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Highlander bird (Polygonum aviculare), is a herbaceous annual plant, reaching a height of eighty centimeters. Among the people it is also called bird buckwheat, knotweed, grass-ant, goose grass.
This is a medicinal plant, for poultry is fodder. Young ones can be successfully eaten in soups, salads, in the form of mashed potatoes. In Dagestan, knotweed is used for filling pies.
If the soil is well fertilized, the mountaineer grows so violently that a continuous carpet is formed - a real grass-ant. In this case, other plants are completely suppressed. From the grass of the plant, dyes can be obtained, for example, blue is made from the roots.
Knotweed grows everywhere. on rural streets, in yards, in parks, gardens, on playgrounds, in young plantings, along roadsides, along river banks.
For medicinal uses during the flowering period, grass is harvested, which should be cut with a knife. The raw materials are dried, spread out in a thin layer in the shade, in attics and racks. Stored in paper and canvas bags for no more than three years.
Knotweed can be used both independently and as part of fees.
Plant preparations exhibit blood-purifying, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, diaphoretic, analgesic, tonic, antipyretic and wound-healing properties.
Knotweed preparations can dissolve and remove stones from the kidneys and gallbladder, expel sand, and normalize metabolic processes in the body. When taking them, care must be taken, increasing the dose progressively, and the course of treatment itself should begin with very small doses.
The infusion of the plant also shows good therapeutic results with jaundice against the background of cholelithiasis. Highlander bird is used orally for diseases Bladder, kidney and edema of renal origin.
Highlander is also used for swelling of the legs, while compresses are made from fresh chopped grass or decoction for the night.
The infusion of the plant is effectively used for gout, salt metabolism disorders, polyarthritis and obesity. It is prescribed as an antipyretic for bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchial asthma, cough, fever, pulmonary tuberculosis and whooping cough.
The remedy is also used for rinsing with inflammatory phenomena on the oral mucosa and with hoarseness. It is also consumed warm inside.
Knotweed has long been known as an effective hemostatic agent that can be successfully used for external, internal, uterine bleeding in the postpartum period, with heavy menstruation, bleeding after an abortion.
An alcohol tincture of knotweed is also actively used. The plant improves appetite in gastritis, has an astringent effect in diarrhea, gastrointestinal disorders and dysentery. Knotweed also helps with diabetes mellitus, diseases of the pancreas and liver, gastric and duodenal ulcers.
The decoction can be applied internally and used for douching with whites, and externally it is effective for ulcers that do not heal for a long time, and in addition, for bruises, wounds, abscesses, tumors, burns and boils.
For the manufacture of lotions and washes, both the infusion and decoction of this plant are suitable. Fresh grass is pushed aside and put on the affected areas, and the decoction is good for baths and applications for skin diseases.
The plant tones the nervous system, in connection with this, it has found application as a tonic after a serious illness, with nervous exhaustion, weakness, loss of strength, in old age, with neurasthenia, and also as an antispasmodic for headaches and rheumatic pains. It is also used to lower blood pressure.
A decoction of herbs is a good remedy for dandruff, it also strengthens the hair. The people believe that the knotweed has great strength, which it gives to people, why since ancient times it is advised to make barefoot runs on the dewy grass-ant on a summer morning.
Classification
The plant has the following taxonometric classification:
- department: Flowering;
- class: Dicotyledons;
- order: Carnation;
- family: Buckwheat;
- genus: Persicaria;
- species: Highlander pepper.
The genus Persicaria includes 66 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants. The most common types of mountaineer:
- capitate;
- Chinese;
- multi-leaved;
- sorrel;
- many-eared;
- Virginia;
- dyeing;
- Senegalese;
- point;
- Pennsylvanian;
- Oriental;
- small;
- long-bristle.
For medicinal purposes, the highlander amphibian and kidney are also used. They have similar to water pepper healing properties.
Medicinal properties of the mountaineer pepper
Even the ancient Greeks and Romans noticed the healing properties
herbs of this plant and used them as an astringent, antimalarial and hemostatic agent.
In modern medicine, water pepper is used - in the form of infusion and liquid extract also as a hemostatic agent for hemorrhoids and uterine bleeding, with uterine fibroids, chronic endometritis and heavy menstruation.
AT traditional medicine and in homeopathy, the range of use of the herb of this plant is much wider. It is used for diseases of the thyroid gland, as an astringent, hemostatic, analgesic, wound healing agent, as well as for skin diseases and liver diseases, urolithiasis, edema, gastric ulcer, eczema, bronchial asthma.
These medicinal properties explained by the rich chemical composition plants. The pepper grass contains flavonoids (biologically active substances) - hyperoside, quercitrin, quercetin, kaempferol, rutin, rhamnasin, isorhamnetin, as well as tannins, vitamins A, D, E, K, ascorbic acid, organic acids - formic, acetic, and also the glycoside politopinerin.
Galenic preparations ( medicines, obtained from plant materials by extraction (extraction), are tinctures (alcohol or water-alcohol extracts) or extracts) of the pepper mountaineer have hemostatic properties.
Volatile essential oil water pepper slightly reduces arterial pressure. Galenic preparations of this plant also have some cardiotonic and diuretic properties and to some extent increase the tone of peripheral vessels.
On the basis of these properties, herbal preparations of the mountaineer are actively used in obstetric and gynecological practice.
Also, infusions and extracts of the plant are prescribed for bleeding from small vessels and capillaries of the stomach, intestines, as well as for mild hemorrhoidal bleeding.
The grass of the mountaineer pepper is sometimes used for diarrhea and enterocolitis in combination with other medicinal plants. In complex collections, this herb is prescribed for patients with chronic colitis, accompanied by erosive and ulcerative lesions of the mucous membrane, as well as in the treatment of hemorrhoids.
In official medicine, several dosage forms of water pepper are used. These are liquid water pepper extract, water pepper herb infusion, Anestezol antihemorrhoid suppositories.
It is a transparent, green-brown, fragrant liquid with a bitter-astringent taste. This extract is prescribed as a hemostatic agent - 30-40 drops three times a day.
To obtain it, two tablespoons of raw materials (20 g) are placed in an enamel bowl, poured with a glass of hot boiled water (200 ml) and placed in a water bath for 15 minutes. Then it is cooled at room temperature for 45 minutes, filtered, and the remaining raw material is squeezed out.
Apply the infusion as a hemostatic agent, one third of a glass three times a day before meals.
The grass of the mountaineer pepper is sold in dried form in pharmacies, packaged in packs of 50 g.
In those places where water pepper grows in ecologically clean conditions - away from noisy roads and industrial enterprises- you can make it yourself. Do this at the beginning of flowering. It is advisable to dry the stocked grass quickly so that it does not darken.
Candles "Anestezol" - perform analgesic (pain reliever), antiseptic (disinfecting), astringent (protective), drying, antihemorrhoidal functions.
To prepare it, one tablespoon of dry raw materials is poured over two glasses of boiling water. Infuse for 6-7 hours, then filter the liquid. Take one tablespoon three times a day.
In folk medicine, this infusion is taken in half a glass three times a day for various bleeding, diarrhea, stomach ulcers, dropsy, flatulence, malaria.
Contraindications
Like many other drugs from medicinal herbs water pepper is not recommended during pregnancy and lactation.
E. Valentinov
Highlander pepper, or water pepper (Polygonum hydropiper L.)
(bitter, female frog grass)
The buckwheat family is Polygonaceae.
Plants are used for medicinal purposes.
Grows in wet marshy meadows, near the banks of rivers, ponds and ditches, often in dense thickets. It is widely distributed throughout almost the entire territory of Russia (except for the Crimea), as well as in Europe, North Africa and America.
Highlander pepper is found everywhere in Ukraine, in the steppe regions - mainly along the river valleys. Stocks of raw materials are large. Industrial blanks are produced in Vinnitsa, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa, Chernihiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsky regions.
It grows everywhere, with the exception of the Far North, along the swampy banks of rivers, lakes, ponds, wetlands, damp meadows and groves. Often found as a weed in settlements, in wet ditches.
