Couch grass creeping root system. Creeping wheatgrass: use in traditional medicine, benefits and harms

Hello dear readers! Today we are talking about wheatgrass. Each of you knows this plant, it can be seen everywhere, both in water meadows, and in vegetable gardens, and in wastelands. It is considered a malicious weed that is very difficult to remove: its rhizome can grow up to 3 meters in diameter. To remove a weed in gardens, it must be dug up with roots, but it is the rhizomes of the plant that are especially valued in folk medicine. What is creeping wheatgrass, its medicinal properties and contraindications - I think that you will be interested to know.

Wheatgrass creeping chemical composition and medicinal properties

In folk medicine, the weed is valued for its medicinal properties. The stem of the plant contains not so many useful substances as its rhizome. Many do not know all the beneficial qualities of this malicious weed. And they fight it in all possible ways, since it deprives garden beds of moisture, absorbs enough nutrients and minerals, such as nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, thereby depleting soil fertility.

But still, why do folk healers love this herb? Even at one time, Avicenna used the healing properties of wheatgrass in his practice and used its juice mixed with honey and wine to treat eye diseases. Yes, and in Russia with the help of wheatgrass they treated colds, diseases of the stomach and liver.

In folk medicine, the juice and rhizomes of the plant are often used to prepare medicinal potions. In the rhizomes of wheatgrass, vitamins C, E, group B, carotene, pectins, mucus, essential oils, fructose, starch, organic acids, glycosides, inulin, inositol, mineral salts of calcium, iron were found.

I would especially like to say about silicic acid, which is very abundant in the rhizomes of the plant. The microelement silicon is extremely important in the life of the body, thanks to it, the assimilation of 74 chemical elements occurs. The only source of silicon in the body is products of plant origin. So in this regard, wheatgrass will simply not be replaced.

According to the chemical composition, the grass of the plant itself is not as rich in useful substances as its underground part, but it also contains enough ascorbic acid and carotene.

How to properly prepare wheatgrass rhizomes

As I already noted, the largest number nutrients are found in the rhizome of the plant. The maximum amount of nutrients in the rhizome occurs in early spring, when the stems of the plant have not yet sprouted, and in autumn, when the grass has already withered. You can harvest the roots in the summer, but then the therapeutic effect will be much weaker.

To collect raw materials, carefully shake the dug roots off the ground, remove the remaining ground shoots, debris, small shoots, and then thoroughly wash the rhizomes.

Thus prepared, the rhizomes must be spread out in a thin layer on paper in a ventilated room or in the sun. Periodically, the rhizomes should be turned over so that they dry evenly. The roots can also be dried in dryers where mushrooms or fruits are dried at a temperature of 50-55ºС.

You can find out about the readiness of raw materials if the roots become brittle and break when bent. Someone grinds dried raw materials in a coffee grinder, but you can store them in their natural form by cutting them into small pieces. Store dried raw materials in a dry glass jar under a tight lid.

The shelf life is not more than 2 years, with longer storage, the amount of useful substances decreases significantly.

Wheatgrass creeping medicinal properties and contraindications

Traditional medicine for many years of using couch grass has noted the following beneficial features this plant.

• Expectorant, anti-inflammatory and diaphoretic. It is used for inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract, accompanied by a wet cough and fever, which happens with chronic bronchitis, pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis.
• Analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect of decoctions and infusions for rheumatism, gout, arthritis, infringement of the sciatic nerve.
• It has a mild laxative effect in case of intestinal disorders.
• The choleretic property helps with biliary dyskinesia.
• The enveloping property of wheatgrass will help with catarrhal gastritis.
• Inositol - a substance that is a six-hydric alcohol, helps in lowering blood glucose levels in diabetes mellitus, improves carbohydrate and lipid metabolism.
• The diuretic effect allows you to relieve swelling of various etiologies, it is used for inflammation of the urinary tract, urolithiasis, and dropsy.
• Baths prepared with infusion of couch grass help with various diathesis, skin lesions, furunculosis, chronic eczema, hemorrhoids, rickets. In addition to the anti-inflammatory and vascular strengthening effect, the herb has a wound healing and antihistamine effect.
• Enemas with warm infusion of wheatgrass will help with constipation, paraproctitis, chronic colitis.
• Decoctions and fresh juice of the plant help with partial loss of vision, and generally improve appetite and sleep, and tones the body well.
• Teas and decoctions help to restore strength after severe and prolonged illnesses, increase immunity, and restore strength.
• Infusions and flocks help cleanse the body of toxins and toxins, cleanse blood vessels, bile ducts, and urinary tract.

Like any medicinal herb, wheatgrass should have contraindications for use. However, there are practically none, I did not even find individual intolerance in the literature. But it should be noted that the intake of infusions and decoctions should be stopped when loose stools appear or a depressed mood develops.

The use of decoctions, infusions and juice from creeping wheatgrass

Juicing

To prepare the juice of the rhizome together with the stem, rinse under running water, then scald with boiling water and pass through a meat grinder. Dilute the resulting mixture with the same amount of warm boiled water and squeeze the juice through cheesecloth and boil the resulting juice for another 3 minutes. Store the finished juice in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days, otherwise the beneficial properties will disappear. Take a large spoonful of juice on an empty stomach half an hour before each meal.

Preparation of the infusion

• Wheatgrass roots are used as part of an infusion in cold water. To do this, 50 g of raw materials are poured into a glass of cold water and insisted for 12 hours in the refrigerator, filtered and poured boiling water over the squeezed grass again (1 glass), insisted for 10 minutes. Both infusions are mixed and drunk for diabetes, diseases of the joints and gastrointestinal tract, as well as for bronchitis and colds.

• The plant in its pure form is also used for bathing, that is, externally. Rhizomes (50 g) are placed in 5 liters of water, boiled for 20 minutes, infused, cooled, filtered and poured into the bath. Treatment can be carried out daily. The course is from 15 to 20 baths. In this form, treatment with couch grass roots is used for diathesis, hemorrhoids, boils, polyarthritis and rheumatism. Broth can be washed with wounds and ulcers.

Decoction preparation

• Pour 1 tablespoon of crushed raw materials with 1 glass of hot water, boil for 5-10 minutes, cool, strain and squeeze. Take 1 glass 3 times a day before meals. The decoction can be flavored with sprigs or blackcurrant leaves. With hemorrhoids, chronic inflammation of the large intestine, inflammation Bladder and urinary tract, a decoction of wheatgrass is prescribed at night in the form of microclysters with a volume of 30-60 ml. Instead of a decoction, you can use fresh juice from the aerial part of the plant and roots.

To prepare a decoction for a bath, wheatgrass is best used in combination with burdock roots. Take 100 grams of burdock and wheatgrass roots and brew them with 5 liters of boiling water and boil for another 10 minutes. Before taking a bath, mix the resulting broth with water in the bath and take a bath at least once a week for various skin diseases for half an hour. The temperature of the water in the bath should be comfortable for your body. For greater effect, take infusions or decoctions inside.

Steam cooking

To prepare a steam, 100 g of crushed raw materials are poured into 1 liter of water and boiled until the volume of liquid is halved.

It is used for osteochondrosis, 50 ml before each meal for half an hour.

Wheatgrass tincture with honey and vodka

This tincture will help to cope with diseases of the stomach. Take 50 g of crushed raw materials from rhizomes, add the same amount of honey and 100 grams of vodka, mix all the ingredients and leave to infuse in a dark place for 3 days. After this period, the tincture should settle, carefully drain the transparent part of the tincture or strain. Take a teaspoon a few minutes before meals.

Baths with wheatgrass to remove corns

For 5 liters of hot water (temperature not more than 80º), add 200 g of crushed wheatgrass, cover tightly with a lid and let it brew until the water is warm (at least 30º), then add 2 tablespoons of sea salt, stir the solution and dip your feet for 30 minutes. After the bath, rub the corns with a pumice stone and brush with cream. Do at least 5 procedures.

Dear readers, today you have learned about one unique medicinal plant. Soon, spring will come, which means that in the spring it will be possible to prepare couch grass, because it has so many medicinal properties and almost no contraindications. And after a long and cold winter, this is just what we need. So why don't we take advantage of the gifts of our nature?

Today we will take a closer look at the herb couch grass, medicinal properties and contraindications, what recipes are recommended by phytotherapists in traditional medicine for various diseases, which nutritional supplements contain wheatgrass, how to prepare an infusion, decoction, tea, juice from wheatgrass, how to collect and store raw materials, you will learn how grass looks like by getting acquainted with a photo of a plant in different phases of development.

