Highlander bird (knotweed): description, medicinal properties and contraindications. The use of highlander bird in folk medicine. With a strong cough, pulmonary diseases. Impact on the body

Instructions for use:

Highlander bird - a phytopreparation with antispasmodic, diuretic, and litholytic action, most often used in the treatment urolithiasis.

Popular names: grass-ant, knotweed, goose grass, bird buckwheat, wasteland grass, trample grass, gosling, chicken-eater.

Grass Highlander bird - low annual herbaceous plant thriving in well-drained soil. Being hardy to trampling, it is able to grow almost everywhere: in wastelands and yards, in dry pastures and places littered with people. This plant is cosmopolitan, it can be found on all continents except the Arctic and Antarctica.

Widely used as poultry feed. Many add this useful "weeds" to summer salads, mashed potatoes and soups, and in the culinary traditions of Asian peoples, it is used as a filling for a pie.

The plant has a branched upright stem with strongly pronounced nodes. The root is slightly branched, taproot. The flowers and leaves of the herb Knotweed are small. The fruits have the appearance of a black nut or Brown color and begin to ripen from mid-summer.

Gather and harvest the herb Highlander bird from June to September, during active flowering. Dry mainly in dryers with artificial heating or in rooms with good ventilation. When the stems become brittle, drying is stopped, and the grass is cleaned of darkened leaves and impurities.

The collected grass proper storage retains its medicinal properties within 3 years.

The herb Highlander bird contains many useful substances. These are vitamins K and E, ascorbic acid, carotene, fats, carbohydrates, flavonol glycoside avicularin, silicic acid with its soluble compounds and tannins.

pharmachologic effect

The pharmacological action of Highlander is due to the content of biologically active compounds in the plant.

The plant has anti-inflammatory, diuretic, antiseptic, tonic, diaphoretic, astringent action, prevents the formation urinary stones, raises contractile activity uterus. Widely used in both traditional and traditional medicine different peoples.

Release form

The dried grass of the Highlander bird is released into cardboard boxes 50 g or 100 g.

Indications for use Highlander bird

Highlander bird is used inside:

For urolithiasis initial period as a means that helps the discharge of small stones. AT postoperative period after removal of stones, it is used as an anti-relapse agent;
At chronic diseases urinary tract;
For diseases gastrointestinal tract such as stomach ulcers and duodenum, gastritis with low or high acidity, as well as inflammation of the gastric mucosa;
With liver diseases;
With uterine (with uterine fibromyoma, after childbirth or abortion) and hemorrhoidal bleeding;
AT complex treatment malaria and tuberculosis;
With inflammation of the oral mucosa;
With diseases of the respiratory tract;
As a tonic and tonic.

Highlander bird can also be used externally - for the treatment of ulcers of various etymologies, wounds and bruises.

Caution should be used in children under 12 years of age, with thrombophlebitis, varicose veins veins, angina and hypertension.

The use of the herb Highlander bird is contraindicated during pregnancy, increased blood clotting and acute diseases kidney and Bladder.

Mode of application

For the use of Highlander bird prepare an infusion. To do this, 1 cup of grass is brewed with 1 liter of boiling water and infused for 2 hours. Assign 1/2-1/4 cup 2-3 times a day before meals. The course of treatment is 20-25 days. Methods of preparation and administration may vary depending on the disease. Ready solution store no more than two days in a cool place.

It is also possible to prepare alcohol infusion.

For external use, lotions from fresh herbs are used.

Knotweed is often used in various blood-purifying and lung medicinal fees in combination with other plants. It is part of the Zdrenko collection as symptomatic remedy in the treatment of oncological diseases.

The use of Highlander bird does not preclude treatment with other drugs.

Highlander bird (Polygonum aviculare).

Other names of the plant: knotweed, gosling, toptun-grass, bird buckwheat.

