Forest flowers and herbs: photos and names of plants in the forest strip. Grass gout: description, cultivation and application

Snotweed is a perennial herbaceous plant from the celery family. It is found everywhere: in vegetable gardens, near houses, in wastelands, in parks, in humid forests. It multiplies quickly, is difficult to eradicate, therefore it is considered a noxious weed and not everyone knows about its beneficial properties.

Medicinal properties of the herb

The aerial part of the plant is considered especially useful, the roots are less often used. More useful substances gout contains during flowering, so they try to harvest it during this period. Pre-dried greens are stored in a glass container, dried roots - in wooden boxes.

Sleep has a number of useful qualities:

• restorative;
• anti-inflammatory;
• detoxification;
• painkillers;
• antitoxic.

Preparations obtained from the aerial part improve blood flow in the kidneys, improve their excretory function. The diuretic effect is enhanced by the phenolic substances that make up the plant.

The nephroprotective effect is achieved by the antioxidant, decongestant, hypoazotemic actions of the plant. In pathologies of the cardiovascular system, an important role is played by the ability to slow down the process of blood clotting.

The substances included in the goutweed accelerate metabolism, normalize the functions of the digestive organs, and remove toxins from the body. The extract obtained from the leaves of the plant contains carotenoids and chlorophyll, which accelerate tissue repair.

Sleep is successfully used:

• for removing harmful substances from the body, replenishing with vitamins, micro- and macroelements;
• as an antifungal and bactericidal agent;
• high iron content helps to cope with anemia;
• antitumor activity is used for the treatment of cancer and its prevention;
• as an antispasmodic and a means of strengthening capillaries;
• to lower cholesterol levels, prevent thrombosis;
• for dizziness, respiratory diseases, inflammatory processes, gout preparations are actively used;
• used in cooking in fresh, dried, marinated form.

Nutritional value and calories

Snyt is a low-calorie product, 100 g contain 12.7 kcal. The chemical composition is little studied, although it is known that it is close to the formula of human blood. The aerial part of goutweed contains choline, flavonoids (kaempferol and quercetin), organic acids (citric, malic). As well as:

• the amount of vitamin C reaches 100 mg;
• carotene up to 8 mg%;
• falcarinol 0.088%;
• essential oil 0.04%;
• chlorophyll 1.5%.

The leaves contain micro and macro elements (potassium up to 8.3%, iron, zinc, magnesium, copper, boron, vanadium, manganese, titanium, cobalt). The plant contains fructose, glucose, proteins, phytoncides, polyacetylene compounds, coumarins, enzymes, ash, resins, saponins.

Polyacetylene compounds are considered natural pesticides, they have a powerful antifungal effect (which is successfully used in the treatment of fungal diseases).

After numerous experiments, it was possible to confirm the antitumor properties of polyacetylene compounds: falcarinol reduces the likelihood of cancer. On their basis, anticancer drugs are being developed.

In the aerial part of the goutweed is contained in large quantities carotene with useful properties:

• strong antioxidant (capable of neutralizing free radicals that increase the risk of cancer);
• enhances immunity;
• reduces the effect of toxins, high doses of radiation;
• has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, helps to cope with stress more easily.

Vitamin C It is not synthesized in the body and can only be obtained from food. Its main properties:

• regulates metabolic processes (production of hormones, cholesterol metabolism);
• is an antioxidant (neutralizes free radicals);
• immunomodulator (strengthens immunity);
• vasoprotector (strengthens the vascular walls);
• anabolic (takes part in tissue growth);
• accelerates wound healing;
• takes part in the process of hematopoiesis.

Actions kaempferol and quercetin are very similar, they are:

• have a calming, antispasmodic effect;
• remove harmful substances from the body;
• reduce blood pressure;
• together with ascorbic acid increase the elasticity of blood vessels;
• prevent the appearance of tumors;
• increase immunity;
• have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects;
• have choleretic, diuretic and tonic effect.

• prevent the occurrence of tumor processes;
• accelerate hair growth
• prevent thrombosis;
• have antifungal and antibacterial effect;
• have a vasodilating effect;
• relieve puffiness;
• relieve pain in the joints;
• have an anti-inflammatory effect.

Is there any harm and contraindications?

Snyt is a plant that has almost no contraindications. People with individual intolerance should not use sleep. Caution is advised to use the plant during pregnancy and lactation.