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A malicious pest - that's what the creeping wheatgrass was called in my childhood, an herb for universal cleansing of the body and renewal of the joints - that's how I know this unofficial medicinal plant now.

I will say one thing - I was not too lazy to take a juicer out of the pantry and passed a bunch of young stems with tender leaves for juice through it. There was not much of it there, but I liked it - it’s not for nothing that all my animals gorge themselves on its young shoots (shoots grew on the mowing site).

And for the feat of squeezing the juice, I was motivated by a woman’s review of this plant, that thanks to 30 ml of wheatgrass juice a day, she got rid of deep wrinkles on her face, gray hair and joint pain. Wrinkles are really smoothed out ... and I don’t have joint pain.

Therefore, I decided that I needed to get to know him - wheatgrass - better and find out its benefits and harms, find out why it is so useful, what is its chemical composition, how the root and leaves of wheatgrass are used in folk medicine, the main recipes from them, and where else they use plant.

When, as a child, I did not want to collect wheatgrass roots from a freshly dug bed and spoke badly about it, my grandmother told me a legend about this plant.

How the wheatgrass saved the human race. Legend

There were once hard times on Earth - black forces were advancing, who wanted to destroy the human race with hunger, cold and fire. All the men left to fight the orcs. Women, old people and children remained in the villages. They did not have enough strength to cultivate and plant arable land. But even those crops that women and children sowed with difficulty were destroyed by the villains, sending hurricanes, hail and droughts.

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And then the gods decided to help people - they scattered over the earth a plant called field fire - Agropyron repens (the old name for wheatgrass), where agros is “field” and pyrum is “fire”. The fiery seeds, growing, produced strong roots that pierced the soil like arrows, displacing all vegetation, and to this day no force can eradicate this plant. Nor did the orcs succeed.

Wheatgrass helped people survive - they ate it, dried the roots, crushed and prepared jelly and soups, squeezed juice from green leaves and saved scrofulous babies (infected with Staphylococcus aureus) with them, supported weakened old people with juice or decoction and put the beaten and wounded on their feet , since wheatgrass treated for any ailment. The dried root of the woman was ground into flour and baked bread, cakes, and pancakes from it. It is not for nothing that he has other names - a resident, a zhitnyak, a rye, an orzhan.

So, thanks to its vitality, this plant has repeatedly saved people from hunger and disease. Keep this in mind when you are angry at the indestructible roots of wheatgrass that has chosen your backyard or summer cottage.

Over time, the old name of the couch grass Agropyron repens was changed to a new one - Elytrigia repens, but its beneficial properties did not disappear from this.

Brief description and biological features, photo

Creeping couch grass is a monocot grass with a long creeping rhizome and shoots. The foliage is flat, broad. The flowers are collected in a dense and large ear. Grass blooms in May, June. The fruit is a grain.

You can see how the whole plant and its individual parts look in the photo below.

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What the plant looks like during flowering and after, as well as how the leaves are attached, their location on the stem is shown in this photo:

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In the photo below - the stems and white rhizomes of a freshly dug plant, a dense bush that form stems and leaves in meadows in nature, as well as a structural diagram of wheatgrass: an ear and a rhizome.

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The next image is a view of a spikelet of wheatgrass at various ripening dates and its fruit is a grain.

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The photo shows the depth of the rhizome and the width of its branching.

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The people call the plant - root-grass, resident, worm - grass, dog grass, rye. Below is an incomplete list of common names for the plant.

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Distributed everywhere, prefers loose, moist, well-fertilized soils. Grows in floodplains, fallow fields, sparse birch forests. It grows to a height of up to 120 cm, the rhizome spreads up to several meters in length.

The biological feature of wheat grass - a high rate of reproduction and growth requires a lot of moisture. It has good competition for living space. Causes inhibition of growth and density of cultivated plants.

The root of wheatgrass releases toxic substances into the soil, which cause the death of the growth of useful plants. The weed effectively reproduces by seeds and parts of the rhizome, which lie superficially in the soil.

Capable of rapid germination. The shallow location of the roots and the absence of a dormant period in the buds and seeds promotes both early spring shoots and shoots throughout the growing season.

Medicinal properties and contraindications, what is included in the composition, application

We will understand due to what the creeping wheatgrass has medicinal properties and contraindications, what is its healing properties.

Almost every plant has a huge list of medicinal properties, but there are always the main ones.

For wheatgrass, the main healing property is the detoxification of the body, that is, the cleansing of all age-related accumulations. As a result - improvement of the whole metabolism, especially salt metabolism, strengthening of immunity.

This is facilitated by the high content of silicon, which is so necessary for the absorption of many trace elements and for the normal function of the musculoskeletal system, thyroid gland, intestines, and blood vessels.

Couch grass is not officially recognized as a medicinal herb in our country, that is, it is unofficially used in folk medicine, like many other herbs. It grows everywhere, except for the desert and those areas where there is no vegetation except for moss.

As a medicinal raw material, the plant is recognized in Switzerland and Germany.

It is actively used in folk medicine, sometimes they turn to it in scientific medicine. Supporters healthy eating use them in cooking.

Chemical composition

For various purposes, use the rhizome and green shoots. Of these, the following substances have been isolated:

• fatty and essential oils with agropyrene
• polysaccharide tricine, fructose, levulose sugar, inulin, inositol (muscle sugar) - up to 8% triticin, 3% mannitol and fructose, up to 8% inulin
• malic and ascorbic acid
• slime
• silicic acid
• pectin, valine
• trace elements - Ca, Na, Fe

The plant contains sugars and vitamins. This enhances its beneficial properties. Wheatgrass instead of starch contains triticin - a white powder, which, when heated in an aqueous solution with hydrochloric acid, turns into fruit sugar - fructose. There is a little essential oil in wheatgrass and a lot of mucus - up to 10%.

These substances in different concentrations are present in the aerial part of the grass and in the rhizome.

When a plant blooms, it contains up to 9% protein, 30% fiber, up to 50% extractive nitrogen-free substances and 11% protein.

Silicon compounds improve blood vessels by increasing the elasticity of capillary walls, which makes wheatgrass preparations indispensable for the elderly - capillary fragility is their scourge.

Also, tannins were found in the rhizome, capable of removing radioactive isotopes from the human body.

To get acquainted with the nutritional value of wheatgrass, I suggest looking at the table of the chemical composition of the above-ground mass of hay from a wheatgrass meadow (it will increase when clicked).

Root (rhizome) and leaves, their medicinal properties

Home remedies for wheatgrass are made primarily from the root. Look at the photo of the rhizome - it is white and quite branched.

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Juice is obtained from stems and green leaves, preferably before the flowering of the plant, from young shoots. In the photo, the leaves and stems of wheatgrass:

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The aerial part of the plant is used for gout and rheumatism, so it used to be called gouty grass. A slurry of leaves in the form of a compress can be applied to sore joints, wounds and bedsores.

Due to the rich chemical composition, the medicinal plant has many healing effects and has the following medicinal qualities:

1. diuretic and choleretic
2. painkillers and anti-inflammatory
3. wound healing
4. laxative, expectorant and diaphoretic
5. enveloping and toning

The plant as a whole, and especially its root, has a positive effect on metabolism, on the state of the circulatory system, takes part in strengthening the vascular wall and expresses a blood-purifying effect. It has a slight effect on the functioning of the endocrine gland.

Watch a video on why wheatgrass is so useful, especially its underground part:

Contraindications and side effects

As with any herbal preparation, wheatgrass should not be abused. This will lead to complications in the form of oppression and weakness. There may be:

1. acute pain in the kidney area
2. obstruct the flow of urine
3. have diarrhea (diarrhea)
4. inulin can cause allergies
5. lowers blood glucose levels
6. long-term use can lead to a strong decrease in potassium in the blood

You should carefully combine the intake of other drugs and wheatgrass. Unpredictable jumps in blood pressure, swelling of the throat and cough with itching are possible - as a manifestation of an allergy caused by inulin.

With prolonged use of wheatgrass, hypokalemia (a critical decrease in the level of potassium in the blood) may threaten due to the diuretic effect. To avoid this, you need to increase fluid intake when treating this plant.

Who should not resort to wheatgrass treatment:

• pregnant and lactating women - only because there is no data on the safety of wheatgrass during childbearing and lactation
• with intolerance to wheatgrass
• with low blood pressure
• with exacerbations of stomach ulcers and pancreatitis

Use with caution in children under two years of age. Use preparations with wheatgrass should be in the absence of chronic diseases and only after consulting a doctor.

