He is God's grass, recruiter, grandfather's beard, lake linnet, maiden beauty - these and a dozen more names were given to this by popular rumor.
The beneficial properties of loosestrife are known in modern medicine, but the plant is not used in the pharmacological industry. Let's talk about the features of this plant in more detail.
Chemical composition
The herb has a fairly extensive set of chemical components: phenolcarbonic, chlorogenic, n-coumaric, ellagic, gallic acids, anthocyanins, flavonoids.
As well as resins, essential oil, vitamin C, carotene, choline, pectin substances. The roots contain substances such as saponans. The seeds of the plant contain alkaloids and the glycoside lytrarin.
Useful properties from seeds to leaves
Plakun grass contains many useful substances, vitamins, and essential oils.
The roots contain tannins and saponins; harvesting of the medicinal herb begins in the fall. Flower panicles are rich in anthocyanins; they are prepared at the time when flower stalks bloom.
Loosestrife is known to herbalists for its medicinal properties, such as:
- antiseptic;
- hemostatic;
- general strengthening;
- wound healing;
- anti-inflammatory;
- calming.
Important! It has been noticed that if you make a pillow for sleeping, stuffed with fresh hay from the leaves and flowers of merlin, then a person will sleep calmly and relaxed.
Application of medicinal properties
- dysentery and diarrhea;
- fever and chronic stomach diseases;
- intestinal disorders and gastralgia;
- colds and gastroptosis;
- exhaustion of the body and migraines;
- toxicosis and venereal diseases.
Used as an effective first aid remedy for rabid tick bites, encephalitis ticks or snake bites.
Plakun-grass is used in various compositions of herbal teas for general depression or chronic hysterical manifestations. The medicinal properties of fresh perennial leaves are an effective blood stopper.
A piece of paper applied to a wound or cut stops bleeding after a while. If the damage to the skin is quite deep and extensive, it can be healed with better results if loosestrife leaves crushed into a pulp are applied over the open wound.
Infusion continues for 4-5 hours. It is advisable to strain the tincture before taking it. This amount of medication is taken throughout the day, one third of the total amount of liquid at one time. Treatment with derbennik infusion is continued for 5 days.
Recipe No. 1 We prepare a decoction that can be used to treat skin ulcers or open wounds. One teaspoon of dry, crushed loosestrife roots is mixed with a glass of boiling water, the mixture is brought to a boil and simmered over low heat for 10 minutes.
The saucepan with the broth is left to cool for one hour. After complete cooling, the swollen roots are removed from the broth. You can strain the medicine through several layers of gauze.
The prepared medicinal decoction is used to treat wounds (washing) several times a day. 
Recipe number 2 Infusion for migraine. The infusion is prepared as follows: one part of the dry crushed stem of the merlin is poured with 10 parts of medical alcohol, mixed thoroughly, tightly closed with a lid and placed in a dark place to infuse.
The time for infusing such an infusion varies from 5 to 6 weeks. Shake the jar of tincture thoroughly twice a week.
Use of ready-made infusion: half an hour before meals, take 30 milliliters of infusion. Since the tincture is based on alcohol, the finished medicine can be diluted with water in a ratio of one to three.
Important! Alcohol tincture not diluted with water can cause severe burns to the mucous membrane of the esophagus.
Recipe No. 3 Tincture used for diarrhea (diarrhea). Three tablespoons of dry crushed stems and leaves of weed grass are poured into a deep metal container, 200 milliliters of boiling water is added to it, and mixed.
Further preparation of the tincture occurs in a water bath for 20 minutes. The finished tincture is removed from the heat, covered with a lid and wrapped for a couple of hours for a greater concentration of the medicinal drink.
How to use the tincture: The daily dose of the medicine is 250 ml. This amount is divided into three approximately equal parts and taken 3 times a day. 
When consuming herbal medicinal infusions, the meal schedule is not taken into account, that is, you can drink the infusion before meals, after meals or during meals.
Recipe No. 4 For inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, prepare the following infusion: 1 tablespoon of dry crushed loosestrife flowers is poured into one glass of boiling water.
The cup with the infusion is covered with a saucer on top and left for an hour. The finished infusion is filtered through a strainer or gauze and taken three times before meals. One tablespoon of medicine is taken at one time.
The healing infusion is taken for a week. If the patient's condition improves earlier, taking the tincture can be stopped.
The medicinal properties of loosestrife have not been fully studied. Of course, this perennial has a lot of the advantages listed above, but it also has some contraindications. Not all people can use plakun grass for herbal treatment.
Let's take a closer look at the risk group. The plant is contraindicated for people susceptible to:
- rapid blood clotting;
- atherosclerosis;
- tendency to form blood clots;
- patients with chronic constipation (atonic or senile).
Important! For people suffering from constant high blood pressure, treatment with merlin is permitted only after detailed consultation with the attending physician. The grass can increase already high blood pressure (it contributes to the narrowing of arterial vessels) and raise it to critical levels.
Harvesting and storing grass
Since the stems and roots of the herb have healing powers, tinctures and infusions are made from all these parts. The best time to harvest
In ancient Slavic legends, many herbs were credited with miraculous properties. The most “important” ones were considered to be “plakun-grass”, “gap-grass” and, of course, the fern flower (Perunov or fire-flower).
