What marsh plant, which disinfects the water of the marshes, grows in our country?

Marshes are amazing natural biotopes. Other features include the fact that often in the thickness of peat find mothballed mummies of animals and even humans. Why did they not decay? The fact is that there is not one marsh plant that disinfects the water of the marshes.

Sphagnum belongs to the genus Sphagnum mosses. There are 42 species on the territory of the former USSR, in total there are more than three hundred. Most often it occurs in swamps, but occasionally it can be found in wet and dark forests.

This marsh plant, which disinfects the water of the marshes, is also famous for the fact that inside each stalk there are thin tubules from dead cells. They can absorb a huge amount of moisture, resulting in sphagnum excellent hygroscopicity. This property was noted by our ancestors, using moss when applying bandages.

For the first time sphagnum appears in the sediments of the Permian period. Unlike other mosses, it does not have rhizoids (a kind of root system), so sphagnum has the ability to absorb water throughout the area in large quantities.

For the first time its properties were interested in scientists in Soviet times. It turned out that this marsh plant, which disinfects the water of the marshes, contains a lot of bactericidal, fungicidal and bacteriostatic substances. This proved that the information of traditional medicine, which recommended it as a wound-healing remedy, is completely truthful.

The second leader in terms of disinfection is the marsh terrestrial. It is noteworthy that the birthplace of this plant is Asia, and the nomads brought it to our country with a definite purpose: if even in the dirtiest barrel they throw on the sliced roots of the calamus, then in a couple of hours you can safely water horses from it.

It contains the following phenolic acids:

• Isochlorogenic;
• Fumaric;
• Chlorogenic;
• Pyrocatechol.

In addition, in small quantities there are substances from the class of coumarins. Zoocumarine, which is the most important component of the means for deratization, belongs to the same type.

Already forgotten, but an important plant that disinfects water, is a rosemary swamp. In his tissues there are so many organic acids and poisonous substances that the nectar of Ledum kill bees.

And here lies the main intrigue. Despite its toxicity, in small quantities it not only disinfects water, but it can also be used to treat intestinal disorders. In particular, it was often used not only by healers, but also veterinarians in the treatment of diseases of livestock.

Any marsh plant, which disinfects the water of reservoirs, prevents the spread of natural infections. More importantly, the infusions of the same sphagnum disastrously affected even the causative agents of many fungal diseases, which many modern medicines can not boast of.

I wonder what other marsh plants, the names of which regularly occur in the ancient books of herbalists, will be recognized as official medicine? After all, of the hundreds and even thousands of herbs that were widely used in the recent past, only a few dozen are now known.

Each marsh plant, which disinfects the water of the marshes, acts in the same way: the rainwater, which has been infiltrated for centuries, turns into a real liquid preservative that easily kills the entire pathogenic microflora. This explains the unique properties of some forest water bodies.