Folk recipes

Couch grass has been used in folk medicine since ancient times. Mainly on the basis of wheatgrass, juice, infusions and decoctions are obtained. According to the opinions of the population, a stable healing effect is achieved in the treatment with wheatgrass preparations.

It is used to treat inflammation of the lymphatic system, digestive tract, circulatory system. Couch grass treats all skin diseases (especially furunculosis, eczema), dropsy, jaundice, rickets, lumbago, arthritis, gout, rheumatism.

Couch grass is successfully used for the treatment of infertility, hemorrhoids, and the treatment of diseases of the respiratory system (pneumonia, bronchitis). The rhizome of the herb is used to treat hepatitis, diabetes, and diathesis.

An important role is assigned to the root-grass in food poisoning and in cleansing the blood of toxins (which leads to a decrease in skin rashes).

Decoctions

Treatment with decoctions is practiced for colitis, cystitis, therapy for cholelithiasis and urolithiasis, diabetes mellitus, gastritis, and colds.

For this purpose, 20-25 grams of the root (4 teaspoons) is poured into 200 ml of boiling water and kept on low heat for another ten minutes. Let it brew for 1 hour. Take 25 milliliters before meals.

With furunculosis herbalists recommend drinking 100 milliliters three times a day of a strong decoction of the roots (1 tablespoon of raw materials per glass of water). In parallel, take baths twice a week, adding a decoction - 2.5 tablespoons per bucket of water. The same baths are recommended for the treatment of eczema, diathesis, scrofula, rickets. Baths are also recommended in the treatment of constipation and hemorrhoids, a course of 10-12 procedures.

To improve vision you can prepare the following composition - pour 4 tablespoons of dried roots with 5 cups of boiling water, evaporate until the volume decreases by a quarter, drink 25 milliliters several times a day.

Mosquito repellent can also be prepared from wheatgrass roots. We take the crushed wheatgrass root (2 tablespoons) and pour 1.5 liters of water. Cooking like jam: boiled and set aside to cool - repeat the process three times until the broth acquires a light yellow hue. The liquid is ready for washing the exposed parts of the body.

infusions

An infusion of wheatgrass roots is an excellent remedy for coughing, for relieving cold symptoms, gout and rheumatism. I drink it as a diaphoretic.

To obtain an infusion, pour a full tablespoon of raw materials with two glasses (400 milliliters) of cold water, leave for about 12 hours and drink half a glass several times a day (3-4) after meals.
Infusions of couch grass make compresses, lotions for diathesis and other skin rashes. Sometimes infusions and decoctions are used for uterine bleeding.

Cleansing wheatgrass tea

As a kind of infusion, you can prepare a cleansing tea. It is written above that the main healing property of the plant is the detoxification of the body, that is, the cleansing of all age-related accumulations. In fact, it is a rejuvenation of the body.

At the same time, a person can lose weight up to 5 kg (with the regular use of this drink), since deposits of salts, oxidized cholesterol, and various toxic substances from the blood are removed from the body.

How to prepare a classic wheatgrass cleansing tea?

Recipe: 1 teaspoon of crushed wheatgrass root is poured into 230 ml of boiling water. The teapot is covered with a lid and infused for 15 minutes. At the end of the water extraction, strain the tea. For taste, you can add a slice of lemon and honey. Drink 3-5 cups of wheatgrass tea throughout the day (for a month).

Tincture - a classic recipe

Traditional tincture is made from fresh blended raw materials - leaves and roots. If there is no blender, you can skip the collected parts of wheatgrass through a meat grinder.

Transfer the crushed mixture to a jar and dilute with 40% alcohol (vodka) in a ratio of 1:5. Close the lid. Infuse for three weeks, shaking the contents for better extraction. Strain and store in a dark bottle.

Take three times a day, 20-50 drops 15 minutes before meals for the following diseases:

• bronchitis
• inflammatory processes in the urinary tract
• with kidney stones
• for the prevention of prostate adenoma

The tincture is stored in the refrigerator for a long time. It can also be used to make compresses for pain in the joints, especially in the knee.

Health drink - so called juice in Western countries where he is popular. Apply on an empty stomach and freshly prepared. It is not boiled there, because then chlorophyll is destroyed, the healing effect of which on the body can hardly be overestimated.

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For colds, rheumatism, gout, arthritis, for cholelithiasis, juice is prepared from the leaves, less often from fresh rhizomes. They are pre-washed well, scrolled. Mixed in a ratio of 1/1 with cold water, filtered through a cloth, then boiled for about three minutes. Can be stored in the refrigerator for up to two days.

Drink the resulting juice in a glass before meals, three times a day for 3 months. For the treatment of hemorrhoids, enemas are made with juice. Effective juice with uterine bleeding. It is recommended for heavy periods to drink half a glass of juice 3 times a day.

Still from juice mixed in a ratio of 1: 1 with honey, you can have a little enhance vision. Such a heated mixture is taken for half a year in a tablespoon three times a day.

How side effect juice, one can note an improvement in the skin, especially on the face - the skin becomes elastic, deep wrinkles are smoothed out. Has a mild laxative effect.

An interesting effect of fresh plant stems on bad foot odor (due to excessive sweating). Just a week of simple manipulations - and the smell will disappear for a long time due to the antimicrobial action of the grass essential oil. Every evening we twist the stems between our fingers and put on socks. In the morning I wash my feet and change my socks. And so the whole week.

Herbal recipes from phytotherapist Alexander Pechenevsky

The above describes the action and recipes for the preparation of drugs from a plant monoculture. A greater effect can be achieved if you use several medicinal plants that enhance the effect of each other. I recommend these recipes for herbal phytomixtures from Alexander Pechenevsky - for some common diseases.

Collection 1. Help the liver after chemotherapy
They are used not only by cancer patients - after large doses of chemicals, but also by those who have undergone a long course of antibiotics and other chemicals that have a detrimental effect on the liver and the whole body as a whole.

The following 4 herbs are mixed in the same ratio:

1. wheatgrass rhizome
2. chamomile flowers
3. herb herb
4. grass agrimony

Boil two tablespoons of chopped raw materials for 5 minutes in half a liter of water. Infuse for an hour, then filter.

Take 4-5 times a day half a glass of decoction (before meals) for a month.

Collection 2. To restore strength in the elderly
Purification and elimination of toxins, improvement of liver and gallbladder functions. Wrinkles and bags under the eyes disappear, sleep and appetite improve. There is a general rejuvenation of the body.
To restore strength, it is enough to apply for 5 days.

The composition of the grass mixture (we take the crushed components in the same ratio):

• wheatgrass root
• calamus root
• liquorice root
• nettle grass (leaves)
• St. John's wort
• hawthorn fruit
• dog-rose fruit

Thoroughly mix all the gradients. The finer they are crushed, the better the extraction will be.

Preparation of a decoction: take 4 tbsp. spoons of the mixture per 1 liter of water, cook for five minutes, remove from heat, wrap the container with infusion and leave to infuse for one hour.

We drink 200 ml of decoction with the addition of honey 30 minutes before meals - before each meal (3-5 times a day).

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There is one feature of the reception - on the first day do not eat food - only drink a decoction. In the next three days, you can eat as usual, but drink not 200 ml of broth, but 100 ml.

The healing drink can be consumed by everyone - with a breakdown and chronic fatigue, but it is especially recommended for those over 60 in the spring.

Collection 3. For the treatment of the organs of the musculoskeletal system
For the treatment of joints and spine, general baths or foot baths are recommended. For them, a mixture of the following is prepared from 5 herbs (in equal proportions):

1. wheatgrass root
2. comfrey root
3. burdock root
4. black elderberry flowers
5. birch leaves

For a general bath, place about 200 grams of the mixture in a cloth bag and cook for 15 minutes in 5 liters of water. We insist until completely cooled and pour into a warm (37-39 degrees) bath with ordinary water. The course of therapeutic baths - 15 days, maximum - 20 lasting 20-30 minutes 2-3 times a week.

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Collection 4. For oncological diseases
For cancer patients, in addition to the main treatment prescribed by the doctor, the following collection of a large number of components is useful:

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As in other grass mixtures, all ingredients are taken crushed and in the same ratio. Brew and drink like tea - 1 teaspoon of the mixture per 250 grams of boiling water. Insist until cool.
Take 1 time per day before meals for a month.

