Very often truck farmers have problems with weeds - obsessive plants now and again appear on beds where their location is undesirable. And often people engaged in agriculture, do not even guess what useful plant began to grow on their territory, and they mercilessly destroy it.
This is exactly how things are with the creeper weed - the uprooted plant could bring a lot of usefulness, whether it has been properly identified and prepared, but often it remains the feeding of herbivores or even a useless ejection.
Description of the plant
Grass grass is the representative of the family Cereals. This perennial plant has long elongated roots and a smooth straight stem. Its fruits are a grains, ripen by September, but the whole wheat grass blooms all summer.
This plant came to us from North Africa and Europe - today it is widely distributed in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. The unpretentious weed takes root in meadows, wastelands, arable lands and vegetable gardens, so it is convenient to collect it - these areas are usually located far from highways.
Getting rid of the weed requires a lot of effort - you need to dig all the soil and manually remove it with the root.
Useful properties of wheatgrass creeping
Despite the fact that the plant is considered a weed, wheatgrass has medicinal properties that will be useful in case of various diseases.
Treatment of hair we grow from Avicenna
Useful properties of wheatgrass was described by Avicenna - the doctor believed that it can be used to treat stones in the bladder, heal with it ulcers and fresh wounds.
Avicenna used the juice of herbs to treat the eyes, mixing it with honey and wine.
Treatment is weathered in Russia
In Russia, people have long noticed that it is this herb treated sick animals - and recover. The healers helped to heal the liver, stomach, and cold and fever with the help of wheatgrass. Just like Avicenna, local healers noticed the healing properties of grass for the eyes.
Modern view of stamping treatment - properties of grass
The root of wheatgrass has richer healing properties than stems, and therefore this part of the weed is used today.
Why grass can be useful for health, you can find out by looking at its composition:
- carbohydrates;
- saponins;
- essential oils;
- mucus;
- mineral salts;
- silicic acid;
- vitamins of group B;
- iron;
- vitamin A;
- organic acids;
- inositol;
- levulose;
- Triticin.
This combination of substances is effective in its enveloping, anti-inflammatory and laxative effect, because of which the root of wheatgrass is valued as a means to strengthen the walls of blood vessels.
Due to the combination of triticin with inositol and levulose, the plant helps to normalize lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, which in some cases is effective in treating multiple sclerosis and hypothalamic syndrome.
In Switzerland and Germany, preparations based on wheat grass for the treatment of bronchi and trachea (for inflammatory processes due to ARI ), as well as medicines with a diuretic effect are produced.
We do not have a grasshopper such recognition as in the west, and therefore it can only be found in the dietary supplements intended for cleansing the intestines.
The use of wheatgrass in folk medicine
In folk medicine wheatgrass is used in the form of broths for the treatment of cough, getting rid of diarrhea, removing stones in the kidneys and gall bladder, and also for normalizing the stomach.
With dermatological diseases, wheatgrass is added to the baths - it promotes healing, relieves itching and redness.
In Belarus wheatgrass is diluted with milk and taken internally for the treatment of tuberculosis.
For the treatment of constipation on the basis of plants, enemas or sedentary baths are made, and this also helps with hemorrhoids, since the herb heals the wounds.
Juice plants are used to increase visual acuity.