Avran medicinal: medicinal properties, description, application and reviews
Avran is a drug, and at the same time is poisonous. The plant is widespread in Europe, Siberia and Asia. It is also called apothecary, gracious, fish grass, deer grass, horse tinder and blood. The name "Avran" came from the Turkic language, which means "to be ill" in translation. Let's talk about this plant in more detail.
Avran medicinal ordinary: description
The plant belongs to the family Podorozhnikov. Its root system is thin-shaped, the stem is 4-faceted, which in height reaches fifty centimeters. The flowers of this herb are whitish and yellowish, which grow on a long pedicel. The fruit is an egg-shaped box with seeds. It ripens towards the middle of summer. Seeds are brown, oblong in shape.
Grass loves to grow in pits, on swamps, meadows and shores of reservoirs.
The plant blooms throughout the summer, loves light and partial shade. It is transplanted in the spring, fertilized with mineral and organic fertilizers. And Avran medicinal multiplies through seeds, division of roots and cuttings.
The root of the root is
. There are about 20 species of plants. However, there is only one species in the latitudes of Russia, although in the Amur and Primorye there is also a Japanese one, which received the folk name: heart root or intestine, which means its field of application. This species is a low grass with a lot of small roots, fleshy stems and oblong leaves, which are on it in large quantities. Flowers are also located on a long pedicel.
The plant is distributed in Japan, China and the Far East. It prefers muddy soil.
Stories
Avran medicinal is mentioned in legends as a herb used by sorcerers and magicians. It could serve as a protection and a guard for man.
In the history of Egypt there is information that the plant was rescued from the plague, and in ancient Greece - that it helped clean the room of diseases and all evil spirits.
Avran medicinal: properties of
The use of the plant is justified by its composition, which includes glycosides, saponins and tannins. The former exhibit both useful and poisonous properties. Also in avran there are Ca, Mg, Fe, K.
Let's consider what avran has medicinal use.
- It is often used for disorders in the gastrointestinal system and liver diseases.
- The plant helps to relieve headache, irritability and rheumatism.
- Both grass and flowers act as a strong laxative. It can also be used as a diuretic for vomiting.
- The plant perfectly copes with the problem of worms.
- Avranom treats dropsy, spleen, hemorrhoids, scabies, skin diseases, gout.
- Wounds, eczema, and ulcers will pass if treated affected areas with an ointment obtained from the juice of the plant, mixed with fat.
- It is interesting that at small doses the green color shades will increase, and at large doses, they will be reduced to the point where the color will cease to be perceived completely.
The herb is added to medications and used to treat problems with bladder, papillomas and gastritis.
It should not be forgotten that avran medicinal medicinal properties are also poisonous. When it is used, there is a risk of poisoning. Symptoms then are saliva separation, diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and even convulsions. Heart activity may be disturbed and breathing may stop. Therefore, if you suddenly feel any symptoms, you urgently need to induce vomiting, drink a sorbent and call a doctor.
Application of
Traditional healers used leaves, pre-chopping them together with coal powder, to disinfect water in a well, lake and river to avoid infection of jaundice. At the same time, the plant calmed heart activity and treated fever. Consider several recipes for the treatment of various ailments.
A special infusion is prepared from the pains in the liver. For its preparation, take half a teaspoon of herb and pour boiling water, keep it on the water bath for a quarter of an hour, and then cool for another 45 minutes, filter it well, and reheat it to the temperature at which the liquid was with the grass. Take the finished product three times a day after meals.
For constipation and as a cholagogue, take the same number of leaves and roots of avran( one teaspoon of boiling water requires a teaspoon of the mixture).The solution is insisted, filtered and consumed on a teaspoon twice a day.
To those who suffer from insomnia, help infusion weaker, consisting of half a teaspoon of grass, which is poured a glass of boiling water and insist an hour and a half.
Cultivation of
The place for growing the plant should be chosen light and well-moistened. It is very fond of a fertile land with neutral acidity, namely loamy and sandy loamy soils. Avran perfectly fit into the picture of an artificial pond decoration on the site.
Care
If you do not plant it next to the pond, you need frequent watering. Especially it concerns young plants. In addition, they should be protected from negative weather conditions. However, in general, when avran has already grown, it becomes sufficiently frost-resistant and will easily survive the winter even without additional shelter.
If planting is carried out next to other plants, then it should be kept in special containers or limited to growth using fences.
Applying decorative medicinal avran, the description of which we disassembled, its shoots should be regularly cut off. In addition, given the poisonous properties of the plant, care should be taken to ensure that it grows out of reach of children and animals. Of course, animals feel poison, and usually do not touch it. However, the grass can get by accident. Especially this danger concerns horses.
But this plant is not afraid of pests and diseases.
Propagation
As mentioned above, the process of reproduction occurs through the division of roots and by means of cuttings. In artificial conditions, it is grown from seedlings.
For this, the seeds are sown in a wooden box. It is better to do it in April.
When emergence emerges, it is slightly cut, and then transplanted into the ground.
The next year the avran will be able to multiply by division and cuttings.
In adult age, the plant quickly spreads over the territory due to its long roots. This should be carefully monitored and limited growth by removing shoots.
A good solution to the problem of plant growth is planting it in special containers.
One way or another, interacting with the plant, you should remember about its toxic properties and exercise care and caution.