Collection 5. Diabetic tea
It helps regulate metabolism through its insulin-like action and regeneration of endocrine pancreatic β-cells. You can drink on a regular basis as a tea.

The ratio of components and the composition of the collection, see below:

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Thoroughly grind and mix all the active ingredients, take a teaspoon and brew with a glass of boiling water. Insist until completely cooled. It is better to make an infusion in a thermos at night.

A slightly diuretic effect is possible. Solves the problem of visual impairment in diabetic patients when taken regularly.

Application in traditional medicine

In Russia, before the revolution, the plant was harvested for pharmaceutical purposes. In many countries, it is still used in pharmacopoeial preparations.

In official medicine, wheatgrass preparations are sometimes used in the treatment of biliary and urinary tracts as a diuretic. Its enveloping properties are also used (it contains a large amount of mucus), hemostatic and laxative effects. And as a regulator of salt metabolism.

Couch grass creeping in a pharmacy can be found as part of a breast, diuretic soothing tea. The dried roots of the grass called "Crawling wheatgrass" are also sold separately.

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BAA containing wheatgrass

Consider some nutritional supplements (BAA) using wheatgrass root that exist on the market.

In Europe and the USA, biologically active supplements are prepared from the rhizome. In Germany, Switzerland and Poland, medicinal diuretics and bronchodilators are produced using wheatgrass extract.

Wheatgrass Root is part of the American Dietary Supplement Tiro-Vita NutriCare. The drug eliminates the imbalance of hormones of the endocrine system, and also has a positive effect on other organs of internal secretion (pituitary gland, adrenal glands, prostate). Its main action is to eliminate iodine deficiency in the body and cleanse the intestines.

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The rhizome is used in dietary supplements NatureLax (Naturalaks) company NSP. The food supplement enhances the production of digestive juices and bile secretion, normalizes the intestinal microflora and restores its motility.

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There is a Ukrainian food supplement for the normalization of joint functions Comfort. Prevents destruction and promotes the restoration of cartilage tissue.
I have personally verified its effectiveness. My mother's joint pains disappeared, my knees stopped crunching.

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There are other dietary supplements containing wheatgrass in their composition. I brought those that I know personally and which are quite effective for long-term use. You can add more dietary supplement Econiki - Wheatgrass Extract. It purifies the blood and removes salts. Its composition and appearance look at the photo below:

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It is found in pharmacies and online stores, health food stores.
Consider the method of application and dosage of this dietary supplement.

1. Internal use.
Preventive dose - 0.5 grams per day, therapeutic dose - 1 gram per day.
Preparation of the solution: pour 0.5-1 gram of powder into 200 ml of boiling water and divide into two doses. Drink warm 2 times a day with 30 minutes of food for ten days. Reapply after a week break. Repeat the course 2-3 times.

2. Outdoor use.
Use the above recipe for preparing a decoction for compresses on sore areas or for gargling, as well as for taking baths for skin diseases (two portions of the solution are enough for a bath of warm water).
Dry powder is sprinkled for disinfection and healing of fresh open wounds and scratches.

All nutritional supplements require accumulation in the body and time to start the process when the body itself corrects chronic diseases– the supplement itself simply helps him to start this biocorrection.

The use of rhizomes in a healthy diet

The plant is actively used in cooking by supporters of a healthy diet. In famine years, a resident saved people from starvation. Fresh roots are put in soups, salads are prepared. As a side dish for meat and fish, fresh rhizomes are fried in oil.

Eating a resident helps lower cholesterol in the bloodstream. Raises hemoglobin, used in clinical nutrition in the treatment of anemia.

Now I will give examples of wheatgrass dishes and their recipes - for lovers of a healthy diet. I especially like the casserole.

I offer two recipes for casseroles and both are delicious! Since I fell in love with the blender, I have tried so many dishes.

Casserole recipe 1. With wheatgrass and herbs. Rinse fresh rhizomes well and boil in salted water. After cooling, it is necessary to grind them with a blender or meat grinder.

Add finely chopped parsley and dill, onion or garlic. Transfer to a baking dish and pour over beaten eggs with cream and spices: pepper, turmeric, a pinch of dried ginger. Put in the oven and bake.

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For baking, it is better to take a small but deep dish.

Casserole recipe 2. With wheatgrass, potatoes and mushrooms. Wash fresh wheatgrass root, dry a little so that water is glass, cut and fry in a pan in oil. When they change color from white to yellow, add onion and mushrooms, diced carrots.

You can take champignons, if possible - Shiitake mushroom, which will significantly increase the usefulness of the dish (it must be pre-soaked). Mix everything thoroughly and lightly fry together with wheatgrass roots.

We do not fry the potatoes, but three on a coarse grater and put on a small deep cast iron greased with oil. Lay fried vegetables with wheatgrass on top of the potatoes.

Separately, beat the milk, egg, spices and pour into a cauldron, mixing slightly. Top with herbs and sesame seeds. We put in a preheated oven. When the casserole is slightly browned, take it out and sprinkle grated cheese on top. Put back in the oven until golden brown. Serve the casserole with wheatgrass and mushrooms hot.

Products for the casserole look at the photo below.

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Recipe taken from here. True, I changed the cooking process a little - I simplified it and checked it.

Salads

Salads are made from both green shoots and roots. They are used fresh and in powder form (root extract).
1. Salad with beets and wheatgrass. In case of disruption of the digestive tract, a salad with beets and wheatgrass will help.

• from fresh wheatgrass roots 100 gr
• sorrel 50 gr
• beets 100 gr

The salad is salted to taste, your favorite spices are added and seasoned with sour cream. Lettuce has a mild laxative effect.

2. Salad with Jerusalem artichoke, wheatgrass and honey. Cook and finely chop the roots of wheatgrass in the amount of 150-200 grams. Three on a grater two or three tubers of Jerusalem artichoke, season with 1 tablespoon of honey.

We mix the ingredients and sprinkle with nuts on top, chopping them in advance (walnut, forest or almond). You can sprinkle with vanilla sugar for taste.

Bread and porridge

In winter, dry rhizomes are used, which are ground and added to cereals. They bake bread and pancakes with the addition of powder to flour. You can chop the rhizomes yourself, or you can use Ekoniki's dietary supplement - Wheatgrass Extract (described above). Wheatgrass makes ordinary bread or porridge healthy.

Recipe for hunting wheatgrass bread. Boil the root, pass through a meat grinder or blender, add yeast, milk. You can add a little sugar, but the rhizomes are sweet and so. Leave overnight for the fermentation process.

In the morning, knead the dough: add 1 egg to the fermented mixture and mix in the flour, bringing the dough to the required density. We divide it into pieces the size of a palm and send it to bake in the oven or on the coals of a fire.

Soup

It is prepared like a regular soup, and 10 minutes before the end of cooking, add fresh chopped rhizomes to it along with parsley and dill.

The drinks

Drinks made from ground rhizomes have a good tonic, invigorating effect.

Wheatgrass coffee. For their preparation, dried rhizomes are roasted in a preheated oven at a temperature of 150º for 15-20 minutes, then crushed and coffee wheatgrass is obtained.

In Bavaria, beer is brewed, where wheatgrass is used instead of hops. This drink is recommended for people weakened by the disease. You can just drink it as a general tonic drink. I share the recipe described by E. Al-Shimari, “Your 6 acres”:

Put 4 kg of chopped rhizomes in a large ceramic container. Moisten the roots with warm water so that they are wet, but drain excess water.

We are waiting for small shoots to appear on the roots. Then add 1 kg of crushed juniper berries, 2-2.5 kg of sugar and 70 g of brewer's yeast to the sprouted rhizomes. Pour 4 liters of warm water into the container and mix. On the next day, another 7.5 liters of warm water is added, and on the third day, another 9 liters.

The container is not closed tightly so that gases during fermentation can be freely released. On the sixth day, the resulting wort is filtered and bottled or bottled. Drink a glass a day as a rejuvenating and cleansing agent with a pleasant taste.

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Juice, squeezed from the leaves and rhizomes of the culture, is a good way to combat excess weight. Freshly squeezed liquid is diluted in a small amount of water and drunk 0.5 cup four times a day.

A wheatgrass smoothie or a personal way of eating wheatgrass

I like to make smoothies out of wheatgrass - I share personal experience. I use the young ground part of the plant - stems and leaves. I collect a small bunch of them while I walk with the dogs in the field.

