Common tolling

Sobot ordinary is the most common grass that occurs almost at every step. The multimillion army of gardeners-summer residents conduct an uncompromising struggle against it, sometimes even "burning" it in the most direct sense. But it is not yet possible to defeat them this plant.

But is it true that the grass to conceal is their enemy, and maybe it is not so at all? In various regions of our country, this herbaceous perennial plant, which has a long creeping root, has different names - shnit, yaglitsa, etc. Its distribution area is Central Asia, almost all the non-chernozem regions of our country, Western Siberia, the Caucasus and everywhere where there are spruce, deciduous and mixed forests, flood meadows and felling.

Often, the grass grows in gardens, parks, near dwellings and farms, sometimes forming spatial thickets.

She has a hollow stalk, which sometimes reaches a height of 1.5 meters. The leaves of this plant are ovate oblong, with sharp edges and short petioles. It blooms in early summer, late May - early June, with small white multipath umbrellas, and the fruits are slightly flattened oblong dry achenes.

Snyat ordinary has not only sufficient medicinal properties, but is often used for food. Therefore, this herb is not necessary to perceive only as a medicine, rather a medicinal potion, which must be drunk strictly according to the schedule.

If a person wants to enrich his body with a large range of vitamins, trace elements and other nutrients, this miraculous plant is exactly what is needed, because already one of its names, "snacks", meaning "food," is a direct proof.

Salads, soups and second dishes cooked from it, as well as canned preserves and dried leaves will make forget about the lack of vitamins all year, keep your body in tone, while preventing certain serious diseases.

In this herb, carbohydrates, proteins, flavonoids - kaferitol and quercetin, essential oils, phytocyanides, which are considered natural antibiotics, magnesium salts, potassium, copper, iron, boron, manganese, etc. - are found in this herb. In addition, the common pine is rich in vitamins A and C, as well as natural coumarins and pesticides, which have strong antifungal properties.

Leaves of this medicinal plant are harvested in early spring, before the beginning of its flowering. It is necessary to collect young leaves that have not yet fully unfolded, from which it is possible to cook cabbage soup, not inferior to cabbage, salads, okroshka, put out with potatoes, make cutlets from them.

The ordinary snaffle is good in pickled, and marinated, and also from the dried leaves prepare seasoning.

However, in addition to gastronomy, the ordinary is also of medical interest: from its fresh and dried leaves, infusions are prepared that treat gout, rheumatism, various diseases of the bladder and kidneys, as well as many fungal lesions.

To do this, two spoons of herbs pour a glass of boiling water, boil in a water bath, and then filter.

Fresh leaves of snyti very well help with pain. They are first ground and then applied to the diseased area.

Root rhizomes help with polyarthritis and myositis. To do this in a liter of boiling water soak about forty grams of crushed dried roots, insist half an hour and poured into a bath.

One of the most famous lovers was the Monk Seraphim of Sarov. It was this herb that helped him survive in his forest gate. They say that it was from this saint that she got her mystical qualities.

During the famine years during the war, it was sometimes the only source of vitamins, helping to cope with malnutrition.