Mother's tears and earth's sadness
They rose from the ground like a weeping flower.
Silently tears pour over the arable land
Over the dashing misfortune over yesterday.
There is a grass called weeping plant, it grows near rivers and lakes, it is tall like hemp, the color of crimson... Its flowers are like a torch, and in the morning it cries with bright tears.
Tall, slender, beautiful, with leaves similar to willow leaves. They have stomata that release excess water when humidity is high. The grass is crying! This property of the plant became the reason for its deification. The weeper not only cries, but also makes evil spirits cry.
The weeping mother of all herbs, as they say about him, the wild cornflower, and the oak tree, and the shore grass, and the blood grass, and the willow grass. He opens access to the sworn treasure, overcomes evil spirits, and makes evil spirits cry. Collect weeping grass at dawn on Midsummer's Day. And no metal! When you are going to dig, take off everything that is iron, otherwise the root will not be given to your hands and will not have the strength. They dug with a special bone stick.
And when you start digging, say: “Weeper! Plakun! You cried for a long time and a lot, but you cried a little, don’t let your tears roll across the open field, don’t let your howl spread across the blue sea. Be afraid of the evil demons, half-demons, old witches of Kyiv. If they don’t give you submission, drown them in tears, but if they run away from your disgrace, lock them in the pits of hell. May my word be strong and firm with you. Century by century!
Without a talisman made from the root of the weeping tree around the neck, not a single healer went into the field and forest to collect herbs. Not a single treasure hunter went out without it, for he might not return, because he had no protection from the evil spirits guarding the treasures.
The mother of all herbs, she saved the ancient Slavs not only from the bite of snakes and rabid animals, but also from the machinations of kikimoras, goblins and other evil spirits. The root was especially prized.
Loosestrife, weeping grass, is a perennial herbaceous plant with thick, woody roots. The stem is 50-150 cm in height, erect, like the opposite ones, or in whorls of 3, rarely 4, the upper ones are alternate; all leaves are sessile, almost heart-shaped at the base, and pointed at the apex. The flowers are crimson, on peduncles, collected by whorls at the top of the stem and lateral branches into long intermittent racemose-spike-shaped inflorescences. The fruit is an oval capsule, 1.5-2 times shorter than the calyx. It blooms in July - August.
The Old Russian “derba”, which gives the plant its name, means a damp deposit covered with moss. So it is: loosestrife prefers moist but bright places. Most often it can be found along the banks of reservoirs or in swampy meadows, among bushes, in damp forests and on their edges, in crops on drained peat bogs. It is found quite often, in some places it forms thickets.
Distributed in the European part, Siberia, the Far East, and Central Asia.
Commonly, loosestrife is called weeping grass. And there is an explanation for this. The plant is characterized by unusual behavior: during periods of heavy dew or rain, large drops collect at the tips of the leaves, which then flow down like tears. So it seems like a flower is crying and can’t calm down.
Preparation and collection.
The above-ground part of the plant should be harvested before the plant blooms, and the roots - in the fall. But there is a special day when you are allowed to do both - on Ivan Kupala at dawn.
However, since the root is mainly collected, when planning large harvests it is necessary to take measures to preserve natural thickets, as well as cultivate this plant. All parts of the merlin are used for medicinal purposes. The roots are carefully dug up, and the tops of the stems with flowers are cut off with scissors.
The raw materials are dried in the attic, spread out in a thin layer or hung in small bunches, crushed and stored in paper bags.
Useful properties of merlin.
Loosestrife contains flavonoids, polyphenol, glucosides, tannins (tannins), phenolcarboxylic acids, essential oil, and vitamins. The roots contain tannins and saponins, the seeds contain an alkaloid, the glycoside lytrarin; in the grass - the glycoside salikarin, traces of essential oil, resin, tannins, but in smaller quantities than in the roots; in flowers - flavones and anthocyanins.
Derbennik has antiseptic, hemostatic, restorative, wound-healing, anti-inflammatory and calming effects. If you fill your pillow with the leaves and flowers of the plant, your sleep will be deep and restful.
Use of loosestrife
The leaves, roots, seeds and flowers of the herb are used for medicinal purposes.
Used for colds, general weakness, diseases nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, with bleeding, ulcers, indigestion, noise in the head, epilepsy. For this purpose, decoctions, infusions and tea are used. Dry inflorescences and leaves are added to herbal teas. Derbennik gives them a pleasant astringent (tea) taste.
Polyphenols contained in the plant help in the treatment of venous insufficiency; tannins weaken the effect of alkaloids and heavy metal salts, temporarily precipitating and binding them. To completely remove the resulting toxic sediment, further medical intervention is required.
A decoction of the roots helps well with diseases of the upper respiratory tract, cramps, headaches and toxicosis in pregnant women.
A water decoction is drunk for stomach pain, female diseases, uterine bleeding, as a diuretic, for diseases caused by lifting heavy objects; bathe emaciated children in the broth; drink a decoction or eat the root with bread, sour milk when bitten by rabid animals and snakes;
Infusions from the aerial part improve the patient's condition with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, prostatitis, hemorrhoids, rheumatism, epilepsy, and nervousness.
