Highlander rough- an annual herbaceous plant 10-80 cm high. The stem is erect, ascending or recumbent, branched, with several swollen nodes. The leaves are short-petiolate, lanceolate, usually with a reniform, dark spot at the base.
The inflorescences are apical, spike-shaped, the flowers are greenish or pink, with a 5-lobed perianth. Stamens 5-6. Pedicels and perianth covered with yellow glands. Fruit- laterally compressed nuts.
blooms summer.
It is found everywhere in Russia (except the Arctic), in Ukraine, in Belarus.
Grows on sandbanks, along river banks, along ditches, wastelands, dumps and roadsides. Common field weed.
For medicinal purposes use grass. The herb contains tannins, gallic acid and hydroxy methylanthraquinones.
It has been experimentally established that it exhibits antibacterial activity against Flexner's dysentery bacillus.
In some countries, mountaineer rough is used in scientific medicine for bleeding and constipation, and for hemorrhoids.
A decoction, an infusion of herbs is taken for diarrhea, bleeding, menstrual irregularities, pulmonary tuberculosis, hemorrhoids, rheumatism, colds, aches, gout, eczema, scrofula, jaundice, as a diuretic.
Roots in the form of a decoction are used in Tibetan medicine for cholecystitis, gastrointestinal diseases. Tested as a hemostatic agent, effective in hemorrhoidal bleeding.
Methods of preparation and use:
1. 2 tablespoons of chopped herbs per 200 ml of boiling water, leave for 1 hour, strain. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3 times a day.
2. Tincture: 15 g of chopped herbs per 200 ml of vodka, leave for 5-7 days. Take 30-40 drops 2 times a day with water.
3. 10 g of the collection of mountaineer rough, St. John's wort, plowed harrow (15 g each), large plantain leaves, medicinal chamomile flowers, horsetail herb, cudweed, brittle buckthorn bark (10 g each) per 200 ml of boiling water, insist 3- 4 hours, strain. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day for hemorrhoids.
Latin name: Polygonum scabrum Moench.
Description
Belongs to the buckwheat family. The weed is ubiquitous. It clogs all crops, especially tilled crops, cereals, flax. Grows profusely in moist soils.
Rod root. The stem is erect, branched, with swollen nodes, 30 ... 100 cm high. The leaves are alternate, lanceolate. The flowers are greenish, collected in dense spiky racemes. The fruit is a compressed nutlet, without perianth, brown and dark brown. Up to 7000 seeds are formed on one plant. In grain crops, the seeds ripen simultaneously, in tilled crops, before harvesting and fall into the soil, where they remain viable for up to 6-9 years. Seeds have a long dormant period, have an extended germination period. The minimum temperature for germination is 4...6°C. Seeds germinate from a depth of no more than 6...7 cm. Shoots of weeds appear relatively early. Cotyledons 8...12 long, 2.5...4 mm wide, oblong.
Control measures
For the fight, it is necessary to use agrotechnical methods - peeling after harvesting the predecessor and plowing with plows with skimmers. Pre-sowing tillage is an effective method of destroying seedlings of this weed. Of the herbicides, mixtures are used - dialen, diamet D, diaprene, lontrel, as well as soil herbicides - simazine, atrazine, prometrin, semeron, eradican. This weed is resistant to widespread herbicides of the 2,4-D group.
Highlander rough is a perennial herb of the buckwheat family with a knotty, twisted root. The stem is twisted, can lie on the ground or rise up to a height of up to 60 centimeters, has a length of several knots. The leaves can be either elliptical or linear-lanceolate in shape with dark veins at the base of the leaf. Flowers may be whitish, with a pink tint, sometimes greenish. Spike inflorescences emerge from the base of the upper leaf. Blooms from early summer. Distributed throughout Europe, Siberia, the Far East. It prefers to settle on moist soils along the banks of rivers and lakes, it is widely distributed as a weed in cultivated crops. Collect and use the grass of the mountaineer rough from mid-summer, after the start of flowering. Sometimes they confuse the mountaineer rough with the mountaineer kidney for their identical spike-shaped inflorescences. The collected grass is dried in natural conditions under sheds and stored in a dark container. The moisture content of the raw material should not exceed 14 %.
