Useful and medicinal properties of the
( medovik)
Perennial herbaceous plant with cylindrical( with 4 protruding ribbed) stems. The leaves are narrow, almost linear, with wrapped edges, 8-12 in the whorl. Flowers are small, bright yellow, collected in a whisk. Blossoms in June-July.
occurs frequently in meadows, grassy slopes, near shrubs.
With a healing purpose, the herb collected during flowering with flowers is used. The taste of the plant is bitter, astringent.
The aerial part of the first lady contains the glycoside aske-rolozid, trioxianthangrilcoside, citric and ascorbic acid, tannins, traces of essential oil, colorants and an enzyme that causes the curdling of milk, like the rennet enzyme of animals.
It is used only in folk medicine and homeopathy. Recommended for heart diseases, rheumatism, liver diseases, kidneys, dropsy, neurasthenia, as an analgesic and diuretic for diseases of the genito-urinary organs, diarrhea in children, and the absence of menstruation. Juice from fresh plants and powder from dried flowers has a hemostatic effect. When bleeding from the nose, the plant juice is sucked into the nose, and bleeding wounds are sprinkled with powder. In addition, fresh juice is taken( 2-3 table spoons 2 times a day) as a diuretic in kidney diseases, edema, as it improves metabolism in abscesses, eczema, and skin cancer.
Collect the grass during flowering or only flowers. In folk medicine, water decoction of grass is drunk in heart diseases, rheumatism, fright, liver, kidney, and dropsy. Outer - the powder of dry flowers is covered with wounds( including bleeding), decoction of all herbs make lotions with eczema, pimples on the body, abscesses, bathe troubled children, with skin cancer, juice is taken inside and make lotions. It is used in homeopathy.
Application
Decoction from dry grass: 40 g per 1 l;3 tbsp.spoons 3 times a day - with dropsy, kidney diseases, eczema, abscesses. In summer, use squeezed juice of the bedstuff: according to
1 glass, or 2 teaspoons 3 times a day.
In Bulgarian folk medicine, the juice of a fresh plant is recommended for use with skin rashes, skin cancer, catarrh of the gastrointestinal tract.
Hot infusion is used from 4 parts of spoonfuls of raw material on
2 cups of boiling water( daily dose).