Knotweed is an annual herbaceous plant. Its stem is erect, branched, often, especially in autumn, reddish, up to 70 cm high. The leaves are shiny, often with glandular dots or black, as if tar, spots, oblong-lanceolate in shape, narrowed to both edges, sharp or obtuse, 3-6 cm long, wavy along the edges, bells almost bare, with short cilia along the edge.
The taste of freshly picked leaves is always bitter-burning, like pepper (hence the name: water pepper, pepper mountaineer); after drying, this pungency disappears. The flowers are small, pinkish or greenish-pink, collected at the top of the stem and branches in long drooping, interrupted spike-shaped inflorescences.
Fruits are brown nuts, dull, triangular in shape, punctately rough, strongly convex on one side. Blooms from late June to September. Grass plants (flowering branches, at a height of 10-15 cm from the ground) are collected during flowering (in June - July).
The grass of the mountaineer pepper is harvested at the end of summer during flowering, the whole plant is cut off at a height of 10 cm or mowed with a scythe. Dry in the open air under a canopy or in dryers at a temperature of 30-40°C. Drying in the air is carried out quickly, scattering in a thin layer and often turning over, since the grass begins to blacken during slow drying.
Ready-to-eat raw materials are green, leafy, with flowers and fruits stems of varying degrees of development, up to 45 cm long, without coarse lower parts. The rhizomes of the highlander are harvested immediately after flowering, before the first mowing of grasses.
The healing properties of the mountaineer pepper have been known since ancient times. traditional healers treated with preparations from the mountaineer pepper skin diseases. It was believed that poultices have a softening effect, cleanse festering wounds and relieve pain.
Sitz baths from the decoction of the mountaineer pepper were prescribed for those suffering from hemorrhoids. Baths stopped bleeding and eliminated the itching characteristic of hemorrhoids.
As a hemostatic and analgesic, drugs from the mountaineer were taken orally and hemorrhoidal bleeding, as well as a sedative for nervous diseases.
Description and habitat of the mountaineer pepper
Highlander pepper (water pepper) - Polygonum hydropiper L. Buckwheat family - Polygonaceae
Belongs to the buckwheat family. An annual herbaceous plant with a knotty erect stem up to 60 cm high. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, alternate, entire, long-pointed at the apex.
Small greenish-pink flowers are collected in long spike-shaped brushes. The whole plant has a characteristic bitter-pepper taste. Blooms in June-August. The fruit is a trihedral caryopsis, ripens in August-September.
Spreading
Widespread plant. It grows throughout our country in wet meadows, along the banks of rivers and lakes, like a weed.
The aerial part of the plant.
The aerial part of the plant contains flavonoids, polygopiperine glycoside, essential oil, etc.
In folk medicine, as a means of cleansing wounds and resolving hardening. In the Middle Ages, Paracelsus used water pepper herb externally as an analgesic and irritant, replacing mustard plasters. In folk medicine, it is considered an antitumor plant.
Water pepper herb has a strong hemostatic effect, is used orally for uterine and hemorrhoidal bleeding. It is also used as an external agent in the form of baths, irrigations and ointments.
Knotweed is a good tool for the destruction of pests of garden crops. It is prepared as follows: 1 kg of grass is poured into 2-3 liters of water, brought to a boil and infused for several hours, covered with something warm. Then filter, add water to 10 liters, mix and use for spraying plants.
Contraindications
The plant is slightly poisonous.
Cooking
For oral administration, 1 tablespoon of herbs is infused with 0.5 liters of boiling water - a daily dose.
Tags: herbalist, buckwheat, Highlander, water pepper
Knotweed pepper or water pepper (Polygonum hydropiper L.) is an annual herbaceous plant of the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae), with an erect, usually reddish, branched stem 40-70 cm high.
Leaves with reddish funnels tightly covering the stem, alternate, lanceolate, pointed, with a narrowly cuneate base, shortly stiffly ciliated and slightly wavy along the edge, lower ones short-petiolate, upper ones almost sessile.
The flowers are small, white, greenish or pink, sessile, collected 1-3 in the axils of the bracts at the ends of the stems and form sparse, intermittent racemes up to 10 cm long with a drooping top. The fruits are dihedral, or almost trihedral, black or dark brown, similar in description to nuts 2-3 mm long.
The habitats of the mountaineer pepper are mainly the forest zone, but along the river valleys it enters the steppe and semi-desert zones. It grows in floodplains, wetlands, damp meadows, urems, marshy banks of rivers, oxbow lakes, lakes, ponds, and also along damp roads.
Cucumber description (Cucumis sativus L.): belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, is a herbaceous plant with a long (up to 2 m) weak, creeping stem.
The leaves are large, alternate, rough, heart-shaped, with 5 sharp unequally toothed lobes. A plant with tendrils, with which it can grow on a support. Flowers yellow, variegated.
The fruit is a multi-seeded, juicy, oblong, emerald green, pimply pumpkin. The cucumber shares a common ancestor with the melon. Blooms from May to August. Fruiting from June to September.
Distribution: homeland of cucumbers - East Asia. Currently, it is one of the most common vegetables and one of the main crops grown in the fields, in greenhouses and greenhouses.
The pepper plant got its name because of the sharp taste of pepper. The first experiments on the use of this herb were undertaken at the beginning of the last century. One of the discoverers of the useful properties of the mountaineer pepper was the Russian pharmacist Semyon Piotrovsky, his research was continued by the pharmacologist Nikolai Kravkov - it was through his efforts that this plant began to be used in traditional medicine.
In medicine, the aerial part is used, which is collected during flowering. The collected raw materials are dried in a dry, ventilated area, often turning over. When drying slowly, the grass turns black. It is better to dry in dryers at a temperature of 40-50 ° C.
Highlander pepper or water pepper is an annual herbaceous plant with branched reddish stems, 30-60 cm tall, of the buckwheat family. The leaves are alternate oblong-lanceolate with reddish trumpets at the base, often with a black spot.
The roots of the mountaineer are thick, twisted twice in the form of the Latin letter S, reddish at the break, thin adventitious roots depart from it. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, pale pink, with a purple hue, collected at the top of the stems in a thin, spicate, discontinuous, drooping inflorescence 4-6 cm long.
There are indications in the literature that water pepper is a poisonous plant. In folk practice, this is not noted.
Knotweed grows everywhere, with the exception of the Far North, along the swampy banks of rivers, lakes, ponds, wetlands, damp meadows and groves. Often found as a weed in settlements, in damp ditches.
The grass of the mountaineer is harvested at the end of summer during flowering, the whole plant is cut off at a height of 10 cm or mowed with a scythe. Dry in the open air under a canopy or in dryers at a temperature of 30-40°C. Drying in the air is carried out quickly, scattering in a thin layer and often turning over, since the grass begins to blacken during slow drying.
The ready-to-eat grass of the highlander is green, leafy, with flowers and fruits, stems of varying degrees of development, up to 45 cm long, without coarse lower parts. The rhizomes of the highlander are harvested immediately after flowering, before the first mowing of grasses.
They dig them up with shovels, shake them off the ground, silt, wash them in cold water, cleaned of small roots and leaf scales, cut into pieces of 10 cm, laid out in one layer on the bedding. Dry in a warm, well-ventilated room, in attics with an iron roof, in ovens, in good weather in the air.
The shelf life of dried rhizomes is up to 3 years. They have an astringent, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, analgesic, hemostatic, wound healing, soothing effect, improve the functions of the stomach and intestines.
Knotweed is an annual plant. The stem is branched from the base, erect, the height is twenty to seventy centimeters.
The flowers of the plant are small, collected in intermittent, long, spike-shaped inflorescences of two to three in bunches at the tops of branches and stems. Perianth greenish-pink or pink, densely covered with dotted glands, 4-5 separate. The fruit is a nut.
Flowering period - July - October. Forest mustard can be found in ditches, in humid forests, in meadows, along river banks.
In a mixture with other medicinal plants, Knotweed is used for diarrhea, enterocolitis. External use in the form of local baths for nodular goiter, eczema, hemorrhoids, for the treatment of gangrenous and purulent wounds.