Chemical composition
Grass mountaineer rough contains tannins, pectins, alkaloids, tannin, gallic and silicic acid, oxymethylanthraquinones, avicularin, vitamin C, mucus, traces of essential oils, wax.
Application
Preparations of the mountaineer rough are used as a good diuretic for edema of the limbs of various origins, due to the presence of astringents, they are used for. The blood-clotting properties of the mountaineer rough are used in the treatment of scrofula and to regulate discharge during menstruation.
Decoctions and tinctures are used for diarrhea, internal bleeding, for the prevention of rheumatic diseases, gout, as a diaphoretic used for colds, skin diseases - eczema, dermatitis, liver diseases, scrofula, jaundice.
The root of the mountaineer rough is used very rarely, mainly in Altai and Tibet. There, its decoctions are used for diseases of the pancreas, lesions of the stomach and intestines.
Application methods
Decoction : four bags of herbs at 200.0, cook for 5 minutes, leave for 4 hours.
Infusion: two sachets of herbs for 200.0 alcohol, insist 6 days, take drop by drop.
Extract: thicken the broth by half.
is one of the plants of the family called buckwheat, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Polygonum scarbrum Moench. As for the name of the buckwheat family, in Latin it will be like this: Polygonaceae Juss.
Description of mountaineer rough
Highlander rough is an annual herbaceous plant, the height of which will fluctuate between ten and eighty centimeters. The stem of this plant is erect, it can be either ascending or recumbent. Also, such a stem is branched and it is endowed with several swollen nodes. The leaves of the mountaineer rough will be short-petiolate, lanceolate, usually they are also endowed with a kidney-shaped dark spot, which is located at the very base. The inflorescences of this plant will be apical and spike-shaped, while the flowers are painted in greenish or pink tones. In addition, such flowers are also endowed with a five-lobed perianth. There are only five or six stamens, and the pedicels and perianth are covered with yellow glands. The fruits of the highlander rough are nuts compressed from the sides.This plant blooms in summer. Under natural conditions, this plant can be found everywhere throughout Russia, with the exception of the Arctic, as well as on the territory of Ukraine and Belarus. For growth, this plant prefers the banks of rivers and ditches, as well as sand drifts, wastelands, landfills and roadsides. Actually, this plant is a common field weed.
Description of the medicinal properties of the mountaineer rough
For medicinal purposes, it is recommended to use the herb of this plant. Such valuable healing properties are explained by the content of tannins, gallic acid and oxymethylanthraquinones in the grass of the mountaineer rough. It is noteworthy that it was experimentally found that the plant is able to exhibit antibacterial activity against Flexner's dysentery bacillus. In some fears in scientific medicine, knotweed is used for bleeding and constipation that occurs with hemorrhoids.A decoction and infusion of the herb of this plant is recommended for bleeding, diarrhea, menstrual irregularities, hemorrhoids, rheumatism, pulmonary tuberculosis, as well as for aches, colds, eczema, jaundice, gout and as a diuretic. In Tibetan medicine, the roots in the form of a decoction of this plant are used for various gastrointestinal diseases and for cholecystitis.
With cholecystitis, it is recommended to prepare the following remedy: for its preparation, two tablespoons of chopped grass of the mountaineer rough are taken for about one glass of boiling water. This mixture should be infused for one hour, and then this mixture is carefully filtered. Take this remedy in two tablespoons three times a day.
For tuberculosis, the following remedy should be used: for its preparation, fifteen grams of crushed grass of the mountaineer rough are taken for one glass of vodka. After that, this mixture should be infused for approximately five to seven days. This remedy should be taken thirty to forty drops twice a day, while drinking water.
With hemorrhoids, the following remedy is effective: for its preparation, ten grams of the collection is required, which will consist of this plant, plowed harrow and St. . This mixture is infused for three to four hours, and then carefully filtered. This remedy should be taken in half a glass three times a day.
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