Arable land: application and useful properties

A thousand square acres (the medical name is centaurim heiba) is a one-, two-year herbaceous medicinal plant of the gentian family, 10-40 cm in height. The root of the grass is pivotal, branched to the top, thin and weak, light in color. Stems quadrangular, straight, more often solitary, above - forked-branched. Leaves are small in size, entire, oblong, thin. Basal assembled into a rosette, obovate, short-petioled; Cauline leaves - lanceolate, sessile, opposite. In the compressed inflorescences there are small bright pink flowers with 5 petals. Fruit is a narrow and oblong cylindrical box with many seeds. When sunlight hits the flowers of a plant, the petals are bent in such a way that they become like an asterisk. Flowering plant from June to August (flowering occurs only in sunny places), fructifies between August and October.

The plant can be found in Ukraine, Central Asia, North America, Europe, southern and European parts of Russia, the Altai, the Caucasus and Western Siberia.

It grows on sunny meadows, hills, hayfields, fringes, dry meadows and other open and sunny places.

Preparing for medicinal purposes

For medicinal purposes, the herb of a thousand-acres of grass is harvested together with its basal rosettes. Prepare at the beginning of flowering, before the radical leaves turn yellow. The plant is usually cut 5-8 cm from the ground. The grass is laid out on paper with a thin layer or tied in bundles and dried in the air in the shade (under a canopy), in ventilated rooms (in attics) or in special dryers, with a temperature of 40-50 degrees. The grass can be stored for approximately 2 years.

Chemical composition of a thousand-thousandths

In the plant grass flavonoids, alkaloids (gentianin), bitter glycosides (erythrocentaurin, amarogenite, gentiopicrin, erythaurin), xanthones, essential oil, resins, sterols, mucus, oleanolic and ascorbic acids, tannins are found. In addition, carbohydrates (glucose, fructose, sucrose), vitamins, micro- and macro elements (iron, tin, sulfur, etc.) are also contained.

Arable land: properties and application

The medicinal plant is a centipede, the use of which is approved by both traditional and folk medicine, and homeopathy, is very valuable and is an effective remedy for many ailments.

Preparations of a thousand-thousandth of gold have antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, choleretic, mild laxative, hemostatic, analgesic, hepatoprotective and wound-healing action.

Discovered in the grass bitterness, improve the digestion process, stimulate the appetite, increase the production of gastric juice. Therefore, often thousands of acres are used in the composition of appetite and gastric herbal collections.

Thanks to the content of gencianin, a gold-thousand-toner was also used as an anthelmintic. In addition, the herb has a toning and restorative effect on the weakened organism, which is very important in the postoperative period. In addition, the preparations of the gold-bearing mill have antipyretic and anesthetic (analgesic) effects.

Indications for the use of a centipede are such illnesses: overfatigue, nervous exhaustion, anorexia nervosa, gallbladder or liver diseases, flatulence, chronic enterocolitis, stomach and bowel spasms, poor appetite, some gynecological diseases, migraine, anemia, sinusitis, skin diseases.

A thousand-square-acres, whose use in folk medicine is not uncommon, is used in the form of decoctions and infusions in all the above cases, and is also effectively used for neuroses, diabetes, influenza, malaria, kidney and heart diseases, heartburn, edema, liver disorders, epilepsy, Pulmonary tuberculosis, intestinal atony, gastritis (anadic or hypoacid), worms.

Justified and external use of a thousand-thousandths, for example, with long-term healing wounds, rashes, gout, eczema, shin ulcers, boils.

Successfully use a centipede for the treatment of alcoholism (including drinking-bouts) and separately, and as part of fees.

A fresh juice of grass is used externally for diseases of the ears in the form of drops, and inside - with diseases of the stomach, liver, gall bladder.

A further application of the gold-thousandant was found as a remedy for food allergies in children.

Recipes with a juniper

Ways of application of a plant are different - tinctures, infusions, tea, butter, juice, decoctions (inside), exterminally - rubbing and compresses.

1. Anthelminthic broth. To do this, take in equal parts the grass of a thousand-centner and bitter wormwood, mix. Next, a tablespoon of the mixture is poured 250 grams of boiling water, put on fire for 20 minutes, then decoction is filtered and taken on an empty stomach from morning and evening (half a cup) throughout the week.

2. In gastritis with high acidity with heartburn, the collecting infusion is effective:

Take on 2 table. Spoons of medicinal marshmallow leaves and herbs of a thousand-acres, they pour 600 grams of boiling water, 4 hours insist, take inside before meals 4 times a day for 100 ml.

3. With hyperacid gastritis, heartburn, allergies, flatulence, to improve digestion, as well as to strengthen the body after severe illnesses use herb infusion. For this, a glass of boiling water is poured into 10 g of grass, 2 hours insist and filter. Use before meals on a tablespoon three times a day.

4. With chronic hepatitis, this infusion is effective: in 1 liter of boiled water, 20 g of raw material is insisted, allowed to cool and set. Drink this infusion warm, 100 grams before eating. The same infusion will help with diabetes and cholecystitis.

5. For treatment of alcoholism with a glass of boiling water pour 2 tables. Spoons of herbs, boil for 10 minutes, insist, insist, insist, and drink three times a day three times a day. Treatment - 2 months.

For the same problem, the centaury is used in a mixture with thyme, three-leaved and oregano (in proportions, respectively, 1: 3: 1: 3). Two glasses of hot water are poured into the 4 table. Spoons of this mixture, 10 min. Insist. Take before meals to 100 ml three times a day, and the 4th time - before going to bed. Treatment lasts 2-2,5 months. At the same time, at the very beginning of treatment, alcohol and smoking should be avoided.

Arable land: contraindications

Taking medications with a herb of a gold-thousand is contraindicated in patients with gastric and intestinal ulcers. Cautious should be and those who have a hypersensitivity to this plant.

Excess of recommended dosages can lead to digestive disorders.