For malaria, an infusion of a pepper mountaineer: one tablespoon, two glasses of boiling water - the daily rate.
In case of prolapse of the rectum: plant grass (without the norm), pour water, boil. Insist until cool. Make baths in a warm infusion for fifteen to twenty minutes. Improvement comes after two - three procedures.
** For stomach ulcers, gastritis: fifteen grams of chopped grass, one glass of vodka or 40% alcohol. Insist in a dark place for two weeks. Take ten drops three to four times a day.
** For hemorrhoidal and gastrointestinal bleeding, infusion of herbs: one tablespoon of raw materials, two cups of boiling water. For hemorrhoids, boil the turnip in a large amount of water and apply the decoction in the form of sitz baths.
Description, chemical composition, medicinal properties
Application and medicinal recipes
plant composition
Pepper grass (or, as it is also called, water pepper) is an annual plant that is widely used in both traditional and folk medicine. It is harvested during the flowering period.
The composition of the mountaineer pepper includes flavonoids, including isorhamnetin, quercetin, kaempferol. They have antispasmodic, hemostatic and anti-inflammatory effects. The plant also contains vitamins of groups K, C, in a small amount - D, E, A, macro- and microelements - bromine, lead, strontium, selenium, potassium, copper, manganese, magnesium, chromium, boron, iodine, silver, nickel , vanadium, iron, calcium, zinc, cobalt, aluminum.
The researchers found that the plant is a source of acetic, valeric and formic acids, paracoumaric and chlorogenic phenolic acids, aldehydes, sugars, tannins and astringents.
Due to its composition, the herb is used not only as a hemostatic agent. As one of the components, it is used in the treatment of peptic ulcer, hemorrhoids, pancreatitis, migraine, chronic diarrhea.
In many regions of the northern hemisphere, where a temperate climate reigns, pepper mountaineer is found. A photo of it, viewed in advance, will allow you to distinguish this plant among others without errors. This grass can reach 80 cm in height, it has a branched stem, often with a reddish tint.
The leaves of the plant are elongated, smooth, transparent dots are visible on them. Wild mustard flowers are inconspicuous and small, only a few millimeters long. They are framed with a green or reddish corolla.
Procurement rules
You can collect ground parts of the plant from late June to September. It is during this period that it blooms. It is necessary to dry both the stems and the flowers. To do this, the collected plants are laid out in a thin layer in the shade and often turned over. For industrial blanks, it is best to use special units.
To prepare raw materials at home, you can use attics and sheds for drying. It is spread in a small layer, the thickness of which should not exceed 5 cm, on paper or fabric. If you dry grass in the sun, it will turn black.
plant action
Highlander pepper (water pepper is one of the names of this herb) is used as a hemostatic agent. The tincture of this plant has an astringent and anti-inflammatory effect, it is also a diuretic.
In addition, it is known that water pepper is also an analgesic, sedative, antimicrobial agent. In addition to these properties, it is still able to increase the secretion of the stomach and sex glands.
It also stimulates uterine contractions. True, this ability is much weaker than that of ergot. With heavy painful menstruation, it greatly alleviates the condition of the woman, its action occurs quickly enough.
Scope of use
Not everyone knows that the use of water pepper is not limited to the need to reduce uterine bleeding. The spectrum of its action is much wider. The herb is used for various bleeding, including stomach, intestinal, menstrual.
If we talk about the decoction of this plant, then it has a bacteriostatic effect (stops the growth of microorganisms). It is used for various rashes, scrofula, malaria, difficulty urinating. Its analgesic properties are also widely used, for this it is enough to make a tea out of it.
Knotweed is also used in combination with other plants. The description of the composition of the fees makes it possible to see what concentration of this herb is necessary to improve the patient's condition. So, in combination it is used to treat diarrhea and enterocolitis.
Water pepper is often prescribed by doctors. As a rule, they recommend using ready-made pharmaceutical preparations. So, on sale you can find liquid extract in bottles and dried water pepper in packs of 100 grams.
Water pepper extract looks like a brown-green liquid with a strong odor. It tastes quite bitter, with an astringent effect. An extract is prescribed, as a rule, as a hemostatic agent, 30 (sometimes 40) drops, it must be taken three times a day.
On sale there are also candles for hemorrhoids "Anestezol", which include mountaineer pepper. The use of this herb in such a preparation is due to its hemostatic effect.
If desired, you can independently prepare an infusion of this herb. It also has a hemostatic effect. It is made from two tablespoons of raw materials and 200 ml of boiled hot water. The resulting mixture must be infused for 15 minutes in a boiling water bath.
After that, the liquid is cooled for 45 minutes and filtered. The resulting thick must be squeezed out. After all these procedures, the volume of the infusion must be brought to 200 ml by adding boiled water to it. Three times a day, 1/3 cup is taken prepared in this way water pepper.
In most cases, it is the ground part of the plant that is used. But for the treatment of impotence and low acidity of the stomach, traditional medicine advises using the roots.
Contraindications
Like many herbal remedies, pepper grass herb may not be used by everyone. So, it is contraindicated in patients with thrombophlebitis because of its blood-clotting effect. Also, it is not worth drinking a remedy based on it for those who have inflammation of the bladder or kidneys. Pregnancy, by the way, also refers to contraindications.
It is worth considering that fresh grass can have a strong irritant effect on the mucous membranes and skin. When dried, these properties are lost, so you can only use a pre-harvested plant.
When using, it is important to strictly adhere to the dosage, because its non-compliance is fraught with poisoning. Their first symptoms will be a decrease in temperature, diarrhea, general weakness, worsening of cardiac activity.
Cosmetology
Forest mustard can be used not only as a therapeutic hemostatic agent. If your hair falls out, then water pepper can help. Tincture, the instruction to which speaks of its stimulating properties, can improve vascular tone. To reduce hair loss, you do not have to drink it. It must be applied like a mask.
To do this, mix the ready-made pharmaceutical extract of the pepper mountaineer and the oil solution of vitamin E in equal amounts. The resulting mixture must be thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and left for 20 minutes.
If you do not want to use a purchased pharmacy extract, you can make your own alcohol tincture. To do this, 25 g of dry grass is poured with 100 grams of alcohol or vodka. The mixture is infused in a dark place for two weeks. Don't forget to shake it occasionally.
ethnoscience
In most cases, doctors prescribe mountaineer pepper only as a hemostatic agent. It is usually recommended by gynecologists for painful periods and the need to reduce uterine bleeding. And traditional medicine suggests using all the possibilities of this herb.
People mostly stick to traditional methods of treatment - taking an infusion or extract of this plant inside. But it can also be used to dissolve tumors. For this purpose, compresses are made from grass.
The plant also helps with hemorrhoidal itching. To alleviate the condition, it is necessary to do sitz baths with this herb. Prepare them in the following way. 400 g of herbs are boiled for 15 minutes in two liters of water.
Separately, 400 g of milk is boiled, the same amount of roll cut into small pieces is poured into it. Infusions of grass and milk are mixed, the mixture is poured into a container in which you can sit. This procedure should take 15 minutes.
The opinion of the people and traditional medicine in matters of the advisability of using an extract or tincture of water pepper inside, they coincide. Both doctors and healers recognize the excellent hemostatic properties of this plant.
You can prepare infusions of a decoction of a herb of a pepper mountaineer according to the following recipes:
- Herbal infusion. Pour 1 table, a spoonful of crushed raw materials with 1 glass of water, heat over low heat or a water bath for 15 minutes, insist until cool, strain. Take 1/3 cup 3-4 times daily before meals. Store in a cool place for no more than 2 days.
- Cold infusion of herbs. 1 table, a spoonful of chopped herbs in 1 glass of cold boiled water. Infuse for 4 hours, take 1/3-1/2 cup 2-3 times a day before meals.
- Herb decoction. 10 g of herbs per 1 cup of boiling water. Prepared in the usual way. Take similarly to cold infusion.
Parts of the plant used: fruits, vines, seeds.
By the amount of accumulated liquid (97%) it surpasses all other vegetables.
