Mokritsa - general description
Mokritsa (Stellaria media, asterisk) is an annual weed plant of the clove family. The stem is strongly branching, weak, lodging, rooted in nodes, 10-30 cm high. The leaf is ovoid, shortly pointed, upper sessile, lower attached with petioles, constantly wet.
White flowers in the shape of stars have bifid petals, the flowering period is May-August. Fruits - capsules, seeds are rounded or bud-shaped. This is a very adapted weed for survival, it is almost impossible to fight with it, as its seeds are tenacious for 5 to 20 years, one plant has 20,000 seeds, and bears fruit twice during the summer. Plant development continues under the snow in the winter.
Mokritsa - types and places of growth
Hardy weed is spread all over the world, more than 120 of its species are known in a large way in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, of which several dozen grow in Russia. Mokritsa prefers kitchen gardens, weedy places, moist forest glades, terrain, closer to human activities. Poultry is very fond of this herb, for which in some places it was called bird salad. Woodlice seeds are fed to domestic songbirds.
Mokritsa - healing properties
Many people, struggling in the beds with this tenacious weed and do not suspect how useful an ordinary wood louse can be. It has so many vitamins that its saturation far exceeds cultivated plants. For example, the content of vitamin C in it is one and a half times higher than in lemon, for this property alone it is already necessary to read it as a medicinal plant for anemia and scurvy.
And if we take into account that it contains vitamin E, which is generally absent in most cultivated plants, carotene, it becomes clear that illiterate ancestors were very right when they used young shoots in early salads. In addition, steamed grass is useful for radiculitis, aching joints and sprains, its juice reduces pain in the heart and can reduce tumors, stop blood, treat hemorrhoids, gastrointestinal diseases, hemoptysis, chest pains and the thyroid gland.
Woodlice - dosage forms
Traditional medicine uses the terrestrial part of plants in fresh and dried form. Fresh grass juice is used for internal use and eye instillation, wound healing, vitamin greens are used in salads. Infusion of fresh or dried herbs is used for baths and lotions, a compress can remove swelling of the breast in nursing women. The grass is harvested in the month of May, when it is still soft and juicy, dried in the shade.
Woodlice - recipes
- Lice juice from opacification of the cornea - instill at an early stage of the disease. With the same juice, woodlice is treated with purulent, non-healing wounds.
- Fresh grass relieves leg fatigue - put instead of insoles in garden shoes.
- Infusion of woodlice for a healthful bath: 12-15 tablespoons of freshly chopped woodlice to steam with 1 liter of boiling water, insist. Milk recovery for lactating women: drink an infusion of wood lice half a glass. Compress from the infusion helps with breast swelling.
- Vitamin salad: young starfish greens, spring onions, boiled egg, sour cream.
- Infusion of asterisk for the treatment of radiculitis: tightly fill a three-liter jar with fresh grass. Pour 0.5 liters of vodka and add water. Insist 21 days, drain, squeeze. Drink courses for two to three weeks in a third of a glass a day before meals.
Woodlice - contraindications
Serious contraindications to the use of this weed were not found. With caution, it is recommended to use it for people with very low blood pressure, since it can significantly reduce pressure.
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