In the same place, I add rosehip petals to the grass (more for smell and taste), if they have already faded, then I collect purple clover heads. I can pick young leaves of cherries, raspberries, currants.

At home, I wash everything thoroughly, put it in a blender container and add either a banana - then the smoothie is sweet and very tasty, or cucumber and cilantro, lemon - I'm losing weight ... Before turning on the blender, I pour 100-150 ml of clean water.

I drink this healing drink in the morning - one glass before meals. This year I am especially fond of wheatgrass - last year Jerusalem artichoke was my favorite. I will return to it in the fall - it is ripening under the loggia.

Plant use for animals

Wheatgrass is able to cure not only humans, but also animals. Cats and dogs eat wheatgrass leaves, it has a pronounced antihelminthic effect. Animals also use the eating of grass leaves to mechanically cleanse the stomach, causing vomiting.

In addition to medicinal purposes, herb rhizomes are used as food and vitamin supplements for pets. Used to feed cattle.

Procurement and storage

Most often, rhizomes are used to harvest raw materials, because this part of the plant contains a greater number of useful substances. Harvesting is carried out in early spring or autumn when digging. During these periods, the level of healing substances is maximum.

When harvesting raw materials, attention should be paid to the appearance of the grass. Sick, blooming plants need to be discarded. They can be infected with a fungus and will harm your health.

The rhizomes are dug up, separated from the leaves and washed. First, the day is dried in the sun, then dried, spreading out not in a thick layer, on fresh air. It can also be dried in special dryers at a temperature of 70˚, periodically stirring and turning. The finished raw material has no smell, the taste is sweetish.

The whole raw mass is laid out for storage in glass jars and is well corked. Ready raw materials are stored for 3 years without loss of useful qualities. Do not use after the expiration date, so as not to cause harm to health.

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Summary of the article. Today you learned which plant, how couch grass has medicinal properties and its contraindications, got acquainted with the biological composition, found out how the root and leaves of wheatgrass are used in folk and official medicine, their main recipes, how to properly collect and store raw materials.

Do you have health problems, but do not feel like taking pills? Consult your doctor and try to be treated with wheatgrass preparations.

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Popular names: root-grass, dog grass, worm-grass, wheatgrass, dog tooth, zhitets, diver, rye, zhivets, ortanets, dandur.

Wheatgrass (lat. Elytrígia) - a perennial herbaceous plant; a genus of the Grass family, consisting of about 100 species. Couch grass blooms in May-June, bears fruit in July-September. This plant is found throughout Europe, Asia, avoiding only deserts and dark forests, although it may well grow in forest glades and edges, but mostly wheatgrass inhabits meadows, fields, fallows, gardens. Its modern Latin name is Elytrigia repens.

In medicine, wheatgrass is used for metabolic disorders, as a diuretic, diaphoretic, expectorant and laxative, regulating salt metabolism.
The main field of application of wheatgrass is blood purification, when toxins are removed from the body with increased outflow of water, which affects primarily the reduction of skin rashes. Fatigue and a state of weakness are removed. At the same time, all components act together, both vitamins and minerals, saponins and related compounds.

Although scientific medicine treats wheatgrass coolly, in Switzerland, for example, it is widely used as a medicinal plant. Due to the presence of silicic acid, it is used in diseases of the bronchi, metabolic disorders, rheumatism and gout.
The German Public Health Service indicates the following areas of application for wheatgrass rhizomes: to increase urination in inflammatory processes in the urinary tract; as an additive in the treatment of catarrh of the upper respiratory tract.

The most important indications for the use of couch grass rhizomes in folk medicine are anemia, rickets, lung diseases, urinary retention, diseases of the liver and gallbladder, inflammation of the stomach and intestines, rheumatism and gout, skin rashes and complaints associated with menstruation. Tea with wheatgrass and bearberry helps well against acne.
In Russia, the most famous species is couch grass, which covers gardens, wastelands, kitchen gardens, edges, fields, meadows, etc.

Wheatgrass as a food plant has repeatedly rescued people in the most difficult times. The rhizome is used as food. They grind it, get flour, which is not inferior in nutritional value to wheat, and bake bread, cakes, gingerbread and others. flour products. From the dried rhizomes, you can prepare cereals for cereals, seasonings, casseroles, minced meats and fillings, which will have a pleasant taste and aroma. Soups are cooked from fresh roots, salads and side dishes for fish, vegetable and meat dishes are prepared. Roasted rhizomes can be used to make a coffee drink.

Creeping wheatgrass is a well-known and widespread garden weed. All weeds have incredible vitality and fertility. Wheatgrass has a long rhizome, which, if cut into pieces, where there is at least one living bud, instantly takes root and begins to form a new independent plant. Hence its popular names - zhitec, zhivets, ortan. This is literally "fire" for fields and gardens, the fight against which is extremely difficult and sometimes unsuccessful.

Probably such a vitality of a plant, even a weed, could not but affect its ability to deal not only with the problems of the near, but also with the far circle, including the problems of human health.

Wheatgrass, as if it is the "veins" of Mother Earth, who poured into him her miraculous powers for the healing and life of her children. Pets, cats and dogs, in early spring are happy to eat young grass of couch grass. So they replenish their blood, starving for the winter, with fresh vitamins and biologically active substances, of which wheatgrass contains a lot.

Medicinal raw materials for wheatgrass are rhizomes, which are harvested in the fall, immediately after the first frost, or in early spring.
They are thoroughly washed in cold water, cleaned of small roots, remnants of stems and leaves, dried in the shade in the air or in a well-ventilated area, laid out on paper or on burlap. Store in canvas bags or wooden containers for up to 2 years.

It is recommended to dry wheatgrass raw materials at 60 degrees in an oven or special dryers, periodically stirring and turning the extract. Ready rhizomes should break with a bang without deforming. Shelf life - no more than 3 years.

The rhizome of wheatgrass contains mineral salts (potassium, magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc), silicic acid, organic acids, vitamins A, B., essential oil, which includes carbon agropyrene; mucous substances, polysaccharide substance tricitin, inulin, inositol, fructose, levulose, saponin, vanillin, dextrose, gum, quartz, levulose, mannitol, lactic acid, nitrogen-containing rubber-like substance, tannin.

Wheatgrass is already valuable because it cleanses the body of radiation. For this reason alone, there is no price for this plant. After the Chernobyl disaster, there was a real pursuit of Chinese green tea. Of course, it is useful, no doubt, the tannins included in its chemical composition really “drive out” strontium. But it turns out that there is enough tannin in the composition of wheatgrass growing under our feet. So, in pursuit of someone else's, we trample on our own.

The real "scourge of man" is osteochondrosis. This disease is in second place after diseases of the cardiovascular system. It is impossible to get rid of it completely, but it is possible to stop its development. And precisely this malicious weed. It perfectly drives salts out of the body. Practically indispensable for "joints", arthritis, sciatica, rheumatism and gout.

Wheatgrass heals the gastrointestinal tract well. A decoction of the roots cleanses the gallbladder and kidneys from stones and sand. It is also used for inflammation of the biliary tract, liver, bladder and urinary tubules. Wheatgrass heals the kidneys, stimulates filtration in them.

A decoction of the root is very effective for edema of any origin.

Wheatgrass is a good blood cleanser. Its use is indicated for rashes on the body and for allergies. It is included in compositions for eczema, psoriasis, boils and any other human scab.

Wheatgrass roots also have expectorant properties.

Silicon compounds that are in the plant have a beneficial effect on all external and internal organs. Strengthens blood vessels, increases the elasticity of capillary walls. Therefore, wheatgrass preparations are highly recommended for older people.

White root helps with diabetes.

If, God forbid, you have been prescribed a large amount of antibiotics, then after the end of treatment, be sure to take a course of recovery with wheatgrass, as it neutralizes chemical compounds, removes excess antibiotics, and practically re-regulates the work of the whole organism.

Wheatgrass perfectly relieves fatigue, restores vigor, excites, stimulates the activity of the heart, slightly increases blood pressure, and relieves headaches. So, our cats and dogs are not stupid ...

Wheatgrass perfectly regulates the metabolism in the body.

There are no CONTRAINDICATIONS to the use of couch grass. However, the reception should be stopped if diarrhea occurs or a depression develops that affects performance.

A decoction of rhizomes of Wheatgrass Creeping

Pour 1 tablespoon of crushed raw materials with 1 glass of hot water, boil for 5-10 minutes, cool, strain and squeeze. Take 1 glass 3 times a day before meals. The decoction can be flavored with sprigs or blackcurrant leaves.