The medicinal properties of cucumbers are due to the presence of biologically active substances in the plant.
Contraindications for use
Highlander has medicinal properties, is used in folk medicine as a hemostatic, wound healing agent. Harvest the herb during flowering in mid-summer. Dry the plant in an oven or electric oven. In the sun, the leaves and stems darken, lose their beneficial properties.
Tinctures from the plant relieve inflammation, stop attacks of hemorrhoids, increase hemoglobin. Grass serves as a filler for pillows, strengthens sleep, restores the nervous system.
Highlander pepper is prescribed for:
- low blood clotting;
- thinning of the walls of capillaries, vessels, veins;
- bleeding, diseases of the female reproductive system;
- inflammation, cuts, burns of the skin.
Powdered leaves treat purulent ulcers, eczema, psoriasis. The rhizomes of the herb are taken in distress digestive system, diarrhea, intestinal colic.
Dried mountaineer is used in cooking for cooking hot sauces, adding to meat, dressings for salads and side dishes. Peduncles and seeds are used in the preservation of vegetables. Leaves add a piquant taste to marinades, soups. The stems are added to teas, compotes, kissels as a tonic and sedative.
Highlander is a productive honey plant, planted near apiaries. Green, yellow, gold, gray paints are made from grass.
The medicinal properties of the plant allow it to be used in medicinal purposes. However, it is worth remembering that the herb is poisonous, and its use should be approached with caution.
We also did not know what this herb is called pepper mountaineer.
, or water pepper
(Persicaria hydropiper)
and belongs to the buckwheat family. In some publications, you can find the Latin name of the pepper mountaineer as (Polygonum hydropiper)
, i.e.
This is an annual herbaceous plant with a height of 30 to 70 cm. It has an upright branched stem, green at the beginning of the growing season and gradually reddening by the time of flowering. At the ends of the shoots, greenish-pink flowers are formed, collected in spike-shaped brushes.
Leaves are lanceolate, 0.5 to 3 cm wide and 3 to 10 cm long. Far East. This plant likes to grow in damp places.
The leaves, stems and seeds of the peppercorn have a sharp peppery taste.
Use the aerial part of the mountaineer pepper and crushed seeds as a spicy seasoning for salads, soups, sauces. The aerial part (before the fruiting phase) and seeds are of interest to the canning industry.
As a medicinal plant, the mountaineer was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as an astringent, antimalarial, hemostatic agent. In modern medicine, it is used for hemorrhoids and uterine bleeding, for uterine fibroids, chronic endometritis and heavy menstruation. Pepper mountaineer extract is part of the Anestezol antihemorrhoidal suppositories.
Application of the mountaineer pepper
In folk medicine, an aqueous decoction of the mountaineer is used as a hemostatic agent, for liver disease, for healing wounds, rinsing (Nikolaeva, 1964); wounds are poured with fresh grass juice (Cholovsky, 1882). Knotweed is used during menstruation to stop heavy bleeding.
In medical practice, preparations of mountaineer pepper (extract) are used as a hemostatic agent for hemorrhoids and uterine bleeding (menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea).
An admixture may be other types of knotweed, similar to the knotweed, which, when fresh, are easily distinguished by the absence of a sharp-burning peppery taste, characteristic only of the knotweed, and by the inflorescence, which in the knotweed is thin, intermittent and drooping, and in other species one of these signs missing.
1. A plant with a thin filamentous inflorescence ... ..2
A plant with a dense cylindrical inflorescence. . . 3
2. Perianth bears yellow shiny glands (magnifier). The bell is ciliated along the edge, naked - Highlander pepper - Polygonum hydropiper L.
Perianth without glands, bell along the edge is long-ciliated and covered with long hairs - Highlander small - Polygonum minus Huds.
3. Perianth without glands, bell with short stiff adpressed hairs, with long cilia along the edge. The flowers are mostly pink. The leaves usually have a black-brown spot - Polygonum persicaria L.
The perianth bears yellow glands. The trumpet is naked with short cilia along the edge. The leaves are pubescent or glabrous below, with clearly visible yellow-brown shiny glands. The flowers are most often white - Highlander rough - Polygonum scabrum Moench.
Application.
In folk medicine, the mountaineer has long been used in the form of freshly squeezed juice for various diseases, suppuration, diarrhea, etc. In Bulgaria, it is also used for diarrhea, dysentery and nephrolithiasis.
The pharmaceutical industry produces a liquid extract of water pepper, which is taken 30-40 drops 3-4 times a day. Water pepper is part of antihemorrhoid suppositories - anesthesol.
At home, you can prepare an infusion or tea from water pepper herb 1:10 and take with uterine and hemorrhoidal bleeding a tablespoon 3-4 times a day (Sklyarevsky, 1970).
Water pepper extract enhances uterine muscle contractions, it is used during heavy and painful menstruation, after abortion, after childbirth, with gastric and intestinal bleeding (Turova, 1974), pulmonary bleeding, fibromyomas and chronic inflammatory processes in the uterus.
Sesquiterpene aldehyde was isolated from the leaves of water pepper, which in experiments on animals showed cytotoxic and antibiotic activity, which indicates the prospects for further study of this plant as a source of antitumor drugs.
In folk medicine, the plant is popular as a remedy for hemorrhoids. It is used as a diuretic, analgesic, with bloody diarrhea, dropsy, urolithiasis, to strengthen the gums. The decoction is used for stomach cancer. With hemorrhoids do sitz baths. For tumors and eczema, poultices are made (Minaeva, 1991).
Wounds are moistened with fresh grass juice (Ges, 1976).
In Ukraine, the mountaineer pepper is used as a means of cleansing wounds and softening abscesses. Inside take with nervous diseases as a sedative. Fresh leaves are applied to the back of the head for headaches and runny nose. Rinse your mouth with fresh juice for toothache (Popov, 1967).
Knotweed has a dicongestive effect on the pelvic organs and is therefore used as an aid in prostatic hypertrophy. Juice rinse the mouth with periodontal disease (Petkov, 1988).
In Karelia, a decoction of the mountaineer is taken as a wound healing agent, as well as for skin diseases, liver diseases, kidney stones, stomach ulcers, tumors and bruises. A decoction of the roots is used for impotence, ginacid gastritis, and other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (Schroeter, 1975).
Knotweed is used for bloody urine, difficulty urinating, malaria, rashes, scrofula, rheumatism (Plant Resources, 1985).
Powder from the grass of the mountaineer pepper and the grass of the bedstraw in the ratio of 2: 1 fall asleep old wounds, ulcers (Nosal, 1960).
The herb infusion has antiseptic and antibacterial action (Altymyshev, 1976).
Preparations prepared from fresh herbs give better therapeutic results than from dry, prepared in advance (Kulikov, 1975).
Freshly crushed water pepper cleanses the face of scars, destroys freckles and bruises, dissolves hard tumors (Avicenna).
In Khakassia, highlander pepper is used for uterine fibromyoma, chronic endometritis (Prisoner, 1989).
In folk medicine, mountaineer pepper was used for thyroid diseases, as an astringent, hemostatic, analgesic, wound healing, for skin diseases, liver diseases, urolithiasis, edema, stomach ulcers, eczema, bronchial asthma.
From the knotweed you can get yellow, golden, golden green, gray and protective colors.
Care should be taken not to overdose, as the plant has toxic properties.
Fresh leaves of the mountaineer pepper (crushed) replace mustard plaster in folk medicine; they are applied, for example, to the back of the head with a runny nose or headache as a distraction; for the same purpose, they are used for toothache in the form of a rinse, diluting the juice from them in a ratio of 1: 10.
In 1912-1913, the pharmacist Petrovsky, Professor Krakovsky and other researchers drew attention to the strong hemostatic property of this herb. So the mountaineer pepper was recognized by scientific medicine.
Now the plant has been introduced into the State Pharmacopoeia of Russia and the release of the drug from it, the so-called liquid extract of the pepper mountaineer, is allowed, in addition, the drug from this plant anesthesol is part of antihemorrhoid suppositories.
