Useful and medicinal properties of marshweed( swamp)
An annual plant 5-20 cm high. The root is thin, weak, branched. The stem from the base is strongly branched, densely covered with white felt, especially under flower baskets. Leaves pointed, linear or lanceolate, narrowed into the petiole, more or less densely felt. Flowers are small, in baskets egg-shaped or hemispherical, collected on 1-4 at the ends of branches, axillary. Blooms from June to autumn.
Swamp marsh is a common plant in all regions of Russia. It occurs along the banks of rivers, ditches, roads, meadows, swamps.
Medicinal raw materials are grass, collected together with roots. The plant is cleaned from the ground and dust, dried outdoors or in dryers. The grass is harvested from the second half of June to September. Shelf life 3 years. The smell is weak, the taste is brackish.
When harvesting marshweed, swamp, or drowned, do not mix it with the forest cucumbers, with the scallop plowed. The forest canopy differs from the marsh in that it has a simple stalk, unbranched( not in the form of a bush) and not grayish, but white-headed;In addition, the baskets of the cedar forest are not arranged in bundles, but individually, forming a long narrow spicate-shaped panicle at the top. Forest weed is growing in the forests, between bushes. The mandible has stalks branching at the apex, leaves lanceolate, leaves of the vortex are pubescent.
The chemical composition of marsh swine is poorly studied. It is known that the grass contains tannins( up to 4%), essential oil( 0.05%), tar( 16%), ficto sterols, carotene( 12-55 mg%), vitamins C and B, traces of alkaloids( gna-phalin), fatty, coloring substances.
It has been experimentally established that with the internal administration of cudweed preparations, the peripheral vessels expand, reduce blood pressure, slow the contractions of the heart, accelerate the clotting time and increase intestinal motility.
The plant is well known as a soothing, analgesic, lowering blood pressure and astringent;Drug preparations have vasodilating and hypotensive properties, weaken the tone of smooth muscles, are antibacterial active, promote the healing of wounds, ulcers, burns, erosions, stimulate granulation and epithelialization of damaged tissues.
Assign cudweed inwards for the treatment of hypertensive disease 1 and 2 stage, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum and ulcerative diseases of other parts of the intestine. The best therapeutic effect is observed with its simultaneous appointment with the roots of blue cyanosis, which, in addition, has a calming effect. With such treatment pains stop, general health improves, patients gain weight, become more calm.
In the treatment of hypertension, along with the use of the inside also make foot baths. It is better to do this in such a sequence: 1/3 cup of the marshwort's broth to take for 30-40 minutes before eating, and after eating take the cyanosis broth blue on 2-3 st.spoon 3 times a day. After each intake, it is good to make foot baths from the weed grass( warm infusion) for 30 minutes at a temperature of 35-40 ° C.
Outwardly, weed grass is used to treat purulent wounds, wounds as such, burns, ulcers, fistulas in the form of tampons,moistened in infusion, or as
baths( baths lasting up to 30 minutes at a temperature of 35 ° C.) Ointment is used externally from cotton grass for treatment of hard-healing wounds and burns
In folk medicine it is used for angina pectoris, pulmonary tuberculosis, hypertension, angina pectoris, diabetes, the headpain, insomnia, indeterminate fears, with diseases of the stomach and intestines, nervous excitability
External - with cancer, hard-healing wounds and burns, cervical erosions and ulcers
Application of
Decoction: 6-8 g in 200 ml of boiling water, insist30 minutes, take 4-5 tablespoons for half an hour before meals with stomach ulcer and other diseases.
Cyanosis broth blue: 6 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon after eating, or 3 g per 200 ml;2-3 tbsp.spoon after eating.
Cucumbers marshmallow broth: 20 or 30 g per 200 ml;by
1 tbsp.spoon 4-5 times daily before meals.
Wheatgrass infusion: 20 g of crushed grass is poured
2 cups of boiling water, boil for 5 minutes, insist for 2 hours, take half a cup 3 times a day.
Custard tincture: 10 g per 100 ml 70 ° alcohol;insist 7 days, take hypertensive disease for half a teaspoon before meals 2-4 times a day, with cavernous tuberculosis and lung abscesses.
Baths: 150 g of herbs to brew in 3 liters of boiling water, simmer for 30 minutes, take a bath for 30 minutes at a temperature of 37-40 ° C.
Ointment: 1 part of grass powder for 4 parts of butter and 4 parts of honey;It is applied topically with ulcers on the skin.
Infusion on linseed or sunflower oil - with skin burns.
Wheat is recommended for cancer.