For hemorrhoids, chronic inflammation of the large intestine, inflammation of the bladder and urinary tract, wheatgrass decoction is prescribed at night in the form of microclysters with a volume of 30-60 ml.

Instead of a decoction, you can use fresh juice from the aerial part of the plant and roots.

Stems with root pieces are washed in running water, scalded, passed through a meat grinder, diluted with water in a ratio of 1:1, squeezed through a dense cloth and boiled for 3 minutes. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3 times a day before meals. Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.

BATH

100 g of wheatgrass and burdock rhizomes are placed in a large enameled pot or bucket, pour 5 liters of hot water and boil for 10 minutes. The resulting broth is poured into a bath of water. It is recommended to take such a bath for various skin diseases at least once a week. The duration of the procedure is 30 minutes, the temperature of the water is 36-37 C. It is recommended to combine baths with taking the decoction inside.

THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE

Fresh wheatgrass rhizomes are used to prepare soups, salads, side dishes for fatty, meat, fish, and vegetable dishes.

This plant received the name "couch grass" from a very ancient root "pyro", which meant bread, rye. And couch grass, indeed, can justify its name - it can be used as a surrogate for bread, which is of great importance in famine years. Sometimes for baking bread, the dough was made from 2/3 rye flour and 1/3 wheatgrass root flour. To make wheatgrass root flour, the roots were boiled, dried, chopped and ground or pounded until flour was obtained.

Porridges and kissels are also boiled from such flour, it is added to wheat and rye flour when baking cakes and pancakes. From the roasted rhizomes, a good surrogate coffee is obtained. published

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Wheatgrass is a common, difficult to remove weed. Its ability to survive in any conditions has long aroused the interest of scientists. The study of the characteristics of the plant revealed unique medicinal properties that have a beneficial effect on human health: its treatment and recovery. The editors of the site "YaNashla" offers you information about the unique medicinal properties wheatgrass, as well as contraindications for use.

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Wheatgrass is a perennial, herbaceous plant from the cereal family, common not only in Europe, but also in Asia. Main habitats: meadow, field, garden. Known to all for its vitality, rapid reproduction and distribution. Among the people, especially among gardeners and gardeners, it is considered one of the harmful weeds, which is difficult to get rid of.

However, as medical studies have shown, wheatgrass has valuable medicinal properties. In foreign countries, the plant is considered medicinal.

In medicine, the following properties are known:

1. Purifying:

• diuretic;
• diaphoretic;
• laxative;
• expectorant;
• regulating salt metabolism;
• anti-inflammatory;
• antidepressant.

Wheatgrass effectively cleanses the blood, removes toxins, as well as the radioactive substance strontium.

Therefore, it is valuable as a medicine:

• relieving skin rashes (acne, boils, eczema, psoriasis and others);
• relieving swelling;
• cleansing the kidneys, restoring their filtration;
• expelling excess salt from the body;
• eliminating the effects of radiation.

1. Restoring.

Wheatgrass helps in healing:

• genitourinary system;
• gastrointestinal tract;
• musculoskeletal system;
• respiratory system;
• nervous system.

In addition, the plant relieves the feeling of fatigue, weakness. Helps in the treatment of stress, insomnia. It also strengthens the immune system, improves brain activity.

1. Nutritious. Wheatgrass contains vitamins (B, C), minerals (magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, zinc) useful for the body. The plant contains a lot of essential oils, tannin, carotene, inulin, saponin, as well as protein and carbohydrates.

Can be used for food. Its nutritional value is similar to that of wheat. When ground, it is suitable for baking bread, cakes, gingerbread. Dried roots are crushed, porridges, seasonings, casseroles are prepared. In its raw form, it is used in soups, salads, side dishes. Roasted rhizomes are suitable for making a coffee drink.

For what diseases is the use of wheatgrass effective?

1. Disease of the bronchi or lungs. Cough, inflammation of the upper respiratory tract is treated with a cold infusion made from 15 grams of dry root and two glasses of cold water.
2. Metabolic disease. An infusion of 4 tbsp will help improve metabolism. for 5 glasses of hot boiled water, taken in 1 tbsp. up to 5 times a day.
3. Rheumatism or gout, sciatica, osteochondrosis. A decoction is prepared in which 30 g of dry rhizome per 1 liter of water are used. The solution during cooking should be reduced by half. You need to use it 3 times a day.
4. Iron deficiency, anemia. Wheatgrass rhizome is an herbal formulation that helps treat iron deficiency anemia.
5. Inflammation of the urinary system. One of the effective folk remedies: 30 g of crushed root per 1 liter of hot boiled water, stand over a water bath for a quarter of an hour, take up to 100 g 3 r per day.
6. Liver disease. If two crushed teaspoons of the plant, filled with 1 tbsp. ordinary water, after 12 hours drain and brew with boiling water, you get a multifunctional medicinal infusion. It is recommended to take it not only for cirrhosis of the liver, but also for the normalization of material metabolism, as well as respiratory diseases.
7. Inflammation of the gallbladder. The disease is advised to be treated with the same infusion as in liver diseases.
8. Disease of the stomach or intestines. The same composition helps as with osteochondrosis in combination with the addition of a decoction to a therapeutic bath.
9. Rickets. The calcium content in the plant contributes to the effective treatment of rickets. The most popular form of taking a folk remedy is a decoction of two tablespoons of crushed mass, filled with 1 tablespoon of hot water. The tool is used as a compress or added to the bath when bathing.
10. Infertility, prostatitis. Wheatgrass, removing inflammation from the urinary system, has a beneficial effect on the genitals. It has the ability to kill germs, cleanse and soothe the organs. A steep infusion is made in a thermos (two tablespoons of crushed root, half a liter of boiling water), taken 3 times a day before meals.

When is wheatgrass contraindicated?

Medicinal herbs are contraindicated:

• pregnant women;
• lactating women;
• hypotensive patients;
• with peptic ulcer;
• during an exacerbation of pancreatitis;
• if there is diarrhea.

In other cases, compliance with the rules for taking medications from creeping wheatgrass does not cause negative consequences.

What does creeping wheatgrass look like and when is it harvested?

Appearance of wheatgrass

Creeping couch grass is easy to recognize by the thin, branched, creeping rhizome of a cylindrical structure. There are a lot of ground shoots, they are presented in the form of straight stems from 40 to 120 cm tall. The leaves are entire, flat, up to 10 mm wide, up to 40 cm long, linear, green. Inflorescences in the form of spikes 15 cm long.

Flowering time: late spring - early summer. Propagated by seeds. But if they try to take it out of the garden bed, cut it into pieces with a shovel, then parts of the rhizome with buds give rise to a new plant. In folk medicine, the root is mainly used. In order to prepare the drug, the plant is harvested in spring or autumn. The main landmark is before or after flowering.

In nature, more than 50 species of grass weed called wheatgrass are known. But the most common species in Russia is the creeping wheatgrass. The people called it differently: dog grass, wolf's tooth, zhytnik, rye, "field fire", grass root, dandur, grass worm, "white root".

External features:

• leaves look like narrow plates, have all shades of green;
• on the leaves the veins are parallel, the stem is a straw without a core;
• the root has a fibrous system, grows for tens of kilometers;
• flowers form a panicle;
• up to a thousand grains in a spikelet.

Neither nutrient-poor soil, nor low temperatures, nor drought or sweltering heat affect growth and yield.

How to grow wheatgrass?

Collection of wheatgrass

While gardeners are fighting the noxious weed, farmers are growing it as a nutritious feed for livestock. This plant culture does not need special habitat conditions, does not require special care, and brings a harvest regardless of the weather. The only thing needed to breed a plant is patience.

Growing stages:

1) seeds:

• soil preparation;
• seed soaking;
• sowing seeds in the area;

2) vegetatively:

• dig roots;
• divided into parts with a kidney;
• planted in the area.

The main requirement that the plant makes is good lighting, soft soil.

What part of wheatgrass is used in folk medicine?

wheatgrass rhizome

In wheatgrass, all parts are considered useful: root, stem, leaves, spikelets, even flowers. Green shoots are an excellent vitamin food for animals. Domestic cats and dogs are happy to eat it, replenishing the supply of vitamins and minerals spent over the winter. Crushed ears provide nutritious flour. During the war years, this weed saved villagers from starvation. And sown together with wheat increased productivity, nutritional value. The most therapeutic part of wheatgrass is a rhizome growing at a depth of 15 cm. Stems, small roots are cut from it, washed. Then dried in an oven at a temperature of up to 60 degrees or in the open air, and then crushed. Store in a sealed container or canvas bag in a dark, dry place for no more than three years.

