Sporysh - medicinal properties and contraindications

In the summer, walking along the hot roads of the sun, few people pay attention to what is growing under our feet. And yet, few know that there, in the grass barely breaking through the ground, a most useful plant sprouts. It's about sporysh. Folk folklore gave this grass a lot of different names - this is “grass-ants”, and “sparrow tongue”, and “bird buckwheat”. Sometimes in the villages you can find another naming - “pigeon delicacy”. Because, indeed, pigeons especially love to peck this plain plant.

The official language of the pharmacy is referred to as the “highlander bird”. Different manufacturing companies can write on the packaging the additional name "ordinary knotweed."

Sprout grows in different climatic zones, from the subarctic belt of the tundra and forest-tundra to the sea belt on the Sakhalin Peninsula. This is a very unpretentious plant that can survive even in severe frost.

Active industrial gatherings of knotweed in our country are carried out in the Primorsky territories of Russia - Vladivostok, Sakhalin, Kamchatka. This preference is explained by the fact that plants growing in those areas have a more generous saturation with useful trace elements such as iodine, magnesium and selenium.

Useful properties of the plant

There are legends about the healing miracles that this unpretentious and, at first glance, nondescript plant can present to a person, legends. And in fact, the scope is wide enough and extends from preventive use to the treatment of various kinds of intoxications and conditions after injuries and operations.

1. The medicinal properties of knotweed in the treatment of diseases related to the genitourinary system are best known. So, the bird highlander perfectly copes with the dissolution of calculi in urolithiasis, significantly facilitating their withdrawal in a natural way, without the use of surgical intervention, even if minimally invasive. Due to its anti-inflammatory properties, along with the excretion of urinary stone, it also has an antibiotic effect on the renal pelvis, preventing the further development of pyelonephritis.
2. Another well-known therapeutic effect of knotweed, as well as plantain, is the ability to stop bleeding and disinfect the resulting wound site - our ancient ancestors have long used this everywhere-growing grass to treat injuries sustained while hunting or picking forest mushrooms and berries.
3. Commonweed is also used for veterinary purposes. Cattle are often attacked by dangerous insects such as wasps, gadflies, some species of midges and mosquitoes, flies. In this case, you can apply a small compress to the bitten place on the animal’s body - to do this, crush or mash the resulting slurry, put it on the site of the insect bite. Components of an avian highlander that have an astringent effect will contribute to faster healing of the wound and faster healing of the animal itself.
4. If we turn to history, then we can meet the facts of using tinctures and poultices from the “grass-ants” by the rulers of Cordoba. Constantly unfolding in those areas of war and the intrigues of palace harems often created situations in which the use of poisons was an effective way to fight for certain goals.By poisons, the older wives killed the first-born of their beloved concubines in order to deprive their mothers of the privileges of the caliph. Sometimes unwanted slaves were eliminated in this way, enemies imperceptibly poisoned the best warriors of the caliph, making his army knowingly vulnerable to the enemy. In this case, ordinary knotweed acted as an invaluable antidote against some poisons, weakening their effect and, thereby, delaying a painful death.
5. Another, no less well-known and useful property of knotweed is the ability to tone vessels and thereby stabilize excessively high or too low blood pressure.

It should be noted about the preventive benefits. Juices of common salmon have an incredible amount of useful vitamins and minerals. So, several knotweed leaves contain a daily norm of vitamins C, K, F, flavonoids, tannins, essential oils, saponins, coumarins, selenium, manganese, various amino acids and many other elements are present.

It should be remembered that in all of the above cases, ordinary knotweed is not the only panacea for all ailments and it is necessary to undergo examination and treatment. However, as an additional therapy, these tinctures should still be considered.

The use of knotweed

Summing up all of the above, it remains to identify the groups of diseases and conditions in which the use of common knotweed is recommended:

• Urolithiasis disease.
• Hypertonic and hypotonic syndromes.
• Conditions after poisoning by heavy metals and poisons.
• As a hemostatic agent.
• A remedy for treatment in the genital area.
• Disinfectant and anti-inflammatory.
• Regenerating (wound healing) remedy.
• A prophylactic, both for existing diseases, and with the goal of general prevention.

Contraindications

Any medal has both a forward and a reverse side. This plant is not an exception. Since there are a lot of tannins in its composition, then, first of all, a contraindication or careful use should be by persons who have hematopoiesis pathologies. Especially if there is a tendency to thrombosis. Another contraindication is the presence of allergic reactions to plant components.

It is not advisable to use ordinary knotweed during pregnancy and lactation, since its teratogenic (destructive) properties for the developing fetus and child's body have not been fully studied.