Infusions can also be used externally, using them for varicose ulcers and eczema, bruises and wounds. Tea made from the roots and flowers of loosestrife relieves headaches.
Decoction loosestrife: 1 tablespoon of chopped fresh herb needs to be poured with a glass of boiled water and placed in a “steam bath” for 10-15 minutes. The mixture should brew for 45 minutes and only after that the broth should be filtered. Take the decoction warm, 1/4 cup (50 mg) 3 times a day.
Another decoction recipe: 1 tbsp. l. fresh merlin grass, pour 200 ml of water, bring to a boil, leave for 15 minutes, strain, take 1/4 cup 3 times a day. Helps with uterine bleeding, fibroids.
Infusion: 2-3 tablespoons of dry crushed loosestrife herb are poured with a glass of boiling water, left for four hours and filtered. The resulting infusion is taken 50 mg (1/4 cup) 3 times a day. Helps with colds, prostatitis, and colitis.
Use of loosestrife in folk medicine.
Loosestrife acts as an astringent and anti-inflammatory for diarrhea, dysentery, and chronic catarrh of the stomach and intestines. In medical practice it is used as an astringent. The pulp from the fresh plant is used as a poultice for bleeding wounds.
In folk medicine, the root is also used; in its absence, the herb is used. a tincture of the roots in vodka is drunk for stomach pain, colds, and headaches; they make lotions for bruises, drink a decoction of the whole herb for noise in the head; epilepsy.
Like every medicinal product, loosestrife has its contraindications. It should not be used in patients with increased blood clotting; it is contraindicated in cases of atherosclerosis and a tendency to thrombus formation. With great caution and only after consultation with a doctor, the plant can be used by hypertensive patients, since the herb leads to vasoconstriction. As a result, the pressure may rise even more. (c)
Weeping grass or loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) is a herbaceous plant of the perennial genus; it has a long and straight stem up to 120 cm high. The leaves of this plant are elongated and pointed towards the tips. The leaves grow in bunches of three. Plakun flowers are small, mostly with 6 petals, beautiful bright red or crimson colors, they grow along the entire stem in the form of a spike. The fruit of the flower has an ovary resembling a capsule, where the seeds are placed. Plakun blooms in mid-July, and the fruits begin to appear in the month of August.
This plant can be found in almost all regions of the European part of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Because this plant prefers more moisture and a lot of light, it can probably be seen near bodies of water, in a swamp, next to lakes and ditches. Plakun can grow on the same soil for many years and is not afraid of winter frosts. In Russia, about 15 species of weeping grass are counted. Drops of juice are dripped onto the ground from the narrow leaves of the grass, as if the Mother of God cannot calm down from grief, and the grass is crying with her. When Jesus Christ was crucified, the Holy Mother of God, crying, rushed to the Jordan River, dropping her tears on this grass. Since then, transparent droplets have been dripping from the long spike-shaped panicles of crimson flowers.
Harvesting and storage of weeping grass
It is most favorable to collect the raw materials of Plakun-grass during its flowering (the second half of July) on the holiday of Ivan Kupala, immediately at dawn. The top part of the plant is cut off and dried in a darkened room (possibly in attics). The plant needs to be spread out in a thin layer or suspended from the ceiling with not very large brooms. After drying, the raw material is crushed into dust and stored in paper bags. The roots of these plants can be dug out of the ground by the end of September or beginning of October.
Use in everyday life
All varieties of loosestrife are attractive to bees and butterflies. It is an excellent honey plant. Derbennik honey is dark amber, very aromatic, with a spicy tart aftertaste. In warm weather, loosestrife flowers produce nectar throughout the day, and 100 flowers of the plant produce nectar containing 18 mg of sugar per day.
Juices from fresh grass Plakun grass are used to impregnate fishing nets to protect them from rotting.
The roots of the plant are used to tan and dye leather brown.
Flowers can be used by confectioners as a natural food coloring for their products.
It is recommended to cut a cross from weeping grass and wear it around your neck. The fact is that crosses have been a powerful symbol of strength since ancient times. And if any plant endowed with magical powers is clothed in the shape of a cross, its protective ability increases several times.
Composition and medicinal properties of plakun-herb
- The roots of the plant have a large amount of saponin and 9% of such beneficial tannins. From the part of Plakun that is located above the ground, essential oils, resins, many types of acids and 1.5% tannins are extracted. Merlin leaves are very rich in vitamin C and phenolcarboxylic acid. The flowers also contain vitamins C, 10% tannins, flavonoid 3,5-diglucoside myricitin, 3-monogalactoside cyanidin.
- Preparations using Plakun herbs have wound healing, analgesic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and astringent effects. Decoctions from this plant have a strong diuretic effect - they are used during swelling and kidney diseases.
- This remedy is indispensable for food poisoning and hangover syndrome.
- The strongest anti-inflammatory and binding effect helps in the treatment of diseases of the digestive tract: diarrhea, dysentery, gastritis of the stomach and intestines. This remedy is excellent for colds, fever and diseases of the reproductive system.