In what form is an effective folk remedy from wheatgrass?

Infusion of wheatgrass

There are a great many medicinal recipes from creeping wheatgrass. In folk medicine, it is used in the following forms:

• tablets;
• green foliage;
• freshly squeezed juice from the root or stem;
• alcohol infusion;
• infusion in cold water or boiling water;
• decoction;
• baths;
• compresses.

Grinding wheatgrass leaves

1. Tablets are prepared quickly and easily. Juice is squeezed out of the stems crushed in a blender or meat grinder, the bread is soaked with it, peeled from the crust, and then the balls are rolled. Taking this medicine 50-60 minutes before meals for 30 days helps to strengthen the immune system, restore the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, improve well-being, and metabolism.
2. Juice from greens is squeezed out after treatment with boiling water. And then crushed, diluted with water in equal proportions, filtered, boiled for 2-3 minutes. This remedy cannot be stored for a long time. It is effective for the treatment of diseases of the upper respiratory tract, stomach, intestines. Helps to remove stones from the gallbladder.
3. The fresh green leaves are great for sweaty feet. To do this, at night, cleanly washed feet are wrapped in leaves, especially between the fingers, put on socks, and go to bed. In the morning you need to remove the grass, wash your feet. After a week, there will be a noticeable decrease in sweating, the absence of an unpleasant odor.
4. The infusion is made mainly with cold or hot water, less often with alcohol. This form of medication is used to remove salt from the body, treat joint pain, gout, cirrhosis of the liver, prostatitis, stomach ulcers or duodenum, inflammation of the genitourinary system. Helps with gastritis.
5. The decoction effectively copes with edema. The removal of excess fluid helps to cleanse the body of toxins, harmful substances, salts, which helps in the treatment of skin rashes. In the form of a decoction, the plant culture is an effective expectorant. In the form of enemas, it treats the rectum for constipation, hemorrhoids. Strengthens blood vessels, capillaries, improves elasticity. Helps to neutralize the harmful effects of antibiotics.
6. Baths with a decoction of the root have an anti-inflammatory, soothing, cleansing agent.
7. Compresses relieve inflammatory manifestations of the skin. They have an antimicrobial effect.

Which companies produce medicines with wheatgrass?

Some of the most famous manufacturers of herbal preparations offering quality products:

1. The Russian company "Russian Roots" produces medications, biological additives, aromatic oils, herbal preparations. The team of this company is sure that folk remedies used by our ancestors are more effective and healthier than pharmaceutical drugs. They do not contain chemical additives that are harmful to human body. The company believes that natural forces contribute not only to recovery, but also to recovery, as well as improvement appearance. The products of "Russian Roots" are popular in Russia, as well as in the CIS countries.

The "wheatgrass root" of this manufacturer is offered in pharmacies in the form of a dry mixture of 25 g at an affordable price: 80 rubles.

Wheatgrass root Russian roots

1. Energiya Trav+ was established in 1997. Its founder Dudarenkova I.G. - candidate of biological sciences. The company is located in the Krasnodar Territory, specializes in the production of environmentally friendly herbal medicines. It has certificates for providing consumers with quality products containing useful medicinal substances.

Creeping wheatgrass (roots) produced by the Russian company Energia Trav+ is sold packaged in 20 g at a price of 85 rubles.

Couch grass (roots) Energy herbs+

1. The Russian private manufacturer HORST differs from other companies in its original herbal preparations, which have unique biological properties that have a noticeable beneficial effect on human health. The company aims to use only effective plant crops, high-quality production, compliance with the selection technology, the absence of allergenic components, the presence of a pleasant taste, and maintaining a loyal price.

"Crawling couch grass (rhizome of couch grass)" company "HORST" will cost the buyer the cost of 90 rubles per box weighing 30 g.

"Crawling couch grass (rhizome of couch grass)" "HORST"

1. Lekra-SET Limited Liability Company was established 24 years ago. The company's location is Barnaul. This manufacturer is a well-known supplier of dietary supplements supplied in the form of herbal teas, herbal preparations. The range includes about a hundred items.

Couch grass root from the "Gifts of Nature" series of Lekra-SET LLC is offered in the form of crushed raw materials for the preparation of a tea drink in a package weighing 25 g at a budget cost of 56 rubles.

Couch grass root "Gifts of Nature" LLC "Lekra-SET"

What rules should be observed when harvesting herbal raw materials?

When self-collecting medicinal herbs you need to remember the following:

1. Plants must be collected when it contains the greatest amount of useful, medicinal substances.
2. When collecting, you need to carefully inspect the grass, take only healthy samples.
3. The leafy part must be collected in dry weather, the roots are easier to dig after rain.
4. It is strictly forbidden to collect vegetable raw materials near roads, settlements. Such plants can contain a large amount of harmful substances absorbed from the surrounding ecology.
5. Experts advise collecting surface parts in the morning, underground parts in the evening. Concerned biologists believe that the medicinal properties of herbs are influenced by the time of collection, as well as the phases of the moon. There are speculations that the plants will be filled with more magical healing power if harvested under favorable conditions for them.
6. Raw materials must be folded correctly, preferably in special baskets, without stuffing them tightly so that there is no overheating, decomposition and loss of important substances.
7. When collecting herbs, it is better to use special tools. Experts - herbalists recommend using a stainless steel knife.

Chopping wheatgrass root

Conclusion

Having gained free access to pharmaceutical chemicals offered in pharmacies located at every turn, people began to forget about the healing effectiveness medicinal plants, which not only minimize negative side effects, but also heal the body. Wheatgrass is a unique plant culture with a large number of medicinal properties that can not only assist in treatment, but also save the budget.

Collection of medicinal herbs

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We are all used to thinking that weeds do not carry any benefit and are only capable of clogging the beds and displacing cultivated plants from there. From the point of view of agronomy, this may be so. But traditional healers from ancient times used some types of weeds to treat many diseases. One of these plants is wheatgrass.

Perhaps you will not find a garden or summer cottage where such a tenacious and difficult to eradicate weed as wheat grass has not settled.

Wheatgrass consists of underground and ground parts. Its root system is powerful. Like a web, it grows underground along the surface of the soil. Weeding it does not bring results, you need to get rid of wheatgrass by sampling, removing all the roots manually. If even the slightest piece of them remains in the soil, then the plant will begin to grow and multiply again on the site.

The roots of a young weed are white, while those of an adult are yellow. After flowering, in July, when wheat grass begins to prepare for the upcoming winter, small tubers appear on them.

The ground part consists of a stem, on which leaves are alternately arranged. They are green, flat, linear, 3-8 mm wide. Wheatgrass blooms with small pale green flowers, which are collected in a complex spike of 4-7 pieces. The height of the plant reaches from 40 to 130 cm.

Flowering occurs in June-July. If the plant has enough water, then it may not bloom, multiplying exclusively by roots.

Where does wheatgrass grow

The habitat of creeping couch grass is extensive: Europe, Asia, North Africa, America. The plant prefers flat or mountainous terrain with varying degrees of soil moisture, and avoids dry or dark areas. Wheatgrass can be found both in meadows and on the sunny edges of the forest. In Russia, it is ubiquitous. We can see it along roads, in ravines, in gardens and orchards.

Wheatgrass medicinal properties

Couch grass creeping gives summer residents and gardeners a lot of trouble. We are used to destroying it, but even our ancestors used this weed for medicinal purposes, affectionately calling it a roarer. Many recipes for healing with it are alive in folk medicine to this day.

Wheatgrass has a number of medicinal properties:

• anti-inflammatory and antiseptic - destroys bacteria and prevents their growth;
• diuretic and diaphoretic - removes excess fluid from the body;
• choleretic - promotes the removal of stones in cholelithiasis;
• mild hypotensive - contributes to the normalization of blood pressure in hypertensive patients;
• mild laxative, etc.

The main function, of course, is blood purification. Due to the increased outflow of fluid, toxins are removed from the body, which has a positive effect on the condition of the skin and well-being in general.

Wheatgrass root medicinal properties

The root of wheatgrass gained the greatest popularity among folk healers. It is used for treatment both fresh and dried.

From the rhizomes, decoctions, infusions, juice are made, with which the patient is subsequently treated.