Variants of application of knotweed ordinary

Pharmacy chains of cities can offer several forms of release of this drug:

• Dried and finely chopped constituent plants, packed in cardboard containers.
• Tincture of knotweed on alcohol of different concentrations.
• Juices and extracts of knotweed, not alcoholic content.
• Tablets, in which there are components of knotweed. These are mainly various dietary supplements.
• Adhesives for knotweed hoods.

The most common use of knotweed in the form of a dried, factory-packaged species. Decoctions are made of it, and, both in pure form, and combining them with other plants. The most popular combinations are:

1. Knotweed - chamomile - is used to treat a condition after poisoning; it has an antibacterial and antitoxic effect.
2. Knotweed - bearberry - bean leaf - this decoction is used for pyelonephritis and urolithiasis. It has a complex antispasmodic effect, as well as dissolves calculi, facilitating their natural departure.
3. Maggot - calendula - has an antispasmodic effect. It is good to use for painful menstruation in women.
4. Knotweed - beetroot juice - is used for various anemia, and will also be useful after band operations and in other conditions associated with massive blood loss.
5. Knotweed - peppermint - calamus root - chamomile - plantain - St. John's wort large - it is recommended to use for various diseases of the stomach, as well as for problems with bile duct.
6. Maggot - licorice - coltsfoot - tincture of elderberry black - is used to treat colds. For example, tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, the initial stages of pulmonary tuberculosis.
7. The knotweed - plantain - crushed birch buds - is crushed and the resulting slurry is applied with a compress to the affected joints. It is recommended for arthritis, arthrosis in the stage of inflammation, as well as for sprains and dislocations.

How to prepare a medication from knotweed?

The use of "tryn grass" is wide and varied. At the moment, there are 4 most popular forms:

• Teas.
• Alcohol tinctures.
• Compresses
• Juices and decoctions.

Making teas
A small porcelain teapot is taken, with a capacity of 200 - 250 ml, or a similar brewed or simple mug. 2–3 tablespoons of the crushed raw material are poured into it, all this is poured with boiling water and put in a cool place where it should be brewed and infused for at least 30 minutes, after which it can be consumed. If you plan to add other medicines, they should be added immediately, even at the stage of dry raw materials and thoroughly mixed with a spoon so that the brewing batch is uniform in structure and then brewed together. The proportions in this case will be different, from 50/50, to the prevalence of a certain component (bird mountaineer or additives).

Cooking spirit tinctures
For tincture, we need a capacity of arbitrary volume - in this case, everything depends on the amount that needs to be obtained. First, take a small amount - 200 ml of vodka (40-degree ethyl alcohol), then pour raw materials in the proportion of 0.25 of the amount of alcohol and set to insist on average for 4 - 6 hours. Before use, it is recommended to strain the resulting solution. Oilcake can be used as a warming compress. The widespread use of knotweed, as well as a relatively easy way to get it, make this plant very popular.

Cooking juices
We take fresh plucked knotweed, then carefully chop it. The resulting mass is laid on a specially prepared gauze dressing and twisted over a bowl. Juice will drain into the bowl. Juice can be drunk as an independent drug, or you can add ¾ vodka and get tincture. The remaining cake can be poured with boiling water and, thus, a decoction of a weak concentration will be obtained. For better juice preparation, it is recommended to use specialized devices: juicers, juice makers, blenders or a simple meat grinder. This juice is best obtained in combination with other, more juicy plants and fruits, such as carrots, apples or celery.

Side effects of knotweed

Like many medicines, this drug is not without its negative aspects. There are not so many of them as with conventional medicines, and they mainly relate to variations in allergic reactions:

First of all, allergic reactions to the drug, such as itching, urticaria, peeling, are possible.

From the gastrointestinal tract, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain are possible. Basically, these manifestations belong to the group of individual intolerance, or are associated with contraindications to the use of a herbal preparation, which means that in any case it should be used carefully, in small portions and preferably consulted with a doctor.

Where can I get knotweed?

Preparations of common knotweed can be purchased at the pharmacy and on the market, both factory-made and self-made. The latter include decoctions and tinctures, often offered by the domestic production of the pharmacy itself.

Also, the herbs of the mountaineer bird can be collected independently, following several rules:

1. Do not collect near open road lanes - knotweed tends to absorb heavy metal salts. Forest zones with good sun gaps are best suited for this.
2. It needs to be collected in May - June, since this is a period of active growth and plants are most useful in terms of nutrient accumulation, while in August - September, the plant stems are already coarsened and dried over the past summer.
3. It is important to tear off knotweed carefully, it is best to take young leaves without damaging the entire "outlet".
4. The most useful and juicy specimens grow in shaded places, but, nevertheless, you should not take only shadow plants, since they are devoid of sunlight, which means that the process of photosynthesis in them is somewhat weaker, which affects the beneficial properties.
5. The roots of the mountaineer are not recommended to be collected - it is better to leave them in the ground. Thus, soon a new one will appear on the site of the cut plant.

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