- Raw materials Plakun-herbs are used for treatment severe pain in the head, sexually transmitted problems and toxicosis during pregnancy.
The use of plakun-herbs in folk medicine
The plant is widely used in folk medicine. It has an astringent, anti-inflammatory, wound-healing, analgesic, anticonvulsant, hemostatic, restorative and tonic effect.
Infusion of the herb loosestrife for nervous system disorders
One spoon of finely gutted grass, steamed with 2 cups of boiled water, then infused for 4 hours and filtered through a cheesecloth.
Drink a similar decoction 4 times a day before meals, 75 ml.
Tincture from the root of Plakun-herb during an exacerbation of hemorrhoids
In a glass of water, add 1 tsp of chopped plant roots. Boil for 5 minutes, after this process you need to let it sit for 1 hour.
Take a decoction of 50 g three times a day before meals.
Infusion of loosestrife flowers for migraines, diarrhea and stomach pain
Cover a tablespoon of dried and gutted flowers with 1 glass of water, boil for exactly 5 minutes, then leave for 1 hour and strain.
You need to take 1-2 teaspoons of the tincture 3 times a day before meals.
- In 200 g of water, you need to brew half a teaspoon of dried and crushed herbs. Leave for 4 hours and strain. Take this decoction, 50 ml 3 times a day before meals. After 2 weeks of taking the medicinal decoction, you can increase its saturation to 2 tablespoons per 1 glass of water.
- Alcohol tincture - to prepare a tincture, you need to take 50 g of dry herb and pour 0.5 liters of vodka or diluted alcohol. The infusion should be stored for 2 weeks. Take 30 drops 3 times a day before meals. The course of treatment lasts 4 months.
Cover 2 tablespoons of the herb with 1 liter of water and boil in a water bath for 15 minutes. Then the broth is cooled and filtered. Take 3 times a day before meals, 1 glass.
Tincture of loosestrife herb for eczema, purulent wounds and other skin diseases
Two tablespoons of dry crushed herb, pour a glass of boiling water and leave for 30 minutes, strain. Take 4-5 times a day before meals, 75 g.
Tea made from loosestrife tea for high fatigue, weakened mental and physical abilities
Brew a few pinches of chopped herbs with boiling water and drink as tea as much as you want. Be healthy.
Contraindications for use
A tincture prepared from Plakun-herb raw materials will not be useful for taking for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, especially for senile constipation.
Since the plant significantly constricts blood vessels, you should carefully monitor your blood pressure while taking medicinal herbal formulations.
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Plakun (grass) - description, beneficial properties, application
Plakun is a perennial herbaceous plant that has an erect tetrahedral stem that can reach a height of up to 150 cm. It is distinguished by a creeping woody rhizome and has a beautiful lilac-colored inflorescence in the form of a spike, which is located in the leaf axils. The leaves of the weeping plant are lanceolate in shape, green in summer and red in autumn.
Description of the crybaby
The plant likes to grow in sunny places with moist soil. It begins to bloom in mid-summer, its flowers are bright in color, so bees and butterflies love to pollinate them.
Plakun flowers are very beautiful; pink and purple inflorescences settle on a straight, tall stem, which can be used for decorative purposes.
Especially useful is honey, which is collected from the weeping tree; it is amber in color and has a specific taste. At the end of summer, the fruits are ready - an oblong round box containing a large number of small size seeds.
One of the common species is the willow weed, it is a perennial plant, has a straight dark green stem, can reach a height of up to 100 cm. It is distinguished by opposite leaves that are elongated and pointed. Small flowers can be collected in spike-shaped panicles. Plakun fruits are bicuspid capsules. This species begins to bloom at the beginning of summer or at the end. You can meet him in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia. The drugs are used by traditional healers. With the help of the willow weed, you can strengthen, tone the body, stop the inflammatory process, heal wounds, get rid of pain, it is one of the best astringents and hemostatic agents. Based on it, infusions and decoctions are prepared, they are used to treat enterocolitis, chronic colitis, stop bleeding, and it alleviates symptoms of various diseases of the nervous system, typhoid, and epileptic seizures. It is also recommended to use it externally in the form of lotions, ointments and poultices, in cases of varicose veins and various forms of sexually transmitted diseases. In ancient times, this type of herb was used to treat snake bites and rabies.
Useful properties of plakun
The plant has a rich composition - tannin, phenalcarboxylic acid, essential oil, resin, vitamins, flavonoids, and also contains a large number of alkaloids. Plakun root is rich in substances such as saponins, flowers are rich in anthocyanin.
Flowers, roots and leaves are used for medicinal purposes. The grass is collected before it begins to bloom; the roots must be harvested in the fall. It is important to dry all collected raw materials in a well-ventilated room; the storage area should be dark and dry.
Application of the plakun
With the help of this type of plant you can stop extensive bleeding, relieve inflammation, this remedy perfectly tones the entire body. An infusion based on flowers is used to treat dysentery and diarrhea. A decoction or infusion with the addition of weeping leaves will help relieve symptoms that are characteristic of epilepsy, relieve nervous system disorders, cure rheumatism, gastrointestinal diseases, and hemorrhoids. Plakun is used in dry form; it has been used for a long time to cause insomnia.
