Highlander snake - Polygonum bistorta L.
Highlander snake - Polygonum bistorta L.

Polygonum Snake - Prchak zmiiny (pakovi shiyki) Polygonum bistorta L.
Family Polygonaceae - Polygonaceae .
Highlander snake - a perennial, herbaceous plant, 30-100 cm tall. Stalk its simple, with few linear sessile leaves. Inflorescences solitary, on long bezlistovom peduncle, thick, count wasps Covo like, oblong, cylindrical, pink or white flowers. Rhizome his thick, slightly flattened, like crawfish tails, bent in the form of snakes, brown outside, pink inside.
Blossoms in May - July.
growing , as a rule, on peaty soil, so the Barrens is rare. Gather in the autumn, dig up the rhizomes. Dried in an oven at a temperature of 70°. Applied as a means of regulating the functional activity of the gastrointestinal tract, as binder and hemostatic tool. Apply in diarrhea , bladder, urinary stones and gall bladder (20 g of the root boiled in 1 liter of water, drink 1-1,5 cups a day, holding a diet without meat, salt, alcohol, fish, eggs).
When bleeding internal organs ( ulcer of the stomach, intestines), use broth mixture of 5 grams of powder mountaineer snake root and 1 teaspoon of flax seed in 200 ml of water - every 2 hours for 1 tablespoon (tannin content, pectins , mucus , carotene , vitamin C ). From the broth 15 g of powder of the root mountaineer snake in 500 ml of water to make the gadgets this old wounds, boils, a warm sprintsuyutsya at belyah women, rinse the throat with the inflammation of the mucous membrane.

Achyranthes - Polygonum hydropiper L.

Achyranthes - Prchak Pepper (water pepper) Polygonum hydropiper L.
Family Polygonaceae - Polygonaceae .
Achyranthes - annual herb 30-70 cm tall. Stem cavity, knotted at the top of branching, reddish. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, often with black spots, entire, glabrous, with the basis of bells, the taste of bitter-ostropertsevye. Flowers small, collected in hanging brush, discontinuous gold, green, often pink top. Perianth with 4-5 glubokorazdelnymi particles, corn golden spots, which contains resinous substance.

Blossoms in July - August.
growing , with the exception of wormwood steppes, a very large area in wet areas, near rivers, lakes, ponds, ditches, in moist prileskah. Gather all the grass during flowering in late summer, cutting off her above the ground. Apply as hemostatic , pain tool, mainly in the uterine bleeding ( menoragii , dysmenorrhea , after miscarriage or childbirth) at hemorrhoids , but it is weaker in action than the horns.

use in the form of tea. They take 1 tablespoon of chopped herb Achyranthes to 1 cup of boiled water, 10 minutes. Drink 1-2 glasses a day, gulps. Tincture to alcohol (1:4) use 20 drops three times a day.
M. Nosal recommends decoction of the plant sit for fifteen minutes with the bath hemorrhoids. To do so, 2 liters of water are taking a full handful mountaineer pepper, boil for 15 minutes, and insist 20 minutes. Pour into bowl, add 2 cups very hot milk, in which 400 g chopped cooked white bread. Baths take on a daily basis in the course of the month. Used for manufacture of ointment in the treatment of hemorrhoidal pain and cones with itching in the anus (see Lenok ordinary).
When headaches are making a mustard plaster on his head instead of crushed fresh herb Polygonum pepper, which operates more than dried. Fresh plant juice smeared animal wounds, that they can not sit down flies; fresh leaves shifted svezheposolennoe meat that flies do not carry the eggs there.

Polygonum aviculare - Polygonum aviculare L.
Polygonum aviculare - Polygonum aviculare L.

Polygonum aviculare - Sporys звичайний (Ptashin buckwheat) Polygonum aviculare L.
Family Polygonaceae - Polygonaceae .
Polygonum aviculare - knotweed - annual herb with prostrate branching stems. Stems jointed, the flowers are very small, inconspicuous, whitish, sometimes pale pink, posted on 14-15 in the axils of small leaflets. The plant is bushy, hardy against trampling.
blossoms from May until late autumn.
growing on the whole territory of Ukraine is also widespread in Belarus and Russia - in yards, on the paths, along the roads to pastures, permanent dry pastures (toloka), on the shafts, on weedy ground around the house and etc. Gather all the plant during flowering (July - August), while the stems have not yet had time to harden. They should be dried quickly.
Apply in diseases of the kidneys and liver , in particular with stones in them. When gastritis with high acidity and poor, with diarrhea , chronic inflammation of the bladder, with uterine bleeding after childbirth and in wounds of both fresh and old. Also, when malaria , tuberculosis light, hypertension . In knotweed contains iron, which determines the therapeutic effect in treatment of hypochromic anemia.
use in the form of tea. At 2 cups boiling water 1 tablespoon take knotweed and insist 10 minutes. Drink warm, 1-2 glasses a day. When biliary disease 1 tablespoon of the mixture of grass knotweed , buckthorn bark brittle, and juniper berries in the ratio 8.5: 1:1,5 boil in 2 cups water 30 minutes, strain off and drink 1-2 glasses a day.
When kidney stones and gall bladder 1 tablespoon of the mixture of grass knotweed , Hypericum , leaflets Melissa and grass Celandine in the ratio 10:3:2:5 take on 2 cups of boiling water and draw for 1 hour. Drink half a glass of 3-4 times a day. When gastritis with insufficient acidity 2 tablespoons of the mixture of grass knotweed , leaflets Rosemary and mint Cold in the ratio 6:3:2 insist 2 hours in 2 cups boiling water, strain off and drink during the day sips.
When diarrhea taking 1 tablespoon of the mixture of grass and horsetail knotweed in a 2:1 ratio and boiled in 1 glass of good red wine for 3 minutes. Drink for 1 / 3 cup every 4 hours (the action of tannins knotweed). When pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy 1 tablespoon of the mixture (equal) leaf butterbur usual, black elderberry flowers and herbs knotweed insist on 2 cups of boiling water for 10 minutes and drink for the day. Sporýš strengthens and tones the nervous system of people in old age. When inflammation intestines and low back pain, 1 tablespoon of the mixture of grass knotweed , grass Hypericum and grass Melissa in the ratio 10 : 6:4 I insist in a glass of boiled water for 10 minutes and drink 2-3 glasses a day. Of the decoction of fresh plants make gadgets for fresh and neglected wounds. Sporýš operates krovoostanavlivayusche , anti-inflammatory, successfully treating wounds.