Donnik (Grass): medicinal properties, application, indications

On the territory of our vast country, you can spot the thickets of a field plant with yellow flowers. Many people do not even realize that this plain-looking weed called a dwarf (grass) is a very useful medicinal plant, which is still widely used in cooking as a fragrant spice.

There are many species of this miraculous grass, but only two varieties are attributed useful properties - the sweet potato (yellow) and white. The first mention of the plant was found by scientists in the ancient chronicles of famous Aesculapius, such as Avicenna and Galen. As you may have guessed, it will be an extremely useful clover.

Botanical description

Medicinal herb clover is a shrub plant about a meter high. Belongs to a family of legumes. You can learn it by a powerful naked stalk and oblong serrated leaves of a saturated green hue. At the base of each stem there are yellow flowers collected in small inflorescences.

A distinctive feature is a pronounced aroma reminiscent of the smell of freshly mown hay. What is interesting about the clover? The grass well tolerates frosts and feels great on arid soils, ravines, pastures, forest edges and mountain slopes. Therefore, its habitat is quite extensive: from the North to the Far East. Often shrubby weed is found among grain crops, bringing a lot of trouble to the summer residents.

Collection and Procurement

The plant should be ripped off during the active flowering period, or rather, from July to October-a month. For collection it is better to choose a dry weather, since a damp plant is poorly dried and during storage begins to pour, and such raw material for medicinal purposes is unsuitable.

Collect better side shoots with tops, although the leaves also contain a lot of valuable elements. Then it is necessary to lay the grass on a fabric or paper substrate and thoroughly dry in an attic or in a well-ventilated room. In the process of drying, it is necessary to turn the raw materials so that it does not banish or darken. Readiness is determined by the fragility of the stems.

Grass clover: useful properties and ingredients

The plant has a rich composition, which is why it is used to treat numerous diseases. The substance of coumarin, present in the grass, gives a characteristic aroma of hay, and also has a favorable effect on the vital functions of internal organs. It improves blood flow, increases blood pressure and brain activity. When the coumarin is rotting, no less valuable substance is produced - dicumarin, which liquefies the blood, preventing the formation of blood clots.

The plant shows bactericidal and astringent effects due to the presence of tannins. And the mucous substances contained in the grass have an emollient and enveloping effect. Also in the presence of resin, of which pharmaceutical companies make bactericidal patches and medical infusions. Grass clover, the properties of which are determined by the content of saponins, has a restorative, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory and diuretic effect.

The plant has a lot of ascorbic acid, protein, starch, fatty oils, vitamin E, choline and flavonoids. All these elements and vitamins enhance healing properties and help fight various ailments. No wonder folk medicine men highly esteem this herb and use it as a sedative, wound-healing, antiseptic and analgesic. However, it should be remembered that the plant is poisonous. Therefore, uncontrolled reception is fraught with trouble.

Use in traditional medicine

Not only folk medicine practices the use of this plant. Modern pharmaceuticals also use raw materials for the production of herbal medicines and preparations. Repeatedly proved the therapeutic effect of the infusions and broths of this plant. Grass clover, as noted above, is an excellent expectorant, diuretic and antibacterial agent.

Often it is used as a mild laxative and carminative drug. A valuable extract (biogenic stimulant) is obtained from the plant, which is characterized by wound healing action. The preparations are shown on the basis of sweet clover in case of leukopenia, convulsions, migraine, respiratory pathologies and insomnia.

The substance kumarin improves memory, attention, strengthens the heart muscle, and also treats (in the complex) gout, genitourinary disorders and diseases of the musculoskeletal system.

Traditional medicine recommends ...

Most people prefer vegetable preparations, considering them to be the most safe and effective. Among the popular medicinal plants, the grass of the sweet clover is in first place. The application is recommended by experienced healers with hormonal imbalance, menopause, diseases of the female reproductive system.

Infusions help to normalize the menstrual cycle, relieve debilitating pain and PMS. Use solutions for the treatment of furunculosis, inflammatory phenomena and wounds: make compresses, wraps, lotions, add to the bath. Such procedures help to speed up the healing process and soften the skin. The only thing to remember when applying a plant is that it is poisonous and can harm the body if you do not keep the right dosage.

Effective recipes

1. Independently prepare a medicinal decoction is easy. To do this, you need 400 ml of cold water and ten grams of grass. Pour the solution into a thermos bottle and leave for half an hour. Take high blood pressure, neuroses, fatigue, insomnia and migraine for a hundred grams twice a day.