Description. An annual herbaceous plant of the Buckwheat family, with erect or recumbent, highly branched stems 15–25 cm long, sometimes up to 50 cm ( total length of all branches of a developed plant can reach 80 meters or more) with strongly pronounced nodes. The stems become dense after flowering.
Knotweed root is slightly branched, taproot. The leaves are alternate, sessile, small, 0.5 to 3 cm long, broadly elliptical, short-petiolate, grayish green.
The flowers are collected in bunches, arranged 2-5 in the axils of the leaves, very small, pale green, white or pink at the edges. Blooms from late April to autumn. Intensive flowering - in July - August. The fruits ripen from June to early October.
The fruit is a dull nut, triangular in shape, black or brown. Propagated by seeds.
Knotweed (highlander bird) is not whimsical, grows on any type of soil, therefore it is very widespread on all continents except Antarctica. It is especially abundant in the forest and steppe zones of the middle zone of the European part of the CIS and in the south of Western Siberia. It grows along roads, on paths, wastelands, pastures, near dwellings, in weedy places, often forms continuous thickets on compacted soils. Grows well after repeated mowing. Resistant to trampling.

Collection and preparation of raw materials. For medicinal purposes, knotweed herb is used. It is harvested during the flowering period of the plant, while the stems have not yet had time to harden.
The collection of raw materials is carried out in dry weather. Cut off shoots up to 30 cm long with a knife. It is not recommended to collect raw materials in polluted places, in grazing areas, near dwellings. Dry in attics or in a room with good ventilation, also in dryers, at a temperature of 40 - 50°C. Can be dried on outdoors in the shade, spreading a thin layer under a canopy.
At the same place, knotweed can be harvested annually. But it is better to leave 20 - 25% of developed plants for seeding the territory. Dried raw materials have a slight odor and astringent taste.

Plant composition. Knotweed grass contains flavonoids (quercetin, avicularin, isorhamnetin), tannins, coumarins, saponins, vitamin C, silicic acid compounds, pectin, polysaccharide complex, carotene, iron, organic acids.

Medicinal properties, application, treatment.
Grass knotweed (highlander bird) is very popular in folk medicine. Preparations from this plant have a variety of pharmacological properties- diuretic, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, astringent, diaphoretic, antipyretic, wound healing, blood purifying, tonic, restorative, analgesic.
They also reduce the permeability of the walls of blood vessels (the action of flavonoids, silicon compounds, tannins), increase blood clotting. increase diuresis, excrete excess sodium and chloride ions in the urine, which helps to increase filtration in the renal glomeruli, reduce reverse resorption in the renal tubules.
Knotweed grass prevents the formation of urinary stones (the action of silicic acid compounds), which are excreted in urine in significant concentrations. Tannins, which have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and astringent properties, have a positive effect on the function of the gastrointestinal tract.
AT scientific medicine knotweed grass is used for chronic diseases of the urinary tract, a decrease in the filtration function of the kidneys and the appearance in the urine a large number mineral salts(especially salts of oxalic acid), with gastroenteritis, diarrhea of various etiologies, dysentery, liver diseases with functional insufficiency, with a delay in the body toxic substances exchange. Knotweed herb infusion is considered effective in the treatment of iron deficiency and secondary anemia associated with juvenile uterine bleeding, as well as bleeding during the postpartum period and after abortion.
In folk medicine, this plant has more wide application: - as an astringent, hypotensive, hemostatic, including with hemorrhoidal and uterine bleeding, how vitamin remedy. Used to treat polyarthritis associated with a disorder salt metabolism, gout, obesity, tuberculosis, dysentery, gastric and duodenal ulcers, diseases of the pancreas, urolithiasis and cholelithiasis, malaria, various tumors, bronchitis, pleurisy, cough, fever, acne, furunculosis, dermatitis, with nervous exhaustion.
AT Tibetan medicine used for serous arthritis, bleeding, septicopyemia. Knotweed is part of the fees for the treatment of diseases of the stomach, nephrolithiasis, bronchitis, uterine bleeding, cystitis, whooping cough. This herb is also included in the Zdrenko collection, which is used for malignant tumors.
Outwardly, a decoction of knotweed in the form of lotions and washings is used for poorly healing wounds, ulcers, burns, bruises, abscesses, boils; in the form of rinses for inflammation of the oral cavity; with dandruff, they wash their hair with a decoction. When hemorrhoids or rectum prolapse, steamed grass is applied.
Knotweed grass is used both independently and as part of a collection with other plants.

Dosage forms and doses.
Knotweed herb infusion (highlander bird): 15 g (3 tablespoons) of dry chopped herbs are poured into a glass (200 ml) of boiling water, infused for 45 minutes and filtered. 2 or 3 times a day, 1/3 - 1/2 cup is taken 20 minutes before meals.
A decoction of herb knotweed (highlander bird): prepared in a ratio of 1:10. Raw material is poured cool water, cook in a water bath (about 30 minutes), cool, filter. 3 times a day take 1 tbsp. spoon.
Highlander Juice: squeezed from developed plants plucked during the flowering of knotweed. 2 or 3 times a day, 100 ml of knotweed juice with a tablespoon of honey is taken 30 minutes before meals.