Methods of application in traditional medicine

Folk medicine has been using gout (in the form of poultices) since ancient times to treat gout, various inflammatory processes, depression, sleep disorders, and as an antifungal agent. Preparations derived from the plant are used to treat and prevent neoplasms (benign or malignant).

Recipes using sleepweed:

Snot is an edible plant that goes well with vegetables and meat. As a medicine, any part of the goutweed is used, fresh or dried.

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The Latin name of the genus Snyt consists of the Greek words "aegos", which means "goat", and "podion" - foot (the distal part of the leaf of the plant looks like a goat's hoof print).

Dream Synonyms: snit, snitka, yaglitsa, marsh kupyr, yaglitsa, dedilnik.

Interesting fact! Snyt has a pleasant aroma for humans. However, some animals do not like the smell of fresh gout (for example, pigs).

Previously, paint was prepared from the gout to give the fabrics a green, dark yellow or brown color (this depended on the degree of impregnation of the material).

It has been used as a medicinal plant since ancient times. In Polish folk medicine, infusions of leaves and flowers of goutweed are used for rheumatism, gout, polyarthritis, poisoning, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, lungs and bronchi. In Abkhaz folk medicine, the leaves and shoots of goutweed are used for erysipelas and atopic diathesis. In the Middle Ages, on the island of Great Britain, gout was grown at monasteries as a remedy for gout, rheumatism and spinal osteochondrosis. By the way, the British still call goutweed "bishops' herb", since those who held this position often suffered from gout due to a sedentary lifestyle and, possibly, dietary habits.

In Russia, gout was mainly eaten and used as an ingredient in salads and other dishes. It is assumed that the Russian-language name of the plant comes from the word "food".

Interesting fact! Previously, sellers of vegetables and fruits shifted their goods with gout, which significantly increased its shelf life. And this was not just a superstition - in our time it has been established that the goutweed contains natural pesticides that have antifungal and bactericidal activity. Thus, the gout protects vegetables and fruits from bacteria and fungi.

Types of goutweed

Snyt ordinary (description, photo)

Common goatweed is a perennial herbaceous plant of the celery (umbrella) family. This is the most studied species of the genus Snyt. This species is most often used as a medicinal plant.

The Latin name of the species (podagraria) speaks for itself - people have discovered since time immemorial that the plant helps treat gout and rheumatism.

Rhizome - long, horizontal, underground, creeping. It contains many seeds and buds, which allows the grass to actively grow, creating large thickets connected by a common rhizome.

The stem of the plant is erect, tubular, glabrous or with short thin hairs, furrowed, branching upwards. An adult plant reaches a height of 0.5 - 1 m.

Basal leaves are simple, twice trifoliate, pointed, oblong-ovate, sharp-toothed edges, glabrous on the front side, pubescent on the back. The leaf length can reach 10-30 cm, width - 15-35 cm. They grow on long petioles 30-40 cm long.

The upper leaves are smaller, less dissected, trifoliate, almost naked (without pubescence), grow on short petioles extended into the vagina.

The inflorescence is a complex umbel with 20-30 umbel rays, not exceeding 1.5 cm in diameter. Each umbel consists of 15 or more rays, on which are small flowers with snow-white petals; Each flower has 5 stamens and 1 pistil. An interesting feature of the plant is that only the upper (central) umbel bears fruit, while the lateral umbels are barren.

The common gout blossoms on average for about a month, in the first half of summer (sometimes until August).

The fruit is an elongated fractional, slightly laterally compressed brown two-seeded seedling with ribs, 3-4 mm long. Ripens in August. Adopted seeds germinate in May.

It reproduces vegetatively and by seeds.

Common gout grows on moist soils in deciduous and deciduous-coniferous forests, woodlands, deforested areas, shrubs, meadows and floodplains, forming extensive thickets.

Distributed throughout the European part of Russia, in Eastern Europe, in Siberia (mainly in the south), in Central Asia and Transcaucasia.

Snotweed is considered a weed. And apparently not in vain, because it easily settles in summer cottages, displacing plantings of cultivated plants, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, etc.

However, most gardeners, mercilessly weeding out this wonderful weed, do not even suspect what health benefits, with proper use, it can bring.

