Useful and medicinal properties of the shepherd's bag
Annual or winter herbaceous plant 20-30 cm tall. Root stem, thin, branching. Stems( one or several) erect, round, abundantly branching. Leaves are basal, petiolate, rosette, lanceolate or oblong, pinnately-excavated or separated, cauline leaves - sessile, stem-lobing, aim-nostril. Flowers are small, white, in the apical brushes.
Fruits - triangular pods with a notch at the top, flattened from the seams. Blooms from April to autumn.
The plant is widespread in all areas. It grows like a weed through gardens, orchards, fields, along roads, along wastelands and dump sites.
Medicinal raw material is a grass with above-ground leaves, cut during flowering, dried in the shade in the air or in dryers. The dried plant has a weak odor, the taste is bitter with a sensation of mucus.
The herb has a hemostatic effect and causes a reduction in the musculature of the uterus. According to the latest data, water and alcohol extracts have antihypertensive effect. It is used in gynecology and obstetrical practice in meno- and metrorrhagia, after childbirth;with pulmonary, renal( in conjunction with grass horsetail), gastrointestinal diseases, with fever, with injuries.
In folk medicine, a shepherd's bag and its preparations( broth or diluted juice with water) are also used for liver diseases, kidney colic, kidney and bladder diseases, metabolic disorders, in caverns in the lungs( tuberculosis);broth of grass - with heart disease, bleeding, typhus, female, venereal diseases, dysentery, diarrhea, gastritis, grass infused with vodka, drink with stomach ulcer, intermittent fever;apply from bloody urine to cattle.
Application
Decoction: 10 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day. This same broth can also be used as an external remedy for bleeding, sometimes drink 0.5-1 cup 3 times a day with liver disease, biliary and kidney stones.
Extract homemade: broth, thickened to half;1 tbsp.spoon or 40-50 drops per spoonful of water 3 times a day. With caverns in the lungs: 2 cups water 2 tbsp.spoons of herb sheep handbags, 1 tbsp.a spoon of oak bark and 0.5 glasses of port. All this is boiled in a sealed container for 10 minutes and drunk during the day.