It is especially good to treat uterine bleeding, enteritis, gastritis, and colds with a decoction of plakun. The plant will effectively cure diseases of the heart and blood vessels, cleanse the skin of dermatitis and eczema. In order for wounds to heal quickly and painlessly, you need to make a paste based on fresh herbs, then apply it to the affected area. If a strong fever is bothering you, the person will become weak, you need to take herbal tea.
Plakun has a beneficial effect on the brain; if you are bitten by a dangerous encephalitis tick, you can use the plant to get rid of swelling. To prepare an infusion based on plakun, you will need dry herb - 10 grams, a glass of boiling water, leave everything for up to 4 hours, strain. Take orally three times a day.
Due to the fact that weeping flowers contain substances such as carotene and pectin, you can use them to make tea, which can be used to cure headaches. Infusions and decoctions based on flowers should be used for gastric ulcers and intestinal problems. In cooking, some use them as a dye.
The root, color, seeds, leaves of the plakun are used for the inflammatory process in the upper respiratory tract, convulsive conditions, severe headaches, toxicosis during pregnancy. With the help of infusions using the aerial part, you can cure hemorrhoids, stomach, intestines, prostatitis, epilepsy, rheumatism, and get rid of increased irritability.
The plant contains a large amount of polyphenols, which are useful for venous diseases, and tannin, which can be used to remove heavy metals from the human body.
Contraindications to the use of plakun
Please note that this type of plant is not toxic. But it is not recommended to use it if a person has high blood clotting and is prone to the formation of blood clots. Those who have problems with the stomach, intestines, and are often bothered by atonic constipation should be careful when using the drug. Medicines based on plakun have a vasoconstrictor effect; those who suffer from hypertension are prohibited from using it; even if a person takes them, they must constantly monitor their blood pressure. In no case should you use products with plakun during pregnancy or lactation.
Thus, plakun is one of the best antiseptic, restorative, hemostatic, wound-healing, sedative, and anti-inflammatory drugs. With its help you can heal almost the entire body. But when using it, it is very important to take into account medical recommendations, all contraindications and side effects.
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Plakun
The second name of the herb is loosestrife. It is a perennial plant with a straight stem that grows up to 120 centimeters. Its leaves are pointed at the tips. They grow in bunches, three in each. The flowers are small, bright red, growing in spikes along the entire stem. The fruit of the plant is a capsule with seeds. Merlin blooms in July. Its fruits appear in August. Meet medicinal plant possible in Ukraine, Belarus, and the European part of Russia. It loves moist soil, light, and is not afraid of frost.
Today there are 15 species of weeping grass.
Juice always drips from its flowers, as if the grass is crying. This is where the name of the plant comes from. There is a legend about this that says that these are the tears of the Virgin Mary. She cried when Jesus Christ was crucified. Out of grief, tears fell precisely on this grass, which grew near the Jordan River. Since then it has been called weeping grass.
Raw materials are collected during flowering, in the second half of July. This is done at dawn, cutting off the top part of the plant and drying it in a dark room or in the attic. You can hang bunches of tied branches. After complete drying, the medicinal raw materials are completely crushed and transferred to paper bags.
As for harvesting the plakun roots, they are dug by the end of September. Cut into pieces, dry in electric dryers, and store in paper containers. The shelf life of medicinal raw materials of loosestrife is 24 months.
Use in everyday life
All types of weeping grass are attractive to bees. The plant is an excellent honey plant. It produces aromatic dark amber honey with a tart flavor.
The juice of fresh grass is used to impregnate fishing gear. This protects them from damage and rotting. Plakun roots are a means for tanning leather. They are used to dye fabrics brown.
The flowers of the plant are used in the confectionery industry.
Composition and medicinal properties
The roots are rich in saponins and tannins. Essential oils, acids, resins, and tannins are extracted from the aerial parts of the grass. The leaves are rich in ascorbic acid and flavonoids.
Preparations based on plakun grass have wound-healing, analgesic, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties. Decoctions of the plant produce a diuretic effect. They are used for kidney diseases.
Plakun is used in the treatment of food poisoning. Its anti-inflammatory properties help in the treatment of diseases of the digestive tract, in particular diarrhea, gastritis, and dysentery. Plakun grass is used to treat diseases of the genitourinary system, headaches, sexually transmitted diseases, and toxicosis of pregnant women.
The use of plakun-herbs in folk medicine: recipes
The plant has long been used by traditional healers, who have accumulated extensive experience in its use in the treatment of various ailments. Try the best of the plakun-based recipes:
- Infusion for nervous system disorders. Grind a teaspoon of herbs, pour 400 grams of boiling water, leave for 2 hours, strain, consume 70 grams 4 times a day at the beginning of meals.
- An infusion of the roots of the plakun herb for the treatment of hemorrhoids. It is necessary to boil a teaspoon of plant roots in a glass of water for five minutes. The liquid is infused for an hour, strained, and consumed 50 grams three times a day 40 minutes before each meal.