Snyt broad-leaved (description)

Perennial grass. This type of dream is not unpretentious. It lives only in one place on Earth - the southeastern coast of Lake Baikal.

The stem is bare, with furrows. Reaches a height of 0.7 m.
The lower leaves are rounded, on long petioles, trifoliate, with large notches along the edges, leaf blades are located along the main petiole.
Umbrellas 5-12 cm in diameter, consist of 12-22 rays, on which umbrellas with small white flowers are located.
Flowering occurs, as in common gout, in the first half of summer. The fruits ripen in August.
Prefers mixed forests, lower reaches of rivers (glades near rivers, sandy and rocky banks).

Broad-leaved gout is included in the Red Book of the Russian Federation.

Snyt Kashmiri (description, photo)

A perennial plant, the Kashmiri goutweed, in comparison with the common gout, has a more miniature size. Previously, it was believed that the Kashmiri goutweed grows only in the Himalayas, and in the mountainous regions of Central Asia it has long been attributed to the subspecies of common gout. Outwardly, these two species are really similar. A distinctive feature of the species is the presence of sector tubules in the flower petals. Also, this species is distinguished by thinner roots and stems, and finely reticulated leaves.

Flowering occurs in the second half of summer.

It lives in shady places in forests, at the foot of mountains and in gorges. Also, like common gout, it prefers moist soils.

Grass, like most types of goutweed, is hardy.

Sleep helps to eliminate edema.

Gout preparations are widely used in the treatment of diseases of the urinary system (in particular, they stimulate the excretory function and normalize the blood supply to the kidneys).

Since the plant is rich in potassium, its use is the prevention of potassium deficiency in the body.

Due to its anti-inflammatory and healing effects, gout, when applied externally, helps to cure atopic diathesis, wounds and bedsores.

Young leaves and shoots of goutweed are a cure for scurvy (they should be chewed slowly over 1-2 hours).

Contraindications to the use of gout

dream honey

Honey from common goutweed is light, yellow-greenish in color, has a pleasant taste and smell. It has most of the medicinal properties that relate to the gout itself.

Interesting fact! In the Western regions of Siberia, goutweed is considered one of the main honey plants.

Dietary supplements with sleep: "Seaweed Optima"

The composition of the dietary supplement includes the following herbal ingredients:

• common sleepyhead;
• kelp sugary;
• soluble and insoluble fiber;
• polysaccharides;
• amino acids (among them 7 essential);
• polyunsaturated fatty acids;
• vitamins A, D, B 5 , B 6 ;
• ascorbic acid;
• thiamine;
• cyanocobalamin;
• micro and macro elements.

Due to the presence of common goutweed in the composition of the product, the dietary supplement has a significant antitumor effect. It prevents the development of benign and malignant tumors. Therefore, the supplement is useful for people with a high risk of cancer. Also goutweed ordinary significantly stimulates the loss of excess weight.

Infusion of gout grass for diathesis and eczema
Ingredients: 2 cups of clean hot water, 3 tsp. crushed grass goutweed.
Pour the herb into a glass vessel, pour boiling water and leave for 2 hours, then filter through cheesecloth. This infusion is drunk in half a glass 4 times a day.
This infusion is recommended for:

• inflammatory diseases of the joints;
• pathologies of the digestive system, characterized by disorders of the gastrointestinal tract (diarrhea, constipation, etc.);
• diseases of the urinary system.

Infusion for cleansing the intestines
3 tsp brew chopped gout grass in 400-500 ml of boiling water, insist in a sealed container for two hours, then strain.
This infusion is recommended to be taken orally for 10 days as follows: on the first day, drink one tablespoon 3 times a day for 20-30 minutes. before meals, on the second day - two tablespoons of infusion. This is followed by a break of 5-6 days. After a break, everything is repeated.

Common gout juice

During the course, some people may experience heartburn. It can be stopped by simply drinking a small amount of water with baking soda dissolved in it.

Common gout juice, used according to the above instructions, perfectly cleanses the intestines. It is also used as a folk remedy for:

• diseases of the stomach and intestines;

Sleep baths are taken as an aid in myositis and arthritis of various etiologies, as well as a tonic.

fresh

When fresh, gout is used for scurvy, beriberi and anemia. Goatweed can be consumed simply by chewing fresh leaves, or added to various culinary dishes.