Knotweed in infertility. For the treatment of infertility, 3 tablespoons of chopped knotweed grass (dry or fresh) are placed in a thermos and poured with 2 cups of boiling water, insisted for 4 hours, filtered, squeezed. Take half a glass 4 p. per day 20 minutes before meals.

Infusion for the treatment of chronic cystitis. To prepare the infusion take:
2 parts dry chopped knotweed grass;
2 parts of dry crushed herb round-leaved wintergreen;
1 part dry crushed marginal blue cornflower flowers.
1 tablespoon of this mixture is poured into 200 ml of boiling water, insisted for 40 minutes, filtered. Take a third of a glass 3 r. in a day.
This infusion is used if the urine increased amount leukocytes. If there are erythrocytes or erythrocytes with leukocytes in the urine, in this case, instead of wintergreen, it is necessary to use the herb goldenrod ( golden rod) or Canadian goldenrod. If urine has alkaline reaction, then instead of wintergreen it is better to use bearberry leaves. Take 1 month, then 1 month break. The infusion should not be used during an exacerbation.

Contraindications. It is contraindicated to take preparations of highlander bird when acute inflammation kidneys and bladder. It is also not recommended for patients suffering from thrombophlebitis.

Highlander bird (knotweed)- this is annual plant from the buckwheat family with a recumbent or ascending stem.

Branches from the base. The leaves are small, up to 2 cm long, lanceolate or elliptical in shape. The flowers are pink or white, small, five-membered, 1-5 in the axils of the leaves. The fruits are trihedral nuts of a dark brown color. Knotweed blooms in June-October, its fruits ripen in July-October.

Highlander bird grows in Russia everywhere, with the exception of the Arctic. It can be found on the streets of villages and villages, along roads, in pastures, along the banks of sandy reservoirs. Knotweed also grows on airfields, stadiums, sports fields, hippodromes, field and forest roads.

Plants are used in medicine, i.e. the part that grows above the ground. It contains the flavonoid avicularin, tannins, resins, bitterness, traces of essential oils, vitamins C, E, K, provitamin A, silicic acid compounds, wax, mucus.

Knotweed grass is harvested during the flowering period. Leafy flowering shoots are plucked or cut with a sickle, making sure that roots and browned plants do not get into the raw material. Dry raw materials on paper or clean burlap in places protected from direct sunlight.

Knotweed has astringent, hemostatic and diuretic action. Water infusions knotweed herbs are widely used in the treatment of many diseases: gastritis and peptic ulcer stomach and duodenum, diarrhea, liver disease, kidney, Bladder, as well as at tuberculosis, whooping cough, malaria etc. Knotweed is especially popular in the treatment salt metabolism disorders.

In folk medicine for oral administration do infusion at the rate of 20 g of grass per 1 cup of boiling water. Take this infusion should be 1 tablespoon 3 times a day. Decoction Knotweed roots are prepared in a ratio of 1:10, and taken in the same way as an infusion of herbs.

fresh grass Knotweed can also be used externally - it is applied to wounds and ulcers.

From dry grass make an infusion and use it as compresses with bruises. A herbal bath is recommended for skin diseases in children.

Highlander bird has the ability increase blood clotting. Therefore, knotweed herb infusion is also used for uterine, intestinal, hemorrhoidal and other bleeding. In addition, the mountaineer has a tonic property, therefore, with uterine bleeding, it is also used to tone the muscles of the uterus.

knotweed herb infusion(first recipe): insist 25 g of herbs in 0.2 liters of boiling water for one hour, then strain. It is recommended to drink 1 tbsp. l. 3-4 times a day at general weakness , gastritis, stomach ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer, tuberculosis, uterine, intestinal, hemorrhoidal and pulmonary bleeding.

knotweed herb infusion(second recipe): 5 g of grass to insist 2 hours in 0.3 l of boiling water, drink 100 ml 3 times a day with general weakness, after serious illnesses, salt metabolism disorders.

Knotweed herb decoction(first recipe): Boil 10 g of herbs in 0.4 liters of water for 20 minutes, leave for 2 hours, strain. Drink 100 ml 3 times a day firming and tonicwith general weakness.