Application methods. Decoction: 12.0 - 200.0; one tablespoon three times a day.
Tincture: 25.0; on alcohol - 10 - 20 drops, on vodka - 30 - 40 drops, three to four times a day.
Extract: decoction, condensed to half; use one teaspoon three times a day.
Water pepper is used in folk medicine for uterine bleeding, during heavy and painful menstruation, after abortion, after childbirth. Water pepper extract enhances uterine muscle contractions, but is inferior to ergot in activity.
It is also used for internal bleeding in patients with hemoptysis, bleeding from the bladder, with gastric and hemorrhoidal bleeding (for hemorrhoids, it is used orally and for sitz baths).
It is used as an external irritant. With a headache, freshly crushed grass is applied to the back of the head instead of mustard plaster. Pulverized together with the seeds, the mountaineer cleanses the face of scars, destroys freckles and old bruises, and the bandages from the mountaineer dissolve solid tumors.
Contraindications for use
Dried leaves of the plant are used in the treatment of gastritis, stomach and intestinal ulcers, Crohn's disease, inflammation of the mucous tissues. Decoctions of fresh herbs treat diseases of the lymphatic system, stop asthma attacks, epilepsy.
Highlander pepper has the following contraindications for use:
- individual intolerance;
- kidney inflammation;
- arterial hypertension;
- tendency to thrombosis;
- chronic constipation;
- age up to 10 years.
In rare cases, treatment with water pepper may cause nausea, dizziness, headache, urticaria, pruritus and swelling.
During pregnancy, taking medicines based on water pepper is also contraindicated. The plant stimulates the contraction of the muscles of the uterus and increases its tone. This can lead to miscarriage and premature birth.
When breastfeeding, the use of water pepper is allowed, but only under the supervision of a physician. Only a doctor can give competent instructions for taking the drug during lactation.
Plant preparations are used for uterine postpartum bleeding, after abortion, during heavy and painful menstruation, for bleeding due to uterine fibroids, inflammatory processes and hormonal dysfunctions, as well as for hemoptysis, bleeding from small vessels of the bladder, stomach, intestines, and hemorrhoidal bleeding. .
In folk medicine, infusion of herb mountaineer pepper has long been used as a hemostatic agent for various internal bleeding, diarrhea, dropsy, kidney and bladder stones.
The herb is used externally as a pain reliever. Especially popular is the treatment of hemorrhoids with water pepper. With this disease, along with taking an infusion or decoction, sitz baths are made from the latter.
The grass of the pepper mountaineer has not only healing properties, but also contraindications. It is contraindicated to use preparations of this plant for glomerulonephritis, as well as for inflammation of the kidneys and bladder.
Attention: pickled and pickled cucumbers do not have medicinal properties.
- In order to avoid dyspeptic symptoms, after eating cucumbers, one should not drink cold, carbonated water and drinks, and people with a weak stomach should not drink milk.
- They are not recommended for use in hypertension, atherosclerosis, impaired water-salt metabolism, diseases of the liver, kidneys, of cardio-vascular system, gastrointestinal tract, with reduced thyroid function, as well as during pregnancy.
- Nursing mothers are advised to be careful with cucumbers, since many biologically active substances from their composition pass into breast milk and can cause diarrhea, rumbling and crampy abdominal pain in the child. In these cases, it is necessary to give the child dill water.
- Cucumbers are contraindicated in acute and chronic nephritis, chronic renal failure, nephrolithiasis.
- Salted and pickled cucumbers are not recommended for obesity and obesity.
- Also contraindications to the use of cucumbers are hepatitis, cholecystitis and dyskinesia of the bile ducts.
- Cucumbers should be discarded in case of gastrointestinal disorders, with exacerbation of gastric ulcer, with acute gastritis, enteritis and acute colitis.
- Nutritionists do not recommend adding tomatoes to salads with cucumbers, as this sharply reduces the value of cucumbers.
- There are contraindications to the use of fresh cucumbers with nephritis with alkaline reaction urine, and to salty ones - with nephritis and pyelonephritis.
kidney herb. It also treats other diseases. A decoction of the herb is used for baths in allergic dermatosis, including eczema and psoriasis. They make poultices for swelling of the legs, as well as for flux, rheumatism. Purulent wounds are healed with grass powder or fresh juice.
When using water pepper, one must always remember that it increases blood clotting.
Water pepper is contraindicated in kidney diseases such as nephritis, glomerulonephritis. You can not use it with inflammation of the bladder.
Water pepper increases the tone of the uterus and is contraindicated in pregnancy. It should be remembered that it constricts blood vessels and is not recommended for long-term use in hypertension, coronary disease hearts.
The plant water pepper is considered poisonous, although cases of poisoning by it have never been observed. It is only necessary to carefully follow the rules for its use and remember about contraindications.
Knotweed (or bird mountaineer) is an extremely unpretentious grass. You have probably met her, even if you are very rarely in nature. Knotweed grows on trampled paths, unkempt football fields and other less fertile places.
The bird mountaineer can creep along the ground, or grow in the form of a low shrub. You can walk on it and even run - the stems of the plant are permeated with elastic fibers that prevent the branches from breaking.
In folk medicine, the beneficial properties of knotweed are most widely used to treat urolithiasis. Its infusion helps to crush large stones, and is also a good remedy prevention.
3 art. place spoons of herbs in an enamel bowl and pour a glass of boiling water, cover and heat for 15 minutes in a water bath. After letting the infusion cool for 45 minutes, strain and squeeze out the remainder. Bring the resulting volume to 200 ml with boiled water.
Take a third cup 3 times a day before meals for 3 weeks.
Keep in mind that knotweed has contraindications (read below)!
Knotweed can also be used to improve the digestive system. It is able to protect the mucous membrane from gastric juice, therefore it is used for ulcers and gastritis.
It is necessary to mix knotweed juice with honey and beetroot juice, add to this mixture oat flour and apply the resulting dough for two days on a cleaned ulcer.
Knotweed improves blood clotting, so it is used for bleeding. And for the treatment of anemia, the people use funds from the infusion of knotweed and beetroot juice.
In equal proportions, powder of the bird's mountaineer, crushed dried skin of black radish and buckwheat honey are mixed. The mixture is infused for 4 days, then consumed by a teaspoon every 6 hours along with goat's milk.
You should not hope that such a serious illness will pass only thanks to this recipe, but as an adjuvant you can try it.
And here is another interesting property of knotweed. It turns out that it was used for snake bites and rabid animals. For this, the simplest decoction was used: 2 tbsp. spoons in a glass of water.
In addition to all the listed properties, the herb of the bird mountaineer is also simply rich in vitamins. According to the content of vitamin C, knotweed in some sources is compared with rose hips. Also in large quantities it contains vitamins E and K, provitamin A (carotene).
Firstly, some people have an increased sensitivity to infusions and decoctions based on the mountaineer. If you are on this list, then you are guaranteed about the following consequences - skin rashes, suffocation, itching.
The next group of people who have contraindications to the use of knotweed are pregnant and lactating women.
If stones larger than 6 mm were found in your urinary tract, then you should not use knotweed either.
Since the herb has the ability to increase blood clotting, increased platelet aggregation is also a contraindication.
Some heart diseases also require caution: angina pectoris, stroke or heart attack.
Official medicine also includes the age of up to 12 years in the list of contraindications.
Best regards, Pavel Bataev
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Today we will add one more useful medicinal herb - knotweed (Another common name for it is bird mountaineer) to the piggy bank of the heading “Healing Plants”. And let's talk about it useful properties and contraindications for use as part of alternative treatment.
In nature, there are several types of knotweed: a grass that fits snugly to the ground and one whose stems grow upwards. The flowers are similar in shape to funnels of a greenish or pinkish-red tone. Flowering lasts from May to June and ends with the formation of fruits.
Knotweed grass grows on various soils, propagated by seeds, therefore it can be seen throughout the CIS (found near houses, roads, wastelands and pastures). Harvest knotweed for treatment folk methods, it is possible without changing the place of collection, because the more it is mowed, the better it grows. They mow the grass with a sickle, dry it in a dark, warm and dry place.
