This plant is well known to gardeners and gardeners. It gives them a lot of worries. This is a hard-to-eradicate weed that reproduces extremely quickly and often crowds out many healthy crops. But today we want to introduce you to a little-known common body. The beneficial properties of this plant, which is often called sow thistle, have found application in folk medicine.
Types of body
To date, more than three hundred species of this plant are known, which is distributed mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. The following species are widely represented in our country:
- bristly;
- field;
- Hungarian (chernozem strip and the Bryansk region);
- grey;
- marsh;
- ordinary;
- variegated;
- garden.
These species are found in almost all regions of our country. Butyak settles on roadsides, weedy areas, in fields and gardens, on lawns and forest glades, as well as in wastelands.
Name history
The common cirsium, like, however, all other species, has long been known among the Slavic peoples under the name "Osset", "Osat", "Sow thistle." The name of the plant received for its sharp leaves.
The second name is derived from the ancient Slavic "bodty", which means "stabbing". The plant also has a third name - thistle. The meaning of this word is quite transparent: from “flax” (to frighten, to ail) and “devil”. In olden times, this prickly plant was used for fuming cribs to protect cattle from diseases and evil spirits.
Cirsium vulgaris: description, application
Known weed belongs to the family Asteraceae. Cirsium vulgaris is a biennial plant. In the first year, a rosette of leaves forms, in the second - a well-branched stem, the height of which reaches one and a half meters. He is a little ribbed, erect, pubescent. The plant has a narrow spindle-shaped rod root.
Leaves are lanceolate, alternate, pinnate-lobed, with sharp spines at the edges. The lower ones are longer (up to 25 cm), the upper ones are smaller. The upper surface of the plate is covered with tightly pressed small spikes, the lower one is woolly pubescent. Dissected large leaves of the basal rosette at each apex of the blade are also “armed” with thorns.
As you can see, the common body is a spiny plant, although in this indicator it is inferior to the thistle curly. There are prickly "wings" in the plant. But they grow (unlike curly) in separate formations, up to five centimeters long.
Inflorescences are quite large, in diameter up to five centimeters or more. Round-ovoid-shaped baskets are located singly, at the very tops of the stems. At the base there is a spherical wrapper consisting of narrow narrow leaflets covered with small spines.
The flowers are usually pink, but raspberry and lilac are also found. They are bisexual, tubular, have the same shape. Flowering begins in early July and continues until the end of September.
Oblong fruits (about five millimeters) are tufted achenes, consisting of cirrus white hairs. In July-November, they fully mature and are carried by the wind.
Application
Despite the fact that in traditional medicine, the artifact has not yet received widespread use, in some areas this plant is used as a remedy for rheumatism and gout.
Traditional healers use this medicinal plant (common body) more widely. Dry inflorescences (in combination with other medicinal herbs) they are used as a supportive treatment for cancer patients. In addition, preparations based on it are used for external and internal use. An ordinary artisan is used to make several dosage forms - decoctions, infusions, etc.
What is the benefit of an ordinary bodybuilder?
Many gardeners are interested in how the weed that they hate can be useful - an ordinary calf. The benefits of this plant are known not only to traditional healers. Experts know that plants that are completely harmful or useless in nature do not exist.
When the calf is still young, pets are happy to eat it. Flower baskets are known as beautiful honey plants from which they receive valuable honey. It is valued for its pleasant taste and healing properties.
And an ordinary butyodium is eaten by people. Boiled young shoots are added to salads. You can boil the bottom of unblown baskets and add to the soup, which will acquire an original taste.
Structure
In traditional medicine, the common body is not used. Probably because it has not yet been sufficiently studied. It is known that it contains alkaloids, tannins, fats, glycosides, essential oils, resins.
Cirsium vulgaris: medicinal properties
Traditional healers have long noted the healing properties of the body and quite successfully began to use them. Among them:
- bactericidal;
- wound healing;
- diaphoretic;
- antispasmodic;
- anti-inflammatory;
- analgesic effects.
Preparations based on this plant help treat kidney, colds, gastrointestinal diseases, and liver ailments. A positive effect is noted in the fight against furunculosis, purulent abscesses, blackheads, an articulate promotes the rapid healing of tissues. It is a good addition to the medical treatment of thrombophlebitis.
Harvesting raw materials
Almost the entire plant is used as a healing raw material - grass, leaves, roots, inflorescences. The cirsium is collected, dried under a canopy, laying out in a layer of three to five centimeters. Fresh grass is used to prepare decoctions, infusions. It is especially effective for cooking gruel. Has the healing properties and juice of this plant.
The roots are harvested after the end of the vegetative period (late autumn). They should be washed, finely chopped and dried. Paper bags are suitable for storage. Shelf life is three years.
Cooking broth
A decoction of an ordinary artisan helps with severe headaches (even with migraines), acute inflammatory processes, increases the body's resistance to seasonal infections, strengthens the immune system. In addition, according to reviews, the decoction can be used as an antipyretic.
To cook it, you need thirty grams of dry roots. They must be poured with a liter of boiling water and steamed for ten minutes in a water bath. Then the composition should be infused for an hour, after which it can be taken in a third of a glass half an hour before meals. The broth has analgesic and antispasmodic effects, so it is effective for gastric, liver, renal colic. It relieves pain, helps to reduce chronic and acute inflammatory processes in the human body.
Adherents of alternative methods of treatment say that the same decoction can be used for compresses for thrombophlebitis. To do this, moisten a tissue napkin in it and attach it to the affected areas. Mix with water two tablespoons (tablespoons) of dry powdery roots of the butyx. Apply the resulting slurry to bruises, bruises. Fix it with a bandage and hold for several hours. With the evaporation of most of the water, the healing effect of the powder only intensifies.
Alcohol tincture
Orthopedic ordinary can be used as an effective wound healing and disinfectant for some skin diseases, abrasions and wounds. Traditional healers recommend that anyone who wants to permanently get rid of acne should wipe their skin in the evening and morning with a cotton swab dipped in tincture (alcohol) of the roots of the body. Excellent results were shown by such a composition in the treatment of abscesses and boils. In this case, put lotions with tincture in the affected area. The duration of the procedure is ten minutes.
To prepare the tincture, take fifty grams of the roots of the body (dry and well-ground), fill them with 500 ml of alcohol (90%) and put it in a dark place for two weeks. Periodically, the container must be shaken.
Infusion
It is prepared from fifteen grams of herb, which is poured with a quarter liter of boiling water and insisted for two hours. Then the composition must be filtered. This remedy is taken for bronchial-pulmonary diseases (asthma, tuberculosis, pneumonia) up to six times a day in a tablespoon before meals. The course of treatment is one to two months (depending on the condition of the patient).
In addition, reviews claim that the infusion can be used as a disinfectant for tonsillitis, stomatitis, bleeding gums (rinses).
Mask for the face
I found the use of an ordinary butyx in cosmetology. In addition to treating problem skin, women often use it for whitening, nourishing masks. Mix four tablespoons (tablespoons) of dry crushed leaves of an artisan tree with a tablespoon of fresh kefir and add a drop of pink essential oil. The resulting composition is applied to the skin for fifteen minutes. After that, the mask is washed off with warm water, and the skin is rubbed with an ice cube. Better if it is from a decoction of parsley. The mask will whiten the skin, make it smooth and supple, give elasticity.
Such a slurry, but without the addition of essential oil, is used for skin diseases (eczema, lichen, diathesis), relieves itching and inflammation after an insect bite.
