Useful and therapeutic properties of the cat's claws are dioecious

Perennial herbaceous white- or serovatoopushennoe plant 10-30 cm tall. The stalk is simple. Leaves are regular, whole, green;basal - broad, at the base heart-shaped or kidney-shaped;stem - narrow scaly. The flowers are small, collected in a few baskets on the top of the stems, tufted, multi-row, red, pink or white leaves. Baskets collected in umbellate inflorescences. The plant is bipartite. Male and female plants are found together. Blooms in May-June.

For medicinal purposes, grass and flower baskets collected during the flowering period are used. Flower baskets are collected when they are not completely blossomed. It should be remembered that small, too early collected baskets, and baskets, late collected, with crumbling flowers, to application are unsuitable. Drying is carried out in well-ventilated rooms, attics, etc.

The chemical composition of the cat's legs has been studied;they contain tannins, resin, saponin, vitamin K and phytosterol.

In its ability to give blood the ability to coagulate, as well as to stop the bleeding, the cat's foot

surpasses epinephrine( the hormone of animals) and calcium chloride.

5% infusion( and sometimes even thicker) is taken internally, it helps with bleeding: from wounds, pulmonary( hemoptysis), stomach, intestinal, nasal, hemorrhoidal and uterine.

The grass of the cat's feet is used mainly as a hemostatic for various bleedings. Dosage can be varied due to the non-vigorous nature of the plant.

In folk medicine, the cat's foot is used with success more widely. It is not for nothing that the people consider it "from forty ailments".Decoction or powder from the grass of the cat's foot - especially with postpartum haemorrhage, as well as with bloody vomiting, pulmonary tuberculosis, convulsions as soothing, with hypertension, female diseases;wash with decoction of the herb in case of jaundice;at a diathesis, children's eczema, a tuberculosis of a skin sing the broth and bathe children in broth.

Use of

For gastric and intestinal bleeding, it is recommended to administer oral infusions, prepared at the rate of 1: 200 or 1: 100 for 1 tbsp.spoon every 10-30 minutes to stop bleeding. With hemoptysis and uterine bleeding: 10-20 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon every 30 minutes or 1 hour, until the bleeding stops. With bleeding gums and nasal bleeding, as well as hemorrhoidal hemorrhages, sterile injections are prescribed in the form of tampons or lotions before stopping bleeding. The bones of the cat's legs have a cholagogic effect and are used in the form of broths( 1: 20-1: 50) as choleretic in hepatitis and cholecystitis, the same as immortelle( cumin) sand, so it is sometimes added to the latter.

Infusion: 10 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon every hour - an hour and a half - hemostatic.

Infusions or decoction: 8 g per 200 ml of 1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day - choleretic.

Powders from this plant are consumed in a dose of 1-3 g( at the tip of a penknife) every hour until the bleeding stops.