Creeping wheatgrass (Elytrigia repens L. Nevski)
Zhitnik, Ukr.: pirsch povzuchy.
Creeping wheatgrass is a perennial of the bluegrass family with long thin creeping rhizomes. It is one of the worst weeds of fields and vegetable gardens, not without reason it is called the "fire" of the fields.
Rhizomes are used, less often the herb. They contain essential oil, hydroquinone, carbohydrates, inositol, mucilage inulin, saponin, carotene, ascorbic acid.
Infusion and decoction of wheatgrass rhizome have diuretic, expectorant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, enveloping, softening, mild laxative, choleretic, diaphoretic, styptic, styptic, wound healing, as well as improving metabolism.
Creeping wheatgrass is used in folk medicine for colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, rheumatism, heart disease, liver (hepatitis, cirrhosis), biliary tract, kidney, urethra, cystitis, gastritis, colitis, edema, fever, bladder neurosis, jaundice.
Juice from the stems and leaves of wheatgrass in France prescribed 100 - 200 ml a day for biliary stone disease (cit. By W. В. Te-latieu). Д. Yordanov recommends 4 hrs. spoonfuls of wheatgrass rhizome insist 12 hours in 250 ml of water in a cold place, strain and re-pour 250 ml of boiling water, after 10 minutes to strain, both infusions mixed - take a day.
In Belarus, the roots of wheatgrass are boiled in water or milk and drunk for pulmonary tuberculosis. Children are given decoction to drink and bathed in it for diathesis and eczema. A decoction of the whole plant is drunk for partial loss of sight (cit. By D. Jurkiewicz).
In furunculosis, boils, barley, acne take 10% decoction of wheatgrass rhizomes 250 ml 3 times a day for 3-4 weeks in combination with baths of its decoction.
Sitting baths in a decoction of wheatgrass rhizome and enemas are made in chronic constipation with simultaneous intake (A. А. Popov). In skin diseases, diathesis, hemorrhoids daily baths in a decoction of 50 g rhizomes in 5 liters of water (temperature 38 ° C) - 20 minutes, the course of treatment 10-15 baths.
In polyarthritis and rheumatism 30-40 g rhizome of wheatgrass boiled for 10 minutes in 0.5 liters of water over low heat, insist 30 minutes, drink 250 ml 2 times a day for 1 month and simultaneously make baths in the same decoction at a temperature of 38-40 ° C 1-2 times a week, the course of 6-8 baths (in the absence of contraindications). The same decoction is given to children with rickets 100 ml 3 times a day and make baths. Decoction of wheatgrass is also used to wash purulent wounds, boils.
Methods of application:
1. 2 Art. spoonfuls of wheatgrass rhizome insist 8 hours in 0.5 liters of boiling water (in a thermos), take in 3 receptions for 20-40 minutes before meals in warm form as an expectorant, diaphoretic, diuretic, loosening.
2. 30 g rhizomes of wheatgrass boiled in 1 liter of water until half remains - 100 ml 3 times a day for osteochondrosis.
3. 100 g rhizome of wheatgrass in 1 liter of water steamed to half - 15-30 ml 4-5 times a day for heart disease, jaundice, cholecystitis, cystitis, diabetes and as a diuretic for kidney stone disease - 250 ml 3 times a day.
4. Freshly squeezed juice of wheatgrass drink 1/2-1 cup 3- 4 times a day for 20-40 minutes before meals for 3-4 months. as a blood purgative.
5. Infusion of 60 g of wheatgrass roots in 1 liter of boiling water - 3 cups a day for 3-4 weeks for furunculosis (M. А. Nosal).
Common turnip (Agrimonia eupatoria)
Repejnychok, limnicky, whirlwind, Ukr.: steamed.
Common turnip is a perennial from the rose-flower family. The stem is erect, sturdy, 30-100 cm and taller. The plant is covered in hairs. Lower leaves in the root rosette are discontinuous-pinnate, grayish underneath. Flowers are yellow, small, in long spike-like inflorescences. Common turnip blooms from June to August. The fruits are stubby tenacious seeds. Common turnip grows everywhere among shrubs, at the edges of forests, slopes, dry meadows, on hills, glades and other places.
Common quail
Turnip leaves and flowering tops of the herb are used. The herb turnip has a lot of tannins, bitterness, mucus, essential oil, mineral salts, flavonoids, steroidal saponins and other glycosides, B vitamins, phytosterol, resin, alkaloids.
It has anti-inflammatory, choleretic, diuretic, diaphoretic, antispasmodic, astringent, tonic, styptic, blood purging, expectorant, anthelmintic, anti-allergic action.
Е. А. Ladynina recommends common turnip also in neurocirculatory dystonia, accompanied by headache and sympathetic-adrenal crises, postcholecystectomy syndrome and pancreatitis.
The herb is used in folk medicine like St. John's wort - for hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholecystitis, cholangitis, jaundice, joint diseases, gallstones and kidney stone disease.
А. П. Levchuk recommended in uterine bleeding decoction of 30 g of herb turnip in 360 ml of water, evaporating it to half, - 15 ml after 3 hours.