Knotweed herb decoction(second recipe): boil 20 g of herbs for 15 minutes. in 0.2 l of water, leave for 1 hour. Drink 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day at kidney disease, liver and Bladder.

Collection with uterine bleeding: Take 1 part of the grass of the mountaineer, the fruits of the common barberry, the herb of mistletoe, the herb of the shepherd's purse. Pour 1 tablespoon of this collection with one glass of boiling water, insist for 30 minutes, strain. Take half a glass 2-3 times a day heavy uterine bleeding.

Polygonum aviculare L.
Buckwheat family - Polygonaceae.
Popular name: knotweed, bird buckwheat, tramp-grass, goose, goose, goose grass, grass-ant, chicken beetle.

Description

An annual herbaceous creeping plant with a knotty, prostrate or ascending stem. The height of the stem is from 10 to 40 cm. The root is vertical, slightly branched. The leaves are small, from elliptical to linear-lanceolate, entire, about 2 cm long, grayish or bluish-green in color. The flowers are very small, five-petalled, whitish-green or pinkish, located in the axils of the leaves. The fruits are trihedral dark brown or black, glossy nuts, flat on both sides.

Spreading

Knotweed is widely distributed throughout Russia, with the possible exception of the Arctic coast. It can be found in Siberia and the Urals, in the middle lane and in the subtropics. It has adapted to both dry and wet climates. Beret nutrients both from the surface of the soil and from the depths.

habitat

Grows well in poor, sandy soils. It grows on village streets, along roads, pastures, fallow lands, rammed grounds, stadiums, as a weed in vegetable gardens, in orchards and crops, on river sands, pastures, in weedy places, in yards. Not afraid of trampling.

flowering time

Blooms from May to autumn. The fruits ripen in July-October.

collection time

Harvest during flowering.

Procurement method

The grass is harvested in dry weather in the initial period of flowering, when the stems have not yet had time to harden, cut to a length of 40 cm. It is not recommended to harvest knotweed in heavily polluted places and in grazing areas. The grass is separated from impurities and defective plants. Dry in a ventilated room, in a well-ventilated attic, in the open air in the shade or in a dryer at a temperature of 50–60 ° C, turning every 2–3 hours. The raw material is considered dry when the stems become brittle. The smell of dry raw materials is weak, the taste is a little tart. Store in cloth or paper bags for no more than 3 years.

Chemical composition

The chemical composition of knotweed is varied. It is considered a treasure vegetable protein(17%), extra active substances(44%), fiber (27%), ash (8.9%), sugars (2.5%), resins, wax, tannins. There is a lot of phosphorus, calcium, zinc, silicon, manganese in knotweed. ascorbic acid up to 400 mg%, carotene up to 118 mg%. Naphthoquinone, tocopherol, vitamins C, E, K, bioflavonoids, glycosides, organic acids were found. Concentrates copper, molybdenum and bromine. Therefore, it is not surprising that knotweed is not ignored by doctors and nutritionists.

Applied Part

The whole plant is used for medicinal purposes.

Application

Knotweed is used in scientific medicine in many countries. Knotweed preparations are used in obstetric and gynecological practice as a good hemostatic agent for various bleeding. It has been established that knotweed preparations increase the rate of blood clotting, lower blood pressure, tone the muscles of the uterus, increase urination, as well as the amplitude respiratory movements and ventilation volume of the lungs. Knotweed grass is also used as a diuretic that dissolves kidney and liver stones. Diuretic, or diuretic, action is due to a complex of biologically active substances. The hemostatic effect is associated primarily with the presence of vitamin K, as well as vitamins E and C. Antihypoxic activity is determined a wide range phenol of carboxylic acids in combination with antioxidants - vitamins E and C, as well as the presence of flavonoids, zinc and manganese. Improving portability reduced amount oxygen is especially important in long-term infectious and inflammatory diseases and contributes, in all likelihood, to the normalization of nonspecific and specific immunity. In our country, the mountaineer has been tested in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis - satisfactory results have been obtained. In 1955, the drug "Avicularen" was released, made from dried knotweed grass. This drug is prescribed as uterine remedy in postpartum period with insufficient reverse development of the uterus, as well as with uterine bleeding after abortion. It is prescribed orally 0.5-1 g 3-4 times a day. It is produced in the form of powder and tablets of 0.5 g each. Avicularen is a dark, brownish-green preparation consisting of a mixture of equal parts of dry extract and powder of crushed knotweed herb. The drug is completely insoluble in water and alcohol.

