Useful and medicinal properties of gravel of urban river gravel

Perennial herbaceous plant from the family of rose-colored, up to 70 cm tall, with a thick creeping rhizome. Stem straight, branched at the top, pubescent. Radical leaves lyrate, on long petioles;cauline - short-petioled, tripartite to elliptical and rhombic acute lobes. Flowers large, up to 1.5 cm in diameter, on long pedicels, five-membered, light yellow. Fruits are obovate, pubescent, crocheted.

Widespread in the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Western Siberia. It grows in meadows, forests, thickets, along the banks of rivers, roadsides, gardens.

Together with it they harvest and use a similar and equally widespread species - river gravel.

With a healing purpose, grass, rhizomes and roots of gravel are used. They contain many tannins( up to 30-40%), resins, essential oil, bitter substances, vitamin C, provitamin A.

Gravel grass is harvested at the beginning of flowering, in May-June, dried in the shade. Rhizome with roots are excavated in late autumn, they can be dried in the sun.

In folk medicine, geodetic extracts are used as astringents for various inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, especially with diarrhea. They are used for liver disease. As a hemostatic agent, infusions and decoctions of gravalite are used for various bleeding,

bloody diarrhea, pulmonary tuberculosis;tincture of roots on vodka is drunk from diarrhea, with gastric diseases, and externally - for rinses with bleeding gums and inflammation in the mouth and throat.

Application of

Infusions are prepared from 1 tbsp.spoons of chopped grass or roots on a glass of boiling water and drink 1/4 cup 3-4 times a day or 2 tablespoons.spoons every 2 hours.

Decoctions are prepared from the calculation: 1-2 tbsp.spoons on a glass of water;take 1 tbsp.spoon 3-4 times a day. Rhizomes sometimes brew instead of tea.

Powder is taken on 1 g - 3-4 times a day for 0.5 cups of warm water.

Infusion is consumed as an astringent and anti-inflammatory agent for various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, accompanied by an increase in temperature, with flatulence, etc.