Common goat grass: description, harvesting and storage, useful properties, application, preparation of medicinal infusion - video

Culinary dishes with gout (how to cook gout)

Since time immemorial, gout has been used as an ingredient in culinary dishes (especially in Russia).

Interesting fact! The founder and patron of the Diveevo convent, Seraphim of Sarov, for many years living alone in the forest, ate exclusively common goatweed. They say that he was a very healthy person, never got sick and died at the age of 79 (by the standards of that time, this is a very respectable age).

Goutweed, eaten, is an excellent source of ascorbic acid, carotene, microelements and other biologically active substances.

Below are a few recipes for vitamin salads with gout.

Salad with goutweed, beets and garlic

Ingredients:
• hard cheese - 250 g;
• boiled beets - 1 pc;
• garlic - 5 cloves;
• young leaves and shoots of common goutweed - to taste (it is recommended to take a large bunch);
• sour cream 10 or 15% - 50 g;
• homemade mustard - 1 teaspoon;
• raw vegetable oil - 2.5 tablespoons;
• soy sauce - 1 teaspoon;
• salt (optional)
Preparing the salad:
1. Thoroughly wash the leaves of common goutweed and place in strongly salted water for a quarter of an hour. Then put on a towel and pat dry.
2. Grind cheese on a fine grater. Peel the garlic, pass through a garlic press and mix with cheese, pour in 1 tablespoon of oil, mix.
3. Peel the beets, chop on a grater, add a tablespoon of oil and mix.
4. Finely chop the gout leaves, add soy sauce and oil, mix.
5. To mix everything.
6. Mix sour cream with mustard (served separately from salad as a sauce).

Egg salad with gout and cucumbers

Wash young leaves and shoots of goutweed thoroughly under running water, chop, add finely chopped fresh cucumbers, green onions, dill, a few hard-boiled chicken eggs. Mix all ingredients thoroughly, add virgin olive oil. You can also add some lemon juice to the salad.

Sauerkraut

Sleep can also be fermented. Below is one of the many sourdough starter recipes.

Ingredients:

• Young leaves and shoots of goutweed - 1 kg;
• Sorrel sour - 30 g;
• Salt - 40 g;
• Cumin seeds - 40 g.
Thoroughly wash and chop the leaves of goutweed and sorrel. Then scald in boiling water and let the water drain, wrapped in gauze. Then put the greens on the bottom of the glassware (jars), sprinkling each layer with salt and cumin seeds. Press each layer firmly so that the greens release juice. When the jar is full, press down the contents with a load and place in the refrigerator. The dish will be ready in three days. Before use, it is recommended to season with vegetable oil (preferably raw pressed). Before use, you should consult with a specialist.

It happens that summer residents scold this grass, considering it a malicious weed. But it is a very useful plant. Goutweed leaves contain choline, flavonoids, quercetin and kaempferol, which strengthen the walls of blood vessels, essential oil, fiber, carotene and vitamin C. Goutweed is rich in both mineral salts and microelements. It has urinary and choleretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, wound healing, blood-purifying properties, improves digestion.
Promotes the removal of fluid from the body. Gout has a pronounced antiscorbutic effect due to the high content of vitamin C, and the combination of iron, copper, manganese allows it to be used in some forms of anemia.

If you eat nettle excessively, the blood will thicken greatly, if you drink plenty of fragrant teas from raspberry leaves, stems, roots, the blood will thin. In a word, with an overdose of certain herbs, there is a risk of thrombosis, heart attack, stroke, etc. But this does not happen when using goutweed: the chemical composition of the plant is as close as possible to the formula of our blood, and a person can safely eat it for a long time. So, the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, who lived for many years as a hermit in the forest, already before his death told one Diveyevo sister that for three years he had been eating only grass, snitka: “I prepared food for myself from snitka. Do you know the snippet? I tore it up, but put it in a pot, pour a little, it happened, some water into it - a glorious meal comes out. For the winter, I dried the snitka and ate this alone, and the brethren wondered what I ate. And I ate a snitka ... And I didn’t open about this to the brethren. ”

Common goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria L.) is a perennial herbaceous umbrella plant from the celery family. Its stem is straight and hollow, furrowed, slightly branched at the top, reaches 1 m. The upper leaves are small, on short petioles, the lower ones are larger, on long petioles, ovoid, double- and triple-triple, with denticles. The flowers are small, white, diverging on the rays-spokes, form umbrellas. The largest umbrella is apical - it has 20-25 rays. It is he who gives the seeds. The plant blooms in June-July. The fruits ripen in August. Snyt is widespread in the European part of the country, Western and Eastern Siberia, the Sayans, and the Caucasus.