In homeopathy, the essence of fresh herb knotweed is used.

In folk medicine, infusion, tincture, powder and decoction of knotweed are used:

As a hemostatic;
As a diuretic;
How cholagogue;
As an antineoplastic;
As an anti-inflammatory;
As an antimicrobial;
As an antiseptic;
As an astringent;
As an antispasmodic;
In acute and chronic diseases of the urinary tract;
With liver and kidney disease;
With kidney stones;
With gastritis with normal or low acidity gastric juice;
With gastric and duodenal ulcers against the background of reduced secretory function stomach;
With pulmonary, uterine and hemorrhoidal bleeding;
With any chronic infectious and inflammatory diseases;
With pulmonary tuberculosis;
As a tonic and tonic for nervous exhaustion and general loss of strength;
With bleeding of mucous membranes;
To reduce blood pressure;
as an antitoxic.

Contraindications

Contraindications to the use of knotweed are hypotension and thrombophlebitis. It is highly undesirable to use for gastritis, as well as for peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum against the background of hyperacidity gastric juice. Use with caution when acute glomerulonephritis! At long-term use periodic monitoring of blood clotting is necessary. Strictly contraindicated in pregnancy, it acts abortively!

Other application

Young stems and leaves are edible. Salads with vegetables, eggs and butter are prepared from them or seasoned with them. vegetable soups, as well as fish broths.
Dry leaves are stored for the winter for the preparation of seasonings and decoctions.
The favorable chemical composition of this plant indicates the possibility of its wider use in our diet. Young leaves and stems of knotweed are used for food, from which salads, first and second courses, as well as side dishes can be prepared.
The plant is also good food for pets and birds.

Mode of application

AT medicinal purposes knotweed is used in the form of infusions and decoctions of various concentrations. There are several ways to prepare infusions and decoctions from knotweed herb, which are used for 2-3 months. AT summer period it is preferable to use fresh knotweed grass, it is more effective.

Infusion

Pour 25 g of knotweed herb with 200 ml of boiling water, leave for 1 hour, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day 15-20 minutes before meals with general weakness, hypoacid gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer against the background of low acidity gastric juice, pulmonary tuberculosis, uterine, intestinal, hemorrhoidal and pulmonary bleeding.
Pour 5 g of knotweed herb with 300 ml of boiling water, leave for 2 hours, strain. Drink 100 ml 3 times a day 15–20 minutes before meals with general weakness, after serious illnesses, impaired salt metabolism.
Three tablespoons of dry grass pour 300 ml of boiling water, leave for 1 hour, take 1/3-1/2 cup 3 times a day.

Tincture

2 teaspoons per 200 ml of alcohol. Insist 10 days, strain. Take 15-20 drops per half glass of water 3 times a day as a choleretic agent for liver diseases, jaundice and cholelithiasis.

Decoction

Outwardly, a decoction is used in the form of compresses for the treatment of both fresh and difficult-to-heal festering wounds and ulcers. A decoction is used to wash the head to improve hair growth, strengthen their roots and get rid of dandruff. Decoction soar legs with bruises.

Boil 10 g of knotweed herb in 400 ml of water for 20 minutes, leave for 2 hours, then strain. Drink 100 ml 3 times a day 15-20 minutes before meals as a tonic, tonic for general weakness.
Boil 20 g of knotweed herb in 200 ml of water for 15 minutes, leave for 1 hour, then strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day before meals for diseases of the kidneys, bladder, liver.
Three tablespoons of dry, chopped herb knotweed pour 200 ml boiled water. The grass is boiled over low heat for 10 minutes with the lid closed, after cooling, filter and drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day before meals.
A decoction of herbs in milk is drunk with different kind convulsions.

fresh grass

A slurry of mashed fresh plant applied to ulcers that do not heal for a long time, wounds, burns, as well as for boils, acne, skin rashes.

Bath

For external use, knotweed is used in therapeutic and prophylactic baths for children as a sedative and stimulant for metabolism, as well as for skin rashes.

