N. Levakovsky, a teacher at Kazan University, 100 years ago turned his attention to the weed that flooded the entire university courtyard - bird buckwheat. He knew this plant very well. Grass with its thick carpet covered rural streets and city squares. Even on the roads, she managed to grow between a path trodden by the hoofs of horses and ruts from the wheels. At that moment N. Levakovsky began to study it. In this article we will find out what bird buckwheat looks like, what are its beneficial properties, etc. In addition, we’ll talk about medical recipes based on it.
Description of plants: highlander bird
Highlander bird (goose grass, or knotweed) is an annual medicinal herb. Belongs to the buckwheat family.
The plant reaches a height of 100 cm. It has a curly stem branching from the base. Leaves with a swept-heart-shaped base, triangular-ovate, with fairly long petioles. The fruit is a trihedral nutlet, right triangular in cross section, 3 mm long and 2 mm wide, dull, black, elongated-pointed at the apex, enclosed in the perianth.
What does bird buckwheat look like?
Small flowers of the plant are arranged differently. Perianth green, white inside, 5-membered. Ovary with three stigmas and one short column. The flowers are 2-6 pieces on the tops of the stems or in the axils of the leaves in spiky interrupted rare panicles. Blossoming at the very beginning of summer, self-pollinated. At the same time, late flowers grow so long pistils that their stamens cannot pollinate them. Then cross-pollination is already needed, which is going very poorly, and at the end of the summer there are few fruits. The question arises: "How is self-pollination beneficial for buckwheat, given that it gives offspring less viable?"
The second obscurity is with its fruits. They are also different. Examining what bird buckwheat looks like, you can find that some of them are wide and short, while others are very long. The first grow from short stamenous flowers, the second - from long stamen flowers. It is still unknown what is the reason for such diversity. It is noted that long ones grow faster than short ones. There is an opinion that this is a peculiar way to stretch the moment of germination.
Spread
Buckwheat (photo can be found in this article) grows almost throughout the territory of our country. It grows in fields, in yards, along roadsides, along river banks.
Chemical composition
Reading the description of plants, you can find out that sugars, resins, flavonoids, mucus, vitamins C and K, carotene, tannins, and wax are present in this grass.
Pharmacological properties
This herb exhibits astringent, diuretic, anti-inflammatory and hemostatic effect. The plant is used in traditional medicine as a tool that has tonic and tonic properties. Plant-based drugs lower blood pressure, eliminate mucosal bleeding, and accelerate wound healing.
Application
Many people know what bird buckwheat looks like, but not everyone understands that it is used to treat urinary tract pathologies, as well as cholelithiasis. The mountaineer bird breaks up stones, after which they are excreted imperceptibly with urine or bile.
The preparations of this plant are an effective remedy that reduces the muscles of the uterus, due to which its tone increases. This allows its use in uterine postpartum hemorrhage. The plant increases blood coagulation, has a hemostatic effect.
Due to its astringent properties, this plant is used for gastric and duodenal ulcers, with colitis, gastritis and diarrhea.
Traditional medicine also recommends using a bird highlander for such diseases: pulmonary tuberculosis, rheumatism, acne, boils and dermatitis.
Hemorrhoids
Take 40 g of grass. Buckwheat is poured into a glass of cool water (the photo is presented in this article), heats up in a water bath for half an hour, after which it is infused, filtered for 15 minutes, and the raw material is squeezed. With this infusion, you need to periodically make baths.
Urolithiasis disease
A glass of boiling water is filled with knotweed bird (3 tablespoons) and heated for 15 minutes in a water bath. Then it is infused for half an hour under the lid and filtered. Ready broth is taken half a glass twice a day.
Gallbladder disease
With a glass of cool water, fill in the crushed roots of the plant (20 g), insist on a water bath for half an hour, then cool for 15 minutes and filter. Use a spoon three times a day.
Notes
For a long time, mankind has been using this plant for the preparation of various foods. As a result, its young leaves and stems were used in salads, side dishes, second and first courses - in pickled, dried and boiled form.
