Useful and medicinal properties of the mountaineer of the bird, or sporicha
( gusyatnik, konotop)
An annual herbaceous plant with a branchy recumbent, raised stem or straight geniculate stalk. Leaves are small, elliptical, lanceolate or linear. Flowers of 3-5 pieces in the axils of leaves, pink or greenish with whitish, and at the edges of reddish perianth. Fruits - matte, point-lumpy nuts. Blossoms from May to August. It grows in roads, in waste places, in fields almost everywhere in the temperate and warm strip of Russia.
With a therapeutic purpose, plant grass, roots are used. Collect the grass when it only blooms and the stems still do not have time to harden.
Preparations from this plant have anti-inflammatory, hemostatic and astringent effects.
In folk medicine, the preparations from the highlander are used primarily as an anti-inflammatory, strengthening and diuretic in diseases of the kidneys, liver, bladder and stomach, with jaundice.
As a sand-ejecting agent, preparations from this plant are used for sand and stones in the kidney and bladder, with cholelithiasis.
Finally, sporish helps with all pulmonary diseases and even with pulmonary tuberculosis. In folk remedial practice, it is noticed that it improves appetite, while the body weight increases. The latter is confirmed by the fact that geese, grazing for a long time on sporrus, quickly become fat( hence the name of this plant is a gusyatnik).
The plant is more often used in mixtures with others similar in its effect on the body herbs. So, with strong diarrhea, evenly pickled grass, thorns, blackberry stems and althea root( 1 tablespoon per cup of boiling water) are taken and used for 1 tbsp.spoon 5-6 times a day.
Outwardly the plant is used in the form of lotions from decoction or from fresh juice to treat purulent wounds.
Essence from fresh herb of a mountaineer bird is used in homeopathy. Tibetan medicine uses the roots of the plant.
Application
Decoction: 20 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day.
Tea from the leaves of mother-and-stepmother - 5 g, blackberry flowers black - 5 g, sporicha - 5 g - with pneumonia, strong bronchitis, pleurisy, etc.