Fees

Knotweed, grass - 5 parts; birch, leaf - 3 parts; stinging nettle, leaf - 3 parts; blackcurrant, leaf - 4 parts; thyme, grass - 5 parts; celandine, grass - 4 parts; viburnum, twigs - 4 parts; burdock, root - 4 parts; chamomile, flowers - 5 parts. 200 g of the mixture pour 5 l cold water, bring to a boil, leave for 1 hour, strain, pour into a bath at a temperature of 38 ° C. Baths to take 1-2 times a week for chronic diseases genitourinary system and nephrolithiasis in the initial stages.
Knotweed, grass - 4 parts; hypericum perforatum, grass - 4 parts; blueberries, leaf - 3 parts; peppermint, leaf - 2 parts; calamus marsh, root - 2 parts; cumin, seed - 1 part; marsh cudweed, grass - 8 parts; plantain, leaf - 8 parts. Pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture into 1 liter of boiling water, insist in a thermos overnight, strain. Drink one glass on an empty stomach, and divide the rest into 4 doses for gastritis with low acidity.
Knotweed, grass - 1 part; horsetail, grass - 1 part; centaury, grass - 3 parts; goose cinquefoil, grass - 5 parts. Pour a tablespoon of the mixture with a glass of boiling water, leave for 1 hour, strain. Drink in small sips during the day with painful periods.
Knotweed, grass; shepherd's purse, grass; white mistletoe, grass - all equally. Brew 2 tablespoons of the mixture with 2 cups of boiling water, leave for 1 hour, strain. Take a glass in the morning and in the evening 3-5 days before the onset of menstruation and throughout its entire period. The collection is used for heavy periods.

(Polygonum avicular L.)

Grass highlander bird, or knotweed - medicinal plant, used in official and folk medicine, has a hemostatic, astringent, diuretic effect.

Knotweed herb is very often used in folk medicine in the treatment of salt metabolism disorders. Highlander knotweed is part of herbal preparations used to crush any kind of stones from the gallbladder and bladder, their distillation.

Knotweed, or knotweed, belongs to the buckwheat family, dicotyledonous class. Knotweed spreads on the ground under our feet, covers the edges of paths and roads, covers village streets, people walk on it, unaware of its great healing power. Knotweed is widely distributed throughout the country near housing and roads, on pastures, on the banks of water bodies, and is not afraid of trampling.

This is an annual plant with a solid knotty recumbent or ascending stem, branched from the base, 10 ÷ 40 cm long. The leaves are small, about 2 cm long, lanceolate or elliptical, pink or white, very small flowers are collected 2-5 in the axils of the leaves, blooms in June — October.

The fruits are dark brown trihedral nuts, ripen in July-October. One plant can have up to 5000 seeds that remain viable for up to 5 years. They start to sprout in early spring the sun will warm up a bit.

In medicine, knotweed grass is used, mainly the aerial part, harvested during the flowering period all summer. It is necessary to cut the stems at the base, and not to pull, as the stems are very strong and are pulled out with the root. Dry in shady places, laying out thin layer on paper or burlap.

The scientific name of the genus Highlander - Polygonum is given to the plant because of the structure of the stem, very branched, having many nodes and internodes, comes from the Latin words poly - "many" and gony - "knee". The specific name aviculare is from Latin word avicula - "bird".

The Russian specific name mountaineer is also "bird", among the people the mountaineer is called bird buckwheat because for birds, nut seeds are a favorite delicacy; they fly into the thickets of the mountaineer bird in flocks, peck seeds from morning to evening. In the spring, the seeds sprout quickly, quickly, as soon as the sun warms up, so it has another name - "knotweed". Also, the grass of the highlander bird is called goose, grass-ant.

Highlander bird useful properties and contraindications

Herb knotweed medicinal properties are due to the rich complex chemical composition plants. Knotweed herb contains tannins, resins, bitterness, flavonoid avicularin, vitamins C, E, K, provitamin A, wax, mucus, essential oil, silicic acid compounds.

Preparations from knotweed (knotweed) prevent the formation kidney stones, have a diuretic effect; due to the presence of soluble compounds of silicic acid, excess sodium and chlorine ions are removed, and the degree of crystallization of mineral salts is reduced; reduce vascular permeability, increase blood clotting, reduce arterial pressure. The drugs have antimicrobial, antitoxic, anti-inflammatory, expectorant and astringent effects.

Knotweed herb infusion is used as a tonic and tonic for weakness after past illness, as well as general weakness in old age, with nervous exhaustion, with edema, respiratory diseases.

