Useful and medicinal properties of the mountaineer pochechuynogo( hemorrhoids, pochechuynogo grass)
Annual herbaceous plant with stem root. Stem straight, slightly branched, slightly raised at the lower part, 20-50 cm high;leaves
3-10 cm long, lanceolate, almost sessile, glabrous, with or without brown spots. Stitched stitches in the tube form sockets that fit tightly to the stem, pinned to the stem, along the upper edge with long cilia. Brushes of inflorescences are terminal, dense, thick, 2-3 cm long;perianth five-membered, simple, corolla-like, pink, less whitish without glands;stamens six, pistil one with upper, single-cavity ovary and 2-3 columns. Fruits are ovoid nuts, on both sides are plano-convex or almost trihedral, black, shiny, enclosed in the remaining perianth. Blooms from July to autumn.
occurs in damp places, vegetable gardens, fields, along the banks of rivers.
The medicinal raw material is the aboveground part - the grass collected during flowering. The grass is dried in the shade or in dryers. The raw materials are stored in a well-ventilated room.
The grass contains tannin, block, acetic, gallic acid, essential oil;pectin, flavonoids;hyperversion, avicular, quercetrine, vitamins C and K, mucus, wax, etc.
In scientific medicine it is used as a gentle laxative for atonic and spastic constipation, as a hemostatic for hemorrhoidal and uterine bleeding. Infusion and liquid extract have a diuretic, marked hemostatic properties, mainly in uterine and hemorrhoid bleedings. This application finds confirmation in experiments that established that preparations from pochekuynoy grass increase blood clotting, tone of the uterus and intestine, narrow the vessels, but without increasing blood pressure, they increase the activity of the heart.
Infusions of pochechuyna grass are contraindicated in acute inflammation of the kidneys, but are useful for patients with kidney diseases, accompanied by constipation.
In folk medicine pochechuyaya grass is applied more widely, for example: water decoction as krovoostanav
a casting agent, for colds, venereal diseases and in all the above-described cases, in addition, infusion or powder from bedbugs, externally for wound healing,pains apply fresh grass to the nape, pour juice( powder fall asleep) purulent wounds.
Application of
Decoction: 1 part of the herb into 20 parts of boiling water( or 10-15 parts), insist for 20-30 minutes;take 1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day. Decoction is used externally as a mustard for tumors and headaches, as well as for lichens and rashes.