A weed called "mokritsa" is familiar to all truck farmers. Without regretting their strength, they are struggling with the ubiquitous plant on their site.
However, not all of them know that in the form of inconspicuous weeds, a real green treasure is thrown out. After all, mokritsa - this is home doctor, and cosmetician, and an indispensable ingredient of delicious vitamin dishes.
- Content of the article:
- How it is useful
- Procurement rules
- Side effects and contraindications
- Application in folk medicine
- Application in cosmetology
- Therapeutic diets
How it is useful
Mokritsa grows practically in all regions of Russia.
Favorite places of its growth: vegetable gardens, gardens, damp forest clearings and heaps of garbage.
You can learn the grass by egg-shaped pointed leaves and small white flowers in the form of an asterisk, for which botanists called this plant a star-shaped medium.
Mokritsa same grass is called for its amazing ability even in dry weather to always remain moist and juicy.
More experienced summer residents do not consider a weed as a weed and do not rush to get rid of it. They use it as an excellent natural mulch, able to protect the earth from drying out.
The soil under the grass always remains moist. Mokritsa is also an accurate meteorologist. If before 9 o'clock in the morning the flowers remain closed, it means that it will soon be raining.
We love weeds with poultry. It's not for nothing that people call it canary grass and a bird's salad. With great pleasure, regularly eating the lice, the chickens feel great, they have an egg-laying capacity.
For some time this plant has become interested in folk healers, and then scientists who discovered in it a storehouse of useful substances that have a beneficial effect on the human body.
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Mokritsa contains:
- vitamins C, E and K,
- carotene,
- organic acids,
- alkaloids,
- tannins,
- potassium salts,
- saponins,
- flavonoids,
- phytoncides,
- lipids,
- essential oils.
Starlet is rich in valuable minerals: zinc, iron, boron, copper, magnesium, cobalt.
Mokritsa fully possesses:
- analgesic,
- anti-inflammatory,
- soothing,
- expectorant,
- hemostatic,
- choleretic effect.
Thanks to the rich composition of the plant replenishes the body's reserves of the missing vitamins and trace elements and helps in curing many ailments. Miracle herb:
- enhances immunity and shows a restorative effect;
- promotes recovery for colds, bronchitis, pneumonia and other lung diseases;
- relieves pain with bruises, dislocations, sprains, rheumatism, arthritis and other joint diseases;
- has a soothing effect( mocryca is a part of soothing herbs) and a strengthening effect on the nervous system;
- is useful for anemia and general decay;
- beneficially affects the heart, improves its performance, relieves heart pain;
- helps with kidney disease( symptoms and treatment of pyelonephritis in women), liver, thyroid, eye diseases;
- eliminates spasms and pains in the stomach, helps with flatulence, constipation and hemorrhoids;
- activates the production of hemoglobin;
- promotes the healing of purulent and long-lasting non-healing wounds;
- treats pustular lesions of the skin, ulcers, eczema;
- helps in the treatment of mastopathy, stimulates lactation in nursing mothers;
- is used in the treatment of enuresis in children;
- cleanses and heals the skin, struggles with acne eruptions.
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Rules for harvesting
For the treatment and consumption of food, the entire above-ground part of the stellate is used: stem, leaves and flowers. Most of all useful substances are contained, of course, in fresh grass.
It can be cut and, after washing, immediately used in cooking or making medicinal potions. In the cold season used dried mochritsa.
In dry form it is also useful. You can still freeze the grass. Preparing the raw material of the woodlice is best in May, when it is especially juicy and soft.
It is necessary to pull out the plant together with roots from the ground, shake it and spread it on a piece of paper in the shade under a canopy, remembering from time to time to stir.
It is desirable that the place where the starch is dried is well ventilated. Store the dried grass in a tissue or paper bag. Shelf life is about 9 months.
Side effects and contraindications
Miracle herbs have one and only drawback - it lowers blood pressure, so it is contraindicated to hypotension.
It is not necessary to be treated by a plant and with individual intolerance. More at the woodlice, there are no contraindications. It can be used by adults and children.
Do not confuse stellate middle( lobster) with other of its relatives:
- stellate lanceolate,
- stellate forest,
- stellate cereal.
These plants are poisonous! From useful lice they can be distinguished by the shape of the leaves.Application in folk medicine
For the treatment of ailments from decanters prepare decoctions, infusions and juice.
Drugs can be taken orally and used externally as lotions, compresses and baths. Healing recipes with lice are very many.
Here are just some of them:
- Soothing decoction.
Steam a couple of spoons of herbs brewed with boiling water( 200 ml), boil for 10 minutes and filtered after 30-35 minutes.
Take a decoction of a glass of water before meals up to three times a day. - General restorative infusion. Brew a spoonful of herb with boiling water( 200 ml) and insist 5 minutes.
Drink 100 ml of tea at least 3 times a day. - When the cornea becomes cloudy. 2 tablespoons of leaves and grass stalks, pour 400 ml of boiling water and insist for at least an hour.
