doses with breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Other medicinal uses of knotweed
Traditional medicine has given use to knotweed for the treatment and prevention of many diseases. Infusions of this herb are used for oncological diseases. They are also used for metabolic disorders, for example, in the fight against excess weight. Nervous exhaustion, loss of strength after a long illness, old age - all this serious reasons to remember the healing properties of this inconspicuous, but so miraculous herb, knotweed.
These infusions also treat wounds, bruises, ulcers, hemorrhoids, skin diseases, eliminate swelling in the legs.
Knotweed for conception
This is the most controversial point even among doctors. There are experts who claim that knotweed is very effective in helping with infertility. The plant activates the activity of the uterine muscles and actively saturates the body with oxygen.
In these cases, knotweed is used as follows: a glass of dry or fresh knotweed is poured into a liter of boiling water, the mixture is steamed for several minutes, and filtered. This infusion should replace all your usual drinks. The drug should be taken until pregnancy occurs.
Popular rumor has dubbed this remedy a herb for conception and claims that in the end a boy will definitely be born.
Other experts argue that if this happened, it was the result of psychological influence. After all, believing in something can work miracles. And there are no statistics that would confirm the influence of knotweed on the process of conception.
True, back in the 15th century in the Encyclopedic Dictionary medicines Armenian naturalist and doctor Amirdovlat Amasiatsi wrote that a woman can give birth to a healthy boy if she and her husband eat 10 grams of plant seeds every morning for forty days. But from the description of the grass it is not clear what kind of knotweed we are talking about. However, this historical episode is often cited as an argument by supporters of the effect of knotweed on pregnancy.
This dispute is not yet over. But practice proves that the plant helps women with some gynecological diseases, and this is a considerable chance on the path to the desired motherhood.
Knotweed infusion is often used by obstetricians to accelerate uterine contractions after childbirth, in case of excessive heavy menstruation, with uterine bleeding.
Contraindications for taking knotweed
Whatever miraculous properties If there was no herb, we must not forget that this remedy belongs to the category of potent ones.
- Knotweed increases blood clotting, but it can also cause thrombosis, cause an angina attack, or even provoke a heart attack or stroke. This especially applies to older people.
- By stimulating intestinal motility and simultaneously lowering blood pressure, knotweed can worsen the condition of people suffering from gallstones or constipation.
- When treating gallstone disease directly, it happens that not all stones are loosened, and then the surviving stone can block bile duct.
- It is not recommended for pregnant women to use knotweed decoctions, as they can cause miscarriage.
Pies with knotweed
Knotweed is also valued as a food plant. It is believed that this herb is equivalent in protein content to poultry meat. It contains approximately the same amount of starch as legumes. And in terms of vitamin content, knotweed is twice as high as rosehip and lemon.
Young leaves and stems of the plant serve as the basis for beneficial and delicious salads. And in Dagestan, knotweed is used to make an excellent filling for famous national pies.
Knotweed - raw material for paint
To obtain blue dye, use the roots of the plant. And green and yellow dye is extracted directly from the grass, which is used to process leather and fabrics.
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Knotweed and its medicinal properties and contraindications
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Bird knotweed (Polýgonum aviculáre) is a representative of the group of annual herbaceous plants, which has high nutritional value and unique medicinal properties. Other names for this crop are common among the people: knotweed, goose grass, pig grass, trestle grass, bird buckwheat, fringed grass. The original Russian equivalent - knotweed was given to the plant because amazing ability quickly (quickly) regenerate damaged vegetative organs. Medicinal properties are effectively used in folk medicine, taking into account contraindications.
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- Collection of medicinal raw materials
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- Medicinal properties
- Skin diseases and hairline
- Viral and infectious diseases
- Treatment of cardiovascular and nervous system
- Diseases of the genitourinary system
- Circulatory system
- Digestive tract
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