Surprisingly, this plant helps with almost any disease, in particular it:

• improve metabolism in diabetes mellitus;
• will give vivacity and vitality to people who have chronic fatigue;
• relieve pain from gout and arthritis;
• will help to remove sputum in bronchitis;
• will make the skin clean and beautiful.

Quite often, wheatgrass rhizomes are used to treat a tumor, including a malignant one.

Wheatgrass root contraindications

Wheatgrass, in addition to its healing properties, is also unique in that it has practically no contraindications. It can be used both internally and externally by almost everyone.

The exception is:

• pregnant and lactating women;
• children under the age of two;
• people experiencing intolerance to certain substances contained in the plant.

For the treatment of wounds and boils, as well as for eczema, lotions can be made from a decoction of the roots for children under the age of two years.

Grass wheatgrass medicinal properties and contraindications

Couch grass leaves in folk medicine are used less frequently than rhizomes, but they have also been used.

The ground part is used mainly for the treatment of skin diseases and diseases of the joints, although sometimes grass juice is used to prepare a diuretic, choleretic or expectorant.

It is noteworthy that the couch grass has long been chosen by our smaller brothers. Lacking substances in the body or sick animals eat its leaves for healing. Thanks to this, wheatgrass received another name - "dog grass".

Wheatgrass in folk medicine. What treats wheatgrass and how to treat them

As we wrote above, the scope of wheatgrass for medicinal purposes is very extensive. Perhaps this is due to the high vitality of the plant.

The roots of wheatgrass are used, usually dried. They are collected in May or August (before or after flowering), cleaned of small shoots and earth, washed and left to dry on a fabric basis (preferably in well-ventilated places). If, when bent, the branch of the root breaks, and does not bend, then the root is ready. Store raw materials for no more than two years in glass containers.

Quite often the roots are affected poisonous mushroom ergot, so the blackened shoots must be separated and not allowed into blanks.

Tea from dried roots will give strength and vigor in case of chronic fatigue and anemia, improve metabolism and remove toxins from the body.

root decoctions used as an expectorant, diuretic laxative.

This decoction will help with:

• rheumatism,
• arthritis,
• gout,
• cystitis.
• for those suffering from hemorrhoids, a decoction is prescribed as a microclyster of 30-60 ml;
• a decoction of the roots, cooked in milk, treats pulmonary tuberculosis.

Decoction preparation method:

1. pour 2-4 tbsp. dried roots 1 cup hot water;
2. cook for 10 minutes over low heat;
3. refrigerate and strain it.

Apply 1/3 cup 30 minutes before meals.

For wounds and juvenile acne, make lotions from the decoction on the affected skin.

Infusion from rhizomes prepared for problems with the gastrointestinal tract, gastritis, pancreatitis.

Prepare it as follows:

• 2 tbsp dried roots are poured with cooled boiled water and left for 4 hours.
• then the infusion is filtered.

Take 2 tbsp. 3-4 times a day (for furunculosis, 1 tablespoon 2 times a day).

Wheatgrass will ease the flow of eczema and also cure boils if taken baths from rhizomes or leaves and at the same time drink in the form of a decoction of the roots inside. Baths are also useful for hemorrhoids.

Bath preparation method:

1. pour 100-150 g of fresh or dried raw materials 4-5 liters. water;
2. boil for 0.5 hours;
3. strain the resulting broth, cool and dilute in a bath with warm water.

You need to take such baths 1-2 times a week for 0.5 hours.

What treats wheatgrass, burdock and dandelion, recipes and uses

We remember burdock, dandelions and wheatgrass from childhood. But not everyone knows that medicines for any diseases are growing literally under our feet.

Wheatgrass is a very strong healer for almost all diseases. A decoction of its roots is taken for dropsy, arthritis, gout, kidney and gallbladder stones, cystitis, urinary incontinence, eye diseases, and even oncology.

Dandelion adorns lawns and fields in spring. However, gardeners weed it out along with other weeds in their plots, considering it a pest. Although since ancient times, dandelion leaves have been used as food, and healing potions have been prepared from the root.

This small plant helps fight serious diseases such as:

• stomach and liver cancer,
• diathesis,
• arthritis,
• inflammation of the lymph nodes.

For medicinal purposes, dandelion root that has not bloomed is suitable. You need to dig it out in the fall.

Another weed that we have seen, but do not know its full healing power, is burdock. It has a powerful root that goes deep into the ground.

It is from it that the decoction helps to cope:

• with any skin disease
• diabetes,
• bronchitis,
• oncology,
• hepatitis
• liver cirrhosis
• and even paralysis.

But only an annual plant without burrs and dry leaves is suitable for treatment, the roots of which are dug out in spring or autumn.

The dug roots of the listed weeds need to be washed and dried (burdock root must also be cut).

Ready raw materials are used as follows:

1. pour one tablespoon of dry roots with 2 cups of boiling water;
2. boil for 10 minutes;
3. insist 2 hours;

Take 0.5 cup of decoction three times a day 15-20 minutes before meals.

You can be treated with one type of plant or a collection of all three. It is also allowed to alternate the intake of herbs as follows: take a decoction of wheatgrass for a week, then a week from burdock, then a week from dandelion roots.

What treats wheatgrass root, recipes and applications

It is believed that there is no such disease that creeping wheatgrass could not cure.

Indeed, the list of diseases that can be treated with this weed is impressive:

• gout;
• male and female diseases;
• joint disease;
• acute respiratory infections, bronchitis;
• tuberculosis;
• stones in the gallbladder and kidneys;
• skin diseases;
• constipation;
• oncology, etc.

For the treatment of most of them, decoctions, infusions and juice made from the roots of the plant are used.

Recipe for cholecystitis

1. take 20 grams of wheatgrass root;
2. pour 1.5 cups of boiling water;
3. let it brew for 4 hours;
4. strain.

Take 1 glass 3 times a day for a month.

Recipe treatment acne vulgaris

1. take a collection of two parts of couch grass and one part of tricolor violet, horsetail and nettle;
2. pour two teaspoons of the collection into 250 ml. boiling water;
3. let it brew and then strain.

The resulting tea drink one cup three times a day.

Recipe from colds of the upper respiratory tract

1. take 15 g of raw materials;
2. pour two glasses of cold boiled water;
3. insist 12 hours;
4. strain.

Drink an infusion of wheatgrass roots three times a day for half a glass.

Recipe for the treatment of osteochondrosis decoction obtained by evaporation:

1. 30 g of dry roots pour 1 liter. water;
2. boil until half of the liquid remains.

Take 3 times a day, 100 ml.

Prescription for tuberculosis decoction of wheatgrass roots in milk:

1. two tablespoons of roots pour 250 ml. hot milk;
2. cook for 5 minutes;
3. strain the resulting decoction.

The whole mass is drunk at one time, in general, up to 3 glasses of broth are taken per day.

Recipe for the treatment of diabetes

1. Pour two tablespoons into two glasses of water;
2. boil for 10 minutes;
3. then strain and refrigerate.

Take half a glass of decoction 4 times a day before meals.

What treats grass wheatgrass, recipes and applications

Couch grass leaves begin to grow immediately after the snow melts. However, by mid-July, the plant begins to prepare for winter, and the ground part withers and turns yellow. In folk medicine, wheatgrass leaves are used externally or taken in the form of juice.

Recipe for excessive sweating of the feet

1. cut the wheatgrass leaves;
2. stretch them between your fingers, like weaving a basket;
3. put on socks and leave the product on overnight.
4. In the morning, remove the leaves, wash your feet and change your socks.

According to traditional healers, after a week-long course of procedures, bad smell won't bother you for a few years.

bath recipe for eczema

If you or your baby is concerned about eczema, then follow these steps:

1. couch grass leaves (100-150 g, you can add rhizomes) pour a few liters of water;
2. boil for half an hour;
3. chilled broth pour a bath filled with warm water.

Take such baths once a week for half an hour, and they will alleviate your condition. Also, such procedures very well help with problems with the joints.

wheatgrass leaf juice recipe cholelithiasis and lung diseases

1. Rinse the required number of leaves and pass through a meat grinder;
2. add water in a ratio of 1:1;
3. strain through a fine sieve and boil the resulting liquid for 2-5 minutes.

Take 0.5 cup half an hour before meals 2-3 times a day.

With heavy menstruation or uterine bleeding, the juice is taken 0.5 cup 3-4 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

Juice is used only freshly prepared. The term of admission ranges from 15-20 days (for cholelithiasis) to 2-3 months (for pulmonary diseases).
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