This grass, which many consider a weed due to its almost ubiquitous distribution, is very fond of animals, apparently intuitively understanding that it will be useful for them.
An annual in terms of life expectancy, knotweed contains a lot of substances useful to people. Preparations in which knotweed is present can normalize the state of the whole organism.
The grass contains a lot of vitamin C, easily digestible carotene and vitamins of youth (K, E), flavonoids, coumarins (several types). It contains essential oils, tannins, phenolcarboxylic acids. There are resins and silicic acid, and anthraquinones are present in the roots of the plant.
- an annual plant with a straight, usually reddish stem 30-60 cm high. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, collected in spike-shaped brushes. The fruit is a black elliptical nut with a fine-grained surface. Blooms from June to autumn.
Aboveground organs contain rutin, quercetin, glycosides, tannins, acetylcholine, essential oil, ascorbic acid.
The extract of the aerial part of the plant is used to stop bleeding, more often uterine.
It is used for pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchitis, acute respiratory diseases. Possesses sokogonny, salivary and choleretic properties. Helps in the treatment of gonadal dysfunction and reduced potency. The plant has antibacterial activity.
Chemical composition
Highlander contains flavonoids (isoramnetin, quercetin and their glycosides), vitamins A, D, E, K, tannins, ascorbic, formic, acetic, valeric, as well as phenolic acids, choline, essential oil, phytosterol, aldehyde, ash, a number of macro- and microelements (including potassium, calcium, copper, zinc, iron, silver, bismuth, chromium, cobalt). The rhizome contains anthraglycosides.
Useful and medicinal properties
Highlander pepper has excellent hemostatic properties. Its essential oils slightly lower blood pressure, and flavonoids strengthen capillary walls, increase vascular tone, and the plant also has a weak diuretic effect. But, it should be remembered that the mountaineer pepper belongs to the category of poisonous plants.
Application and medicinal recipes
The ground part of the mountaineer, together with crushed seeds, is used in the chemical industry (it gives yellowish-golden, golden-green, protective and gray colors) and cooking, as a spicy seasoning, but this plant is better known in medicine. So, he was familiar to the Romans and Greeks, who used it as an astringent, antimalarial and hemostatic agent.
Modern medicine uses the herbaceous part of the mountaineer, which is used as an infusion and extract in the treatment of hemorrhoids, chronic endometritis , fibromyomas, as well as with strong and heavy and long menstrual cycles.
Homeopathy and traditional medicine recommend the use of peppercorns for diseases of the endocrine system, liver diseases, and. The plant has proven itself in the practice of treatment (as an astringent), eczema (as a wound healing and analgesic drug).
The mountaineer is also an excellent honey plant, so it is often planted along the edges of fields.
Collection and preparation
In folk medicine, grass is used, harvested during flowering. It is cut at a height of 10-15 cm, then dried in the open air (lay out in one layer and constantly turned over, otherwise the mountaineer will turn black). When the stem does not bend, but breaks, drying ends. Dried mountaineer loses its peppery taste and can be used for medicinal purposes for 2 years.
Folk recipes
Gastritis, stomach ulcer
First of all, pour 15 g of chopped pepper grass with 1 glass of 40% alcohol or vodka. Then insist for two weeks in a dark place. Subsequently, take 10 drops 3-4 times a day.
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Normalization of the menstrual cycle
First of all, 1 tbsp. dried water pepper is brewed with a glass of boiling water. Next, the broth is infused for 20 minutes and filtered. Subsequently, it must be drunk at 1/3 tbsp. three times a day for 2-3 menstrual cycles.
Contraindications and possible side effects
Since the plant has a strong blood-clotting effect, patients with thrombophlebitis should not take it. Contraindicated in inflammation of the kidneys and bladder. The use of water pepper without the advice of the attending physician is undesirable.
Horses are poisoned by a mountaineer with pepper. Symptoms: general weakness, diarrhea, ataxia, fever, weakness of the heart. First aid consists in the appointment of laxatives, enveloping agents, and for diarrhea - astringents. With general oppression, caffeine, camphor and other drugs are administered.
Synonym: water pepper.
Herbaceous plant with a sharp peppery taste, used for medical purposes as a hemostatic (hemostatic) agent of plant origin.
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flower formula
Pepper flower formula: * O (4.5) T6-8P (3).In medicine
Knotweed preparations are used in obstetric and gynecological practice for postpartum uterine bleeding, for subinvolution of the uterus, for prolonged and heavy menstruation, for non-abundant bleeding during the post-coagulation period of treatment of cervical erosion, for bleeding from small vessels and capillaries of the stomach, intestines, and also for mild hemorrhoidal bleeding. Usually preparations of the mountaineer pepper are used in complex therapy.
In dermatology, the plant is used internally and externally for vasculitis, externally for resorption of indurations, herb powder cleans wounds from necrotic tissues.
In cooking
Due to its spicy peppery taste, the dried aerial parts of the pepper mountaineer, namely, seeds, leaves and stems, are used in cooking as a spicy seasoning for sauces, salads, soups. Also dried grass Knotweed pepper can be used in the preservation of vegetables. As a spicy seasoning for food, Knotweed is used in China.
Classification
Highlander pepper or Water pepper (lat. Polygonum hydropiper L.) belongs to the Buckwheat family (lat. Polygonaceae). The genus mountaineer has about 300 species of plants, widely distributed throughout the globe.
Botanical description
Knotweed is an annual herbaceous plant with a creeping rhizome. The stem is erect, branched in the upper part, knotty, hollow, reddish in color, 30-60 cm high. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, wavy, with amplex bells along the edges. The bells are brown, with short ciliated margins. The lower leaves are short-petiolate, the upper ones are almost sessile. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, greenish-pink, collected at the tops of branches and stems in a long, intermittent, spike-shaped, drooping inflorescence. The plant blooms from June to September. The formula of the flower of the mountaineer pepper is * O (4.5) T6-8P (3). The fruit is a nutlet 2-3 mm long. A distinctive feature of the plant is its burning, bitter-pepper taste, which distinguishes the pepper mountaineer from other types of mountaineers.
Attention! Fresh leaves have a pungent taste that disappears when dried.
Spreading
It grows as a weed almost everywhere: in wet meadows, fields, along the banks of ponds, streams, rivers, lakes, ditches, roadsides. It is distributed almost throughout the European part of Russia, in Ukraine, the Caucasus, Belarus, Siberia, the Far East, and Central Asia.
Distribution regions on the map of Russia.
Procurement of raw materials
As a medicinal raw material, the highlander pepper grass (Polygoni hydropiperis herba) is used, which is harvested during the flowering period of the plant, until the stems turn red. The grass is cut with scissors or sickles, at a height of 10-20 cm from the soil surface. Raw materials cleaned from impurities are dried in the shade or in well-ventilated rooms, spread out in a layer of 3-5 cm on paper or cloth, or in a dryer at a temperature of 40-50º C. The dried plant has no peppery taste.
Raw materials are harvested mainly in Ukraine, in the Voronezh and Rostov regions. Ready-to-eat raw materials are green, leafy, with flowers and fruits stems of varying degrees of development, up to 45 cm long, without coarse lower parts.
Chemical composition
Knotweed grass contains flavonoids (2-2.5%): rutin, isorhamnetin, quercitrin, isoquercitrin, quercetin, kaempferol hyperoside, luteolin, hyperin, persicarin, rhamnosin; sesquiterpene compounds (isotadenboal, confertifolin, polygodial); essential oil containing phellandrene, β-pinene, η-cymene, 1,4-cineole; organic acids (malic, valeric, formic, acetic); phenolcarboxylic acids (ellagic, gallic); polygopiperine glycoside; vitamins C, D, E, K; tannins (up to 4%), sitosterol, sugars (glucose, fructose); macro- and microelements.
Pharmacological properties
Herb mountaineer pepper has a hemostatic (hemostatic), anti-inflammatory, astringent and antiseptic effect.
