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Growing and using the beneficial properties of field bindweed
What is a plant like field bindweed?
field bindweed – a plant belonging to the bindweed family. This species has a long taproot that penetrates up to three meters deep into the soil. Bare and creeping stems are up to 120 cm long. The stems all move away from the root neck, forming dense rosettes. Bindweed leaves are located on cuttings of great length. Beautiful, large, pink or white flowers of the plant are already visible from afar. On each peduncle there are from one to three of these beautiful flowers.
The fruit of the plant is a box that looks like an egg. It contains seeds with an uneven surface, brown or dark gray.
From the beginning of summer to the first days of autumn, bindweed blooms, the ripening of fruits lasts only a month, namely from August to September.
Field bindweed reproduces in only two ways: by seeds and root offspring. You can see this plant in the CIS countries. Bindweed prefers fresh loamy soil. In a forest clearing, near roads, in garbage collection areas and in vegetable gardens, you can also find bindweed.
In fact, field bindweed is a poisonous plant, but it is used without fear in the preparation of preparations for the treatment of diseases in folk medicine, as well as as feed for pigs.
Growing field bindweed
As soon as the bindweed pods turn light brown, they must be collected. Next, you need to sow the seeds of bindweed in open ground. May is the best month for sowing plant seeds. Bindweed sprouts will appear 7 days after sowing the seeds. Immediately it is necessary to thin them out so that there is a distance of 15–20 cm between shoots.
On the 70-80th day, the flowering of the plant will begin (June), which continues until the beginning of autumn. If the plant receives a lot of nitrogen fertilizers and is watered a lot, then it grows very quickly, but flowering is weak. During the period of initial budding, mineral complete fertilizer is applied. Water the plant only if there is a strong drying of the soil.
Useful properties of field bindweed
For medicinal purposes, grass and plant roots are used, seeds and flowers are used less frequently. Bindweed has a laxative and hypotensive effect. Bindweed preparations are used as a choleretic and diuretic. Bindweed seeds improve the secretory function of the large intestine, increasing its peristalsis. Given the fact that the plant loses many useful substances during the drying process, it is better to use it fresh.
The use of field bindweed
Field bindweed is very popular in folk medicine. Many preparations are prepared from all parts of the plant, with which people suffering from various diseases are saved.
For example, the roots of the plant are used as a laxative. With neurosis, toothache, gastritis, bruises and wounds, decoctions, powders, infusions and teas of this plant are used as an antitumor, analgesic and diuretic. Bindweed juice, as well as an ointment prepared on the basis of a plant, help with dermatomycosis and dermatitis.
For tuberculosis, diseases of the throat, ear, oral cavity, fever and atherosclerosis, preparations from the aerial part of the plant are used. In the postpartum period, with chronic bronchitis, a decoction or infusion of bindweed can help.
If there is a disease such as furunculosis, then the external use of the leaves of the plant will help. When bitten by a poisonous snake, it is necessary to use preparations from bindweed leaves, which have a detoxifying effect.
With fainting, neurosis, dermatitis, infusions and decoctions of bindweed flowers will provide significant assistance.
A decoction of bindweed seeds will help to cope with cough, constipation, edema of various etiologies, nephritis, dysuria. The therapeutic effect is explained by the fact that this decoction has a diaphoretic and laxative effect on the body.
Field bindweed treatment
For medicinal purposes, infusions, decoctions and tinctures of field bindweed are prepared. How to prepare each of the presented preparations will be written below.
Bindweed seed infusion. To prepare it, you need to take 1 teaspoon of bindweed seed powder and pour 200 ml of boiling water over them, put everything in a water bath, closing the lid. After 15 minutes, remove the infusion from the water bath. Next, you need to leave the infusion to brew for 45 minutes and strain. This infusion is used for colds as a diaphoretic. Every day, 70 ml a quarter of an hour before meals, you must take such an infusion. You need to drink this medicine 3 times a day.
Bindweed herb tincture. To prepare such a remedy, we take 10 grams of plant grass and fill them with 50 ml of alcohol (70%). We leave the composition for a week to infuse. We take this tincture by half or a whole teaspoon 2 or 3 times daily before meals. This tincture should be used in case of fever, atherosclerosis or bleeding.
Infusion of bindweed roots. Take 1 tablespoon of crushed plant roots and pour 200 ml of boiling water. Stir and leave for 25 minutes, covered with a napkin. Taking a cotton cloth, you need to strain the finished infusion. This infusion is taken to rinse the mouth in the presence of inflammation, and this medicine also helps to get rid of toothaches.
A decoction of bindweed in milk. To prepare it, take 1 teaspoon of chopped herbs and pour a glass of milk. We put on fire for 5 minutes. After that, we filter the finished broth. Further, the entire volume must be divided into 4 parts. And now, for 4 doses a day, you need to drink the entire prepared broth. Such a decoction is taken by women in labor who had difficulty giving birth. People with syphilis and metrorrhagia will also benefit from this remedy.
Fresh bindweed juice. We take the fresh grass of the plant and squeeze the juice out of it. Now we take 2 tablespoons of the resulting juice and dilute with 200 ml of boiling water. We take this medicine for a quarter cup three times a day before meals. Indications for the use of this juice is inflammation of the spleen and liver.
Collection for chronic bladder disease. We take 1 teaspoon of the following herbs: field bindweed, bearberry leaves, lingonberries with flowers and yarrow herbs. Now you need to take 2 tablespoons of this collection (it must be crushed in advance) and pour half a liter of boiling water. We leave this infusion for 2 hours in a warm room. Next, we filter the remedy. We apply this infusion three times a day, 200 ml at a time.
Contraindications to the use of bindweed
Do not forget that bindweed is a poisonous plant! Therefore, it should be taken only in the correct dosages and very carefully. In case of an overdose or poisoning with the seeds of the plant, vomiting, nausea and pain in the abdomen will appear.
Pregnant women should absolutely not take field bindweed seeds, as their use will lead to miscarriage or premature birth (which is undesirable).
Before you decide to use bindweed for medicinal purposes, consult your doctor! Be careful!