2. In case of similar disorders, the following infusion can be made: five grams of the plant (preferably crushed), pour a glass of warm water, insist for about two hours and drink ¼ cup before going to bed.

3. The medicinal clover will help to cope with flatulence. Grass (dry) in the amount of five grams is filled with boiling water (200 ml) and cooked for ten minutes. Cool the broth, strain and use a tablespoon three times a day.

Infusions

1. Apply the drug for colds. When a strong cough occurs, prepare this infusion: stir 20 grams of the plant in a glass of water and warm in a water bath for 15 minutes. Then add a similar amount of liquid, strain and drink twice a day for half a glass. Store the solution in the refrigerator for no more than two days.

2. In case of nervous disorders, a drug is used, which requires the preparation of a yellow sweet clover (10 g) and boiled water in the amount of two tablespoons. Insist a few hours, strain and take 70 grams four times a day.

3. With bronchitis and cystitis: chopped leaves (a large spoon) pour steep boiling water (glass). Within four hours, insist, strain and drink 50 ml three times a day.

Ointments

1. If you are suffering from abscesses or joint pain, a healing ointment from dried flowers of sweet clover yellow (50 g) and butter (two spoons) will help to cope with these ailments. Connect the two components and lubricate the sore spots.

2. With hemorrhoids, a set of medicinal plants will help: donnik-grass (dessert spoon), mountaineer (5 g), carnation lush (10 g), carnation multi-colored (two spoons). All these components grind in a coffee grinder, take 20 grams of powder from the collection, mix with melted goose or lard and evaporate in a water bath for 3-4 hours.

3. With varicose veins: pour two tablespoons of sweet clover into a glass of water (hot), boil the mixture until it decreases several times, and then filter. Half of the drug is combined with two parts of Vaseline and Lanolin. The ointment is ready for use.

Poultices

1. With benign education, you should grind fresh plant leaves and apply to a sore spot. Such compresses can be done with purulent wounds.

2. For poultices and wraps (furunculosis, conjunctivitis, abscesses, pimples): a glass of dry grass pour a liter of water (hot), insist half an hour and produce treatment.

3. With the same diseases, poultices from the sweet clover flowers, which are previously steamed in boiling water, will help.

Herbal Remedies

1. Prevent and relieve migraine such a decoction: a dessert spoonful of cones of hops and sweet cloves pour a glass of boiling water. Boil the raw materials for five minutes. Insist in a thermos or a closed dish for an hour and use 50 g before meals (three times).

2. Vegetative harvesting with adnexitis: take five grams of oregano, flowers of mother-and-stepmother, a thousand-acres of umbrella and yellow sweet clover. 10 g of the mixture will require a glass of boiling water. Leave the liquid for three hours. Ready to infuse the filter, use about a month for 1/3 cup. During therapy, exclude sexual contact.

3. Poultice from rheumatism: in a canvas sack, pour three parts of chamomile, althea medicinal and four parts of golden clover. Pour the collection with water and boil for ten minutes. Apply to the affected area.

4. Patients suffering from pancreatitis, we recommend preparing an anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic herb collection. Required ingredients: one part of leaves of marsh and thyme, two parts of calendula, plantain, chamomile, sweet clover and ash tree, three parts of swamp grass and galleys.

Pour five large spoons of cooked collection with a glass of boiling water. Pour into a thermos, wrap it in a dense cloth and insist an hour and a half. Drain the liquid, and shift the motley grass to the gauze base, hold the compress for about an hour in the pancreas area, covering it with a towel. The course of treatment is 14 days.

Grass of sweet clover: contraindications and side effects

The plant is poisonous, therefore at reception it is required to observe a certain precaution and to not exceed a dosage. Despite the abundance of medicinal properties, it can not be used in the period of bearing a baby, with low blood pressure, pathological processes in the kidneys and liver. Undesirable for people with poor blood coagulability grass sweet clover.

Useful properties will be brought to nothing if you do not follow the instructions and prescriptions of the doctor. In case of overdose and prolonged use, there are pain in the abdomen, diarrhea, nausea and even vomiting. There is also a rapid pulse, increased blood pressure and arrhythmia.

Grass clover (the instruction warns about the presence of certain contraindications) can provoke dizziness, fatigue, apathy, weakness and drowsiness. Do not rule out subcutaneous hemorrhage, an allergic reaction in the form of itching and burning. To avoid the above problems and intoxication, we urge not to neglect the elementary rules of therapy.