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Description of the hawk, useful properties and use of the hawk
Botanical characteristics of the hawk
Hawk hairy is a low perennial plant with a creeping rhizome and shoots with long hairs. The stem of the plant is erect, having not only long hairs, but also a basket at the top. The leaves are green on top and white on the underside. The basal leaves of the plant are blunt, they taper into a petiole. In the basket at the top of the stem are reed flowers, each of which consists of 5 cloves and the same number of stamens. The flowers are light yellow in color, bisexual, pleasantly smelling. The fruit of the plant is a cylindrical achene, dark red in color. Each achene has 9 longitudinal ribs.
The hawk blooms in late spring – early summer. This plant is found in meadows, forests, slopes, fields and heaths. The hawk grows in Ukraine, the Caucasus, Belarus and Western Siberia.
Useful properties of the hawk
Hawkweed has anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and antiseptic properties. In addition, this plant is used as an astringent and diuretic. Hawkweed reduces the level of harmful substances in human blood. The plant is recommended to be used for headaches as a good pain reliever. Hawkweed has antiemetic properties. This plant can even cope with insomnia.
Hawk grass has a strong hemostatic property, so it is used as a remedy for compresses that are applied to bleeding wounds.
Application of the hawk
Traditional medicine uses the herb and all parts of hawkweed in the treatment of many diseases. The plant is used to increase the secretion of gastric juice. A decoction of hawk helps with hemorrhoids, liver diseases, hemoptysis, jaundice and dysentery. In addition, a decoction of the plant is recommended for use in the treatment of kidney stones, anemia, dropsy and diseases of the spleen.
A decoction of the inflorescences of the plant helps to cure stomach diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis and leucorrhoea, improve appetite. Broth gargle with sore throat, lubricate the bites of snakes, rabid animals. A decoction of the hawk helps with festering wounds: they wash the wounds. Fresh leaves of the plant are used in the form of compresses for abscesses.
Hawkweed has a good effect on the body in the treatment of inflammatory diseases of the prostate.
Alcohol tincture of hawk is used for stones in the bladder or kidneys. Spermatorrhea is also treated with an alcoholic tincture of the plant.
Water infusion is used for hepatitis, edema, diarrhea with blood, gastritis with low stomach acidity. A severe runny nose can be cured with hawkweed leaf powder, which simply needs to be sniffed through the nose.
Hawkeye tincture is instilled in the form of drops in the treatment of stomach ulcers, malaria and urolithiasis. A decoction of hawk helps to improve vision, the same remedy is used for diarrhea in babies.
Hawkeye tea for gargling. Take 1 teaspoon of herb and pour 100 ml of boiling water over it. Leave for 10 minutes, then strain. Take tea as needed in the amount of 1 cup per day. If a sore throat is treated with this tea, then it is consumed 2 glasses a day for several days.
Infusion of a hawk. We take 10 grams of dry plant grass and pour 2 cups of boiling water. We leave everything for 3 hours to brew. After straining the finished infusion, it is consumed 50 ml 3 times a day before meals.
Powder from hawkweed leaves. Take fresh hawkweed leaves and grind them into a fine powder. The finished powder is taken in the treatment of jaundice, 1 teaspoon three times a day.
Tincture of hawksbills. To prepare this tincture, you need to take 10 grams of a flowering plant and pour 100 ml of vodka. We leave the composition in a cool and dark room for 7 days to infuse. The tincture should be shaken periodically.
Contraindications to the use of hawkweed
The hawk is a poisonous plant, so it is necessary to use preparations from it only in small doses and under the supervision of a doctor.