Donnik( Grass): medicinal properties, application, indications

In the territory of our vast country, you can spot thickets of field plants with yellow flowers. Many do not even guess that this plain-looking weed called a sweet clover( 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

The healing herb of the clover is a shrub plant about one 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 harvesting of

The plant should be plucked during the active flowering period, or rather, from July to October-month. For collection it is better to choose a dry weather, since a damp plant is poorly dried and during storage starts to pass, 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 carefully 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 banned or darkened. Readiness is determined by the fragility of the stems.

Grass clover: useful properties and components

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 favorably affects the vital activity of internal organs. It improves blood flow, increases blood pressure and brain activity. When decaying coumarin, an equally 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 a softening 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 due to 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 to fight with 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 of the sweet 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 clover, with leukopenia, convulsions, migraines, respiratory pathologies and insomnia.

The substance of coumarin improves memory, attention, strengthens the heart muscle, and also heals( 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 first place is occupied by the sweet clover grass. 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. It is not difficult to prepare a medicinal decoction on your own. This will require 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. For 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 meteorism. 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 diseases. 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. For nervous disorders use a drug, 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 aching joints, then a healing ointment from dry flowers of sweet clover yellow( 50 g) and butter( two spoons) will help cope with these ailments. Connect the two components and lubricate the sore spots.

2. A set of medicinal plants will help with hemorrhoids: sweet-grass( dessert spoon), mountaineer( 5 g), lush carnation( 10 g), multi-colored carnation( two spoons).All these ingredients 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. For 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. For benign production, 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 of the sweet clover flowers, which are previously steamed in boiling water, will help.

Herbal collections

1. Prevent and relieve migraine such a decoction: a dessert spoon 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. Vegetable collection with adnexitis: take five grams of oregano, flowers of mother-and-stepmother, a hundred-thousandth 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 bag, 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 for 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 of

The plant is poisonous, therefore when taking it is necessary to observe a certain precaution and do not exceed the dosage. Despite the abundance of medicinal properties, it can not be used during the period of gestation, 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 not follow the instructions and prescriptions of the doctor. In case of an 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.