Probably, the word “snyt” (or, according to Dahl, “sleep”) is akin to the word “food”, which means delicious food. Grass can be boiled, stewed, fried. It is especially useful in salads, in which sour, nettle, willow-herb, dandelion leaves are added for taste, and in spring - linden, willow. Goes to such salads and greens of onions, parsley, dill. Optionally, you can put sausage, egg, cheese, horseradish, and then the salad acquires a special taste. Salads will become more nutritious if you flavor them with a small amount of apple cider vinegar, kvass, birch sap or sour berry juice. One of the components of salads is nuts, which can be replaced with rye breadcrumbs. Before eating raw, goutweed greens are blanched in boiling water for 1-2 minutes.

Soups, borscht, and cold soups are prepared from the leaves of the gout. Crushed dry leaves as a seasoning are added to the first and second courses. They make pasta with cheese, caviar, cabbage rolls from the leaves. Stew with potatoes. The leaves are well fermented, like cabbage, and the petioles are pickled or salted. For the winter, you can prepare canned seasoning: for 1 kg of goutweed leaves, take 100 g of parsley, celery, dandelion leaves. Pour boiling water over and drain in a colander after three minutes. When the water drains, chop, add 300 g of chopped carrots and 100 g of onions. Mix everything, arrange in glass jars, pour in a 10% chilled saline solution, cover with lids and sterilize. Half-liter jars - 20 minutes, liter - 30 minutes. Then the banks are closed.

In folk medicine, crushed leaves of goutweed are applied to wounds or rubbed into sore spots for gout, rheumatism, and sciatica. Juice treats erysipelas, fungal skin lesions.

An infusion of all parts of the plant is used in the treatment of diseases of the kidneys, bladder, prostate and appendages, with hepatocholecystitis, tonsillitis, cystitis, conjunctivitis, stomach ulcers, gastritis and colitis. Infusions are also used for headaches, joint diseases. For this, 2 tbsp. dry grass pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, leave for two hours in a warm place and drink 0.5 cups 20 minutes before meals.

All of the above diseases can be treated with tinctures. Fill a bottle or jar by a third with dry rhizomes of goutweed, pour vodka to the top, leave for two weeks in a dark place. Take 20-25 drops 20 minutes before meals. For external diseases, dilute vodka tincture with water (1: 1) and use for lotions, rubdowns, and washings.

It is better to use very young leaves and shoots for food, while they are still yellowish-green and, as it were, “transparent”. Under different conditions, they at this stage can be of different lengths. Goutweed, growing in shady places, longer produces greens suitable for food, its leaves are larger and more tender. And for winter harvesting, the plant is harvested in October-November, when it has a particularly high amount of vitamin C. For medicinal purposes, the leaves and petioles of goutweed are harvested during flowering (in June-July), and the rhizomes are harvested in late autumn.
Slut grows everywhere: in the city, in the forest, in the country - this is one of the most common weeds, which is familiar to everyone, but few have tried it. But gout in terms of usefulness is on a par with nettle, and, unlike it, it can be used raw - gout does not need to be boiled or scalded.

For food, the youngest shoots are harvested, when the leaf is still light green, shiny and unopened - it is crisp and so far without a specific aftertaste. Gout greens are good for cabbage soup - they put it instead of cabbage. Only you need to cook the gout quite a bit - it is too tender. Okroshka is also made with “weed”: kvass or yogurt, gout, green onions, dill, cucumber - and a little mustard for spiciness.

Stew gout with potatoes: separately stew the grass, separately - potatoes with onions, shortly before they are ready, they are combined and a little tomato juice is added.

The gout has many advantages: it contains salts of iron, boron, manganese, it supports the immune system, helps with inflammation, kidney and liver diseases, anemia and vitamin deficiency, promotes wound healing.

Moreover, gout is good as an excellent honey plant: when other plants do not provide enough nectar, it perfectly replaces them, giving healing honey enriched with a mass of useful elements.