The hemostatic compound in the grass of the plant has not yet been identified, it is only known that this property increases under the action of tannins and some polyphenolic compounds that exhibit P-vitamin activity. They interact with plasma proteins, clog damaged small vessels and capillaries in gastrointestinal tract and inhibit bleeding, as well as slightly increase blood clotting. Vitamin K is also involved in the hemostatic action, and the plant glycoside stimulates uterine contractions.
For the first time, pharmacological studies of water pepper were carried out by N.P. Kravkov, at the suggestion of the pharmacist A.O. Piotrovsky. In 1912 N.P. Kravkov discovered that water pepper has hemostatic properties and is superior in activity to imported preparations of goldenseal extract (Hydrastis canadensis). Hemostatic properties are manifested only in the conditions of the whole organism. According to Rovel, it accelerates blood clotting, while its viscosity increases inconsistently. The hemostatic effect of the pepper mountaineer is combined with the ability to stimulate uterine muscle contractions like ergot, but these properties are much weaker in the pepper mountaineer.
According to Professor N.P. Kravkov water pepper does not have a vasoconstrictive effect and its hemostatic activity rather depends on changes under its influence in the viscosity or blood clotting. Observations by M.K. Petrova and E.M. Uskova from the Peter and Paul Hospital in St. Petersburg, who, using a special device by Dr. Lichkovsky, studied blood coagulation before and after the introduction of the extract of the pepper mountaineer into the body, also indicates that its hemostatic effect is based on an increase in blood coagulability.
The hemostatic effect of the liquid extract of the aerial parts of the pepper mountaineer, which has a rather pleasant smell and slightly astringent bitter taste, was tested in the obstetric and gynecological clinic of Professor D.D. Popov and the therapeutic clinic of Professor A.P. Favitsky in Petersburg. Observations on the action of this remedy gave quite favorable results and showed that the plant is a very effective hemostatic agent. The liquid extract of the pepper mountaineer was used for heavy menstrual bleeding, for bleeding from the bladder, as well as for tuberculosis, stomach, hemorrhoidal and kidney bleeding.
Volatile essential oil slightly lowers blood pressure. In addition, galenic preparations of the mountaineer pepper have some diuretic properties.
Since the plant has a strong blood-clotting effect, patients with thrombophlebitis should not take it. Contraindicated in inflammation of the kidneys and bladder. The pungent substances of the plant (especially the fresh herb) are highly irritating to the skin, often causing more damage to mucous membranes than benefit.
Application in traditional medicine
Knotweed pepper (water pepper) got its name because the mature seeds of the plant were used in antiquity instead of black pepper. As a medicinal plant, the mountaineer pepper was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who used it as a wound healing agent, as mustard plasters. Highlander pepper was also appreciated by alchemists. They used the plant for medicinal purposes, attributing magical properties to it.
In folk medicine, the grass of the mountaineer pepper has long been used as a hemostatic agent, usually for hemorrhoidal and uterine bleeding, for diseases of the bladder, to stop bleeding and for poorly healing wounds. Knotweed extract is used for internal bleeding in patients with hemoptysis, bleeding from the bladder, with gastric and hemorrhoidal bleeding.
The roots of the plant are also used as a means of strengthening and improving male sexual functions. In the past, the plant was used for malaria. Externally crushed grass is applied for dislocations, bruises, sometimes for rheumatism and gout.
In folk medicine of Karachay-Cherkessia, an infusion of herbs is taken for stomach ulcers. Outwardly, peppermint is used for various skin diseases (rashes, abscesses), wounds, tumors, goiter and as an analgesic.
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Herb mountaineer pepper is a well-known remedy in folk medicine used to cleanse suppuration, stop bleeding with hemorrhoids, and diseases nervous system It is also used as a condiment for various dishes.
Description
In another way, the highlander is also called water pepper, female grass, mustard and frog grass. The plant got its botanical name for the characteristic bitter-burning taste of fresh leaves. If the leaves are dried, the pungency disappears.
According to the description, the pepper mountaineer has an upright branched stem with shiny oblong lanceolate leaves 3-6 cm long. Glandular dots or black spots are often found on the surface of the leaves.
Water pepper blooms with small pinkish or green-pink flowers, collected in spike-shaped inflorescences, from late June to mid-September.
The fruits resemble matte nuts of a trihedral shape, convex on one side and rough to the touch. In size reach 2-3 mm.
For medicinal purposes, grass and flowering branches above 15 cm from the ground are used. It must be harvested during the flowering period.
You can meet the mountaineer pepper everywhere in wet places: in water meadows, along the banks of ponds, rivers and streams.
Chemical composition
The composition of the herb mountaineer pepper includes:
- Rutin.
- Quercetin.
- luteolin.
- Persicarin.
- isorhamnetin.
- Flavonoids.
- Ash.
- Choline.
- Hyperoside kaempferol.
- Rhamnosin.
- Hyperin.
- Isoquercetin.
- Sesquiterpenes.
- Essential oil.
- Malic, acetic, valeric, formic acid.
- Gallic and ellagic acids.
- Tannins.
- Fructose.
- Glucose.
- Polygopieperine glycoside.
- sitosterol.
- Vitamins A, C, D, E, K.
- Copper.
- Silver.
- Potassium.
- Bismuth.
- Calcium.
- Cobalt.
- Zinc.
- Chromium.
Useful and medicinal properties
The main property of the pepper mountaineer is to stop bleeding and heal wounds. The essential oil obtained from the herb has the ability to slightly lower blood pressure, flavonoids strengthen the walls of small vessels and increase their tone. The plant is used for coughs and colds, has a diuretic effect.
Knotweed is used in medicine as an anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, analgesic, sedative, diuretic, antimalarial, astringent, antitumor, hemostatic, wound healing and fixing agent.
Contraindications
The use of water pepper inside requires strict adherence to the dosage, since the knotweed pepper is poisonous.
You can not use it for the following violations in the body:
- Increased blood clotting.
- Thrombophlebitis.
- Nephritis and glomerulonephritis.
- Increased tone of the uterus.
- Pregnancy.
- Bladder inflammation.
- arterial hypertension.
- Cardiac ischemia due to the risk of vasoconstriction.
Before use, it is better to consult a doctor in order to avoid undesirable consequences.
The use of mountaineer pepper in cooking
The spicy peppery taste makes it possible to use dried leaves, seeds and stems of water pepper as a seasoning for various dishes. You can add it to soups, sauces, salads, as well as marinades for preserving cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers.
Application in medicine
Highlander pepper is indicated for use in the following situations:
- Uterine and hemorrhoidal bleeding.
- Copious menses.
- Fibromyoma.
- Uterine atony.
- Hyperplasia of the endometrium.
- tumors.
- Gastric ulcer.
- Wounds and purulent rashes on the skin.
- Malaria.
- Diseases of the urinary tract.
- Pain of various origins.
- Hair loss.
You can use dried or fresh herbs, from which a tincture or decoction is prepared. Also, in each pharmacy, a ready-made alcohol tincture of a pepper mountaineer is sold.
A slurry of finely chopped fresh grass leaves applied to the temples and the back of the head helps to cope with a headache. In the same way, scars and scars on the body, age spots and freckles are treated.
Peppercorn tincture fights hair loss, seborrhea, acne and pimples, and cellulite masks are made on its basis.
In gynecology, the tincture of the plant is used:
- When the cycle is broken.
- Restoration of the normal size of the uterus after childbirth.
- Profuse bleeding from the uterus.
You can also make tincture at home. To do this, pour 15 g of raw materials with 1 glass of 40 ° alcohol, close tightly and put in a dark place. You need to insist for two weeks, shaking the contents once a day. Then the tincture is filtered through cheesecloth and cotton.
Inside take 10 drops in half a glass of water three times a day before meals. With the help of tincture, you can delay the onset of menstruation by taking 45 drops three times a day. Moreover, the first time the tincture is drunk in the morning on an empty stomach, and then 30 minutes before meals.
For water infusion, it is also necessary to take 15 g of grass, and alcohol is replaced with distilled water. Pour boiling water over the dry grass of the pepper mountaineer and heat it in a water bath for 15 minutes, after which it is removed from the heat, infused for about an hour and filtered. You can drink 1 tbsp. spoon three times a day before meals.
