The only species is considered an ordinary coltsfoot. The description characterizes this plant as a perennial lifestyle, widespread in Eurasia. Also her home is Africa. The flowering period is early spring, when the leaves are not yet blooming.
What is this wonderful plant?
The description of coltsfoot suggests that it is widely used for medical purposes. She fights well with coughing. Therefore, the name of the grass has a connection with the verb “drive away”. Before you is really not only a cute and pretty flower, but also a powerful way to recovery.
Even Pliny the Elder and Caspar Baugin gave a description of coltsfoot. The lower side of the foliage of the plant has numerous hairs, from there the liquid does not evaporate as much as the top. The side below is called the "mother." She is warm. The upside is called the “stepmother, ” it is slightly colder. In connection with a different temperature, the people got the current name of the plant.
Also, grass is called Kamchatka, mother grass, king-potion, one-sided. The distribution of this plant is quite wide, therefore, when there was no strong information message, each group of peoples called the plant in its own way.
Where to meet
Almost everywhere, a coltsfoot plant will find a living corner for itself. The description mentions that the life of the grass lasts several years. Almost all of Eurasia is her home. Grass got to Asia and North Africa. Even in America it is.
Not from delicate coltsfoot plants. A brief description indicates that even the Arctic has become her home. Grass is not friendly with turf, grows in territories deprived of it, tends to water, slopes. Also in high esteem are the sites on which there is a trace of anthropogenic impact. Great for the growth of this plant suitable fields, landfills or vacant lots.
The description of coltsfoot characterizes her as a rather universal and unpretentious creation of nature. Soils with clay or another type of soil (sand and gravel river banks) are good for its development. Grass blooms under the rays of the April sun.
Description of biologists
Long is the rhizome of the coltsfoot plant. Photos and descriptions demonstrate branching and creep. The kidneys are located on the root processes. From there, shoots appear that can be flowering or vegetative. The description of coltsfoot tells that with the first rays of the spring sun the grass awakens from sleep. The development of low shoots, standing straight, which bring flowers, begins. They are covered with ovate-lanceolate scaly leaves of a brown hue.
Bright yellow flowers have two types and are divided by gender. On the edge are females. They are also called reed because of the pronounced features of the extreme colors. It is on this basis that a plant is diagnosed. By the structure of the peduncle, you can understand that this is a coltsfoot flower. The description is similar to butterbur, however reediness is so easy to find there.
Corollas are characterized by threadlike, colors from the edge are much less. The inflorescence in the middle contains a bisexual tubular flower. The fruit can be considered a cylindrical achene. She has pappus. This is the crest that makes up the soft hairline. When the fruit ripens, the shoots bearing flowers die off. A certain time later, when the peduncle began, the next stage is the development of shoots of the vegetative type. Then grow large, heart-like, white-breasted, leafless leaves. On them long petioles are observed.
Importance and Use in the Farm
The large number of places where the plant grows is only for people to use, because it is so useful. Most valuable in the early spring honey plant. Bees are fed from him by nectar and pollen. For medicinal purposes, the procurement and drying of raw materials in the spring is carried out. It is best to place the grass in a dryer with a temperature of 40 degrees. On the leaves there is a mucous fluid. She is able to soften and envelop. If you need to expectorate sputum, this substance will also be extremely useful. Breast collection consists of the bitter glycoside of tussilagin, tannins, sterols, tannin, and kartinoids. Traditional medicine skillfully used flowers and leaves for various purposes.
Thanks to biologically active substances, a complex effect is possible in the case of inflammatory processes. Quite rich has a coltsfoot description. For children, it is useful as a cough suppressing medicine. If pertussis does not give rest, this plant will also help in the best way and expel mucous sputum. You can make tea, which makes coughing much easier. Mucus in the bronchi will become more fluid. Chronic bronchitis is also treatable with this plant along with bronchiectasis, laryngitis, bronchial asthma and bronchopneumonia.
It is interesting
As we know, the measure is good in everything, so, given the pyrrolisidine alkaloids contained in the grass, doctors do not recommend stretching the period of use of this plant for more than a month. An interesting fact is that in 1990 a coat of arms was created for Nannestad, which was a commune in Norway and was part of Akershus province. The picture contains just three yellow flowers. Indeed, this plant is so common on these lands. It is very close to butterbur, doronicum, buzulnik.
You can learn a lot of interesting information about the uniqueness of this plant. Extensive data contains the Red Book. The coltsfoot description is close to water mug because it is its direct relative, as is the case with reed grass. It can be used both assembled and separately. Both flowers and leaves are equally useful, but each for its own purpose.
Yellow petals fall off when the flowering process is underway. After that, they switch to foliage, while the seeds have not yet crumbled. Raw materials can be stored for two years.
Many medicinal infusions become healing due to the fact that they use coltsfoot (plant). The description for the children will be very interesting, and the pictures with the image of this grass are very bright and colorful. You can treat your child's airways, disinfect and prevent inflammation.
How to make medicine
The recipe for the infusion from this wonderful plant is as follows: it is necessary to chop flowers and leaves in the amount of 4 teaspoons. A glass of boiling water is poured. Infused for half an hour, filtered. Drink the mixture for a day, but not immediately, but for several doses. It will help from coughing, inflammation, with hoarseness and asthma of the bronchi.
Perhaps your problem is of a different kind. You need to eat, but there is no appetite, the mucous membrane of the intestinal tract is inflamed. In this case, the infusion will also help in the best way.
If there are complex diseases of the respiratory tract, collect the following set of plants: chop the rhizome of comfrey, creeping wheatgrass, coltsfoot, black elderberry, mullein, linden. All herbs should have equal proportions. One tablespoon is poured with one glass of water. Before this, the roots boil separately on a small fire. It lasts 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add the remaining herbs. The broth should be infused for half an hour. Then we filter it and 30 minutes before a meal we drink half a glass. And so throughout the day.
To breathe easily
All kinds of herbs are great for treating respiratory problems. Coltsfoot, a little mountaineer and elderberry are mixed in the same amount. Tea is being made. One tablespoon of herbs is poured with a cup of boiling water. It is advised to take such a drink until a full recovery occurs.
If you are concerned about pulmonary tuberculosis, you can cut the leaves of coltsfoot, put in an enameled pan, sprinkle with sugar. We close the dishes tightly, put in a place where there is a cold, and hold there for two months. Having removed the mixture from the storage, add honey. A pound of bee product is put in one kilogram of the mixture. Three times a day, use one tablespoon of such a medicine. Pediatric epilepsy is also eliminated with this sweet infusion.
You can use a decoction from this amazing plant to alleviate the course of skin diseases, remove abscesses and inflammations affecting the veins on the legs.
Not only decoctions help, but also fresh juice. You can get rid of a cold if you drip their nose.
For beautiful hair
You can even wash your hair with this wonderful herb. The broth removes dandruff and prevents baldness. If you add nettles to the infusion, a positive effect and beautiful hair are provided.
Two plants are taken in equal shares. Two tablespoons are poured with a glass of water, wait until it cools, filtered. When your head is washed, you need to rinse your hair with this healing cocktail.
You can make a tincture of fresh flowers. They are collected in a jar, clogged, filled with vodka in equal shares. Infusion time is one week. A dark place is better. Drink 35 drops half an hour before a meal.
External application
If you have bronchitis, pleurisy, or pneumonia, take herbal medicines and do massages. This will provide blood supply and sputum waste. Massage your chest and abdomen thoroughly with your back. Thus, it will be possible to improve the operation of the allocation systems. These are the skin, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines. From the cells go poisonous metabolic products. Cellular enzymes are produced better, good viability appears.