- Infusion of loosestrife flowers for diarrhea and stomach pain. Boil a tablespoon of dried flowers for 2-3 minutes in a glass of water, leave for 60 minutes, filter, drink a tablespoon 3-4 times a day between meals.
- Decoction of plakun-herb for uterine bleeding. Brew a teaspoon of chopped dry herbs in a glass of water. The infusion should be taken after infusing for an hour and filtering, 50 grams at the beginning of each meal.
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The use of loosestrife in folk medicine: medicinal properties and contraindications
IN last years Traditional medicine is becoming increasingly popular. Many people today refuse chemical drugs, preferring herbs. Indeed, some plants are not only not inferior to traditional drugs, but also have a greater healing effect.
These include loosestrife (or weeping grass), the medicinal properties of which allow you to get rid of many ailments.
Chemical composition of merlin
Merlin is valued for its chemical composition, which includes many benefits for human body substances. So, weeping grass contains:
All these components enhance the actions of each other, which ensures the maximum therapeutic effect of the merlin. Did you know? The loosestrife received its second name due to the fact that on the back of the leaves it has depressions to remove excess moisture. And sometimes it seems as if the grass is crying.
Medicinal properties of merlin
The herb, due to its unique composition, has the following beneficial properties:
- painkillers;
- anti-inflammatory;
- antibacterial;
- sweatshops;
- hemostatic;
- diuretics;
- wound healing;
- tonic;
- astringent.
Important! The healing properties of loosestrife are recognized only by traditional healers. Official medicine does not consider this plant to be medicinal and does not include plakun grass in the register of medicinal herbs.
Collection, preparation and storage of medicinal raw materials
Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), description beneficial properties which can be listed for a very long time, is a perennial plant. It can grow anywhere, but prefers moist places and sunny meadows. It blooms in June and the fruits ripen in late summer.
All parts of the derbennik are used to prepare decoctions and tinctures:
- roots;
- leaves;
- seeds;
- flowers.
Store dry material in linen bags in a dark, dry place for no longer than two years. Herbalists also use fresh loosestrife herb. Did you know? Only once, on Ivan Kupala, can both the tops and roots of the described grass be harvested at the same time.
Use of loosestrife in folk medicine: home remedies
Plakun grass has found wide use in alternative medicine. Infusions and decoctions are prepared from various parts of this plant. Merlin helps with rheumatism, inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa, tonsillitis, nervous and venereal diseases. Children prone to overexcitement are bathed in baths with a decoction of weeping grass.
Did you know? Since ancient times, loosestrife has been used as an antidote for bites of snakes and animals infected with rabies.
Dry herb infusion
When taken systematically, an infusion of dry herbs helps reduce the size of hernias. To prepare it, take 60 g of loosestrife, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water and leave for four hours. Before use, filter and drink 50 ml three times a day. You can add the infusion to the bath. 
For insomnia, nervous disorders and depression, dry weeping grass is placed under the pillow.
This is what people call loosestrife, otherwise known as weeping grass. Surely many of you have seen this plant, but simply did not know that it was a loosestrife. On its tall stems there are long crimson clusters. And from the tips of the leaves, similar to willow leaves, droplets of moisture flow down, their dripping intensifies before the rain. They can fall quietly, like tears, even on sunny days.
According to , weeping grass relieves diseases, frightens evil spirits, making demons and witches cry. In the old days, there was a special prayer for digging up the root of the weeping grass. It had special power if dug up at the dawn of Midsummer. It was necessary to dig with a bone shovel, because any metal object negated the magical power of the root. It was also believed that weeping grass helps to find treasures and drives away kikimora. And if you put the root of the house, it will drive out the unfriendly bannik and the brownie. If they suit the owners, then the root should not be placed in the bathhouse and at home, but stored, for example, in a barn. They also believed that the grass of loosestrife, carried with oneself, conquers all spirits.
And according to the biblical legend, the weeping grass grew from the tears of the Mother of God when she sobbed, looking at her son on the cross: “When... Christ was crucified, his most pure blood was shed. Then the Most Holy Theotokos, after her son, dropped tears on the mother’s damp earth... And from those tears the Weeping Grass was born... From the Weeping Grass demons and sorcerers cry, it humbles the power of the enemy, destroys evil sorcery, drives away lessons and influx from a person.”
And according to another legend, the merlin grew from abandoned Cossack torches. These torches were in the hands of the free Volga and Don Cossacks, who walked along the rivers in skiffs and plows. Sailing far out to sea, the Cossacks often returned to the shore at night. When the sky was clear and cloudless, the Cossacks navigated by the stars, but when the stars were not visible in the sky, they lit torches to attract the attention of the lighthouse on duty and avoid collisions with reefs. With these torches in their hands, the Cossacks went ashore and threw them right there on the ground. And the torches sprouted purple flowers. Flowers mourn parting with the Cossacks, therefore, during heavy dew, transparent tears drip from the flowers.
The scientific name for loosestrife is Lythrum, meaning “clotted blood.” Common names: wild cornflowers, shag, loosestrife, willow-grass, water squeak, hardwood, troichak, dubnik, coaster.
Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria - is a perennial herbaceous plant from the loosestrife family. The loosestrife has a thick, woody root. The stem is straight, ribbed, 50-100 cm high, covered with stiff hairs. The leaves of the loosestrife are divided into lower ones, arranged in threes in a whorl, middle ones - oval, with a blunt apex, and apical leaves with an elongated apex. All leaves are covered, like the stem, with stiff hairs.
The deep lilac or purple petals consist of six petals and are collected in long inflorescences at the ends of stems and branches. Merlin blooms in July-August. Bees and butterflies always circle above it, since the weeping grass is an excellent honey plant. On fine summer days, the loosestrife produces abundant nectar from morning to evening; 100 flowers of the plant produce nectar containing 18 mg of sugar per day. Derbennikovy has a unique pleasant taste with a slight tartness, a delicate aroma and a dark amber or golden-green color. Some beekeepers specifically transport hives closer to places where loosestrife blooms en masse.
The fruits of the loosestrife are oblong-oval, are two-locular capsules 3-4 cm long, and ripen in August-September.
There are more than 15 species of loosestrife in Russia, but the most famous and most often seen is the loosestrife. It grows almost throughout Russia, including in Siberia, the Far East, the Caucasus along the banks of rivers, lakes, in ravines, in swampy meadows, on the edges of forests, among bushes in damp places, in alder thickets, in crops and on drained peatlands. It often grows in whole clumps and has a very beautiful appearance. In general, loosestrife is an ornamental plant, so summer residents began to quite often plant it on their plots in moist places.
Merlin is also a medicinal plant. For medicinal purposes, the herb loosestrife (stems, leaves, flowers) is used, which is harvested during flowering, and the roots, which are dug up in the fall. The roots of the derbennik contain: saponins and tannins. The aerial part of the plant contains: vitamin C, carotene, glucose, glycosides salikarin, litrin, tannins, essential oil, mucilage, resin. The following were found in the seeds: alkaloids, glycoside litrerin.
Preparations from loosestrife have: anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, analgesic, wound-healing, diuretic, astringent properties.
In folk medicine, decoctions and infusions of loosestrife are used for dysentery, chronic catarrh of the stomach and intestines, fever, gastralgia, colic, gastroptosis, colds, headaches, general weakness, as an antidote for bites of rabid animals and snakes, and for venereal diseases. Derbennik is used in homeopathy. By the way, herbal tea is effective for bad mood, hysteria, and depression. For nervous diseases, a decoction of the weeping herb is added to baths, and children are bathed in it for convulsions and various external bleedings. Fresh crushed leaves of the weed grass are applied to cuts and wounds.
For weakness and nervousness
Brew ½ teaspoon of crushed dry grass of loosestrife with 1 cup of boiling water, leave in a thermos for 3 hours, cool, strain, take ¼ cup 3 times a day before meals.
For diarrhea and stomach pain
1 tbsp. pour 1 cup of boiling water over a spoonful of dry crushed herbs, leave for 1 hour, strain, take 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day before meals.
For headaches
1 tbsp. pour a spoonful of herbs into 2 cups of boiling water, leave in a thermos for 4 hours, strain. Take 2 tbsp. spoons 3 times a day before meals.
You cannot use merlin preparations for hypertension, high blood clotting, a tendency to thrombosis, or for gastrointestinal diseases with atonic constipation.
In the old days, fishermen soaked their nets with a decoction of grass and weeping plant roots so that they would not rot for a long time and would serve reliably.
Animals do not eat loosestrife, but confectioners used juice from the weeping grass to color baked goods.
It is recommended to place grass at the head of the bed for capricious children who often cry and sleep poorly. Magicians recommend that adults carry weeping grass with them in the form of an amulet; it protects against accidents, slander, unkind people and negative energy. Merlin flowers on the plot and in a vase bring peace and trusting relationships between household members to the house.
Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), or Plakun-grass, is a plant of the Loosestrife family (Lytraceae) characterized by a rather wide range of names. In Dahl's dictionary: water squeak, wild cornflowers, bloodwort, shag, dubnik, boletus, recruiter.
The plant's generic Latin name comes from Greek and means "shed coagulated blood"; the plant has hemostatic properties.
The specific name is derived from the Latin salix ("willow") and is given for the similarity of the leaves of willow and loosestrife.
Description of weeping grass
Perennial herbaceous plant with straight, faceted stems. The leaves are lanceolate, sessile, whorled and opposite. The flowers are small, beautiful, purple, collected in a long thick spike-shaped panicle. The calyx of flowers is long, tubular, twelve-toothed. Height up to 90 cm. 
Weeping grass is common in Ukraine, Belarus, the European part of Russia (all regions), in Western Siberia(all regions, Ob (southwest), in Eastern Siberia (Yenisei, Angara-Sayan (very rare), in the Far East (Amur, Primorsky regions, Sakhalin, Kuriles), in the Caucasus, in Central Asia. Grows along the banks of shallow water rivers, in the coastal strip among aquatic vegetation or willow thickets, in water meadows, sedge swamps, rice fields, sometimes on the sand near the seashore, singly or in groups.