The alcoholic extract of the plant is used for hemorrhoids to relieve inflammation and reduce bleeding. The extract is made from highlander pepper and medical alcohol (70 °) in a ratio of 1: 1. Dry grass must be ground in a coffee grinder, poured with alcohol in a glass jar and insisted for 7 days in the dark. Filter. Take 30-40 drops with water three times a day before meals.
For the treatment of skin diseases and hemorrhoids, you can externally take baths with a decoction of the mountaineer pepper. 2 tbsp. spoons of grass pour 2 liters of boiling water and leave for 10 minutes. Then filtered and cooled. The broth is poured into a basin or cup and sit down so that the inflamed area is completely in the water. It is enough to sit in such a bath for 15 minutes.
On the basis of the mountaineer, an ointment for hemorrhoids is made. It will take 50 g of grass and 100 g of petroleum jelly (pork fat). The grass crushed into gruel is well mixed with the base and stored in the refrigerator with a tightly closed lid. Ointment should be lubricated with hemorrhoids every day.
To help with baldness and accelerate hair growth, you can use a mask with an extract of mountaineer pepper. Mix 1 tablespoon of castor oil, water pepper extract and any hair balm. The mask is applied to the roots before washing the hair and gently rub the composition into the skin.
The mask should not be applied to the entire length of the hair!
After that, the head must be wrapped with a film and a scarf and kept for 1 hour. A burning sensation is possible, then the mask can be removed earlier - just rinse with cool water, and then wash your hair with regular shampoo. Fat from castor oil will help remove warm water with lemon juice.
Use in homeopathy
In homeopathy, mountaineer pepper is used to treat carbuncles, boils, various rashes and ulcers, burns, bites of cockroaches, rats and other animals. Its effectiveness is noted in gangrene, including that caused by diabetes. There are cases of cure with a remedy for anal and vaginal fistula. Practicing homeopaths use the plant for disorders of the endocrine system, diarrhea, ascites, stomach ulcers, urolithiasis, dysentery, dropsy, liver disease, eczema, cough, bronchial asthma, congestion in the ears and nose.
Collection and preparation
Raw materials are harvested in July-August during the flowering period. In some areas, they continue to collect until September. The roots are dug up in late autumn, cleaned from the ground and washed.
After collecting, you need to separate the damaged and yellowed leaves. You can dry in the oven at a temperature not exceeding 40 ° C. If the weather is sunny and hot, then a shaded, ventilated room is suitable for drying. Also, the raw materials are dried under awnings, spreading evenly over the fabric or hanging at the top in bundles. Care must be taken to ensure that the grass does not dry too slowly, otherwise it may turn black. Dried raw materials can be stored for up to 2 years.
Good to know
Ready-made pharmacy tincture of water pepper should be diluted with cooled boiled water before use. The extract is even more concentrated. It also needs to be pre-diluted with clean water.
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We also did not know what this herb is called. mountaineer pepper, or water pepper (Persicaria hydropiper) and belongs to the buckwheat family. In some publications, you can find the Latin name of the pepper mountaineer as (Polygonum hydropiper), i.e. it used to be attributed to the Highlander family. People also call him pepper buckwheat, frog grass, wild mustard, forest mustard, turnip.
This is an annual herbaceous plant with a height of 30 to 70 cm. It has an upright branched stem, green at the beginning of the growing season and gradually reddening by the time of flowering. At the ends of the shoots, greenish-pink flowers are formed, collected in spike-shaped brushes. The leaves are lanceolate, 0.5 to 3 cm wide and 3 to 10 cm long. You can meet the water mountaineer throughout our country - both in the European part and in the Far East. This plant likes to grow in damp places. You can meet him on the outskirts of swamps, banks of rivers, lakes, ponds and ditches, in damp meadows, along fields and vegetable gardens, as well as along roadsides. In places it forms impenetrable thickets.
Medicinal properties of the mountaineer pepper
Even the ancient Greeks and Romans noticed healing properties herbs of this plant and used them as an astringent, antimalarial and hemostatic agent.
In modern medicine, water pepper is used - in the form of infusion and liquid extract, also as a hemostatic agent for hemorrhoids and uterine bleeding, for uterine fibroids, chronic endometritis and heavy menstruation. The mountaineer pepper is also included in the composition of antihemorrhoid suppositories. This plant also has antibacterial activity.
In folk medicine and in homeopathy, the range of use of the herb of this plant is much wider. It is used for diseases of the thyroid gland, as an astringent, hemostatic, analgesic, wound healing agent, as well as for skin diseases and liver diseases, urolithiasis, edema, gastric ulcer, eczema, bronchial asthma.
These medicinal properties are explained by the rich chemical composition of the plant. The pepper grass contains flavonoids (biologically active substances) - hyperoside, quercitrin, quercetin, kaempferol, rutin, rhamnasin, isorhamnetin, as well as tannins, vitamins A, D, E, K, ascorbic acid, organic acids - formic, acetic, and also the glycoside politopinerin.
Galenic preparations (drugs obtained from plant materials by extracting (extraction) are tinctures (alcohol or water-alcohol extracts) or extracts) of the pepper mountaineer have hemostatic properties. The flavonoid compounds present in it reduce the permeability of the vascular wall of arteries and capillaries.
Volatile essential oil of water pepper slightly lowers blood pressure. Galenic preparations of this plant also have some cardiotonic and diuretic properties and to some extent increase the tone of peripheral vessels.
On the basis of these properties, herbal preparations of the mountaineer are actively used in obstetric and gynecological practice.
Also, infusions and extracts of the plant are prescribed for bleeding from small vessels and capillaries of the stomach, intestines, as well as for mild hemorrhoidal bleeding.
The grass of the mountaineer pepper is sometimes used for diarrhea and enterocolitis in combination with other medicinal plants. In complex collections, this herb is prescribed for patients with chronic colitis, accompanied by erosive and ulcerative lesions of the mucous membrane, as well as in the treatment of hemorrhoids. It is also used as part of a collection of medicinal plants for the preparation of baths for external treatment of hemorrhoids.
In official medicine, several dosage forms of water pepper are used. These are liquid water pepper extract, water pepper herb infusion, Anestezol antihemorrhoid suppositories.
Water pepper extract liquid
It is a transparent, green-brown, fragrant liquid with a bitter-astringent taste. This extract is prescribed as a hemostatic agent - 30-40 drops three times a day.Water pepper herb decoction
To obtain it, two tablespoons of raw materials (20 g) are placed in an enamel bowl, poured with a glass of hot boiled water (200 ml) and placed in a water bath for 15 minutes. Then it is cooled at room temperature for 45 minutes, filtered, and the remaining raw material is squeezed out. The volume of the resulting infusion is adjusted to the original (200 ml). Store the infusion in a cool place for no more than two days.
Apply the infusion as a hemostatic agent, one third of a glass three times a day before meals.
The grass of the mountaineer pepper is sold in dried form in pharmacies, packaged in packs of 50 g.
In those places where water pepper grows in environmentally friendly conditions - away from noisy roads and industrial enterprises - you can harvest it yourself. Do this at the beginning of flowering. It is advisable to dry the stocked grass quickly so that it does not darken. It is better to do this in a dryer at a temperature not exceeding 50 ° C or under a canopy with good ventilation, spreading it in a thin layer. Store stocked raw materials can be up to two years.
Candles "Anestezol" - perform analgesic (pain reliever), antiseptic (disinfecting), astringent (protective), drying, antihemorrhoidal functions.
Water pepper herb infusion
To prepare it, one tablespoon of dry raw materials is poured over two glasses of boiling water. Infuse for 6-7 hours, then filter the liquid. Take one tablespoon three times a day.
In folk medicine, this infusion is taken in half a glass three times a day for various bleeding, diarrhea, stomach ulcers, dropsy, flatulence, malaria.
Contraindications
Like many other herbal preparations, water pepper is not recommended during pregnancy and lactation.
E. Valentinov
