Snake mountain - Polygonum bistoita. Buckwheat family - Polygonaceae.
The snakehead plant is a mesophyte. Serpentine Highlander is quite common, but is finicky and picky: it requires rich soil and good flow. Therefore, the snake mountaineer is common only in flood meadows, lowland grass and lightly wooded marshes, wet edges, forest glades, among shrubs. The grass grows snakehead and in the mountain belt on alpine and subalpine meadows, and in mountain tundras. Under optimal conditions, the snakehead plant can form dense thickets, but does not settle among turf plants at all (Fig. 6).
The range of the herb serpentine is extensive: Eurasian boreal, t. е. snake mountaineer is common in tundra and taiga zones. In the Caucasus in the subalpine and alpine belts, a form of the herb snakehead herb flesh-red has been noted. Here it inhabits marshy and dry meadows with sufficiently moist soil. The lower boundary of this form in the mountains coincides with the upper boundary of the forest.
Serpentine Highlander is popular, loved by the people and very widely used. He's also handsome. Very much resemble the thick and twisted rhizomes of the mountain snake rhizomes pink crawfish neck or snake, so most often called his crawfish neck or serpentine. And in botanical identifiers both names are often combined, and the result is "crawfish neck mountaineer".
The herb snake bittergrass is a perennial plant with a tall stem (up to 1 m), which is rasped by the stem leaves. The higher the leaves are on the stem of the snakeroot, the shallower they are. The root leaves of snake throat are cylindrical, acuminate, on long petioles. They are large (palm-sized), wavy, grayish underneath. In June, thickets of snakeroot grass are decorated with many pink sultans. The cylindrical spikelet (as botanists call the inflorescence of the herb snakehead), 5-6 cm long, like a fluffy cylinder, is studded with small
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pink-colored florets. Sway in the wind brightly colored sultanski, and swirl over them all sorts of insects little things, feeding on nectar, and at the same time and pollinate flowers. By the time of haymaking, the ripened seeds - brownish three-sided nuts of the snakehead grass - crumble, the leaves turn black, and the stems fall to the ground. But this mountaineer is not good for hay; so the mowers are not sorry that the green parts of it have already died.
The main wealth of the cancerous necks of the snakehead is the rhizome hidden in the ground. It is reddish-brown on top and pink on the fracture, darkening in the air. And all because it has a lot of tannins: up to 36%. There are also gallic and ellagic acids, catechin, coumarin, vitamin C, provitamin A, calcium oxalate, and coloring substances. It's a complete cure! It's also up to 30% starch. The most useful substances are accumulated in the rhizomes of the herb rhizomes of snake throat in the fall, so collect rhizomes of snake throat at this time of year. The above-ground part of the hunchback is also high in vitamin C (0.10-0.15%); there are tannins, flavonoids, coumarin, anthocyanin.
Due to its richness in tannins, the herb snake bitter is an excellent astringent and anti-inflammatory. In scientific medicine, snakebite is used in acute enteritis, colitis and as a hemostatic agent. Extracts and decoctions of rhizome rhizome of snake throat are used both in pure form and in collections: with alder cones, lapchatka, bloodroot, horse sorrel. Their main purpose is a remedy for gastrointestinal disorders, bladder diseases, internal bleeding, enteritis. Decoctions of snake throat as a gargle or lotions treat stomatitis, bleeding wounds. All parts of the plant snake throat have high antiestocidal activity.
Serpentine Highlander is an ancient folk remedy. Here the range of applications is broader. Tinctures and decoctions of snake throat are used for diseases of the bladder, gallstones and bladder stones, old wounds, boils. Together with flax seeds, snake bitter is a good remedy for internal bleeding, stomach and intestinal ulcers. Recommended herb snake bittergrass and for the treatment of some nervous and gynecological diseases.
Snake mountaineer is an excellent tanner. Extracts from the rhizomes of the rhizomes of the snake throat are used to tan leathers and dye them reddish-yellow. Yellow and black dyes are extracted from the rhizomes of the snake's throat, in certain ratios dyeing wool and cloth in different colors. Known use of rhizomes of snake root and in the liquor industry. And the leaves and shoots of snake throat, rich in vitamin C, used in raw, boiled and sour. A tea brewed with dried rhizome of the highlander is delicious. From the well-washed rhizome of the mountain, lost bitterness, make flour, the nutritional properties of which are quite high: it contains up to 30% starch and up to 10% protein.
The reserves of the rhizomes of the serpentine rhizomes are well studied. It is known, for example, that one plant gives 8-70 g of raw rhizome, and from 1 m^2 in wet meadows can be collected from 30 to 112 g.
The grass of snake throat is rich in proteins, and therefore it is willingly eaten by many domestic animals (cows, sheep) in pastures. Reindeer are especially fond of the gentian plant: they nibble the green parts of the plant under the root..