Bury the agent 1-2 drops in the eye four times a day. - Juice of lice with general weakness and lack of appetite.
Skip the greens through the blender and squeeze the juice out of it.
Drink on a spoon with honey three times or four times a day. - From edema and joint pain.
Apply to sore spots lotions with plant juice up to 4 times a day. - Remedy for sciatica.
Fill a three-liter jar with fresh lice, pour into it half a liter of vodka and add the boiling water to the full volume.
Infuse the drug three weeks, after filtering the infusion.
Take the medication before lunch( once a day).
The course of treatment is 3 weeks. - For dizziness, weakness, and anemia.
About 25 minutes, pour 1 teaspoon of bacon, filled with boiling water, and then filter.
Treated, taking 50 ml of infusion 4 times a day on an empty stomach before meals. - Treatment of sprains and bruises.
Finely chop fresh grass and put on a sore spot for 2 hours, covering it with a bandage. - With inflamed joints and pain in the spine.
A linen pouch with dry grass tied to a sore spot for the whole day.
You can also apply fresh scrambled eggs by shaking it in your hands. - Rid of pain in the stomach or intestines.
Stucca fourteen days infused in 300 ml of purified water in a dark place.
The drug is taken on an empty stomach before a meal, diluting 20 droplets of the present with a glass of water. - With heart disease and hypertension.
One and a half tablespoons of fresh scrap of scrap of lice boil with boiling water( 300 ml) and an hour to insist.
The filtered infusion of drinking 100 ml to 5 times a day before meals. - To enhance lactation.
It is useful to use a mixture of equal parts of fruit juice and honey for breastfeeding.
Take the medicine three times a day for 25-30 minutes before a meal. - Baths for allergic rash, small ulcers and boils.
400 ml of grass pour 3 liters of water, boil, then insist a couple of hours, and then add to the bath before taking it. - Lotion for skin diseases, inflamed and purulent wounds.
Pour 10 tablespoons of crushed lice with hot water( 200 ml) with a temperature of at least 80 ° C and cook for 7 minutes.
After 4 hours, the concentrated infusion is filtered and applied as a lotion.
It can also be used for soothing skin baths.
Application in cosmetology
Amazing plant is effective in skin care. Masks, compresses and baths with starch are cleaned, moistened, rejuvenated and revitalized.
The skin after these procedures becomes tender and velvety.
Recipes with the use of lice for cosmetic purposes are simple in performance and are very popular with women:
- Baths with lice.
Half a liter of finely chopped herb fried with a liter of boiling water, cover on top with a lid, leave to infuse for 20-25 minutes.
After pour the infusion into a water-filled bath and take it for about 20 minutes. - Getting rid of calluses, corns and cracks on the legs.
Snatch the lice, put it in your shoes and so go all day.
In the evening, wash your feet, lubricate them with a nutritious cream and wear cotton socks for the night.
For greater effect, this treatment procedure can be carried out 3-4 times a week. - Rejuvenating mask.
Mix a spoonful of finely chopped leaves of fresh burr and a slice of cream and honey.
Keep on the face for a quarter of an hour, and then wash off with a little warm water. - Compress with fading skin.
Soaked in a decoction of a grass a soft fabric to impose on a face skin and to put on top of it a dry towel.
After 20 minutes, remove the compress and wash. - Getting rid of acne.
To cope with acne eruptions on the skin daily cleansing with decoction of a woodworm helps.
Therapeutic diets
Miracle herbs have long been used in cooking as a source of vitamins and trace elements, and helps to get rid of spring vitamin deficiency.
It is used in vitamin salads, vegetarian borscht( botvine), drinks and even as a filling for pies.
Collect the herb for cooking, preferably before flowering, until it is soft, tender and juicy.
Several useful recipes with a liqueur:
- Vitamin drink.
250 g of fresh baked licorice and 50 grams of grated horseradish pour 2 liters of cool boiled water and infuse for 4 hours.
Next, strain and add honey to taste. - Toning cocktail.
A handful of lice, a couple of small apples, 2 peeled mandarins and 400 ml of water scrolled in a blender and poured over the glasses. - Vitamin Salad No. 1.
Finely chop the stellate, grate the carrot and grind the clove of garlic.
Ingredients of the dish should be mixed and lightly seasoned with olive oil or sour cream. - Vitamin Salad No. 2.
Grind 100 grams of cranberry and fresh beet tops, a couple of boiled eggs, a red onion, a small bunch of parsley, green onion feathers and dill.
Ingredients to mix, a little salt and pour sour cream. - Vitamin salad number 3.
Fresh green lice, boiled egg and green onion feathers cut, mix and, sprinkling with sour cream, salt.
Do not rush to get rid of a bastard in your garden! This less noticeable grass will do you good service more than once.
It will cure, feed, rejuvenate and make you once again make sure that nature is able to provide a person with everything necessary for health.In the proposed video, herbalists claim that the moccasin is akin to ginseng and is not inferior to it in its healing properties.