Medicinal properties of goutweed

Previously, goutweed was mainly used as an excellent remedy for gout and rheumatism (by the way, the scientific name of this plant - podagraria - is another proof of this). However, other indications for the use of this herb were later discovered, including:
bladder disease,
kidney disease,
diseases of the gastrointestinal tract,
respiratory problems,
erysipelas,
diathesis,
fungal diseases.

The main advantage of sleepweed is that it has no contraindications and side effects. At the same time, the effect of the plant is really extensive and multifaceted. Able to sleep:
relieve inflammation,
heal the wound
relieve the pain
enhance the detoxification functions of the liver (which allows you to better remove various poisons from it),
improve the functioning of the stomach and intestines,
normalize salt metabolism.

In addition, gout is recommended to be included in the diet of patients suffering from anemia: this plant contains a fair amount of iron, and gout is especially useful for anemic children who do not develop fast enough. Also, this medicinal herb will be simply indispensable for adolescents suffering from disorders of the nervous and cardiovascular systems: goutweed contains quercetin, flavonoids and kaempferol, which perfectly strengthen the walls of blood vessels. This same quality makes sleep very valuable for older people who have problems with blood pressure and heart.

As for fungal diseases, polyacetylene compounds, which contain gout in large quantities, cope with them: lotions from its decoction can quickly rid the skin of the fungus. Finally, the medicinal herb is also good as a sedative: if you take a bath at night from a decoction of the roots of the gout, you can get rid of insomnia and restless sleep.

The use of dreams.

If it is recommended to use mainly young leaves and shoots of this plant for food, then for medicinal purposes gout is used mainly in dried form: it is harvested during the flowering period, drying at a temperature of up to 30 degrees. Then decoctions and tinctures are prepared from it, and gout is also included in various collections, which are mainly used as diuretics, means to improve digestion and appetite, to reduce joint pain. However, the medicinal properties of goutweed do not persist for a long time. Plants collected and unused this year, alas, will have to be thrown away next summer.

DOSAGE FORMS, METHOD OF APPLICATION AND DOSES.

♦ Infusion of goutweed herb: 15 g of raw materials are poured into 400 ml of boiling water, infused for 2 hours, then filtered. Take 1/2 cup 4 times a day before meals for diathesis and eczema.
Root tincture is used as a compress for myositis.
♦ Goutweed juice: squeezed from the aerial parts of young plants.
Take 1/4-1/3 cup with a tablespoon of honey.

Liver cleansing.

Brew 2 tablespoons of goutweed herb with 1 cup of hot water and boil in a water bath for 15 minutes, leave for 45 minutes and strain. After that, bring the volume to the original boiled water. Drink 1 glass of infusion during the day.

To prevent cancer, cook yourself a healing soup.

For him you need: 150 g of gout; 100 g of mallow, plantain, nettle, knotweed; one leaf of celandine; 2.5 st. spoons of oatmeal. Add some carrots, onions, vegetable oil.

Boil the cereal in 3 liters of water until tender and add chopped herbs and vegetables.

RECIPES:

Salad from goutweed: goutweed, onion, dill, cucumber, potatoes, sour cream.

Slutch salad: 150 g of fresh goatweed, 25 g of grated horseradish, 20 g of sour cream, salt to taste. Rinse the young leaves of the goutweed, pour boiling water over it and soak in it for 10 minutes. Drain the water, chop the leaves, add grated horseradish and salt, mix and season with sour cream.

Salad of goutweed and sorrel with vegetables: 80 g of fresh goutweed. 20 g sorrel, 50 g potatoes, 10 g carrots. 5 g vegetable oil, 15 g spicy tomato sauce, salt to taste. Cut the boiled vegetables into small slices, put chopped sorrel and goutweed on them, add vegetable oil, sauce and salt.

Green soup with goutweed: 160 g goutweed, mallow, plantain, knotweed, 40 g oatmeal, 10 g carrots, 10 g onion, 10 g butter, 40 g sour cream, spices. First, cook the cereal until half cooked, then add the washed and chopped greens and continue cooking for 20 minutes. At the end of cooking, add the fried onions, and season the soup with sour cream before serving.

Green soup with goutweed: 80 g goutweed, 40 g fresh cucumbers, 15 g green onions, 10 g dill, 1.5 cups kvass, 1/2 cup curdled milk, 1 potato, 1 g mustard. Boil the gout until half cooked, grind in a meat grinder, cool the broth. Put chopped cucumbers (or cucumber herb) into the chilled broth, add onion, greens puree, dill, mustard, curdled milk, kvass and salt. Before serving, add boiled potato wedges to the plates.

