Plakun-grass - a plant surrounded by secrets and legends. It is mentioned in the Bible and ancient herbalists. The plant can cry, heal and protect. Truly magical grass.
What a wonderful plant?
Its real name is loosestrife loosestrife. It occurs quite often, sometimes even forms thickets that look very picturesque. This is a tall plant (50-150 cm) with a powerful root system and a thick stem on which narrow leaves, similar to willow, sit in whorls or are located opposite. Small raspberry flowers collected in a brush appear in July-August. You can meet this plant on the banks of rivers and in damp forests at the fringes. It loves swampy meadows and drained peatlands. The plakun-grass is similar to a barbed grass. But they can be distinguished. In placun grass, the leaves are not pubescent. In addition, the leaves of the barbate have a wedge-shaped leaf, rather than a heart-shaped leaf.
The plant is used both in official medicine and in folk medicine. Marshmallow roots contain tannins, and the stem and leaves contain resin, traces of essential oils, tannins and salicarin glycoside. The flowers are rich in flavones, and alkaloids and glycoside litrinin are in the seeds.
Useful properties of a plant such as lingonberry
Plakun grass has an astringent, anti-inflammatory and tonic effect. Effectively treating her with dysentery and diarrhea of various etiologies. It helps with chronic enterocolitis and gastritis. Gruel from fresh leaves is applied to bleeding wounds, as the plant also has a strong hemostatic effect.
In folk medicine, the whole plant is used: roots, grass with flowers and seeds. Raw materials are procured at different times. The ground part of the plant is only during flowering, when the grass is most useful, and the roots are dug up in the fall. But, according to legend, there is one day of the year when you can harvest the plant completely, - early in the morning on Ivan Kupala.
Decoction of the roots treat stomach pain, female diseases and uterine bleeding, and they are also used as a diuretic. Decoctions of flowers help with diarrhea, and from decoction, for epilepsy, nervous breakdowns, insomnia, hemorrhoids and rheumatism. A good therapeutic effect is observed in the treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system and some skin diseases, such as eczema. In a decoction of grass bathe weakened children. It is believed that raw root helps with a snakebite and restores the body after exercise. To do this, eat it with bread or drink sour milk. With stomach pains, colds, headaches, tincture of roots in vodka helps. And externally it is used for bruises. Dry grass powder is sprinkled with long non-healing wounds. The most common recipe: pour one tablespoon of fresh grass with water in a volume of 200 ml, bring to a boil and turn off. Insist 15 minutes, then strain and drink ¼ cup 3 times a day.
Loosestrife is an excellent honey plant. Its flowers contain a lot of nectar and pollen, thereby attracting a huge number of bees and bright butterflies. Honey from placun grass is dark yellow, fragrant and has healing properties. In the old days, lilac flowers were used as food coloring, and thanks to the tannin properties, the plant is still used to impregnate fishing tackle to protect against rot. Even cattle is fed with this grass if it is restless.
Why was the plant named so?
Plakun grass got its name for a reason. In pagan myths it is said that the goddess Lada herself cried, seeing how the Slavic people suffer. This plant and the Bible did not pass by. It is believed that it was from the Mother of God spilled onto the earth that the placoon grass grew.
Although everything is explained quite simply. In the integumentary tissues of the plant are special organs with which it tries to get rid of excess moisture accumulated over night. Its droplets flow down along the edges of the leaves and look like tears. Most often, this phenomenon can be observed early in the morning or before the rain.
Magic
The grass poster in magic has tremendous power. She helps in the fight against evil spirits and spells that send sorcerers and witches. A pectoral cross carved from the root protects its owner from evil spirits and willful death (murder). With it, you can expel demons from people. Children who are restlessly sleeping are laid on the headboard. The grass poster helps to search for treasures and protects from evil spirits in the swamps. When collecting other medicinal herbs, it is imperative to have a twig of loosestrife with you, otherwise the collected plants will not have strength.
Contraindications
Plakun grass, the healing properties of which are huge, is not a poisonous plant. But it can not be used if a person has increased blood clotting or suffers from senile constipation.
Atony of the intestine is another contraindication. People with high blood pressure need to be careful to drink decoctions from the loosestrife, as it has the property of narrowing the blood vessels.