WEEPING GRASS. PERENNIAL MUSLAINS WILL NOT GO UNNOTICED IN THE GARDEN
Article from the newspaper: AiF at Dacha No. 17 09/10/2015
Merlin is an amazingly beautiful and extremely resilient ornamental perennial. His presence in the garden will not go unnoticed.
Loosestrife. Decoration and healing properties
Reproduction
Merlin is propagated by dividing the bush, root cuttings, and seeds. The bush is divided in spring or autumn. The rhizome of adult plants becomes woody, so a shovel or an ax is used to divide it. The cuttings are planted immediately in a permanent place. When planting, organic fertilizers are applied. After planting the weevil, the grass is watered.
Sowing of seeds is carried out in March for seedlings or in the fall, before winter. Merlin reproduces well by self-sowing. The seeds are distributed over the surface of a loose substrate and lightly sprinkled with earth. Then the crops are sprayed with a spray bottle and covered with film or glass. Seeds are germinated at a temperature of about 15-18 degrees. At the stage of 2-3 true leaves, the seedlings dive into separate containers. IN open ground seedlings are planted after the threat of frost has passed. Young plants are planted at a distance of 35 cm from each other. Flowering when propagated by seeds begins in 2-3 years.
The herb loosestrife (stems, leaves, flowers) and rhizomes are used for medicinal purposes. The grass is harvested during flowering, rhizomes in autumn.
Tannins of 3-4% and saponins (traces) were found in the rhizomes of the weeping grass. In the aerial part of the plant, glycosides salikarin, litrin, tannins, vitamin C, essential oil, mucilage, resin, glucose, and carotene were found. The seeds contain alkaloids, the glycoside litrerin.
Application and beneficial properties
Plakun grass has found its use in epilepsy, nervous diseases, depression, and schizophrenia. Treats loosestrife consequences of venous insufficiency, radiation, arachnoiditis (cystic, too). The plant has diaphoretic, astringent, analgesic, anticonvulsant, wound-healing, hemostatic, tonic, and general strengthening effects.
An infusion of herbs and loosestrife flowers is used externally for eczema and other diseases. A decoction of loosestrife is used as a diuretic and drunk for uterine bleeding.
Plakun grass is used for rheumatism, headaches, colds, cough, diarrhea (dysentery), hemorrhoids. Loosestrife is effective for female infertility.
Purulent wounds are washed with the infusion of the herb, and lotions are made with the infusion for eczema, varicose ulcers, and panaritium. For any hernias, take the infusion orally (reduces the growth of hernias).
For those with hypertension and heart problems, dry grass and flowers are added to herbal teas. Such drinks are especially useful for people suffering from insomnia and vegetative-vascular dystonia; they are very calming.
Plakun-grass enjoyed great success among the Slavs. With a wooden spatula they dug up (always at dawn) the root, which they then carried to the temple, and asked the weeping grass for help in expelling the evil force that made the children shake in convulsions.
Weeping willow is quite widely used in folk medicine. The plant has an astringent, diaphoretic, anticonvulsant, analgesic, hemostatic, wound-healing effect and general strengthening, tonic properties. An infusion or decoction of the herb is used for dysentery, diarrhea, chronic intestinal catarrh, as an analgesic for stomach pain and as a hemostatic agent for various bleedings. The herbal infusion is also taken orally for colds, diseases accompanied by a feverish state, and general weakness of the body.
In Azerbaijan, a decoction of herbs with flowers is also used for nervous diseases. Externally, a decoction of the herb is used to bathe small children during cramps and to wash to stop external bleeding. Crushed leaves are applied to cuts and wounds to stop bleeding for rapid healing.
Contraindications
Like every medicinal product, loosestrife has its contraindications. It should not be used in patients with increased blood clotting; it is contraindicated in cases of atherosclerosis and a tendency to thrombus formation. Neither tinctures, nor decoctions, nor fresh herbs are categorically recommended for elderly people with atonic or senile constipation. Hypertensive patients can use it with great caution and only after consulting a doctor, since the herb leads to vasoconstriction. As a result, the pressure may rise even more.
Merlin is a wild plant, but it can be grown in flower beds, near a pond and in the garden. Most often, willow and twig-like loosestrife are planted for decorative purposes, differing in stem height and flower color. Quite often they are used in group plantings; they are valued for their long-lasting abundant flowering and unpretentiousness.
They go well with such perennial plants as mantle, elecampane, meadowsweet, Volzhanka, and loosestrife.
Moist soils rich in humus are best suited for loosestrife. It also loves sunny places; in the shade its flowering will not be so bright and abundant. Acidic substrates are exactly what is necessary for plant growth, so when planting loosestrife in the soil, it would be a good idea to dilute it with high-moor peat - up to 10 buckets per 1 m2. This mixture will not only supply the plants with nutrients, but will also retain moisture well during the hot season.
PLAKUN - GRASS sings Olga Kuzmicheva
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Slideshow based on the poems of E. Erofeeva-Litvinskaya "PLAKUN-TRAVA". Author-performer of the song Olga Kuzmicheva.
Author Maya Argamakova