Goutweed stewed with potatoes: 100g fresh goutweed, 100g potatoes, 15g onion, 1g dill. 15 g tomato sauce, 15 g sour cream, salt to taste. Chop prepared young leaves and shoots of goutweed, salt and simmer until half cooked. Then combine with stewed potatoes and onions, add sour cream and continue to simmer for 10-15 minutes. Season with tomato sauce.

Pickled gout: for 1 liter of marinade - 1 tbsp. salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 cloves (spice), 12 allspice peas, 2 bay leaves, 1/2 liter of 6% vinegar, 1/2 liter of coda, or 1 liter of water, 2 tbsp. spoons of 80% vinegar essence.
Prepare the marinade filling in an enamel bowl. Pour water into the pan, add salt, sugar, spices and boil for 10-15 minutes. Then add vinegar and, without letting it boil, warm up for another 10-15 minutes. It is impossible to boil the filling after adding vinegar - it will evaporate.
For pickling, only very young gout is recommended. You can use the petiole together with the leaf blade, but when harvesting for the winter, it is better to take one petiole, which is cut along the length of the jar and tightly stuffed into it vertically. If gout is prepared for immediate consumption, it is laid out in a hot marinade and heated for 5-10 minutes. Then remove from heat and leave in the marinade for 1 day. For winter preservation, the petioles are placed in jars. Bring the marinade to a boil and immediately. Fill them with jars to the top edge. They are immediately rolled up with sterile lids, turned over and wrapped in a cotton blanket for 6-12 hours, you can leave them like that for the night.

Now about the ritual of weed control ..... Here I have a not entirely successful experience. I started sleeping in the flower garden, for a long time. I have not eradicated it yet, but other weeds do not grow. In the beds, with regular loosening, there are no thickets of weeds either, but I don’t pay much attention to small ones, the main thing is that the main crop is not slaughtered.
To do this, you need to collect the weeds that you want to get rid of, tie them into a ring where the tops and roots would intertwine, throw them into a strong fire so that they completely burn out and scatter the ashes over the area where these weeds should not grow. Conspiracies are welcome, but I can’t lay out the finished one yet, if I just make it up right on the go.
Spend on a waning moon.

Botanical characteristics of gout

Snot is a perennial herbaceous plant of the umbrella family, reaches a height of 50–100 cm. Its rhizome is long, creeping, the stem is hollow, erect, slightly branched in the upper part. The leaves are large, alternate, trifoliate, glabrous above, slightly pubescent below. The flowers are white, small, collected in complex umbrella inflorescences at the tops of the stems. The fruits are oblong dark brown two-seedlings 3–4 mm long. It blooms in May-June, fruits ripen in July-August.

The plant is widespread in many European regions of Russia, in Siberia - up to the Yenisei. It grows in forests of mixed type, on edges, clearings, along roads, among bushes. In the forest shade, the gout will grow, but will never bloom, since it is a light-loving plant. Only in sunlit areas does it bloom and bear fruit.

Useful properties of sleepweed

It has been used as a medicinal plant since ancient times. At first, it was actively used in cooking, but over time, this herb has become an invariable component of many traditional medicine recipes. It excellently helps with gout, rheumatism, and various diseases of the joints. This is the reason for its Latin name Aegopodium podagraria, which translates as “pain in the legs”.

This medicinal herb boasts a significant content of useful elements. It contains flavonoids, natural antibiotics, organic acids, salts of potassium, magnesium, manganese, iron, copper, amino acids, ascorbic acid, vitamin A, a small amount of essential oils. The presence of vitamin C in gout helps to strengthen, gives the body vigor and energy. It is also worth noting the natural pesticides that make up the plant, which have anti-cancer and anti-fungal properties.

The presence of coumarins in this medicinal herb helps to strengthen capillaries, lower the level and maintain the human nervous system. In the old days, gout, due to its high content of vitamins, proteins and carbohydrates, was often used to prepare a variety of salads, which turned into irreplaceable sources of vitamins.