Knotweed herb infusions are also used for various bleeding - uterine, intestinal, hemorrhoidal. Flavonoid avicularin improves tone smooth muscle intestines or uterus, reduces bleeding, accelerates blood clotting.

With diseases of the kidneys and bladder, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum,

for pulmonary tuberculosis and hemorrhoids:

- 3 tbsp. l. pour 0.5 liters of boiling water over fresh chopped grass of the highlander bird, leave for 4 hours, wrapping, then strain. Take 100 ml 3-4 times a day 20 minutes before meals.

With nervous exhaustion and dystrophy, as a tonic and tonic in old age:

- 10 g of dry herb knotweed pour 400 ml warm water, insist for two hours, strain. Take 100 ml 3-4 times a day before meals.

With severe indigestion, diarrhea:

- prepare the collection: knotweed grass, blackthorn fruits, blackberry stalks, marshmallow root in equal parts. 1 st. l. crushed mixture, pour 1 cup boiling water, leave for two hours, wrapped, then strain. Take 1 tbsp. l. 5 - 6 times a day.

With bronchitis, pulmonary tuberculosis:

- 1 tbsp. l. dry chopped herbs pour 1 cup boiling water, boil for 10 minutes in a water bath, leave for 2 hours, strain. Add 1 tbsp. l. honey. Take 3 - 4 times a day for 1 tbsp. spoon.

Grass knotweed application in fees

With neurosis of the heart, palpitations:

herb knotweed (knotweed) - 1 tsp.
hawthorn flowers - 1 tsp.
cudweed herb - 1 tsp.

1 st. l. mix pour 1 cup boiling water, leave for 30 minutes. Take 1/4÷1/3 cup 2-3 times a day.

For inflammation of the bladder:

grass mountaineer avian 3 tsp.
bearberry leaves - 3 tsp.
cumin flowers - 2 tsp.
birch buds - 2 hours
hernia grass - 1 tsp.
St. John's wort - 1 tsp.
flax seed - 1 tsp.

1 st. l. mix pour 1 cup boiling water, leave for 2 hours. Take 1/3÷1/2 cup 3-4 times a day.

With urolithiasis:

grass mountaineer bird - 1 tsp.
lingonberry leaves - 1 tsp.
parsley root - 1 tsp.
kidney tea herb - 1 tsp.
rose hips - 1 tsp.
tansy flowers - 1 tsp.
strawberry leaves - 1 tsp.

1 st. l. pour 1 cup boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, leave for 2 hours. Take 1/3÷1/2 cup 3-4 times a day for 15-20 minutes. before meals.

For kidney stone disease:

grass mountaineer bird - 1 tsp.
corn columns with stigmas - 1 tsp.
bearberry leaves - 1 tsp.
bean leaves - 1 tsp.

Pour 15 g of the mixture with 1 cup of boiling water, boil over low heat for 10 minutes, leave for 5÷7 minutes, strain. Decoction to drink warm during the day.

For kidney and gallstone diseases:

grass mountaineer bird - 17 parts,
juniper berries - 1 tsp.
buckthorn bark - 2 tsp.

50 g of the mixture pour 1 liter of boiling water, insist until cool. Drink 2 - 3 glasses a day.

With oxalic acid stones - oxalates:

grass mountaineer bird - 6 tsp.
celandine grass - 1 tsp.
yarrow flowers - 1 tsp.

1 st. l. mix pour 1 tbsp. boiling water, leave for 10-12 hours in a warm place, boil for 5-7 minutes, strain. Take 1 tbsp. l. several times a day.

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

1. Increased clotting blood, a tendency to thrombophlebitis.

2. Pregnancy - the use of drugs knotweed can cause miscarriage.

3. Do not take preparations of mountaineer bird (knotweed) in case of acute inflammation of the kidneys and bladder, since mountaineer bird has irritant effect on the kidneys due to great content silicic acid.

From the infusion of dry grass make compresses for bruises.

Fresh grass, juice is used externally: crushed and applied in the form of lotions to wounds, ulcers, burns, abscesses.

Knotweed is boiled in milk, drunk warm or hot for convulsions, epilepsy.

For skin diseases in children, baths from the grass of the bird's knotweed are used.

Young stems and leaves of Knotweed are used as food in salads and soups.

From the roots, a blue dye is obtained for dyeing fabrics.

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