N.Levakovsky, a lecturer at Kazan University, 100 years ago turned his attention to the weed that flooded the entire university courtyard - bird buckwheat. He knew this plant very well. The grass covered the streets and town squares with its thick carpet. Even on the roads, she managed to grow between the footpath, trodden by the hooves of horses, and the ruts of the wheels. At that moment N. Levakovsky began to study it. In this article, we will learn what bird buckwheat looks like, what its useful properties are, etc. In addition, let's talk about medical recipes based on it.
Description of plants: highlander bird
The highlander bird (goose grass, or knotweed) is an annual medicinal herb. Belongs to the buckwheat family.
The height of the plant reaches 100 cm.It has a curly stem branching from the base. Leaves with swept-heart-shaped, triangular-ovoid, with rather long petioles. The fruit is a triangular nutlet, right-triangular in cross section, 3 mm long and 2 mm wide, dull, black, elongated-pointed at the top, enclosed in a perianth.
What does bird buckwheat look like?
Мелкие цветки растения устроены неодинаково.Perianth outside green, white inside, 5-membered. Ovary with three stigmas and one short column. The flowers are 2-6 pieces on the tops of the stems or in the axils of the leaves in spike-like interrupted rare panicles. Blooming at the very beginning of summer self-pollinated. At the same time, late pistils grow in late flowers that their stamens cannot pollinate them. Then cross pollination, which goes very badly, is needed, and at the end of the summer the fruits grow a little. The question arises: "How is self-pollination beneficial to buckwheat, given that it gives offspring less viable?"
The second vagueness is with its fruits. They are different too.Looking at what a buckwheat looks like, you may find that some of them are wide and short, while others are very long. The first grow from short-flowered flowers, the second - from long-growing flowers. It is still unknown what the reason for such diversity. It is noted that long grow faster than short. There is an opinion that this is a peculiar way to stretch the moment of germination.
Spread
Bird buckwheat (photos can be viewed in this article) grows almost throughout the entire territory of our country. It grows in the fields, courtyards, along roadsides, along the banks of rivers.
Chemical composition
Reading the description of the plants, you can find out that there are sugars, resins, flavonoids, mucus, vitamins C and K, carotene, tannins, and wax in this herb.
Pharmacological properties
This grass shows astringent, diuretic,anti-inflammatory and hemostatic effect. The plant is used in traditional medicine as a tool that has tonic and tonic properties. Plant-based drugs lower blood pressure, eliminate bleeding of mucosal membranes, accelerate wound healing.
Application
Many people know what bird buckwheat looks like, but noteveryone understands that it is used to treat pathologies of the urinary tract, as well as cholelithiasis. The highlander bird splinters stones, after which they are eliminated from the body imperceptibly with urine or bile.
Препараты данного растения – действенное a means that reduces the muscles of the uterus, thereby increasing its tone. This allows its use in postpartum uterine bleeding. The plant increases blood clotting, has a hemostatic effect.
Due to its astringent properties, this plant is used for gastric and duodenal ulcers, for colitis, gastritis and diarrhea.
Traditional medicine also recommends the use of poultry mountaineer in such diseases: pulmonary tuberculosis, rheumatism, acne, furuncles and dermatitis.
Hemorrhoids
Берут 40 г травы.A bird of buckwheat is poured with a glass of cool water (the photo is presented in this article), it is heated for half an hour in a water bath, after which it is drawn for 15 minutes, filtered, and the raw material is squeezed out. With this infusion, you need to periodically make baths.
Urolithiasis disease
A glass of boiling water poured knotweed bird (3 spoons) and heated for 15 minutes in a water bath. Next, insist half an hour under the lid and filtered. Ready broth is taken half a cup twice a day.
Gallbladder disease
A glass of cool water, pour the crushed roots of the plant (20 g), insist on a water bath for half an hour, then cool for 15 minutes and filter. Use a spoon thrice a day.
Notes
For a long time, mankind has used thisplant for cooking various foods. As a result, its young leaves and stems have been used in salads, side dishes, second and first courses - in fermented, dried and boiled form.
Contraindications
Avian Highlander should not be used by people who suffer from thrombophlebitis and angina, as well as pregnant women.