The use of gout

Medicine could not pass by a plant with such a set of medicinal properties. Snyt is often used in the treatment of many diseases. Preparations based on this herb contribute to the prevention and elimination of hypovitaminosis, normalization of metabolism. As a result of research, it has been proven that goutweed herbal preparations tend to improve renal blood flow and stimulate the excretory function of the kidneys.

Due to the antibacterial and antifungal action of gout preparations, their external use can help with bed sores, mycoses, and other skin lesions. Traditional medicine often uses decoctions and tinctures of gout in the fight against diseases of the urinary system and various diseases of the joints. Grass juice is used for lung damage and problems with the gastrointestinal tract. Compresses with the juice of this plant are applied externally to relieve skin inflammation.

Dreamweed Recipes

Previously, in the absence of modern medicines, medicinal plants remained the only panacea for various health problems. One of the most useful among these herbs has always been considered gout. Decoctions and tinctures based on it made it possible to overcome many diseases, such as rheumatism, gout, joint pain and others. Some traditional medicine recipes are actively used today.

Infusion: two tablespoons of goutweed herb must be diluted with one glass of boiling water and kept in a water bath for 15 minutes, then strain, squeeze and add 250 ml of water. Such an infusion should be taken during the day for diseases, rheumatism, diseases of the bladder and kidneys. Also, when you can apply gruel from crushed leaves of goutweed to a sore spot.

Do not forget about the use of this medicinal plant in cooking. Dishes with the addition of this healing herb are filled with useful minerals, macro- and microelements, which contribute to the regulation of metabolic processes in the body.

Recipe: you need to pour the young leaves of the plant for 10 minutes with boiling water, then drain the water, cut the leaves, add sour cream and grated horseradish.

Snyt vulgaris

This medicinal herb is widespread in Central Asia, the Caucasus, throughout Europe and in the mountains of Kazakhstan. Common goatweed is a perennial herbaceous plant with a creeping rhizome, a bare stem and white flowers collected in an umbrella. It has long been known as a very valuable food plant.

The leaves of goutweed contain a significant amount of useful components and compounds, due to which this herb is used to treat various diseases. It promotes the speedy healing of wounds, effectively supports the immune system and has an anti-inflammatory effect.

gout variegated

This type of gout is a specially bred decorative form. Thanks to its beautiful green-white leaves, this plant is often used in landscape design to decorate gardens and vegetable gardens. In addition, variegated gout is readily eaten by livestock and is a good honey plant. During the flowering period, bees can collect about two kilograms of honey from only one plant.

Contraindications to the use of gout

Official science has not yet identified any special contraindications to the use of goutweed, but in order to avoid unforeseen consequences, it is better to consult a doctor before using this plant: individual intolerance or allergies are possible.

Education: A diploma in the specialty "Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the University named after N. I. Pirogov (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Moscow University of Peoples' Friendship (2008).

Herbal treatment is the most ancient way to deal with all sorts of diseases. For thousands of years of its existence, man has found and studied the healing properties of hundreds of medicinal plants that can help one or another disease. Over a long history, many effective recipes have been created, many of which have survived and are used in traditional medicine today.

This section of the site presents many types of medicinal herbs, including field species, with high-quality photographs, the name of each plant and a detailed description of their beneficial properties and methods of application.

Despite the huge pace of development of traditional medicine and all the novelties that the pharmaceutical industry offers, the use of medicinal plants for the treatment of various diseases is still relevant and does not lose its popularity. They can be used for both prevention and treatment of various chronic and acute diseases in any field of medicine.

Medicinal herbs used in traditional medicine can be fresh or dried, applied both externally and internally. Medicinal herbs are much safer for human health than pharmaceuticals. They have fewer contraindications and side effects on the body.

For treatment use:

• tinctures;
• decoctions;
• extracts;
• infusions;
• tea fees.

Despite the seeming simplicity and harmlessness, non-traditional treatment requires knowledge and caution. Indeed, for a positive result, medicinal raw materials must be properly collected. And the tinctures, decoctions or extracts made from them are prepared only according to exact recipes. Do not forget about dosages. This is especially true for those drugs that need to be taken orally.

It is advisable, before preparing a medicine from herbs, to study our website, which contains medicinal herbs, photos with names, learn about the indications and contraindications of a particular medicinal plant, how to prepare them. We must not forget to carefully examine the raw materials for the medicine itself. It should be free of mold, dirt and other defects.